Outline of a class lesson

 Hi everyone! Welcome to the next blog!

In today's blog I want to talk about my experience on Widgets. The gadget I used is BookWidgets because the other platform that the teacher had suggested I couldn't access. 

First I want to paste the link of the outline I have made, supposing i will explain an English literature class. 

https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/WZIulo0D-iQAE6bG7vAAAA/FCGRMFV/outline-of-a-cl?teacher_id=5109632967114752

https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/t:O3lbX2i9BlNi9qSX9dO-YI2ATYXzK3rgTBuBcrLv509GQ0dSTUZW

Second, as for my experience I found it quite  easy to work with. BookWidgets was an easy platform to work with. At first as with every new thing that we access in this subject, I thought it would be hard and not understandable. 

Although, the platform made it very easy for me. It showed a how-to-start tutorial on how to use it. After watching the tutorial  I started to work on the  outline for which I shared the link. Doing the outline was easy, you just have to be prepared for what you are going to share with your students and let the platform do the rest. 

Out there are thousands of useful tools teachers world wide can use to make their classes more interesting and fun. Below I want to share some tools teachers can use and which are free.

Tools To Create Infographics For Teachers 

1. amCharts Visual Editor This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. This means that all you need to do is to configure the chart and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page.
2. ChartsBin Create your own interactive map. It's free for now.
3. DipityCreate an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Use dynamic visualization tools to display photos, videos, news and blogs in chronological order.
4. Easel.ly Create and share visual ideas online. Vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!
5. Gapminder Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view.
6. Gliffy Gliffy.com is a free web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online.

Free Text To Speech Tools For Teachers

1. OdiogoOdiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
2. PediaPhonLearning during jogging and driving! E-learning and m-learning with MP3 players and mobile phones! A podcast and a winamp play list will be generated too. MP3 files, play lists and podcast automatically generated from Wikipedia! Let your computer read out the Wikipedia for you!
3. PowerTalkPowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.
4. QR voiceQR Code allows users to converts text-to-speech, generates QR Code for speech URL and Simplifies share text-to-speech files.

Free Podcast Tools For Teachers

1. PodbeanPodbean.com is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting. Easy to publish your podcast in 3 steps. No tech to learn. Powerful promoting tools, iTunes Preview, Statistics. Wonderful income chances with ads, paid subscriptions.
2. PodOmaticRecord video and audio podcasts. Receive in-line calls from listeners.
3. SoundCloudShare Your Sounds. Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created. Everyone has sounds to share. Now you can share yours. Publish to social networks or embed your sounds on your site.
4. StudioRackStudioRack is a modular live audio and video production system for the Windows O.S., intended for the more demanding podcaster, audio and video producers, DJ’s, radio stations, tv stations etc.

Free Survey, Polls, and Quizzes Tools For Teachers

1. addpollThe easiest way to create polls, surveys and html forms... on the web. Find out why we're the greatest online survey and poll software in the world with integrated form builder.
2. AnswerGardenAnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.
3. Google Forms (part of Google Drive)Collect RSVPs, run a survey, or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in a spreadsheet.
4. Surveys EngineSurveys Engine is lightwheight online surveys server software. This tool enables you create various surveys and questionaires, from small and simple to large and complex. Surveys are hosted in our site so you and survey respondents don't need any software or server, just Internet browser.
5. SurvsCreate online surveys with simplicity and elegance. Survs lets you create, distribute, and analyze online surveys and questionnaires with a friendly interface and powerful features. Survs gives you everything you need to gather feedback.
6. Vizzual FormsVizzualforms is a web based service that will let you create forms and surveys, publish them online and see the results!
7. Web Form FactoryWeb Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, WFF saves you time... time you could spend doing more interesting stuff.

Free Testing and Quizzing Tool For Teachers

1. ClassMarkerClassMarker's secure, professional web-based testing service is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly - saving hours of paperwork!
2. ClassToolsCreate free games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
3. Easy Test MakerEasyTestMaker is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.
4. Hot Potatoes You can choose from the following six types of questions to create your interactive quiz: crossword, multiple-choice, short-answer, gap-fill, matching/ordering and jumbled-sentence.
5. Quiz RevolutionMake Free Facebook Quizzes and Free Online Quizzes. Interactive Multimedia Quizzes That Can Be Embedded On Any Site.
6. YacapacaIf you are a teacher you can use 15,000 quizzes in every subject or you can create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more.

There are many more helpful tools for teachers everywhere. Being a teacher has its difficulties, but with the help of technology there are a million ways to make it easier.

Thank you!!! ☺