SCREEN CASTIFY

Screen Castify is an amazing tool. You can capture, edit and share screencasts.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-screen-vide/mmeijimgabbpbgpdklnllpncmdofkcpn

ADVANTAGES

• It has a free edition and it is on line.
• You can sign in Google.
• No software download required.
• When you record a video you have three options: your entire desktop, current browser tab or your webcam.
• It enable you to use our annotation tools.
• It gives you more flexibility on how you use your webcam.
• You can share your recordings in the social medias.

DISADVANTAGES

You can creat a 10 minutes videos (free edition).

 It is only available for people that use the Google Chrome.

 it doesn' show the time that you have already recorded while you are recording.

ZOOM

Zoom is a platform where you can do video conferencing, online meetings. It is an amazing tool to work in online classes.You can sign in as a guest or host.

https://zoom.us/

ADVANTAGES

• It has a free edition.

• It offers the best video and audio, including portable recordings.

• It is enable the scheduling of meetings.

• You are connected wherever you are.

• You can send the invatation to join at the meeting from email.

• You can work and show with documents in real time with all the guests.

• You can record the meeting.

• The guests can participate in an interactive way.

•  It also adds video for the attendees.

• With the free version it allows up to 50 participants to join.

• There is a chat for the guests.

DISADVANTAGES

• The free edition only allow 50 minutes meeting.

• The signup process is a little confusing, you’re not quite sure what addons you need and don’t.

• With the live video from both you and attendees Zoom does have a more ad hoc and uncontrolled feel to it.

WORDLE

Wordle is an online app to creat ""word clouds" from the text that you hahave selected. It select the words that are the most prominence or appear more frequently in the text to creat the cloud.

For teachers word clouds are a fantastic resource and teaching tool because you can use to input a class, a topic.
http://www.wordle.net/create

ADVANTAGES

• It is free and on line. You need to creat an a free acount.
• You can use the text you want.
• There are too many colors for your "word clouds".
•  It allows anybody to really imaginative and creative word clouds.
• You can use it in your classroom, post it on twitter or on your blog.
• It automatically emphasis words that are repeated and increase them in size.

DISADVANTAGES

• Wordle only hasone size for the whole image.
• It doesn't work in Chrome. Only in Internet Explorer o Safari en Mac.

APPS FOR ENGLISH TEACHING

We are living in a new tecnological era, teaching to tecnological generation of people what is immersed in a interactive world of the Internet so, as a teachers, we need to be up to the innovation. There are hundreds os websites and apps to help as a foreign language teachers to do our work easier and more interactive and enterteining in a renewed way.

NEARPOD 

It is a platform to allow teachers share presentations  that can obtain quizzes, poll, videos,games, images in real time. 
https://nearpod.com/

ADVANTAGES

-It is a platform available in app and website.

-There is a free version.

-Share live presentation in person or remotely.
-You can manage content on student´s platform.
-You can creat slides  or turn your Piowerpoint, Google slides or PDFs into interactive Nearpod presentation. 
-The platform contain a wide range of topics already elaborated, lesson plans, activities, drawing-boards, warm ups, assessments, full lessons, professional developments, virtual reality and ideas for fun classes.
-It has a classification about grades.
-Share synchronized lessons with students across all devices, getting the answers immediately.
-It is a very real way to contextualize your students and make them their knoledge testing.

DISADVANTAGES

-There is not audio.
-If you want more storage in your librery you need to pay it.
-You and your estudents need to have Interet and mobile, computer, tablet...
-It has a paid and better version.
-Sometimes it is difficult to work with the app in the mobile.


As a teacher...
You can find in Nearpod many subjects. For example if you have been working with nouns, to make it clear and practice with that topic you can find the topic or creat it in the platform and work with it in real time in class.

FLIPSNACK

This is an amazing software that allows to everybody to creat a virtual book from a PDF document. 

https://www.flipsnack.com/es/accounts/sign-in.html

ADVANTAGES

-It is a free software, you only need to subcribe.
-You upload your PDF document designed as you want, images, type or color of words and images, even the cover of your book.
-You can add sound when you pass the page.
-You can save your books in your account.
-You can share your book in social webs.

DISADVANTAGES

-If you don´t have internet, you cannot see the book.
-Flipsnack just allows 20 sheets maximum.
-It takes time to upload your documents.

As a teacher...

It is usuful to teach, explain or give examples about a viewed topics in a interactive way. You can add imagges and colors as you want to do it more interesting and attractive to your students.
As well, you can ask your students to do a virtual book to explain what they understant about a topic and get realize if they are really getting the knowledge wanted.

PINTEREST

It is a web and a mibile application that allows to share images, GIFs, information and videos in order to allow other users to creat boards to keep ideas organized to discover and creat new ideas and hacks.

  

https://www.pinterest.com.mx

ADVANTAGES

-It is a free site, yoou just need to creat an acount.

-You can find ideas about anything you think (teaching, learning, food, etc.)

-You can creat your own board with organized ideas with you likes and interests.

-You can follow boards of others and see their ideas, images, hacks, GIFs, etc.

-You can creat and upload your own information or post images from other websites in you Pinterest.

-You can interact with each other through liking, commenting and repinning each other´s stuff.

-You can find ideas in any language.

-As a blogger, it is a good site for promoting and marketing your content.

https://pin.it/cunv3sdxqvt4ej

DISADVANTAGES

-You can´t share something in Pinterest unless it has a image.

-It is easy steal images from others, there is not protection.

-Pinterest realies enterily on look and not really text to sell ideas.

As a teacher...

Pinterest is very usuful web because you can find activities, printables, ideas or images about a class or how to explain a topic. For its very visual aspect you can use this site to capture interest in a board and use it as a portafolio as well. Then you can show it to your students. 

INFOGRAPHICS AND PRINTABLES

INFOGRAPHIC

It is a visual representation (diagram) with explicative and easy images, the purpose is to summarize, explain and communicate information in a entertening, fast and visual to help understanding.

PRINTABLES

It is an amazing idea to help us as a teachers to creat physical material for our students, it could be grammar, vocabulary or culture exercises.


Recommended websites:
http://pointlesscorp.com/
http://www.digitalpodge.co.uk/2009/
http://www.chappybarry.com/ 
https://www.griplimited.com/
https://www.good.is/infographics#/home

PIKTOCHART 

It is a web which allows us to creat printables and infographics in a easy way. 
https://create.piktochart.com/dashboard

ADVANTAGES:

-It is online and free.
-You can add to many images and graphics.
-The web brings many ideas and templates which are innovative, colorful and interesting.
-They are very useful for teachers for planning and prepare lesson and design materials.
-Graeter student egagement.
-With infographics  is easy to remember and assimilate complicated information.
-The printables are easy to elaborate, the web brings ideas to do it.
-You can add your oun image in the background.
-You can add GIFs in your infographic.
-You can share it in the socia media.

DISADVANTAGES:

-You need to pay for templates which are more complex and professionals.
-It is a little be difficult to work with all the little images that the templetes have.
-It works better in Chrome or Firefox.