Teaching Tools
SPEAKING
Audio
- Vocaroo - a tool for recording and sharing audio messages
Video
- Flipgrid - a tool for recording and sharing video messages
- Komododecks - easy to create video app from ppts
- Pronunciation
- Pronunciation Scaffolder - a tool for practicing pronunciation and prosody
- ELC Sounds - online resource covering all the sounds in English
- BBC Learning English Pronunciation - short videos explaining different parts of pronunciation
LISTENING
- British Council Listening Skills - podcasts at different levels that help to improve language and pronunciation skills
- Elllo - over 2,500 free listening lessons which teachers and students can access for beginner, intermediate and advanced students
READING
- Newsela - tool that allows teachers to find articles with appropriate reading levels for their students
- Read Works - good quality text with a wide range, can help facilitate targeted reading instruction in your class
- Perusall - a tool that allows teachers to upload texts for collaborative reading, annotation and discussion
WRITING
- Google Docs - for writing, editing and collaborating
- OneDrive (Office 365 Word) - similar to Google Docs, but you need to use your PolyU Connect account for students to have editing access
BRAINSTORMING AND SHARING IDEAS
- Microsoft Whiteboard - a freeform, digital canvas
- Padlet - lets users post notes on a digital wall
- Google Jamboard - another whiteboard alternative; user friendly, but needs a google account
QUIZZES
- Kahoot - basic multiple-choice quiz tool for synchronous or asynchronous use (Basic free version is fine)
- Socrative - a quiz-based, formative assessment tool with multiple features (Basic free version is fine)
- Quizizz - basic multiple-choice quiz for synchronous or asynchronous use (Only free version available)
- Mentimeter - an easy to use poll/quiz tool with multiple features (Questions limited on free version)
- Poll Everywhere - an audience response tool (Basic free version for audience up to 25)
- Google Forms - a survey tool that can be adapted to a quiz
- MS Forms - similar to Google Forms; part of Office 365; if you use a PolyU Connect account you can limit replies to students
LESSON DELIVERY
- Pixton - make comics, get your students to create their own comics, and experiment with alternate ways of content delivery
Resources
VIDEOS
- ELC YouTube - ELC videos available to the public
- ELC Panopto - ELC videos on a platform available in China
VIDEO EDITING
- MS Photos comes with Windows 10 and installed on your PolyU computer - make simple edits to videos so that you can put them on ELCAS; look for Windows Movie Maker if you have an older version of Windows on your computer
ONLINE COURSES
- ELC Open Online Courses - links and short descriptions for all the ELC online courses
