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Making Your Digital Classroom More Interactive

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Zuhal Aydin takes a look at some popular resources you can use in your classroom to make it more interactive for your students

In recent years ELT researchers  have  become increasingly interested in designing digital classrooms and an inter-connected web-centric world. There has been a spate of interest in cutting-edge technology. To ‘digitize’ a classroom means to implement technology into the classroom. The teaching techniques have to catch up to the new pace of learning.

There is a huge need to involve learners in communicative activities. Web technology is changing rapidly every day and the Internet has become an important part of life for people all over the world. The powers of technology are constantly improving. The implementation of technology integrated method language learning has brought some serious changes that can be benefited from. In this interactive environment we try to involve the students into the classroom and we incorporate blended learning. This is a combination of interactive digital learning. You can enhance reading, writing skills in an authentic real world context and provide opportunity for creativity. Learners can communicate easily and collaborate with other students. Unlike a teacher-led classroom, students can participate in an active way.

Teachers can use technology to enable students to meet people of different cultures, explore new worlds, do source research. In this case these materials appeals to students and motivate them. It opens up a new world for the students. It creates  flexible learning paths in learners’ minds. Teachers as  facilitators try to involve learners in the class by using Web 2.0 tools.

Here are some great tools which you can use to digitize your classroom:

  1. FutureMe – This is a website about writing letters to your future self. The student registers and writes something about their life so that they’ll practice writing in English.
  2. Penzu – Penzu is a simple online tool for creating a personal journal.
  3. Storybird – This is about digital story telling. You as teachers can create digital stories and you can read these stories in your class. You can also create one account for your class as well. The students will enjoy it!
  4. Animoto – Here you can create videos to share in your classroom. You can upload some photos for these videos and any kind of music to accompany it.
  5. Staged Project – A digital tool for creating animated comics. You can make your stories easier to read and understand.
  6. Voice Thread – Digital storytelling program that enables users to upload pictures or documents.
  7. Domo Animate – Animations to bring students more fun in their learning.
  8. Little Bird Tales – Capture your student’s voice with a creative story and share them with their family and friends.
  9. Vocaroo – Voice recording service.
  10. Soundcloud – Share your sounds!

How do you digitize your classroom? What resources do you use?

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  2. Three quick points:

    1. Someone needed to proof-read this post before it was published.

    2. Not one of those 10 “great tools” enable students to do something that can’t be done in a non-digital classroom. Where’s the revolution?

    3. I picked a tool at random, then picked an example of work on it at random and found this:

    https://domo.goanimate.com/movie/08CGSnPvLOQI/1

    Heck! What is being digitised here?

    • We always welcome feedback on the content and resources we provide.

      We want to encourage people around the world with different experiences and different levels of English to have their voice and share their thoughts, and we do our best to ensure that the topics covered are interesting and relevant to our readership and the wider ELT community.

      For many people around the world, the concept of the digital classroom is still relatively new to them. Not only do we encourage our contributors to explore new and exciting areas of digital, we also encourage them to help those less confident with technology to make a start at introducing digital into their classrooms.

      We’re also conscious that this article contains links to external sites. OUP are not responsible for the content of external sites, nor do we endorse any companies or organisations linked to. Any views or opinions expressed in the articles on this blog are those of the authors.

      Thank you for your feedback.

      OUP ELT Global Blog Team

  3. Thanks for your kind message dear I??l,Thanks for your support:)
    Best wishes,
    Zuhal AYDIN

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