Wednesday, 29 June 2016

                                               Impression on TED-Ed

Ted-Ed is a useful tool for both teacher and learners in which ideas and thoughts of teachers and learners are shared. This free website also allows its users with the facility of creating lessons using video, a teacher can make customized lesson plan both publicly or privately.   TED-Ed’s main mission is to spread ideas and thoughts. TED-Ed usually cover almost all sectors like business, science, arts and many This website become more popular as it can be accessible more than hundred languages.

TED-Ed Lessons
1.     There are two types of TED-Ed lessons. One of them is called the original one which is basically in a process of award winning. This lesion is basically for the experts or teachers who have more experiences in specific field, For example the teachers, writers or animators.
2.     There is another kind of lesson which is basically designed for the visitors of the website. This one is easier for the users as the process of making lesson is quite easy .user can add as many question they want. As it is customized way of making own lesson a teacher can make more interesting way they think providing time code. two type of question is provided one is multiple question and open answer. Not only that user can also give brief and extra information with Dig Deeper. Lesson planer also provide open discussion question for all. This website is designed in a way that students and teacher can give their opinion and ideas every possible way.



Advantages:
Advantages of TED-Ed: there are many advantages that the user can find using this website like..
·        This website is very easy to use
·        Easy to modify the other’s work
·        This website if absolutely free so that anyone can use it
·        There is huge number of students and teachers who are cooperative giving thoughts and ideas so that getting quick response can be another advantage.
Challenge:
·        One of the main challenge is that it is very difficult or almost impossible for those who do not have the access of technology or internet as it is an online based tool
·        The limited way of making questions can be very common to learners as we can see that only discussion, question-answer, and multiple choice is provided. But other ways of lesion question pattern could be made like Fill in the blanks, essay writing,



TED talks help English language learners in a variety of ways: There are many ways through which a language learner can be benefited by the TED Talks.
TED transcripts – transcripts of each TED talk are available so that you can read along with the spoken word. This helps you to improve learner’s pronunciation skills.
On Language –  User can find many talks which are given by Expert teachers (Especially language and linguistic teachers). They discuss about the contend of language.
This website is very useful for the people who belongs to the educational field not only that it is very much useful in teaching and discussion of teaching and learning aspects.


Tuesday, 14 June 2016

 Impression on Everwrite Software:
Everwrite is a software which is not available for everyone as it only can run by paying . This software is basically for those who can use it for both practicing and learning .it is a helpful software that a learner or user can access  to learn of test any kind of grammatical aspect they want.
This software is very much easy to use as there is no difficult options of buttons which a learner or teacher cant understand.Every option is presented very clearly and organized manner. 
It can be proved as very interesting and motivational software as it cover almost every aspect of learning a language. Crammer(tense,prepositions,noun,comma etc), practicing of testing the thesis statements, everything can be found in one software. A learner can feel  motivated because of the way it is presented which is very simple and basically reading based  ,learner or the user can get feedback easily through the software
This software lack communication because there is no proper connection between the software and the learner.though it gives feedback but never explain the problem or the feedback whatever it gives is only the correct answer.and for the incorrect one is almost same answer  which is "INCORRECT!!".
This software do not provide any option to input new learning  or practicing task  for the users.It is a software which can be use by purchasing but it lacks its weight when came at the question of providing variety for the users .Learner cant i find newness while accessing or put new data as exercise as a result it become less interesting for the users.
Not only that this software provide very limited option in every aspect of learning (noun,tense,adjective)for the users to access so that user cant find variety in practicing or testing a task of language.

 So it can be said that this software contain both problem s and  advantages . the way it is designed is very interesting and user friendly  in many way ,at the same time it contains problem for the users but overall it is not a bad for the users.