Connected classroom (my brainshark) week 5

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The website source is this http://www.brainshark.com/mybrainshark



Introduction

This imaginative website certainly widens the space for language teaching and learning.This technology is suitable for all teachers and students at all level and can also be used for language learning outside the classroom. This website brings in the idea of  'Connected' classroom.This means that the learning of  the target language goes beyond the classroom connecting students with the outside world. Thus,this website initiate students to  practice speaking in the target language apart from the classroom.  Through this website, teachers and students can create a narrated presentation,add audio,add video, add documents, and add attachment files and then share or embed. The amazing part is that the system comes with tools that permit teachers and students to limit the number of times a presentation is seen, in order to give them the opportunity to self access!.In add, teachers and students can 'mashup' since they can mix powerpoint slides (.ppt, .pptx, & .odp), video files (.wmv, .swf, & .flv), and documents (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .xsx, .odt, & .txt) in one single presentation! and they can add attachment files to the presentation that users can download.

Instructions

How do teachers and students go about using  this website? Don't worry just press the links attached below:

The links above briefly explains to us on how to go about using this amazing website for our lessons. Moreover while the speaker is guiding us through the website,the speaker has also done some example activities in order to help us to understand better on how this website actually works.



The advantages gained from this website are:
  1. allows students to do speaking outside the classroom
  2. promotes 'connected' classroom approach
  3. creative ways of doing  various presentations especially power point presentations
  4. students tend to be more engaging
  5. can get plenty of valuable feedbacks  to improve and evaluate our presentations
  6.  interactive
  7. can get more materials from other users
The disadvantages  of using this website are:
  1. uploads of individual content files are limited to 200MB
  2. presentations uploaded in my Brainshark is available to the public and if teachers want to make their presentations private they have to purchase a paid version.
  3. not suitable for all versions of power point program like 2003,2007 
Recommendation
It encourages' blended learning' where teachers can combine traditional face-to-face classroom methods with more modern computer-mediated activities. Thus,normally power point presentations are poorly delivered so teachers can use this website hand to hand with their traditional teaching to develop their teaching presentations.Teachers can also develop students speaking skill by encouraging students to use this website.

Referecnesforthepictures:Brainkshark.com
Referencesforthevideos:teachertraining.com

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