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An AI tool that can help you to think and use in your class - ChatGPT

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  Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This photo was taken while hiking on the glacier . It is soooo amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a new technology that might influence the way you teach language in class in the future ~πŸ˜‰ This technology is called ChatGPT .   It is an AI technology which interacts in a conversational way.  You, as a teacher, can request it to answer your questions, and it will admit its mistakes if it is made. Or asking it to give you some advice on your teaching materials.  Why is this technology relevant to language teaching?    If you ask ChatGPT about anything related to English teaching advice, it will give you several answers that you can l...

Using slides for teachers to interact with students - Nearpod

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  Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This photo was taken while hiking on the glacier . It is amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a valuable website for teachers to create an online platform for interacting with their students ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named Nearpod .  It is a website for you to share your slides and interact with your students. Through this website, you can provide a platform which shows different  games and exercises for students.  And teachers can see the results from students' practices or anonymously see the results .    Why is this technology relevant to language learning?    This website is a slides-based interactive lesson and interactive video,...

An awesome tool for you to group students - Flipgrid

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Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This photo was taken while driving .   It is amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a useful website for grouping students ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named Flipgrid .  On this website, you can divide your students, classrooms or topics into different online groups.     And it is easy to access this website. First, setting your account and create different groups. Second, there will be an invite code for your groups. Third, send your code to your students so that they can join your groups.  You and your students can film the videos and comment under the post in the topic group. This can help students see others' works and provide an interactive environment for...

YouTube video, an authentic English teaching material - TubeQuizard

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Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here!πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This photo was taken while driving . This river is wonderful, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a useful website for training listening ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named  TubeQuizard .  It aims for learners to create interactive listening quizzes based on subtitled Youtube videos.  Learners can enjoy learning languages with video. They can boost their listening and understanding of Youtube content and learn grammar and vocabulary.     Why is this technology relevant to language learning?    This website allows learners to boost their English listening skills by doing listening quizzes and watching Youtube videos. Through doing quizzes, learners not o...

Let's play music and lead students to learn English in a fun way - Lyricstraining

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Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This place is a famous waterfall .   It is amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a useful website for practicing singing songs ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named Lyricstraining .  It is easy to access this website. It aims for learners to enjoy learning languages with music. You can use it for students to learn English or other languages by playing with the videos and the lyrics they like.     Why is this technology relevant to language learning?    It is easy to access this website. Students only need to play a song and test their listening comprehension by filling in the gaps in the song lyrics as soon as possible. By doing the above exercises, stu...

A tool for students to remember vocabulary - Memrise

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Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ I share my opinions and thoughts in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!   πŸ˜„ Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  This place is named FljΓ³tsdalshΓ©raΓ°.   It is amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's explore a useful website for memorizing vocabulary words ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named Memrise .  There are plenty of courses for you to share different level of vocabulary practices for students to learn and memorise.     And it is easy to access this website. It shows how many people attend a course as well as how long it takes.    Why is this technology relevant to language learning?    This website is reasonably practical that learners can study nine different languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Russian. There ...

How to help students learn vocabulary in a fun way? Wordwall

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  Welcome to Kailin's ICT journey.  Nice to meet you here! πŸ˜€ Hey guys, I am Kailin! See you again here.  πŸ˜„ I will express my true feelings and share my opinions in my ICT journey Blog!  This blog talks about how to teach English via technology. Hope you guys enjoy it!  Before starting,   I want to share  a picture I took in Iceland!  A frozen world with a wonderful view  ⛄     The glacier is amazing, isn't it?  πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–   Let's see a fun website for memorizing vocabulary words ~πŸ˜‰ This website is named Wordwall .  There are plenty of activities for you to create vocabulary exercises for students to learn more fun.     And it is easy to create your teaching resource. It only takes three steps to customise your teaching content.    Why is this technology relevant to language learning?    This website provides diverse templates, and there are 18 templates in it. The form of each templat...