Blogger
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Added value:
There is a modification of audience from the teacher to the online world if the content is released for everyone. The potential that the students gain more knowledge than ever with the help of Blogger is evident to some extent. Aspects in its favour are the enhancement of your own writing as a student, such as with an e-portfolio and work in collaboration with other class mates (modification).
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Usability:
Blogger is pretty straightforward and as the name already implies, this tool is created for those who are keen on presenting themselves by writing about their lifestyles and publishing all this. In modern times, blogging has become a mainstream trend and some people even earn their living as bloggers. In fact, it has an impact on today’s students who browse around the online world on a continuous basis.
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Interactivity:
As mentioned above, this omnipresent digital trend tends to tempt young students to admire the people behind the blogs. For this reason, teachers can take advantage of this admiration by letting them experience to be role models themselves. This can easily be converted into a practical use of improving the actual writing both individually and collaboratively. Also, students can reflect themselves and their progress by means of an e-portfolio. Direct comments and feedback by the teacher help the students to assess their writing performance.
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Technical requirements:
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A Google account is a precondition in order to have access to this tool.for voice recordings are unnecessary.
Lingt
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Added value:
The use of multimedia enriches students’ learning where they are more involved in their own learning process than in a usual class without such tool’s use. Additionally, Lindt is time-saving and economical as the tasks are prepared and the time spent on organisation and explanations is now well-spent effectively on the language learning. However, since the teacher has the upper hand over students’ access, they have a restricted application to the tool, that is, they can only answer by writing or recording their voice and uploading it on the website. Despite this minimal restriction, Lindt shows a potential in language learning contexts. For example, the variety of assignments in one tool are revealing of this fact. Depending on the content, the teacher is able to modify or redesign the tasks through technology (modification). .
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Usability:
Before using this free web-based tool, you have to sign up for it. Then, you can create a class and the assignments for the students. For that purpose you use the editor where you can select from content items (text, images, videos and voice recordings) and prompt items for the students to respond to the given assignments on the part of the teacher by means of written or spoken words. All the content can be edited and shared. With the creation of spoken dialogues, dictations, oral exams and reading practice teachers have the aim to foster students’ skills in listening, speaking and pronunciation.
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Interactivity:
The interaction is taken place by giving a lecture, storytelling or presenting something and the teacher gives feedback via comments.
Technical requirements:
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Technical requirements:
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There is no installation required. In order to listen to the videos and audio files or recordings speakers and a microphone should be functional.