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Podcasting...

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Hello! Welcome to another post This post is going to be dedicated to podcasts ! Yayyyy!  Podcasting has been becoming hardly trending these recent years, and some teachers have started using it in class! But... how can you take advantage of this tool during classes?  There are a lot of advantages of using educational podcasts . First and foremost, it can reinforce the students' oral comprehension, you keep the students' attention on what they are listening to and stimulate the imagination . Apart from that, you can collect all these podcasts in a playlist and you can listen to them all the times you want! This means that everybody can listen to the contents you explain, some important information about the course... and so on. You won't have any excuse that you have forgotten to turn in your homework! With podcasting, you will become a storyteller , and the wonderful fact is that you can also add some original intonation and some action to your podcasts. There are such am

Think, design and present...

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 Heyyy! What's up, everybody?  I hope you spent a wonderful Holy Week such as me!  Now, I am coming back to explain to you some practical websites you as a teacher can use in order to be the most creative teacher presenting your slideshows ! Sometimes we have to explain something to our students which is a little bit boring for them, so it would be a good practice if we use better websites to create  supportive educational slideshows for them. There are incredibly websites you can use for creating online presentations are: - Prezi - Powtoon -  Biteslide You can use even Google Slides! The most commonly used and (for me) one of the most useful online tools for creating ingenious presentations is Genial.ly. I have recently talked about this wonderful website on one of my blog posts. If you want to read more advantages about it, just click HERE . Personally, this is the third or fourth time I use this website to make presentations, and I need to say that the more I use it, the more

Infographics...

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 Hi! Welcome to another post This post is about INFOGRAPHICS , educational infographics in particular.  What's that? Well, I will explain it to you.  Educational infographics are designed creatively in order to represent some knowledge with attractive visuals  for the students. They are a good idea to explain concepts or contents in a more understandable way because these infographics include a series of  graphics, short texts, images or even URL links  that are attractive and much easier to remain better in the students' minds.  You have to take into consideration some points before starting to create your infographic: 1. Focus on the main message you want to transmit to your students. 2. Try to use as a cleaner and direct images as possible which still maintain the attention of your students. 3.  Organize clearly the  text. 4. Each source you include you need to cite and attribute it!  There are a lot of useful online tools to create infographics... such as Easel.ly ,