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FreeRice

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F R E E R I C E   // Online Games Freerice is a 100% non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. It is another quiz-style game that helps you improve your vocabulary skills. Instead of answering word problems, you’re given a vocabulary word and then have to find its closest synonym out of four different words. The game starts out easy, but with 60 levels in total, it gets much harder as you go along.  What really makes Freerice different than other online games to practice English is that the company will donate 10 grains of rice to hungry families for every question that you answer right. So the more you play, the more you’re helping those in need.  Benefits in teaching:  A storehouse of information and relevant quizzes, Free Rice can be a way to yank kids into a variety of topics. The World Hunger category in particular could inspire kids to do more in-depth research. You could use the questions as jumping-off points
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LearnEnglish Kids

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L E A R N E N G L I S H  K I D S // Educational online Games LearnEnglish Kids is a website of games brought by the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. They have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children to learn English just for free! For parents, they have articles on supporting children in learning English, videos on using English at home and information about face-to-face courses around the world. There are various segments available for English learners to practice their English which are as listed below in the preview of the screen captured images: Features:  - A Parents section of the site which you can recommend to your learners’ parents as a great resource on how to help their children learn English at home. There are articles, video tips and top tips on how to support their child’s learning. - A Resources page where you can find content easily by filtering according to section, level or topic. - Faceb
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Piktochart

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P I K T O C H A R T // E-Content Websites // Piktochart is a web-based application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates. It is an intuitive, cloud-based solution that provides a wide unique capabilities to its users. The program is very easy to use, and requires no extensive experience. Whether you are a seasoned designer or are just getting started, this is the perfect application to awaken your long-hidden creativity to run the world . Piktochart comes with a set of features that enable all graphic designers to create stunning masterpieces. These features include a ready-to-use graphics, charts and maps, functional innovation, and design flexibility. If there is anything you need to create impressive printable posters, reports, and slides for your presentation, it is already provided for you. In such way, Piktochart helps you create infographics, presetations, reports,
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SlideBean

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S L I D E B E A N // E-Content Website // Slidebean is an online-based approach to pre sentation software and is one of the websites that features complete and interesting presentation tools available. If you're not particularly creative, Slidebean offers templates for a whole slideshow application, from sales proposals to conference presentations and pitch decks. These templates are sleek, modern and are easy to use such as to manipulate and change according to your needs, allowing you to customize and alter the template as much as you want. Slidebean also offers an innovative approach to sharing and showing off slideshows by generating a link to your presentations which you can email or link to. It is mostly useful in conferences and meetings where you may have to use someone else's laptop, as Slidebean's slides will automatically scale to the screen size. How cool that is, isn't it?  No more checking your presentation and frantically fixing misal
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Smart Classroom

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S M A R T  C L A S S R O O M  So, what is a smart classroom? Smart Classrooms are technology enhanced classrooms that foster opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating learning technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, assistive listening devices, networking, and audio/visual capabilities. Classroom Services leads the support, design, and planning for campus learning spaces. Benefits in teaching and learning: Blending the Best of Both Worlds Traditional learning and cutting-edge technology both have a place in schools. Get the best of both worlds by investing in blended learning. Blended learning combines online learning with in-person communication to create a smart classroom. Digital curriculum is blended with in-class topics to promote powerful learning. Adopting blended learning took one school from a low-performing status to eventually winning a national award for performance. Technology also streamlines administrati
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AdaptedMind Math

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AdaptedMind Math I choose the AdaptedMind Math website to review this week. So, what the website is all about? AdaptedMind Math  is a website that teaches kids math through a series of lessons. It assembles about 60 lessons per grade (for grades one through six), each with a 20-question practice set, at least one video clip, and multiple worksheets. Upon login, kids take a pretest to generate a percentage of the curriculum-mastered number, and then move on to select any lesson in their grade, or any other grade if they wish. Kids earn cute visual badges and points toward mastery when they answer correctly and pop-up explanations when they make mistakes. Videos are about 85 percent from Khan Academy, with native videos (original content from AdaptedMind) making up the remaining 15 percent. You can assign lessons and register up to 35 students with email-free usernames and passwords. The student progress page mostly provides a summary of percentage correct for lessons and the total
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