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Hello everybody! It's not a secret for anyone what Wikipedia is and how it works. Of course, this is incredibly useful and perhaps the most popular service created on the wiki. But do you guess how you can use wiki services (not only Wikipedia) for educational purposes? Today I'm going to look at examples of such services and try to understand how it can be useful for us. First of all, what is WIKI? Wiki is a web technology used for collaborative publishing on the web. Wiki is a type of server software that allows you to work with data on a remote server on the Web. Users interact with the software through a web interface that lets them read, edit and publish content. At the moment, wikis are actively used in education and there are a significant number of such resources. Now we will look at some of them in more detail. WIKISPACES I find Wikispaces to be the best among those services that are offered for training on the wiki platform. It not ...

Hello everybody! As you know, various tests and quizzes have long become part of the educational process. In connection with these, there are different resources that teacher can use in training. Today I'm going to tell you about such services, about how they can be used and which one is the best. 1. GOOGLE FORMS Google Forms is actively used not only for educational purposes. The service is ideal for various polls. It's easy to use and the simplest ways to save data directly to a spreadsheets. Users often choose this service, because it is free (as all Google products) and does not require downloading additional software (it is enough to have an account in GMAIL and Internet access 😃). Advantages Disadvantages easy to use, convenient settings free service the ability to create not only polls, but also tests immediate visual results and statistics the possibility of working together on a form mobile version Internet access required 2...

Hello everbody! At the moment, Google offers a lot of useful and free services. It has services for work and leisure, search and communication, business development and much more. Today I'll try to talk about some Google products and their use in teaching. GOOGLE DOCS Google Docs is a very useful service for work and learning. Perhaps its main advantage to Microsoft Word is free. Also, Google Docs offers many inaccessible or limited on other services functions, such as auto-saving and access to the document for different people. In teaching, Google Docs has a wide range of uses, from the simplest test in the text format to the serious scientific work performed and controlled by a group of people. The service is free.  Everything is stored in the cloud. Simple file sharing.  Tools for teamwork.  A convenient history of changes.  Voice input.  GOOGLE CLASSROOM Classroom is a free service for educational...

Hello everybody! Today I'm going to tell you about Bookmarks and some services to create your own bookmarks. In 2008 the amount of such services was pretty poor. The services didn't offer a large number of opportunities. But fortunately the tecnology has developed successfully and now there are many convenient and usefull services sites for creating bookmarks. And now I try to analyze the evolution of bookmark services. Nine years ago, users had to install additional software to create their own bookmarks. It was also difficult to choose the most suitable bookmarking service, since most of them remained unfinished. The best for storing bookmarks were Google bookmarks . As for social bookmarking services (such as Delicious ), they were actively used and sometimes were more preferable than browser bookmarks. In 2012, social bookmarks gradually faded into the background. Users preferred browser bookmarks, but they still did not have a modern look and requ...

Hello everybody! Today I'm going to tell you about the resources for creating presentations and stock services.  Nowadays, presentations are actively used in various spheres of life (business, economics, etc.). In education, the use of presentations have also taken a firm position. There are many resources that allow working with presentations (creating, sharing online, etc.). So, let's look at some online services (maybe you will not need PowerPoint any more 😃). PREZI Prezi is a service for creating presentations. This freedom of movement enables “conversational presenting,” a presentation style in which presentations follow the flow of dialogue, instead of vice-versa. Prezi offers many different modes of operation, including free use (however, in this mode, not all functions are available). Advantages Disadvantages easy to use free version beautiful and interesting presentations Internet access required not all functions are available  MY ...

Hello everybody! Last year I began to learn German at university. Since then, the app "Memrise" has helped me learn and remember new words and expressions.  In other words, "Memrise" is the best way for me to study German through my phone. And now I show you how you may use this app to improve your language skills, especially your vocabulary. The first thing you should know about "Memrise", there are a lot of langunge courses. Some of them are designed by developers of the app, others - by common users. It's a great advantage, because you can find the best course for yourself.  When you start a "Memrise" course, you can choose one of the six moods of operation: learn new words, review words you've learn, spreed review, audio review, "my difficult words" and "meet local" (unfortunately, the last two are only available in paid version 😣). First of all you should learn the words. In "Memrise...

Hello everybody! Can you imagine how many services for studying foreign languages exist at the moment? I believe that there are a lot of them. And how to choose the right resource for you? I tried to look at some of them for different aspects of learning English and choose the ones that I liked. Perhaps some of them I will use in further training. Let's start! 1. Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation ▸TELL ME MORE  The program Tell Me More Performance has unique features that will improve the English language. It includes unique developments such as speech recognition, digital image processing, and a large number of visual learning methods. According to the description of the program, I suppose that it can be useful in improving your pronunciation. If you are not sure whether you have correctly pronounced a word, then its pronunciation can be compared to a native speaker by means of audio recordings and graphs of speaking. Also in the program materials are divid...