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Pear Deck: An useful platform for exam? Pear Deck is a presentation stage that serves the teacher to collect students' responses in a live session to improve student comprehension. Teachers and students need to use their Google accounts to create and do the activity through Pear Deck. When teachers and students start to do the activity through this platform, they need to extend their account in google slides to be injected by Pear Deck. After that, they can create and do the activity. There are many advantages and disadvantages of Pear Deck but only the vital issues are presented in this article. One of the common plus points of this platform is the theme with a colorful design. The color of this platform is very interesting. Also, the cute image like a pear represents how the learning will be more engaging. Other than that, the features of Pear Deck are also out-of-the-box. They give the teacher a lot of interesting templates to start the learning activity. The template itself can...

  Hot Potato: A “God” application for making reading exercises? A well-liked program called  Hot Potato  makes it simple to make interactive Web-based instructional exercises. The University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Center's Research and Development team created six programs that make up the Hot Potatoes package. Web interactive exams and exercises can only be created using the Hot Potato program by entering data, assigning settings, and publishing them.  Hot Potato have various advantages for teachers when preparing materials for EFL students.  The advantages are as follows:  -) Allow teachers to make little exercises for students to master grammatical concepts. These kinds of activities are included in many examination systems, and they can make students understand grammar more quickly and effectively. When the teacher creates an exercise in Hot Potato, the exercise can be changed to keep them up-to-date. As a result, Hot Potato co...

  TED : The vital application for solving students problem in listening? TED  is a good website for students who are lacking in their listening skill. This webpage facilitates students with a lot of interesting topics, such as technology, science, education, etc. The mission of TED is to celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. To gain a massive effect on teachers, TED allows the teacher to make their interactive lessons with their original animated videos. TED talks are a great way to improve students' knowledge. Students can get information not just from specific topics but they can also collect any information from a huge diversity of topics, directly from TED. Improving critical thinking is also the one of advantages of TED. By watching the video, students think about both different sides and summarize them. This makes students state the facts on the specific topic and board their perspectives on the pros and cons based on the video. Students ...

  Wordwall: Is it useful for language teaching? Wordwall  is a literacy tool that includes words that are displayed in big visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surfaces in a classroom. It's designed to make learning progress become more interactive and improve students' interaction while understanding the material in the classroom. Access to create and answer questions is very easy for both teachers and students when opening the Wordwall. Many advantages can be acquired when we enter this application. The vital advantage is saving teachers' preparation time. Wordwall facilitates teachers with useful templates that can be used to save their time before teaching students. Teachers only insert words or pictures in the appropriate template. Not only good for teachers, but students can also become more engaged while accessing this app. The whiteboard seems to be useless while students use Wordwall. This opinion is quite logical because Wordwall can be a su...

Quizizz: An interactive application for teaching and learning?   The younger generation in this modern era wants something instant. They often read school material on the internet. The main reason is that it is more practical and faster to access. One of them is a webpage called Q uizizz . This online web is widely used by teachers and students to access assignments, exams, and materials. There are many advantages to this website. One of the advantages that most users feel is that it is free to use. Both teachers and students do not need to pay in advance when they want to make or answer questions. Another advantage is Quizizz's ability to easily integrate with Google Classroom. So through google classroom, teachers can easily create questions and check student answers during online exams. Features that Quzziz gives when making questions are also very lit. There are lots of forms such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, draw, short, long answers, etc. This can improve st...