I currently have more than 70 000 subscribers to my Youtube channel and i have over 10 000
people on a very active newsletter and about three months ago i did a survey to find out what are the
most useful educational technologies which ones the teachers really use the most now this isn't
scientific because it's only on my website and my followers I'm going to show you the
best three tools the most important the most useful tools I'm going to show you
ways that these teachers are using these tools and also going to give you links to videos if you want
to learn to use these tools yourself each of these tools and this is good news has got a free version
as well let's get straight into the video three of the most useful educational technologies hope
you like the video if you do please like it please share it love for you to comment on it and tell me
which technology you like the best and of course subscribe to my youtube channel let's get started
so word will came in at number three this website allows you to make a whole range of
different activities for checking understanding there are 36 different game types this is great
anytime you're in a lecture or you're doing a lesson or even for homework and you just
simply want to check did the students understand the video the lecture the article they read the
discussion they had etc if we was to click on my on sorry on create an activity you'll see
just how many activity types what I like particularly about this website is a the number
of activity types it's probably the widest range of activities I've ever seen in one website but b
how quick and easy it is to make a game and then to share it let's just have a quick look at a few
of my activities so if I click here you can see the activities I'm only going to show you a couple
i will put on the screen now a video that takes you through this technology in much more detail
but let's just have a quick look at a couple of examples this is a really simple one where
students simply have to match the capital city to the country so let's quickly play this game
and all you see is that basically it's going to come along on the screen paris and then you have
to click on the correct country there are loads and loads of different games that you can play
you don't have to do it for a really low level it can be for a much higher level group of students
if I just come down to edit content look how easy it was for me to make that game I just wrote the
country wrote the clue I could have written a sentence I could have even used pictures
and then i click on the button and the game is ready and this is what I like
because it makes the games from just simply adding in the text now the other really
interesting things look how you set the activity for the students to do click on set assignment
I normally ask them for their name but you can be anonymous and then click on
start and you simply share that link with the students and they can access and play the game so
this is great if you're working in zoom because you could be in a zoom session doing a session
or in perhaps microsoft teams share the link students jump off do the activity then come back
the other great thing is it gives you a complete breakdown of the results so if we click here and
let's just take a recent activity I did this one here with 45 students and it tells me exactly
all the results which ones they got wrong which ones I need to perhaps go over again which ones I
don't need to go over because most students got them right etc absolutely love this technology
now there are a lot of advanced features in word wall and I'm gonna put on the screen now a really
popular video where I take you through some of the advanced features because one of the things
you can do is use games that other teachers have created as well as with one button click change
the game and completely change the format of the game now world war does have a free offer
if we quickly click back to all the games that you can play you can sign up and use it for free
and you can use up to five games for free and the other good thing about that is that you can come
in and edit the free games and use them again in a different class so if you've made a game you can
actually keep changing the content of that game and use it with different classes world war is
not actually a particularly expensive technology and you might want to look into even buying it but
i would recommend definitely at the beginning try the free tool and see how you get on
this is without a doubt my favorite technology the good news about this as well is that the free
option is absolutely brilliant in fact I only use the free option I use this technology all the time
the ability to record the screen of your computer now if I show you this and then just show you
some of the things that you can do with it you'll realize why it's so popular amongst teachers now
it might be interesting to know that I'm actually using screencast technology the same technology to
record this video that i'm doing for you so i'm recording the screen of my own computer if we
click here and then we click on the next button which will allow us to open the record and then
all we need to do is click on launch recorder now the first time you do it you have got to run this
little app it just takes a couple of seconds just to run a little app that then allows your computer
to be recorded the screen of your computer to be recorded okay great so now you can see that
the recorder's opened on the screen i can resize it and what actually happens is you've got this
kind of little app now that you can just use to record anything now what i can do notice that the
apps down here is that now i can just click on the browser and delete the i'll minimize the browser
and what we're going to do is we're going to just record myself talking over a powerpoint slide
so what you can do as you can see is that I can now move the screen to get to the right size that
I want to record and then I can click on this button here make sure of course that you have
