MALL, QR-codes and Quizlet

There are several principles of MALL:

• The mobility of the lerner (we could learn across different locations and social contexts)
• The informal atmosphere of lerning process can be combined with learning in a class
• Gamification of learning

Have you heard about QR-codes?

I have some ideas of how to use them in language teaching or learning:

1) We can use it in our student's books just to save space or provide student with some extra material on this theme. 

2) We can use them in our presentations in order to provide everyone with the material on his /her own smartphone.

3) I like the idea of creating some quest-games using QR-code. I think it may be really interesting.

Quizlet

You don't know how to learn the words to your school dictation? So, Quizlet will help you!

You can find here an example of what does it look like.

Where to find free courses?

Have you herd about MOOCs? 

They are open free courses divoted to different spheres of life aimed at teaching people something new. 
I think, this issue is very topical, because nowadays it's very important to develop yourself every day and improve your skills to stay compertitive at your career sphere. Each employer wants to hire the most educated person. But we don't have enough time in our stressful life to study at university or attend courses. And such massive open online courses may help you to solve this problem. You may also use them as a hobby if you have a need of learning something new every day. I really liked the site coursera. The design is very convinient and it's easy to find the course you like.P.s. there are many english teaching courses created by different universities all over the world.

My WIKI experience

I've read about TEFLPedia. 

This site was created as a free resourse for teachers of English. It contains great amounts of information on diffetent themes (phonetics, converversation questions, exercises, lesson plans etc.).

And the most important possibility is the everyone's ability of adding and editing pages. There is a Newcomer's guide for everyone who has never tried working with a wiki, so it's really easy to start.

There's a talk-page where you can find lots of debates starded by any English teacher in the world, so that you can collect expirience of your foreign collegues and share your own.

From my poin of view, the sourse is especially useful for practicing teachers who need to create a new lesson on a special theme. They can swiftly find any good material of even a plan of a lesson using Search box, so that they will save their time.

How to collect people's opinion?

 There're several sites using which you can create your own poll.

• My Test

  

- I found the design of the programm quite old-fashioned and unfriendly. 

+ There is a great variaty of types of questions (open, clozes, etc.)

+ The teacher can observe the process of student's doing a task

+ Student can't close the window with the task until he finishes it, so it may solve the problem of cheating using browser and Internet.

• Google forms 

  

  + I think this site is the easiest way of creating a poll
  + The site looks much more up-to-date
  + Teacher can get the stasistics of his poll and see what questions were the most difficult 
  + It's possible to edit your test both via computer and mobile form
  
  
  
  

  Socrative 

  

  + It's my favourite! The design is so minimalistic and adorable.
  + It's easy to create your own activity
  + There're mobile versions in AppStore and PlayMarket both for students and teachers, so it works on computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.
  + Teachers can review student understanding at the class, individual student, or question-level. And, because each Socrative report is saved to their account, they can quickly download, email, or transfer reports to Google Drive anytime.
  
  
  

  I suggest you answer my polls

  go!

   
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The Tools 

In my blog I used a Calender-tool, archive, contact me panel, subscribe panel and translator :)

These tools were created for making your blog look smarter.

How can you create a presentation?

Google disc

Prezi.com 

Some words about Bookmarks

Nowadays it's easy to get tangled in your browser bookmarks.
But bookmark site is the easiest way to collect and store all your webpages in one place. I would like to show the site that I've chosen https://webstartpage.ru/ 

What does it look like?

Nice to meet you there!

Hello! Today I'm going to tell you about my experiece of using one mobile app to improve my english skills. And that is Duolingo. You can install in AppStore or PlayMarket for free, athough for some functions you'll need to pay extra. As for me, I think that even basic functions are enough to achieve good results.

What can you find in this app?

• All exercised include some game elements.
• The app stimulases you to learn regularly (it has a system than gives you special apportunuties if you practise regularly)
• Game elements inclide your "lives". And you'll lose one life if you give an incorrect answer. 
• You'll see the results as soon as you end your task.If it's incorrect you will be provided with the useful material to solve the problem. 
• There are a lot of tasks on listening, reading, writing and speaking. Due to this you can improve all kind of skills. 
• The app now is used in schools as a ineractive platform for students.
• The app has its chat rooms divoted to a specific language.
• The vocabulary was given in a sort of pyramid, where each module includes words on a concrete theme.

My Results

I used the app to revise my spanish. One year ago I attended spanish courses. And after them I realised than I need some practise just not to forget the words. So I installed Duolingo. Frankly saying, it was difficult for the first time to train regularly, but I managed to do it and the results were great! 

Some useful sites

I tried to get acquainted with some sites designed to help you in improving your english skills: listening, speaking, pronunciation, writing, reading, grammar and vocabulary.

And I'm going to name there sites I really liked.

• https://www.rosettastone.com/
  
  The design of this site was really friendly and it was easy to find any information you need. The Rosetta Stone's program helps to prepare to use your language in a real world. There are various languages to chose, not only english. You can participate in reallife conversations, read stories along with native speakers and take break from the screen by listening to the lessons. I wish it were my first time learning english, so that I would chose that app to start with.

• Tell Me More program.
  
  I found this program quite interesting, because the course comprises of different tasks, starting from speaking and ending with the tests. It's up to you to decide what skills you want to improve today. The program is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch languaes.

• http://eslus.com/LESSONS/READING/READ.HTM 
  
  This site gives you opportunities not to just read stories but to make some tasks based on them. And it will give your some explanations whether the answer is right or wrong.

• www.er-central.com
  
   To begin with, this site is free to use. You shouldn't pay for the materials provided.  It's divided for the options for students and teachers. There are great amount of texts to read and listen, also you can learn words using wordslerning games. Finally, there is a Text Helper which can save words from any webpage in the Internet, so that you can learn them later.

• http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/multimedia/programs/fog.htm
  
  The site provides you with the courses in grammar, reading, writing. There are also courses to get prepares for some international exams, such as IELTS, Cambridge Exams, PTE Academic, TOEFL and TOEIC.

•  https://www.ldoceonline.com/ 
  
  You don't need to have written vocabularies, because they are now available online. At this website you can not only translate the word but also to make sure if you pronounce it correctly and how it's pronounced by a native speaker.
  
  

I hope I was useful! Happy Learning!

Let's start with the goals!

Hello!

I'm Ann.
And it's my first attempt of starting an internet-blog.

About me: student of BSU, 21 y.o, interested in learning and teaching languages, it-technologies and cooking, by the way ☺

My goals:

• to add something to my blog regularly
• to get sure if the information in my blog is topical and correct
• to try something I've never tried before

And you may join my english trip too just following my Blog!