These are four digital tools that I have used (and liked!) both as a student and teacher. Hope you find them useful too 😀

Wordwall is an online platform that allows you to create activities and games such as memo tests, quizzes, hangmen, flashcards, among others. To create an activity, you have to create an account. This is free, as well as the first five activities you create. If you want to design more, you should pay. Moreover, the tool is easy to use and it has many resources such as incorporated pictures and the possibility to add sound, which helps a lot if you have visual or auditory learners.

In class, it could be used, for instance to pre-teach vocabulary items  by means of a memotest. Besides, once the game is created, it can be played as many times as wanted, so it is a good option to provide students with ludic activities to revise at home. This week, I have used with a teenager student who needed to revise adjectives with negative prefixes, so I created it with this tool!

Microsoft paint is a tool used primarily for drawing, editing an manipulating images. It is criticised for some people because it's quite old, but it is also really useful, simple and effective. Besides, it's free and it doesn't require internet connection. Among its characteristics there are different colors, textures, brushes and text tools.
In online classes, I find it helpful to use it as a "whiteboard", since you can write, draw arrows, symbols, timelines, you can as well add images and different colors, and at the end of the lesson, you can save the image and share it with your students so that they have it too.

Google docs is a web-based processor that allows users to create, edit and collaborate on documents online. It is very similar to Microsoft Word, but it requires internet connection. And thanks to this, everything is saved on the cloud, so there's no need to click on "save" as in Microsoft Word. Furthermore, something really positive about this tool is that it can be used with a computer, a tablet, or even a phone.

An activity in class could be to ask students to work in pairs or groups of threes and use the computers from school (plan B: Cellphones) to create a collaborative glossary, for instance. Suppose that the class has read a book, and the teacher provided them with some vocabulary items to study; with G-docs, they can optimize time and work together on the same document, which allows to add images, hyperlinks, texts, charts and so on.

Google classroom is learning platform designed for educational institutions: It is a space that facilitates communication between the teacher and the whole class, it allows the teacher to post material and tasks with or without  deadlines, and also give feedback through here. 

In class, a short task can be assigned for students to work during the class and then hand in. A concrete example could be a case in which students are revising past simple, and the task is to write what they did last weekend to later on share with the rest. Students could do the activity on paper or through a digital tool, and then upload it onto classroom.