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This is a presentation on 3 (three) different webtools that teachers can use in their lessons to enhance technology in the classroom: ProProfs, ZooBurst and Pixton.
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Webtools for the EFL
classroom
ProProfs
PIXTON
ZooBurst
ProProfs
Quiz Maker
Brief Description
ProProfs is a free web tool that you can use to create online quizzes and tests.
You can make an online quiz using existing templates or create your own from
scratch.
Advantages
❏ Very user friendly
❏ Clear instructions
❏ You can constantly edit the content
❏ You can grade results
❏ You can also add videos, pictures, documents and
PowerPoints to Questions
❏ You can track who took the quiz
Disadvantages
❏ You cannot upload photos in jpeg format
❏ You need an e-mail account to save your quiz
❏ There is only one fixed font
Possible Classroom Ideas
❏ Treasure Hunt: in this activity you ask Ss to read a passage
in search of a particular concept, idea, or fact. Create up to 5
questions that focus on one passage. Using ProProfs Quiz
Maker, use the “Fill in the Blank” question type, then create
your list of possible answers.
❏ Teachers can make quizzes to evaluate Ss.
❏ Teams scores competition: Ss can create their own quizzes
to learn the material and evaluate their classmates as well.
Example
Link to the quiz: http://goo.gl/YNHJdR
Links to Other Sources
❏ Tutorial on scored quizzes http://y2u.be/6oBmV4bG9VU
❏ How to configure quiz settings http://youtu.be/qO6lrd7Qp9Y
❏ How to share your quiz http://youtu.be/9uFpjKCS-PE
❏ How to analyze results http://youtu.be/V5X-EX6SV7o
Pixton is a web tool that allows you to create fun, original
comics online
Creating an account - Pixton for Schools
Creating an account - Pixton for Fun
Start creating!
Recommendation...
Start with beginner mode,
select characters & setting,
and then go to advanced
mode.
Advantages
● Great variety of backgrounds,
facial expressions, & body
postures
● Customization
● Boosts imagination
● Fun & original
Disadvantages
● Internet connection needed
● Sign-up required
● No download option (only for
PRO version)
● Suitable for teens & adults only
Classroom ideas
● Autobiography (students take you to different scenes of
their lives while narrating them)
● Genre transfer of literary texts (students transform a novel,
a short story, a play, or a poem into a comic)
● Comic jigsaw (students put the panels in the correct order)
● Fill in (students fill in the empty speech bubbles of a comic)
For example...Genre transfer of literary texts
“The Way Up To Heaven” by Roald Dahl -
http://goo.gl/RBTeoy
Other resources
Slideshare presentation (in Spanish) http://goo.gl/Osy7Rf
YouTube Tutorial http://goo.gl/3CHI0K
Pixton as classroom tool http://goo.gl/cblkUy
Teachers using Pixton http://goo.gl/DdZ4aT
ZooBurstDigital Story telling to create your own 3D
book.
http://www.zooburst.com/
Advantages
❏Many explanations
❏ Virtual Classroom
❏Make your book private
or public.
❏ Allows comments
Disadvantages
❏Upgrade Features not free
❏Difficult to use
❏Many options and movements
Classroom idea
First, divide your class in groups of 2 or 3
members. Let them make up a story.
Then, they will represent it in the digital story
telling. They practise specific vocabulary, the
use of Present or Past simple to narrate the
story.
Finally, they can share it!
Other Resources
PDF Manual http://goo.gl/aWDWwm
The story http://goo.gl/UBXZxn
Youtube Tutorialhttp://goo.gl/Tyy4Qx
A presentation by
Lucía Poce,
Sofía Redondo
& Florencia Valdés