Week 6 - Technologies to Practice Oral Communication Skills

We started our lesson by recalling what we did in previous weeks; technologies to use while practicing reading (e.g. Storyweaver, CommonLit), writing (e.g. Padlet, OneNote), vocabulary (e.g. Kahoot, Quizziz), etc. Then went on with this week's topic: Oral Communication Skills and How to Develop them with Technology


During our lesson, we observed many websites. Some of which are below;

- Google Podcasts: The website where you can try Google's feature with thousands of podcasts

- Castos: A website to produce your own podcast or listen to one

- Voki: A website where the narrator can form a character and make it talk

- Powtoon: Website to generate animations

- Vyond: Website to make animation videos

- EdPuzzle: Website to prepare interactive videos

- YouGlish: Website that shows the word used in context (in videos)

- VoScreen: Website to study language by doing activities from movie/series scenes. Example of an exercise is down below [Picture 5]

- Elllo: Website that gives lesson plans/videos

- LearnEnglishKids: Website that has many English exercises for children

This week's lesson was quite fun! My favorite website was Voki and I will definitely use it a lot during my student and teacher career. 


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