Time for change

H5P looks like a strange name to me, for according to its name I cannot dope out what this website is at all! However, after I deeply investigated this website, I was totally shocked at how many things it can do. I bet there is no other website that can satisfy almost all kinds of teaching purposes in one simple website. Now, I cannot wait to tell you more about this useful teaching assistant: H5P.                       (Click  here  to go to the official website!) 📑 What is H5P? H5P is short for HTML5 Package. You can view H5P as a platform where you have access to all kinds of interactive HTML5 content which can be edited by the teachers to adapt to their teaching materials and aims. Maybe some examples can help you understand its function.  The picture above presents some of the content types H5P can provide teachers with. There are actually 52 kinds pf content you can choose from. (You can click here to see the whole list.) You can use Interactive Vedio to include both the knowl

What is the first thing you will do when you begin to teach a new unit in the textbook? In terms of my personal education experience, all my English teachers choose to teach vocabulary at the beginning of each unit, trying to lay a foundation  for student' future learning. However, the standard vocabulary teaching model in China is to include meanings and example sentences in the teaching material directly. Teachers' role is to explain the meaning and ask some students make new sentences. It is more like a passive way for the students to learn. This blog is going to present an effective way for the teachers to teach vocabulary in a new way! Plus, this tool could also assist the students in practice speaking! Now let get into the world of YouGlish.  (Click here to go to the official website of YouGlish) 📑  What is YouGlish? YouGlish can be viewed as a bank full of vedio resources spoken with native languages. Why do I use the word "native languages" rather than "

It has been many weeks since I published my first blog. If you can see this one and decide to read it, I bet you really love my blogs and have checked many times to find something new! This time I am going to introduce an online collaboration tool called Stormboard .  You know what? I took part in many market competitions in my undergraduate period. I got exhausted from having meetings with team members for hours to discuss the themes of the advertising case planning. We raised our own ideas separately and then the other team members commented on the ideas until we got one theme that was acceptable to all the members. We didn't use any tools to record the discussion process or organize different ideas. When I look back at how we carried out the discussion, I found it a little bit hilarious because we were always in chaos😂. If I knew the existence of Stormboard at that time, we would have carried out the meetings in a smoother way. (Click here to go to the website and try it yours

The first time I heard of Duolingo was in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of all the IELTS and TOEFL tests nationwide, which was undoubtedly a huge strike for students who were about to apply to study abroad, so many students had to seek for another way to get the qualified language score for the application for studying overseas. At that time, Duolingo seized the opportunity to expand the market and enhance its own reputation, for students can take the Duolingo English Test at home using their own computers and use this score to apply for universities overseas. This was my first impression of Duolingo as an English test software. However, I recently found out that it is actually a very useful language learning tool, especially for the beginners, so I can't wait to show you all this magic learning tool. If you want to access the Duolingo English Test page, please click here . If you want to use Duolingo to learn another language, please click here . 📑 What

Have you ever heard of a WebQuest? For me, it has been totally a brand new concept before I explored it these days. I think a majority of teachers in China have never heard of it, so I am motivated to write this blog to introduce the WebQuest to all language teachers globally. I bet you will discover a whole new world after learning more about it. (Click here to go to the website) 📑 What is a WebQuest? A WebQuest can be considered as a lesson model where all the learning materials are selected by the teachers from the web. To be specific, creating a WebQuest is like creating a lesson plan in the form of a webpage, on which you present the designed lesson introduction, the task description, the detailed procedures for finishing the task, and the evaluation criteria for the task outcomes. Therefore, there is a standard set of parts of a WebQuest: introduction, task, process, evaluation, and teacher page . Since a WebQuest is created by a teacher based on his/hers own teaching plan, th