got the correct technology connected you can click here and just make sure that your microphone is
connected I can even use my webcam I'm not going to do that now and as soon as I click on this
button here this area of the screen is going to be recorded now this could be a powerpoint slide
this could be a table this could be a picture this could be a student's work you could be giving them
feedback on their work all sorts of things can be used and on the screen now I'm providing you
a video that gives you information about lots of different ways that this technology can be used as
I've said I use this technology all the time let's just watch it in action click on this button here
testing testing one two three today we're going to talk about cultura I'm going to stop there
I'm going to move to the next slide and now I can carry on all right let's move to this next
slide ''blah blah blah blah blah so can carry on talking now blah blah blah blah blah'' do one more
move again to another slide again click on the record button
counts me in ''blah blah blah blah blah'' let's say I finished click on done and click on
save and the great thing is that that video is instantly ready let's play that video back
and see if it worked testing testing one two three today we're going to talk about koltura
can carry on talking now ''blah blah blah blah blah'' do one more ''blah blah blah blah'' so
this is really powerful because i can record myself recording over anything and now the
great thing is i could upload that onto my google drive i could put it on my Youtube Channel you can
connect your screencast technology to your youtube channel if you have a gmail account you have a
you have a a Youtube Channel you can simply add up your videos onto your Youtube Channel
so this is what a lot of youtubers use this type of technology it's exactly what i use to
make my videos you can of course save the video on your computer I'm putting on the screen now
a video that will take you through exactly how to use screencast technology it is my personal
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so this was the tool that was given the most votes this year it's padlet it's a wonderful
tool it works like an electronic cork board you set the padlet up you share the link the
students click on the link and they can add up their ideas it's great for sharing ideas
but what's really powerful is that the way those ideas can be shared can be really varied
students can add up text students can add up video students can add up audio students can share links
students can add pictures students can do drawings and there are lots of different formats there's
not just one type of padlet let me just show you a quick example here I've got a group of students
they started the course i asked them all to record themselves speaking and add it onto the padlet
and then of course I got them to listen to each other's and to ask each other questions so you can
see how easy I just shared the link the students click on the button and simply added themselves
onto the padlet speaking so great for language learning if you want to do an audio activity
what about this example where students simply had to introduce themselves to the rest of the
class and talk about what they find hardest about using technology in their teaching and they all
shared their ideas and then other students had to come read what they said and comment on them
let me quickly take you through the process of making a padlet so all you need to do is obviously
create an account you can create an account for free click on make a padlet and let's choose a
really simple format but you'll notice that you've got some great formats here like using a map
or using a timeline the map one's great because students can click on the map and
show where they were born or perhaps where they've been on holiday they could add a recording
a timeline is really good for things like history or what they do in a typical day or
what they did on holiday on a particular holiday um doing research around a biography I'm just
going to do a simple one I'm just going to do wall and all i need to do is right here
what I want the students to talk about so I've just written in here tell me three things about
yourself I click on next I click on start posting it's as simple as that now all i need to do now
is share this link with the students i could share it in zoom or in perhaps google in google teams if
I'm doing a session online or share it wherever I need to share the link the students come onto
the link double click on the screen great for homework double click on the screen write their
name I'm going to put my name here and then in this case I would click here and then click on
audio recording and then simply and I'll just do a very quick example click on this button here
uh yeah my name's russell uh I speak spanish and french and english and now I'm learning
polish that's the first thing about me second thing about me is I'm a big fan of football I'm
a chelsea supporter and I still play football and third thing about me is I like to play the
guitar and sing though I'm not very good done my recording let's imagine that I'm happy with it
I click on playback and save I can even play it back if I want to yeah uh yeah my name's russell
ease is done click on save and then once it's all ready you'll notice it goes like that just click
on publish and that is it and all the students could add up their recordings now i'm gonna put
on the screen now a link to a really popular video on my website on my Youtube Channel
that takes you through using padlet so that you really understand how it works how you can use
the free tool the tricks to make sure that you can use the free tool there are lots of little
things that you can do to manage to use the free tool and that video is on the screen now
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on the screen about some of the technologies we've been talking about in today's video