Reviews of Learning Tools I


Edmodo

    Edmodo is a classroom communication medium that aims to ease and enhance the classroom experience. Edmodo brings students, teachers and parents in a single platform. In distant education, Edmodo can be helpful to keep track of the process. Besides distant education, it has significant use for face-to-face learning too. With Edmodo, a teacher can share materials, communicate with students or parents via direct message, create pools, store and reuse materials from previous classes. Students can keep track of their assignments, communicate with teacher directly and make comments.





Peardeck

    Using slides while teaching is pretty common for forty thirty years. A disadvantage to the slides are that they are not interactive. Peardeck is an add-on for Google Slides that makes it possible to create interactive slides. Its use is relatively easy, goes as creating slides with questions or polls and then creating a session for students to join. 



Edpuzzle

    In the name of being interactive, Edpuzzle is really helpful for video assingments. Picking from a large archive or creating videos and adding pinpoints on them for questions is the way it occurs. It improves listening and self-study activities. It is also connecting as one can see the content that are prepared by other teachers or students under the name of the same school. 

        

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