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= Technology in the Classroom =

====There are various technological tools which are designed in the way you can teach English while giving a different flavour to your lessons at the same time in order to get away from traditional, boring techniques so that your students enjoy learning. One of them is //symface// which is an extremely pretty tool to express your emotions changing the face expression of an animated emoticon and writing why you feel like that. You can also tweet, get the link and share what you produced with others online. I think this would attract new generation because they grow up in an environment where everything is shared on social network. Children would also find it enjoyable because it is both a visual and online tool that they can create their own symfaces and talk about their feelings in class and share it with their friends.====

====// Voki // is another famous edtech tool that we can use in the classroom. We can create a Voki avatar talking about herself/himself and we can ask our students to create their own vokis. If they can't do it in the classroom, they write their text in the class and create their online avatars at home. We can also create a classroom mascot/puppet, and children can ask the classroom mascot some questions. We can use text-to-speech application of voki and answer the questions of the kids. I think this application would certainly help improving their writing skills. Since they do not just use a pencil and a paper to write a text but use a technological tool, this would make the activities whole different and more attractive than the traditional writing exercises. This is a great way to integrate technology into writing.====

====// Fotobabble // is a tool to record your voices for your pictures. Children can draw a picture about their feelings of the school or about themselves, then upload it to Fotobable recording their voices. They can share them in the class and learn about each other. I think this is the most attractive and creative tool of all the three, because children use pictures of their own life (casual activities, feelings, experiences, so forth) which makes the task related to their personality and life. Thus, they would give importance to what they do, since what they create or draw would be products of their own which is again about their own life. I believe they would find drawing pictures or taking photos of their own and then talking about that moment extremely amusing. Recording their own voices would also help them improve their pronunciation as time goes by. This tool can be used even for adults, because I would die to be in a classroom fotobabble is used. I suppose it is inspiring and artistic for everybody to keep a record of some photos/pictures about their own life.====

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