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  Hello! Today's topic is Mobile learning and its elements. What is Mobile learning? It is the way of distance e-learning via mobile devices. Any device you have - a mobile phone, a laptop or a tablet - can be the source and the access-device for your learning. Mobile learning is a progressive way of learning, complying with the standards of hectic life of modern society. It uses all the modern technologies to make the process of learning easier, funnier and more interesting.  The essence of the Mobile learning is  the mobility of the learner. With the help of mobile devices we can learn across different contexts, locations, social contacts. This approach provides us with the possibility to apply different technology and move from one technology to another. We can work and learn at the same time. We can learn more efficiently. One of the elements of the Mobile learning is using QR-codes. It is a widely-used technology nowadays, which can help save time and get easy access to mat

Hello! Today I'll speak about MOOC s. What is MOOC? A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants, as well as immediate feedback to quick quizzes and assignments. MOOCs are a widely researched development in distance education, first introduced in 2008, that emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012. MOOCs are a huge step in online learning. It's not like online school or just a course. It is open and massive, so anyone can join to learn whatever they like for free. It is a way to connect and collaborate while developing digital skills. It's a way of engaging in a learning process. It's an event, around which people who are interes

 Hello! Today I'll talk about WIKI ant its use in education. Wiki is a web technology used for collaborative publishing on the web. Wiki is a type of server software that allows you to work with data on a remote server on the Web. Users interact with the software through a web interface that lets them read, edit and publish content. Wiki is used for collaborative publishing. A group of co-authors can freely add and change the content of the wiki website: rewrite texts, add new texts and images, add and link pages and more. Genres of wiki sites that can be useful in learning: Encyclopedias serving as information resource, this site attracts hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world to contribute, and hundreds of millions to read. It is like a book, where you can read about anything you want. Educational wikis are mainly collective research projects. Focused around problem-oriented issues, these projects are typically developed by students and moderated by their teach

 Hi! Today I'll talk about survey services. They can be useful in teaching. With the help of these recourses a teacher can control students' knowledge, collect opinions, create some polls, etc. I have researched some survey services and want to share my opinion. Google Forms With Google Forms, you can not only quickly conduct a survey, but also build a guest list, collect email addresses for a newsletter, and even run a quiz.  You can use the templates or create a theme yourself - just upload a photo or logo, and Forms will automatically select the appropriate color scheme. You can find the statistics of responses, including in the form of a chart, right in the form, and the responses of respondents - in the automatically generated Google spreadsheet. Anketolog The service focuses primarily on online surveys, but also allows you to create tests. The constructor is simple and straightforward to use. The service allows you to customize the test design, you can also create differe

 Hi! Today I'm talking about Google tools which may be helpful in learning English. Google is famous for its services and tools for comfortable office work. Nowadays they have made those tools more adaptated for educational departments. And all of these tools make learning and teaching more interesting, fun and easy. I'll try to show, how those tools may be applied to educational process. Google Docs and Google Sheets Allows you to track any changes made to the document in real time, leave notes, corrections, use the built-in chat. Ideal tool for group work. It is perfect for distance learning, which is quite topical nowadays. For example, a group can use it for a lesson, dedicated to learning of some grammar structures. Students may do the excersises in this tool simultaneously, and immediatelly correct the mistekes woth teather's help. Google Forms Ideal for creating questionnaires and quizzes. Ideal for homework and independent work in the classroom. Very convenient to c

  Hi! Today I'm talking about Bookmarks. What are Boormarks?   Bookmark is a favorite Internet link in the browser, or a selected place in the text. We all use save them when we need to come back to the page without looking for it in the Internet again. Sometimes they get lost and it is not always convenient. Fortunately there is a great number of Bookmark services, which help a user keep his/her Bookmarks in one place. I'll speak about some of them. Raindrop.io The app is not only powerful but it’s also the most beautiful looking bookmark manager you will ever use. Not only it displays all your bookmarks in a neat list but it also allows you to  view them in headline format, cards format, and  mood board format . The card and mood board formats are the best as they both make it easy to find the items that you are looking for.  Bookmark Ninja Bookmark Ninja is one of the best bookmark managers that you can get today. This is a feature-rich bookmark manager which is meant for po