Reflective Journal 3: Skill-building websites for oral /aural skills and saving bookmarks
In this module, I learned about different websites for developing oral/ aural skills and how to use social bookmarking sites.
Firstly, I was into reading my classmates' discussions because they were useful and versatile. I collected a variety of websites for my teaching listening and speaking skills and saved them on my social bookmarking site. Here are some sites that I was interested in and had the intention to use in my classes:
+ Flipgrid which is like an app to support learners to make a video for their talk and provides tools to check their pronunciation by themselves.
+ Podomatic: which is suitable with camera-shy learners, or with topics that require answers longer than 10 minutes
+ TED-Ed: which provides various educational videos and discussion questions to enhance students' listening and speaking skills through engaging and stimulating content.
+ Voicetubewhich is a globally accessible platform for English learning, offering a hands-on approach: immersing yourself in your beloved YouTube content with subtitles. It is suitable for B1-B2 students to improve their critical thinking and debating skills.
+ Lyricstraining: This helps learners enjoy learning languages with music. It is very useful for me to enhance my students' intonation.
Secondly, speaking of social bookmarking sites, I first missed the word "social" - which can be shared with others without limited access, so I introduced my bookmark bar from Google as my social bookmarking site to my classmates in the breakout room. After my instructor's explanation, I changed into Diigo. I found it easy to use except searching function. I can not use Tags for searching fast. To deal with this problem, I classified all my saved websites into 5 groups, but somehow it still took time.
I do agree with you that Voicetube provides great sources for students to practice English speaking skills, improve their critical thinking and also debating skills.
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