Teaching Tool Review

TEACHING TOOL REVIEW 2725373 Comunicative English for Teacher Section 10 PRESENT Asst.Prof. Ruedeerath Chusanachoti, Ph.D.

The Provider

1 VDO/LMS Gather.town Webex Microsoft team Discord Classdojo Seesaw Moodle TABLE OF 9 COLLABO RATION Poll Everywhere Asana Miro CON Google Jamboard Slido Trello TENTS17 PRESENTA TION SlideDog 25 EXERCISE Keynote Slidego Quizalize Genially Wordwall Prezi Gimkit Vonder Live Worksheet Loom Quizwhizzer Baamboozle



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Gather.Town About Gaher.Town Gather.Town is an online meeting app in the form of a simulation game that allows players to take the role of an avatar in a situation. Gather.Town has interactive video conferencing with other participants that can present work share ideas through the whiteboard at the same time, or share documents from others applications. Players in Gather.Town can create new characters and choose their own workwear of their choice. In addition, many types of workrooms can be set up whether it is a meeting room, reading room, relaxation room, or private room. It can accommodate up to 500 people. Preview Gather.Town Screen : PROS : CONS : Gather.Town is free on website. For anyone using the Gather.Town It has game features can be on a Mac, they will be warned that played anytime with other the program is in beta.There may participants to have fun as well. be display issues. The screen It can add place to it. that we want doesn't load the map or the screen doesn't load the map or show to choose where our office is things can't click the link. located. Gather.Town can only use on It reduce accumulated stress website. from work from home. 2



Microsoft Teams What is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams is a program used for communicating, video conference, making announcements. It acts as centralized access to the services built into the Office 365 system, such as managing all your conversations, files, and tools in one team workspace. It get instant access to SharePoint, OneNote, Power BI, and Planner. New or interesting Features Teachers can create quizzes or Microsoft Forms for exams. Folders can be created for receiving assignments that students send only. and others can't see. Check attendance. Notify students to enter the classroom. Sending files within Teams can send files up to 250GB in size per file. Sending files, will not disappear over time. Up to 100 users can edit Word | Excel | PowerPoint files within Teams at the same time online without having to load the file to the device first. Pros: Microsoft Teams provides for free. The Education side has a feature dedicated to creating classrooms. MS Able to record meetings. There is a whiteboard for sharing information. Microsoft Teams can Chat with each other in groups. Microsoft Teams can Notify when meeting or chatting. There are applications on PC, Mobile, and Tablet. Cons: The screen in the display has a small that makes a number of users not able to see. Streaming system is not good enough, not smooth, can't compare with Zoom. If the user switches the screen while turning on the camera, it will cause the camera to stop working. The user interface is quite difficult to use. 4

Discord About Discord Discord is a free chat application. It available for computers and mobile devices, Discord servers have the text and audio channels used for real-time conversations. It can share various media formats with members, gamers will know because it is a platform used for voice or text chat between games, Discord has not stopped its popularity just in the gaming industry anymore as many businesses are increasingly interested in marketing on Discord in addition to traditional platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. PROS : CONS : Discord is free to download It takes a long time to download and create a server. for the first time. The notifications are less adjustable. It can customizable sound, Worst of all, the notification tone cannot mute detection. be changed. The notifications are not noticeable There is quite a bit of when set to low. And it's cluttered when customization in basic use. it's opened all the way. Multi-room audio is not supported at the The ability to set up a same time. ranking There is no microphone test system, system for management and you have to go to the room and try it monitoring. yourself. It can upload files or images directly (size limit 8Mb). 5

ABOUT Teachers, students, and families can use ClassDojo, a school communication platform to build close-knit PROS: communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom CONS: through photos, videos, and messages. Each student gets an avatar, which the child can personalize, and teachers create goals or behaviors to track, such as turning in homework, participating in class, or staying on task. ClassDojo helps working parent who want to connect with their children. Class Dojo is a fun and free tool that provides easy behavior tracking for students. Children like to be able to customize their characters. Children are excited to keep track of their scores and earn rewards. ClassDojo allows teachers to gather more data about individual students ClassDojo is not available on some Android devices. It might not be good for older student who don’t want a reward for positive behaviors. In-app Communication feature is just for parent to teacher. Children can’t messages their teacher or parent. There is no in-app search feature so it is difficult to find things within the app 6

