In last class, teachers introduced to us various authoring tools, among which, Hot Potatoes, Xtimelime and BookR are my favorite ones.
When I was in middle school and high school, I did countless Cloze practice. I feel that Cloze practice is very useful for students to improve listening skill and grasp grammar points, such as the use of preposition and articles. designing Cloze practice seems very easy,however, it will actually take teacher's much time given the possibility that every teacher usually has different classes. Hot Potatoes enables teachers to design Cloze practice within a really short time.
Xtimeline is anther interesting instrument I would like use in my classes in the future. At the beginning of a new semester with a new group of students, asking them to draw a timeline about their growth and education and describe it is a very good way to get to know them and build a good start of a nice relationship of teachers and students. With the help of Xtimeline, designing time lines will be an activity with a lot of fun. Also, students can use it to introduce themselves to the whole class.
The last one is BookR. I love it so much as a teacher who likes to teach kids but not good at drawing. With the help of BookR, I can make many beautiful big books to teach kids. Also, I can have students create their own big books and share them with classmates.
I like these tools very much and I believe they can definitely have good influences on my teaching and students' learning.
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