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Nearpod is a website for integrating materials together into a lesson and presenting it. Students could enter the class with a code from their own mobile devices.  Teachers could add many kinds of activities, including slides, pictures, videos (even if they are on other platforms), quizzes, homework...If you have read  my blog about Blendspace , I am sure you will quickly get familiar with it.  One of the best functions of Nearpod is that the contents on students' device keep step with teachers' device. In other words, teachers could control what students are watching. And the teacher can also decide whether to give students the freedom to watch the video themselves. Teachers could watch students' work on their devices. And they could also click one of their works to show to the whole class. I made a lesson focus on the comparative of English with Nearpod. It begins with a video introducing comparative from YouTube. And there are also some quizzes for students to finish ...

Screencast-o-matic is a tool that can be used in language teaching. It consists of two parts: software for editing videos and a web platform for sharing. The Website of Sceencast-o-matic The App of Sceencast-o-matic on Ipad This software is available both for mobile and pc. This article will mainly introduce the mobile version of the software. This software allows for screen recording and some relatively basic video editing, such as changing its length, adding background music, using filters and so on. A very useful function is that you can make a recording of yourself and add it into another video. Thus, a video with an introduction video by yourself is made easily. This is useful both for teachers to record a lecture video and students to make a presentation and share it with others. Once the users have finished editing the video, they can upload it directly to their accounts on Screencast-o-matic's website. When they log in to the website, they can upload their videos to channe...

Blended teaching (or blended learning) is an approach that combines the advantages of actual classrooms with the advantages of computer resources. By using computer resources in the classroom to interact with students, or among students, teachers can make the lesson more interesting. Blendspace  ( https://www.blendspace.com/lessons ) is a website that can be used for this teaching model.  Firstly, Blendspace can help teachers integrate teaching resources and present them in the classroom. Click the button of “+ New Lesson” and you can go to a lesson designing page. Click “Drop your resource " and you can upload your own files in the lesson, such as ppt, videos and pictures.  On the right side of the edit lesson interface, you can also look up keywords to find available teaching resources on the web, including videos from Youtube and teaching resources from Google and Tes ( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources , a teaching resources website). In addition, you can al...