CALL & LG SKILLS BSU

LearnEnglish has hundreds of high-quality resources to help improve ur English for free.

It also could be useful in ur studying process - no matter in school or university.

1. As for the BSU students, I found it practical at first in Speech practice. It’s useful for the students of different years, cause it contains so many topics, beginning with the “Word on the street” ending with Stories & Poems.

 

2. In Grammar and Vocabulary u can learn and practice grammar and vocabulary through explanations, activities and games.

You'll find a detailed grammar by well-known author Dave Willis, a quick reference containing 48 common areas of grammar and games to help you practise your vocabulary.

 

MALL 

MALL — is an acronym for Mobile Apps Language Learning. It's way of learning languages through mobile apps (apps for smartphone and tablet pc)

Through such apps like: 

• Duolingo
• Lingualeo
• and etc.

QR-code

Quick Response codes or QR codes are secure high data density two dimensional bar-codes. QR codes are high density 2D bar codes first created and patented by Denso Wave in Japan QR codes. 

QR-code can be read from any of your digital device, from PC to Smartphone and Tablet PC.

It can be used by teachers in handouts in order to help children to get fast on topic's sites, resources and etc.

— QR-code for this blog. 

*Little quiz for my fools.

WIKI 

Wiki — is a type of website that lets anyone who can access the wiki create and change its pages. The word is Internet slang. The word Wiki is short for WikiWikiWeb. Wikiwiki is a word from the Hawaiian language, meaning "fast" or "speed". Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, Citizendium, and Conservapedia.

WIKI EXPERIENCE: 

• TEFLPedia — A great example of a professional teachers’ community that comes together by means of a wiki site.

WIKI TOOLS: 

• Wikispaces proves to be one of the best, highly reliable, easy to use and intuitive free wiki platforms to use as your wiki platform. With at least 100 MB of file storage space, it can prove sufficient for most academic needs of a small group. Recent classroom-oriented updates makes Wikispates your top choice for classroom wiki use.

• Wikia offers a more modern look, has more features and a vast fan base for attracting commercially active communities — Twilight fans, healthy food fans and alike. Less suitable for educational use for incessant advertising on every page of your wiki.

• ZohoWiki provides state-of-the-art interface and functions for a modern corporate-inclined wiki. Best for tech-savvy classrooms.

• Wiki Site is a native WikiMedia-based free wiki hosting with limited features and resources. 

• WikiDot offers free plans for wiki sites with advertising. Standard wiki functionality.

SURVEY 

Internet services are extremely usefull thing when it comes to survey. It allows you to accumulate and keep survey data in more specific and easy way. Also, it's useful for teachers by dozen of reasons: 

- solving problems with parents. 

- solving problems collectively.

- it helps if using this services as test's platform. 

For this very purpose you can use such services as: 

• Google Forms

• Twitter

• Socrative

INTRODUCTION TO MOOC

First time i ever have something useful for you my friend.

OK, first things first, MOOC is an abbreviation Massive Open Online Course. MOOC  is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.

There are dozens of services that provide such things. 

The most popular of them are Coursera (www.coursera.org) and EDx(www.edx.org).

For myself i want to note this particular course, which i would love to join.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-cognitive-sciences

GOOGLE SERVICES

Everybody know, that Google provides whole bundle of helpful services and platforms. Most of the can be used in teaching or teacher's life.

In order to help the teacher google provides such useful services in free access as: 

• Gmail — Probably the most popular e-mail storage. 
• Google Calendar — Well, that is calendar where you can keep your plans and do some time-management. 
• Google Hangouts — Service for communication, including groups.
• Google Docs — Simply online Word and cloud for your docs.
• Google Videos — Video-sharing service.
• Google Sites — Platfrom for making sites.

 PRESENTATION SERVICES

There are bunch of services in the net that allow you to create and keep your presentations. As i never used this before neither now, it might be useful further. 

The most common service is Prezi (prezi.com)

It provides: co-working, adding clips in your pres., gifs, pics and etc. 
So yeah i would recomend this.*

*prezi not pays me for advertising.