Jingyi's ELT blog

  Hello! It's been a while since my last update, great to see you!  Today I am going to introduce a learning platform you might be heard about – Kahoot!   We all know how much work it takes to make students interact with us. Sometimes it just doesn't work so well.  Quizzes is a very common method for teachers to check students' understanding and performance, but the traditional paper pen quizzes is a little out of date. It's time to use the Internet!   What is Kahoot and how to use it?   First of all, Kahoot is an online learning platform that could help bring more interactions in the classroom. It has many templates that teachers can use to design their quizzes, surveys or discussions.   I have used Kahoot many times and I really like to put a little Kahoot game at the end of the class, ang students like it too. To create a Kahoot quiz, you need to have an account and your pre-designed questions and answers. When you finish putting the que...

  Hello everyone, welcome back! How are you this week?   In this week I want to show you a mobile learning tool – Nearpod. Nearpod Nearpod is an education platform that helps teachers making online presentation, preparing lesson plan and doing in-class activities with students. For teachers, Nearpod is very suitable for live webinars and online learning. Your students can be anywhere and follow the class in no time! I know it sounds quite common in these days, but the unique thing about Nearpod is that it can 'control your students'. I will elaborate this point.   'Controlling your students’ One special thing about Nearpod is real-time sharing, which means that when your students join the online classroom you designed, their screens cannot be operated except to see what you want to show them. This greatly helps students to follow the class and focus at all times. When you move, they move. Thus, teachers can focus on delivering the class and balance the input level ...

  Helloooo everyone, it's been a while since my last update, great to see you again! This week I have a new learning technology that I want to introduce to you. Do you struggle with how to improve your English fluency? Or do your students feel frustrated when practice speaking and you don't know how to help?   Well, with the recent debate around AI (artificial intelligence), people are starting to wonder what AI can do for us, how they help us improve. If you are on the supporting side, today's content is for you.   Yoodli. This is a new language learning application that help people to imporve their speech. How it works? In short, it uses AI to analyse people's speech habits, speed and word choice and to give suggestions for improvement. Some of the details you may never ever realise, and those suggestions are really helpful. So before we get to the business, you will need a zoom account and a google account. Sign in and open your zoom meeting. The ap...