Mindmeister, Edpuzzle, Nearpod

Hello all ! I hope you are all doing fine in these quarantine days.We hope these days will come to an end in a short time; but until that time let's go on discovering the magnificent world of the language and technology.In this post I will mention about three new apps that I am sure you like.Then let's start !..

The first one is MINDMEISTER.This app allows you to prepare mind maps which enhance the learning of our students.Of course in a lesson we may find some topics diffucult to cover but mindmeister is a professional tool for making this process easier.After having a brainstorming process ,which is the basic principle of the mindmeister, you can start to combine your outputs into meaningful mind maps and then grasb the topic.In terms of making you see the overall topic into a regular and short a kind list, I can say that it is one of my indispensable working and teaching strategies.Here is an example for a product of mindmeister, done for learning the animals in English.

The second app is the one called EDPUZZLE.As we know flipped classrooms are great ways of combining technology into our learning environment which is classroom most of the time.However, there is a problem in the videos prepared for flipped classrooms.Tge problem is that the videosare teacher centered rather than student centered ones.Thanks to the edpuzzle we can create student centered and more interactive videos.With this app we can search for many other flipped videos, create our videos, crop our videos; add quizzes, questions, audio notes and lots of other tools that will make our lessons more interactive.

The last amazing app I will mention today is NEARPOD.We can use Nearpod to support our student's learning in a variety of ways.Thanks to this app we give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map or diagram, respond to a poll question, post a note or image to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz.We can bring the world to our classroom by taking kids on a virtual field trip to a national park or a different country.It helps students review key learning concepts by watching videos, reviewing notes, or taking their own notes.Travelling places while sitting in our learning environment is not a dream thanks to the Nearpod.

 These are my suggestions for a better language learning and surely teaching processes.I benefit from these amazing tools and badly suggest you to benefit from these apps.I guess you have become excited with these new apps, haven't you ?:) Then do not lose time to go on with these apps:)

                       Take care.See you soon:)