How to Engage Your Students Using Technology

In this presentation, I will share a variety of ways to create engagement with your students especially during remote learning using technology tools available out there.

Though most of the ideas are catered for online learning, they are easily adaptable for face-to-face setting as well. This presentation contains four sections; synchronous, asynchronous, how to reach all learners and building classroom culture and community. 

It is important to not get overwhelmed with all the tech tools available out there instead, ask yourself how will this tool help your learners successfully achieve their learning goals. I suggest trying one tech tool at a time, eventually building up your level of comfort in integrating technology in your lessons.

Slide Presentation 

Back to School ICT CPD 2019

Tech Tools Frenzy

Review of Shared Drive and Google Classroom updates as well as sharing of some tech tools such as ScreenCastify, QR Code, Quizizz, Socrative, Kahoot etc.

Link to Google Slide Presentation

Edtech Team Global Kuala Lumpur 2018 Summit

Create a Digital Storybook using Google Slides and Screencastify

In this session, you'll learn how to transform Google slides into an online storybook with the help of Screencastify extension.  This can be a great collaborative and formative assessment for learning which can be extended across other subjects.

Google Slide Presentation

Link to a related blog post. 

GEG Asia-Pacific Online Workshop: The Diary of the “Funtastic” BookWidgets

Session Description:

BookWidgets is a platform that allows you to create your own interactive exercises or activities i.e. widgets and automatically grade them in minutes! This session will explore a selection of these interactive widgets which can be used to engage your learners and save you a lot of time, especially during online learning.

The seamless integration with Google Classroom will be highlighted in addition to a demo on how to create a quiz or a worksheet. I've included tons of free widget template samples and a Google Form link for a chance to win digital BookWidgets Gift cards.

Be a Stellar Storyteller with Novel Effect

The word storytelling pretty much speaks for itself. Storytelling is about telling stories. It is about using stories to engage your audience or to make something more clear. 

What about taking your storytelling technique up a notch? Elevate your storytelling by using Novel Effect app which allows music, sound effects, and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice as you read your favourite titles together. Make storytime a little more fun for kids and for adults too!

Check out these videos on how to use Novel Effect app in your classroom, either online or face-to-face setting.

Google Break-With-Tech Session

Google Break-With-Tech Session is held every once a month in the school that I'm serving to introduce or support teachers with technology integration tools or strategies in their lessons.

Online Formative Assessment : Tools of the Trade

I've shared this slide presentation before and I'm sharing it again as I've recently updated its content.

Take a look at my top 4 favourite formative assessment tools for online learning. These tools are what I call the 'life-savers' or the 'MVPs' of remote or distance learning.