SEESAW ABOUT Seesaw is an app that working as a social media but is a SEESAW learning tool. Children use the app to share their work or homework with friends, teachers, and parents. Members in PROS: the comment group can always encourage children to feel that their work is valuable and interested Seesaw gives children more space to express themselves and giving teachers time to study strengths and weakness of students to plan for the development of learning to be precise and effective in the future. Just with G-mail, teachers can invite children to the classroom by setting a code just like Google Classroom. The Seesaw Class app will generate a QR Code for kids to easily scan to get in a class. The lessons that teachers will create can take many forms. Whether it's uploading files, videos, photos, writing notes, attaching links Teachers can assign homework to students through the application, it will remind you that what work did you order and when the student must submit their assignment. Students can work in this app and can choose from many different methods. Seesaw has a notification system that can send to parents for update the child's development and activities daily. CONS: Students cannot talk to teachers individually through SEASAW. Many content must be paid version to access. 7

MOODLE .LMS Moodle LMS is a program that allow instructor to create online area with ABOUT secure, accessible, and fascinating. instructor or educator can build their own MOODLE teaching platform to educate in the way you need to student. Its have access to Moodle app that create web base learning that containing “courses” by access to many platforms such as pc or phone. These course areas are where the teachers can create and organize many resource and activities into a large learning experience that can be interact and work by learners. Feture : 1. customize your moodle site 2. support online learning 3. have securerity and privacy 4. flexible teching 5. have mobile app 6. intergrate with many system PROS: You are allowed to complete control your data in Moodle LMS to meet your local legislation requirement. Moodle LMS can be accessible in many directions with common device, such as computer and smartphone. If you are an instructor, you can custom your own website independently and a lot of options, by create your own website, contact with Moodle partner or Moodle cloud. CONS: Moodle LMS is not a stand alone application at beginning. It need a site from other source, or you have moodle cloud to create your site. Educators, who need to use Moodle LMS, must know how to create the website to install Moodle in web directory, if you don’t have any partner or Moodle cloud. Moodle LMS mobile application it dose not has search tool, to help you find your interesting site. 8

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Poll Everywhere is a cloud-based software designed for hosting remote meetings and capture participants' feedback via polls or surveys. It is a tool that encourages the students to participate more in the classroom activities and assessments through teacher-designed surveys, polls, and discussion boards. It is available on any platform both IOS and Android. There are free accounts for teacher to sign up for it but with limited responder access including the ability to create questions that can incorporate images and text as well as graph results in real time. polleverywhere.com PROS 10 It is user friendly as it is simple to create a poll. There are a lot of alternate way of using a poll. You can save the result of the poll or the survey to check back later It is available for any devices, even works on an old smartphone or old computer too. CONS Even it can be used on any devices but for some functions (e.g., Image selection) it is better to use on the laptop or the computer. The design of the poll is not flexibility. Once the answer is revealed the user has a chance to change their answer which may skew the results.

ABOUT ASANA Asana is a task managing, planning, and tracking program. It can be viewed as Board, Calendar, Listview and used together with a team. The main feature is that we can create projects as well as sub-tasks for each project, and boost task priority. It makes the tracking of the team work progress easier and more convenient. PROS: It is compatible with other applications such as Trello, CONS: Power-Ups. It can create Subtask under Task. Each task may be subdivided into smaller tasks in order to distribute duties and assign tasks individually. My Task is a feature that brings all of the projects and teams together in one location. This feature allows us to focus on our work only which makes less confuse on jobs that do not belong to us. The implementation of the Asana program is quite complex and may require a lot of study time. Even it can be used on any devices but for some functions, it is better to use on the laptop or the computer. It can be used for free if there are no more than 15 members. But If you're working with more than 15 people or need to handle many tasks. You must pay on a monthly basis if you want to handle a large number of projects. 11

