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 Hi Everyone, Welcome back to my blog. This week I explored World101. This web application provides modules that teachers can use to teach students about different aspects of the world. This can also be a great resource for students to use for studying and writing papers. This application provides modules on current global events as well as historical events. This can be an easy resource for teachers to use in classrooms when teaching a topic that students may not find interesting. The application also provides a nice video introduction to World101 to help you get started and see how you can use this application the best way to fit your needs. This resources also provide lesson plans, essay/discussion questions, and much more for teachers to use in their classrooms. Overall this resource is something both teachers and students will find interesting and helpful. Thank you for joining me another week and come back next week where I will explore yet another important web application.

 Hi Everyone, Welcome back to my blog. This week I will be discussing TalkingPoints. This is a messenger application that educators can use to help communicate with family of their students in another language. I have worked with a lot of ENL classes and I can tell that this application can help tremendously. I have seen some parents come to parent teacher conferences and have no idea what is going on with their child's schoolwork. These parents are being blindsided because their child is not telling them the whole story and the teachers are not able to completely communicate to these parents what is going on with their child and what needs to be done. With this application teachers can have translated conversations with these parents that would be more meaningful than just try to communicate on your own with the parent. Some of the draw back as with any translation tool there could be some mistranslations due to grammar or spelling errors. These are minor cons compared to the valu...

 Hi everyone, Welcome back to my blog. This week I explored Anchor. This app helps to easily create podcast that can be distributed over different platforms. This app can be used by teachers as another useful remote learning tool. Teachers can create these podcast that can help students in school and remote with their studies. Podcast can be a confusing and difficult thing to figure out when you are a beginner and Anchor can made this process a lot easier. Not only can teachers use this app to spread extra lessons to those students that may find it helpful but students can also use this app to create podcast with their friends and classmates for entertainment or educational purposes. This can be a great start to help student with their career in radio DJing or other media careers. Podcasting can help students start a career or even get involved in things that they are passionate about. Anchor can make this easy for students to start creating podcasts and developing their speech and...