Mengmeng's ICT Blog

Hi, everyone. Welcome to week two! 🙋 Do you find it challenging to keep students actively engaging in class activities? Are you concerned about students get bored with your courses? If you have such worries, please do read this blog which may help you address these concerns. Today, I would like to introduce a useful tool-- VOKI to help you learn and teach English in an interactive and interesting way with animated avatars. The blog comprises of two main  parts: a brief introduction to Voki, a comprehensive guide on integrating Voki into language education. Read on to explore how Voki can transform the way you teach and learn languages! What is Voki?  To put it plainly, Voki is an online platform that enables users to creat their own unique avatars with diverse features, which have the ability to  speak using a variety of languages and voices. https://www.behance.net/gallery/32024993/Voki-Character-Creator How to create your Voki?  There are two steps in the de...

  Hello, everyone. Welcome to Mengmeng's blog :)   Are you interested in blogging? If the answer is yes, you may be curious about how to build an attractive blog. Just keep reading this blog! I'm sure you will get some insights from it. This week I will take  Scott Thornbury's blog A-Z of ELT  as an example. The review is organized from the following aspects: organisation and layout, content and features, ease of use and navigation, and target audience. Organisation and Layout The home page of this blog is quite clear, which is constructed in alphabetical order with key EFL terminologies and it is friendly to readers. It means that readers can easily select the information they need. In addition, it's very inspiring that the author used gadgets to show popular topics by utilizing different size fonts . But the style of the blog is a little old-fashioned, especially for youngsters, who are attracted by eye-catching pictures and bright colours.  It should be noti...