MIR OREVIE W ABOUT MIRO Miro is a cloud-based collaboration tool for A small to midsize class. The feature of Miro is a digital board or space that can be used for research, ideation, brain storming, teaching, organizing learning activities and a range of other collaborative activities. Moreover Miro has many features that it convenient for you, for example online meeting, project discussion, and computer screen sharing for other to see a presentation. PROS: You can work remotely from home and work real-time CONS: setting in the pandemic. It is easy to grasp and have a guide system. There are many templates for any kind of flow chart or creating diagram. There are some bugs with the screen sharing about audio file problem. It takes too much resource of computer RAM and will drag a computer to run slowly. Fonts and a palate of colors are limited. www.miro.com 12

Jamboard ABOUT PROS: JAMBOARD Students can collaborate with classmates in real-time G oogle Jamboard mode while having a meeting on Google Meet. They are also able to use the files from Google Drive. is a function from The PDF version is available for students to download. “Google” which works Teachers can also download the files for their like a “whiteboard” but references or learning assessment. it’s more effective Participants use tools to draw pictures or type the texts. because the Layouts and designs of Google Jamboard is very participants can work attractive. together from different locations. There are 3 CONS: important features of Google Jamboard. Lack of ability to add media content such as music and videos. First, you can create and erase directly on it. Sticky notes always appear at the same place, Second, the functions participants need to move to a different place on the that are available on Jamboard in order to see all the notes created. Google Jamboard are Some troubles might happen when many participants lines, sticky notes, texts work at the same time. and shapes which Thai language is not applicable when access on tablets include the capacity to and mobile phones. transform line marks into shapes. Lastly, the 13 files will be saved on the cloud system automatically.

SLIDO ABOUT \"Slido\" is an online interactive polling and question platform \"SLIDO\" that allows speakers to communicate directly with their audience both offline and online. PROS: You can use Slido at: CONS: Conferences Trainings & workshops Meetings (such as Staff and Remote Meetings) It has various template of active polling. It actively engage your team during meetings. It can collected insights and ideas from your participants. It can build trust with your participants. It can integrate with the tools that you have already used. (such as PowerPoint, Webex, Google Slide, Ms team) It cannot run on some platforms. (such as Zoom, Powerpoint on Macbook) It cannot add a co-host for having multiple participants be able to manage Slido during a meeting. It can be unstable when updated. 14

ABOUT Trello TRELLO Matichai Koiamon 6242507927 Trello is an application that can helps your teams to move work forward. This application for Collaborate, manage projects, and reach new productivity peaks. From high rises to the home office, the way your team works is unique and accomplish it all with Trello. Features Working space board: Lists and cards are the building blocks of organizing work on a Trello board. Grow from there with task assignments, timelines, productivity metrics, calendars, and more. Cards: Accommodate everything you need. Trello cards are your portal to more organized work where every single part of your task can be control, tracked, and deal with team. Automatic system: The AI robot can help your work. So your team can focus on work. With Trello’s built-in automation, Butler, reduce the number of tedious tasks on your work board by mobilize the power of automation across your entire work. PROS CONS Online space board for working Thai language is not available with team in real time Need money to unlock some Can add attachments such as functions video, word files and more 15



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SlideDog is a multimedia presentation tool that combines PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, Prezi presentations, video clips, web pages, and other materials into an one creative, continuous viewing and audience participation experience. 3D Object Projection Tool Animation Sceen sharing Drag&Drop Multi-Screen support Offline Presenting Remote Control SlideDog takes the bugs out of your presentations and makes them smooth as silk. You can add polls, feedback, and chat interactive directly into presentations and control your slides with your mobile phone. Audience can follow your slide directly on their device. SlideDog operates just on Windows-based computers. Their logo will appear on SlideDog's free tier. Learning the software takes a little longer when compared to Canva or Prezi. 18

Slidego About slidego Slidego.com is website for download presentation template. There are many templates from which to choose. Formal, adorable, or inventive are all options. Recent, Popular, Education, Business, Marketing, Medical, and other categories are available in the search category. There are numerous PowerPoint and Google Slides themes to choose from. The typefaces are embedded and the slide size is 16:9. www.slidego.com can teach you learn how to use Google Slides or PowerPoint to create cool presentations with free templates and themes such as How to create a good business pitch deck , How to insert a PDF in Google Slides. Pros A great selection of templates to select from. Cons Lots of resources for design, like photos, clip art, backgrounds, and other design elements. Easy to edit and alter the design and not lose what you had by creating clones of previous designs and then make the changes. slidego.com lacks the team collaboration feature if you choose to work in Powerpoint format, but if you choose to work through Google slide, it will be fine. If your account is not Premium, you will be able to load only 10 templates per month. 19

