Four Interesting Digital Tools 

In this post, you will find four digital tools and activities to use in the classroom:

1. https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

Most students and people in general love memes. A meme is a funny picture that shows that carries symbolic meaning and represents a particular phenomenon or theme. 

This website is a free online image maker that allows you to add custom text to images. Most commonly, people use it to add text captions to famous memes. But you can also upload your own images as templates.

• A great way to use this tool is as a follow-up activity after reading a novel, play,short story, etc. Students can use memes to dramatize a point from a novel or short story they are studying. Teachers can break the class into groups and have each group create a meme from assigned chapters or scripts. 

2. https://breakyourownnews.com/

On this site, users can upload real television news stills and insert the headlines of their choice. 

• We can ask students to identify their grammar mistakes on compositions and choose one which surprised them. After that, they can create fake news based on those mistakes and post them somewhere in the classroom as a reminder for future compositions. 

       3. https://l-www.voki.com/

Voki is an educational tool for teachers and students, that can be used to enhance instruction, engagement, and lesson comprehension. It allows you to customize the look of your avatar . You can choose your head, clothes, and accessories, give it a voice, and then add a background. 

• We can ask students to design characters.  Have students make a list of some words they need to practice that week. Ask them to record five words and their definitions. Then have kids quiz themselves by pausing the animation right before the character states the definition.

4. https://padlet.com/dashboard

Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall.

• It is a great tool for creating 'vocabulary walls.' You can choose a theme and ask your students to work collaboratively on a padlet. They can decide together which columns they will add, then find relevant vocabulary in different articles or videos and finally write the different words and expressions. They can add links if necessary to show collocations!