The latest technology trends are transforming our learning and teaching ways. For instance, teaching English online is getting more popular as it offers a number of features for teachers to realize an interactive and fruitful distance learning with their students. On the other hand, teaching online can be challenging when it comes to students’ engagement, class management, and motivation. However, teachers can overcome these obstacles by getting equipped with practical online tools. Here we have 15 stunning online tools that modern teachers enjoy using:
1- Edmodo :
Edmodo is an online social network platform, designed especially for teachers and students. Unfortunately, it has shut down.
2 – TED-Ed :
TED-Ed is a great educational platform for teachers and students. It allows teachers to create and share interactive lessons with their students and track their progress. TED-Ed provides a library of a large number of original animated videos that teachers can use in their lessons. This online tool is considered to be one of the winning educational platforms that weekly serves millions of teachers and students worldwide.
3 – Socrative:
With Socrative tool, teachers can easily create a variety of online engaging activities such as exercises, games, etc. … which students can work on using any devices (smartphones, laptops, …. ) What’s more, Socrative allows teachers to monitor their students’ results and track their progress.
4 – Plickers :
Plickers a wonderful tool for teachers to create quizzes and collect formative assessment results in real-time. This app also offers an amazing feature that allows your class to share their answers without using their tablet, smartphone, or any device! Wow! Watch the following video and discover more about Plickers:
5 – Quizlet:
Quizlet is an easy tool for boosting vocabulary. It offers a library of millions of flashcards for teachers to use with their students. More than that, teachers can edit or design their own flashcards, and easily share them through links or Google Classroom.
6 – Storybird :
Storybird is a creative language arts platform that seeks to promote young learners’ writing skills. This tool allows teachers to create visual stories in seconds to inspire their students to write.
7- Kahoot :
Kahoot is one of the most popular distance learning tools for teachers to create personalized quizzes and use pre-made games with their students. Via their’s account dashboards, teachers can check their students’ game scores and quiz answers.
8- Google Classroom :
Google Classroom is a free web service that allows teachers to share files, create assignments, and communicate with their students online.
9- Lyrics Training :
If you want to help your students learn and improve their English through songs online, then it’s high time to use Lyrics Training. This tool allows teachers to take videos from Youtube and ask students to fill in gaps while listening. Lyrics Training platform provides a number of settings for teachers to create different types of blank-filling quizzes. To illustrate, they can choose the appropriate level of difficulty and the way they want their students to answer.
10- Canva:
A stunning graphic design tool that teachers can use to create anything such as visual aids, worksheets, presentations, posters, etc. Canva platform provides a large number of premade templates to make the task fast and easy. Good News for teachers and students: Canva Pro is Free. Learn more about Canva Education here.
11- AWW App online white board:
AWW Ap s an amazing online whiteboard app for tablet, smartphone, or computer. Teachers can use it to draw mind maps, explain lessons, correct exercises. This tool has many more great features. For example, you can share your board and collaborate with your students either in real-time. All you can do is to click on the “Invite” button and forward the link of your session to your class and everyone whom you want to join. AWW APP not only allows you to screencast your board live but also to create recorded videos so you can use them later.
12- Animoto:
Animoto is one of the best animation and video creation tools any teacher can use. It enables you to design professional videos in minutes.
13- Get Pocket:
GetPocket is an outstanding organization app which allows you to organize everything you come across on the internet. For example, if you come across a post on social media, an article, or a video that you never want to miss, this practical tool helps you do save them all in once place the with a mouse click.
14- WeTransfer:
Are you suffering from sending large files? WeTransfer is another highly useful platform which I recommend for teachers who do a lot of sharing. It enables you to transfer large files effortlessly to your colleagues or students. More than that, it’s free and no registration is required. Just go the website, upload your file, fill in your recipient’s email, then send it right away.
15- Grammarly:
Grammarly is a must-have tool for students and teachers. It helps them write clearly and effectively. Grammarly analyses your writing corrects your errors and shows editing suggestions.
