Digital Tools and Apps

Slidesmania is a site where you have different slides templates and it is particularly useful to create games online. One advantage that it may present is that you can create a board game in which you include images, sounds and videos.

One possible activity would be to create an online board game where students are divided into two teams and both teams have to fulfill certain activities to win. The aim by doing this game on this app is that students can put into work their listening, reading and speaking skills at the same time and in the same activity. Here is an example for first-form students

Padlet is an app where students can post their own ideas and everyone with an appropriate link can see them. It is particularly useful for collaborative work.

An activity that may be done on this app is to ask students to brainstorm on a particular topic. In this way, students will be able to see their peers' comments and share their own. Learners may do this as an activation or reflection exercise. 

Wordwall is an app that is mainly used for playing games with students with the purpose of activating previous knowledge or going over a topic that has been taught in class.

The good thing about this app is that games are useful to deal with content, grammar and vocabulary.

A possible activity that may be done on wordwall is the following: the teacher may ask students to read material on a certain topic and then give them time to do a matching activity to check comprehension. Then, we would all discuss the topics together

Tenor is a site where you may either create your own gif or where you may find a gif of your interest. This webpage is very useful as students tend to use gifs all the time; thus this may be meaningful for them

A possible activity is to ask students to find gifs that show different ways of: ways of looking, smiling, walking, etc. In this way, students may learn the meaning of each verb by looking at gifs, which is very useful for those students who are visual learners.