Week 9: On-line Tools for Enhancing Learning

Hi everybody,

I must say that I really enjoyed trying all those programs given in the http://www.toolsforeducators.com/. I really had fun and found some that would be really useful at least for the groups I am teaching.
I found the Free Word Search Maker at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/wordsearch/ really good for all level as you can prepare it according to the topic you are studying with your groups and I am sure most of your students will enjoy it because they will be willing to find all the words. Moreover, if you use it as a contest for a warm up or wrap up activity, it will for sure wake up the sleepy ones.
I also enjoy the Game Board Maker at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames/
as it is also useful for warm up activities to keep your students occupied, wake them up and at the same time it changes their mind.
I think the Free Crossword Maker at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/crossword/
is the best activity to make your students more autonomous as they must create the complete exercise and then they can test it with their classmates.
The Bingo Maker at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/bingo/ and the Free Maze Maker at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/mazes/ are also good activities to change your student's mind by doing something different.
The Reading and Spelling at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/spelling is really nice to review vocabulary and the Free Writing, Spelling, and Tracing worksheet at http://www.toolsforeducators.com/writing/ is okay but I would use it more for lower level as I expect my students in high level to write much more and about give topics.
The Certificate Maker at http://www.123certificates.com/ and the GUEST TOOLS at http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/ are great to improve our students' creativity.


I must really say that I enjoyed this activity and it opened my eyes on the possibilities some websites offer to teachers and students.

Thanks for reading my comments.

See you soon

Raphaël