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 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 d...

 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...

 Hi! Today i'll continue talking about technologies and useful recourses for studying. More in detail about useful sites to create presentation . There are lots of sites and recourses for creating a powerful slide-show. Why do we need them? Well, a presentation is your helper . In case you need to present something, either a seminar topic at the university or a new project at work - slide-shows will help you visualise your ideas and make it understandable. Visualisation helps people whom are you presenting information analyse and memorise it better. Besides, creative presentations will make your performance beautiful and fun, so people will be interested in listening to you.  There is a great variety of available sites for presentstion creation.  For example: PowerPoint Onlie Google Slides Prezi Slideshare Qwiki SlidePocket And it's only a small list! They all provie a user with: Ease-of-use   Import/export features  Real-time collaboration   Cloud access a...

Hello! This post will be dedicated to the Internet and how it improved learning the language. Nowadays we can't even imagine our everyday life without Internet recourses. What is more, we can't imagine our learning without the Internet.    Why? Becuse technologies have deeply integrated into educational process. Internet saves time. We are provided with almost unlimited access to loads of information which we may use during our studies. Internet is a platform for lots of online educational web-sites. It connects users all over the world and makes studying flexible and accessable at any time and in any place. The benefits the Internet gives us can't be overestimated. Web1.0, Web2.0, Web3.0 - What is it? All of us from time to time face these notions. These actually are the stages in the Internet evolution. And analysing the evolution we can understand how the Internet integrated into the educational process. Web1.0 When the Internet emerged, it was like an e-book. One could ...

Hi! Today I'm talking about how Internet resources can help you learn the English language. First of all I should mention, that learning a language is not an easy task. You should be motivated and interested in success. Your studies should be structured. You should have a certain plan, that will  reflect the consistent learning of all the aspects of the English language. Let's make it clear. There are 3 aspects of the language: phonetics, grammar and vocabulary . They are all interconnected and must be studied with equal effort. Your English will be perfect only if you pay attention to all of the aspects. So, how can we improve the process of studying by using Internet resources? Nowadays, there is a huge number of various resources aimed at helping learners improve the process of studying. They are dedicated either to the language itself, or to a certain aspect of the language. I have researched a list of the educational Internet resources and want to recommend the most us...