Use Nearpod to encourage students to learn English on their mobile devices

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 after they complete one section of the video. After the video, I put the pictures of their textbook on the platform in case someone 

The link to my lesson is here. You can enter if you are interested in.


I think this site is still well worth a try for teachers who want to practice mobile-blended teaching. This website not only helps students who sit in the corner and feel it is difficult to see the big screens in the classroom to receive the resources clearly, but also prevents students from being distracted by their mobile phones by occupying their phones. 




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