Say it! don't keep it !

Have you ever been in this situation before?

Feeling shy to speak in class...

Afraid that your answer will be wrong or you are interfering with the lesson...

Does not have the time to copy everything that is being discussed...

Afraid to ask silliy question and to be laugh at by the others...

Here are the solutions!!!

Introducing Todaysmeet & Wallwisher.

 http://todaysmeet.com/

 
                                                         



                                                           http://www.wallwisher.com/




      Both Todaysmeet and Wallwisher are tools that are basicly have the same function whis is to create a platform for the students tho chat about thier thoughts and share things between the members. These great tools can be used by the teachers as a backchanneling system that allows them to get feedback or their thoughts about the lesson indirectly. Suitable to be used by learners from various level, both tools can be manipulated as a medium to get people to be engage with the lesson interactively and fun.

TodaysMeet

The layout is rather simple, clean and nice where we can have discussion of different topics in different rooms. Unfortunately we can't share any videos or pictures directly in the chatbox.

Wallwisher

Wallwisher is more fun and colorful where the layout comes with different colors. You can can also directly share some pictures, audio, files and videos with the other members participating in the room rather than just words.

 How might these tools be a great help in language classroom.

•  It provides a medium for the teachers to get some feedback about the lesson and adjust its pace by monitoring the students understanding.

•  The chat room can be used as a platform for online discussion or practice. For example teacher might ask the students to come out with sentences that use modal verbs.

• A chat room makes the students to be more relaxed and motivate them to participate interactively in the discussion.

• As both tools are visual and textural, these enable the learners to improve their auditory and analytical skill where they need to carefully listen to the lesson and make critical judgement out of it at the same time. 

• Plus, students can also copy and paste all the discussion or some of the correct answer as their own personal copy as reference later.

• Motivate less active students to participate in discussions.

Some Limitations of using these tools.

• The students might be out of control and keep on discussing on different matters unrelated to the lesson.  

• Learners might get distracted by other people in the chatbox and loose focus of the entire lesson.  

• They might choose not to use thier real name which will make it hard for the teachers to identify the students participation in the discussion.