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Review on Edmodo

Review on Edmodo Edmodo  is an  educational technology company offering  a communication, collaboration and  coaching  platform to  K-12  schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. Edmodo is very teacher-centric in their design and philosophy: students and parents can only join Edmodo if invited to do so by a teacher. Teachers and students spend large amounts of time on the platform, both in and out of the classroom. Edmodo was founded in 2008 by Nic Borg, Jeff O’Hara and Crystal Hutter, three former school district employees who wanted to put social learning into an education environment. It has received several awards over the years, such as Noodle’s 2015 Best Online Education Tool, 2016 GESS Education Award and the 2015 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award for its Snapchat tool. Edmodo runs a network of partners th...

Review on Webquest

Review on Web Quest A web quest is an enquiry-based learning tool which encourages students to become responsible for their own learning. Students are provided with a specific task and the activities to support that task. They are given links to information available on the web which they use to acquire knowledge. A web quest can fit well into a scheme of work – varying from a single lesson’s duration to a series of lessons within a topic. Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University was amongst the first to attempt to define and structure this kind of learning activity: ‘an inquiry-based activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet’. There are numbers of reason why should we use this web quest. I am including some reasons here: They are an easy way to incorporate the Internet into the classroom. No specialist knowledge is needed to either produce or use them. They lend themselves well to grou...

Review on Ted-Ed

Review on TED-Ed Ted-Ed is an easily accessible learning platform that provides an international space for teachers to create their own lessons using any videos that are available in youtube or they can create a new. Both teacher and students have the opportunity to use Ted-Ed in their language learning process. This website offers free educational content sharing from youtube and teachers can also customize it as their teaching goal that is suitable for the students. To use this Ted-ed, one first have to open a Ted-ed account using his/her gmail or facebook account. Once a teacher open a Ted-ed account and post something in it, s/he can check it too as a student without opening a student account. It has a shifting mood from teacher to student or student to teacher. Then to create a customized lesson teacher have to click on “create a lesson” and copy paste the URL of the target youtube link. That video will be auto added on that lesson and after that all that teacher have to...

Tutor Blog and Facebook group for learning English language

Find out the advantages and the disadvantages of using tutor blog and facebook group for teaching English language to a group of class 8 students in Bangladeshi context.  In this technologically advanced age, education is not only confined in classroom. The internet has revolutionized many aspects of modern life, and the education sector is no exemption. Teachers and students both find many other alternatives of classroom to learn language. Facebook and blog are two of them. In Bangladesh, facebook and blog are quite familiar among the students who are already acquainted with the enough source of internet. But it is also limited within some schools and within some children who belong from an educated and affluent family because learning outside the class over internet is quite expensive for class 8 students. Nevertheless, tutor blog and facebook group are very much helpful in learning English language. Blog: A blog is a discussion or informational website published on th...

Review of duolingo

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Duolingo.com is a language learning web site to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Hebrew, Russian and many others languages. It is an online based learning process where English is used as the media of the native language and the target language. It has also a mobile version app called Duolingo, which was released on May 29, 2013. Through this wed site or mobile app you can practice your speaking, reading, listening and writing vocabulary while playing a game. This app will increase your vocabulary and grammar skills of the target language by answering question and completing lessons.  This web site serves for the beginners who want to learn a language in a fun and rewarding way. After signing in once the user can use the web site anytime by logging in. The progress will be stored. This language learning process is quite easy for the learners who have the basic knowledge in English, as English serves here as the translator of the target language...
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