Keynote About Keynote is a presentation tool for the IOS that was Keynote created by Apple. Users can produce slideshows that consist of pictures, text, and charts, and they can choose themes, fonts, styles, transitions, and animation from a variety of options. Users can use the Apple device such as Mac, iPad, or iPhone to play their presentation or share the presentation via iCloud, email, or other applications. The presentation can be exported in Keynote, PDF, or PowerPoint formats and then use other applications on the device to access the presentation. Moreover, Keynote not only comes with standard features for creating and viewing presentations, but it also offers a Remote feature that allows users to control a presentation on another Mac, iPad, or iPhone by using one Apple device. Pros - User-friendliness: Like many other Mac applications, Keynote has a simple and user-friendly interface. The majority of users with basic computer skills will be able to learn how to use this software easily. - Multiple devices: Users can use Keynote on various devices and sync their files via the cloud by using iCloud - Options for modification: It is easy to get creative with so many various themes, animations, and effects provided. There are also many themes from third parties available - Exporting features: Exporting Keynote files to PowerPoint, PDF, or QuickTime is easy. It also works well with other iWork applications. Cons - Only forApple: Only Apple devices such as Mac, iPad, or iPhone can create Keynote files. However, Keynote files can be accessed on PC too. To view a Keynote file on a computer it must first be converted to a compatible format such as a .pdf or .ppt file. 20

WHAT IS GENIALLY? Genially Genially is a software for creating interactive content, such as presentations, infographics and other stunning content. You can say “Goodbye” to boring learning materials. Interactive content created with Genially makes it easy to connect with and motivate students. Visual content ensures success in any environment: in the classroom, online, or a hybrid learning environment. PROS It has more positive characteristics as it allows you to create presentations and visual materials of high quality and like a professional. It is an easy software for designing infographics, presentations, video, quiz, etc with many free features. The designs, template, and animations make presentations more interactive. CONS 21 It is hard to transfer files between users and teams. The layered design mode is difficult to identify. It cannot download the file presentations. The free version has limited features. It has too many paid plans to choose from.

ABOUT Prezi is an online presentation that emphasizes design ideas to PREZI share visual content and non-linear presentations. It is the Hungarian language that means presentation. It looks like Powerpoint, however, PROS: Powerpoint presents a linear slide such as 1-2-3, Prezi can present 1- 3-2 that you want. Prezi can not be used only as a presentation, but also as a creative storytelling tool. Functionality Pan and Zoom according to the planned concept Import media such as images, videos, PDF, Excel, and other media Choose template and theme to manage working place Work together and able to work in real-time cooperation Add Storylines that can use frames and paths to create a presentations Can add storylines design Be non-linear presentations Can zoom in to focus impotent point in a lot of information CONS: Design for presentation only Pay for full function Unadding audio Difficult to control for presentation 22

Vonder Go ABOUT VONDER GO Vonder Go is an all-in-one application that provides learners multi-functional learning tools. Each of them contains bite-sized content which is super easy to use and fun. Register or be our guest by clicking 'Continue as guest' and instantly enjoy exploring Vonder's Challenges. 'Vonder Go!', a learning game that motivates players to concentrate more on their lesson with an exhilarating match between a hero and naughty villains. Choose the best answer and see whether the hero will attack or be attacked. Apart from these, many new lessons will be added regularly. PROS CONS 1. Can choose a variety of answer formats, 1. There is a maximum player limit of 50 including writing answers, pictures or people. writing descriptions. 2. The system is not as stable as it should 2. It's a fun animation style that helps be. make it interesting. 3. Writing an explanation of the answer with limited characters 4. Exams that are available in the application are not diverse. 23



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QUIZALIZE ABOUT Quizalize is a program that lets you create a quiz or question QUIZALIZE game for your students. It is an enjoyable game-like assessment and easy to use as formative assessment tools. Teachers can set a PROS: timer for each question and as well as number of attempts to CONS: answer each question. You can set it to answer multiple times for students to learn as much as possible. With Mastery Dashboards page, you can see real-time data on each student's progress across skills. Assign specific activities to groups of students with shared learning gaps and provide support to students who are falling behind to improve the efficacy of your teaching. Quizalize allows students to learn information in an engaging way. Quizalize can easily link with other application such as Google Classroom Quizalize can also include visuals and mathematics in the questions, making it simple to use in any educational subject. There are only a few types of question are available, and there is no possibility for an open-ended response. The free version offers some basic functions but the more advanced functions are not free. 26

About Wordwall Wordwall is a website that can be used to generate online game-style teaching materials as well as worksheets for students to complete. Wordwall is a digital version of vocabulary games and reviews that is simple to use for both teachers and students. This is a great place to start if you want to include new digital technology in your classroom. Useful Link: Community resources (wordwall.net) Terms of use (wordwall.net) Wordwall | Create better lessons quicker Pros: The biggest plus is the ease of use, for teachers and learners. It's a platform that's both flexible and enjoyable. It's a tool that helps pupils to become more engaged in their studies. Encouragement increased classroom engagement between teachers and students. Cons: Teachers can only create five learning activities in the free version. There's a chance that teachers will waste time choosing templates. Students without access to a device might not be able to use the platform. TEMPLATES FEATURES Interactive and printable Create various templates themes and options Switch template Edit any activity Assign students work Share with teachers Embed on a website 27

GIMKIT ABOUT GIMKIT Gimkit is a digital quiz-style game that can engage and inspire students to learn. Gimkit allows teachers to design multiple choice questions from scratch in any subject area, as well as import quiz sets to quickly construct a kit. One of Gimkit's most appealing features is the ability to earn \"money\" by correctly answering questions and spending it on various power-ups, such as earning more points per question, gaining additional points when on a streak, and using insurance if a question is incorrectly answered. At the end of each game, teachers receive a data report that details the total class and individual student replies. Because of the data, this is a useful tool for formative assessment, providing students with immediate feedback, and indicating areas that need to be taught or re-taught. PROS: Gimkit isn't just for activities in the classroom. You may even make it a homework assignment. It can give feedback and grade assignments automatically. Gimkit's game goals may be defined in a variety of ways, such as time-limited, competitive, and so on, and Gimkit's 10+ various game modes, there's always a unique way to play. CONS: Gimkit offers a variety of options. There are just 4 options that can be made. Gimkit does not allow users to upload video files or a YouTube link. Users must pay a monthly fee for extra features. 28

review Live worksheets is a free website to turn normal worksheets into online worksheets. You can create your own worksheets or use published worksheets on websites that students can do the worksheets online from any devices. On live worksheets You can assign the correct answer and scores then the website will check the answer and grade students automatically. Live worksheets has many worksheet templates for example Short answer questions, Matching items, True - false questions, Multiple choice, Drop down questions and Drag and drop questions. Also you can add mp3 files in worksheets and you can create worksheets from other applications or programs such as Canva, Microsoft words, photoshop and import files as .pdf, .jpg, .png to create an online worksheet action. Including you can share online worksheets link with students or share the worksheets on Google Classroom. Pros One worksheet can be answered in many ways. You can set a timer and assign a score to adjust as needed. You can add the worksheets to your own website or blog. Cons You can keep a worksheet private but there is a limit of 30 private worksheets. Liveworksheets can't show the correct answer. You have to pay a premium subscription to increase interactive workbook limits. You can download the worksheets as PDF files but you can download 10 worksheets per day. 29



BAAMBOOZLE ABOUT BAAMBOOZLE is an application for creating board games with BAAMBOOZLE hidden questions that students will have to win with questions and answer correctly to collect points to become a winner. How to play BAAMBOOZLE on Zoom (Share screen) 1. Work in groups (1-4 groups). Choose the team leader of each group. 2. Open the BAAMBOOZLE. Let the team leader choose a question (open the mic to answer or type in chat in (Zoom). 3. Group members answer questions. 4. Correct answer gets points. The group with the highest total score will win. PROS: ● Game formats are diverse. ● You can create new games yourself. CONS: ● Students who can join the game must have a computer , mobile phone., electronic equipment and internet. 31



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