App Review 3: Curipod

 

Curipod - Interactive Lessons for K-12 that Students Love

User experience：

Curipod is a highly interactive lesson creation platform. It specializes in using AI to generate complete, interactive slide decks. It includes live polling, word clouds, drawing feedback, and more, making lessons highly engaging and participatory.

Key Features ＆ Function:

• AI-Generated Lessons: Input a topic, and Curipod instantly creates an interactive presentation.
•  Diverse Interactive Tools: Features like word clouds, polls, drawing activities, and group discussions.
•  Live Feedback: Students can participate in real-time via their devices and see collective results.
•  Ready-made Templates: Templates cover grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing.
•  Easy Sharing: Students join a session via a link or code.

Usefulness in Language Teaching:

1.  Quickly generate vocabulary practice or grammar explanation sessions with built-in interactions.
2. · Use the word cloud feature to brainstorm vocabulary related to a new topic.
3. · Use drawing or polling activities to stimulate discussion and encourage spoken output.
4. · Perfect as a warm-up activity or a formative assessment tool during a lesson.

App Review 2: EdPuzzle

 

Edpuzzle

User experience：

EdPuzzle is an interactive video platform for teaching. Teachers can take any online video (e.g., from YouTube) and embed questions, voice comments, and quizzes directly into the playback. It also allows teachers to track student progress and understanding.

Key Features ＆ Function:

• Video Cropping: Trim videos to show only the most relevant segments.
• Embedded Questions: Insert open-ended questions, multiple-choice quizzes, or notes at any point in the video.
• Voice-over: Teachers can add their own voice narration over the original video audio.
•  Progress Tracking: Monitor each student's viewing progress and quiz results.
•  Prevent Skipping: Settings prevent students from skipping the video content.

Usefulness in Language Teaching:

1.  Teachers can use short English film clips or news reports and embed listening comprehension questions.
2.  Students can practice speaking and shadowing by repeating dialogues or narrations from the video.
3.  Ideal for flipped classrooms, where students watch the video and complete pre-class tasks.
4.  The analytics help teachers identify specific listening comprehension challenges for individual students.

App Review 1: Book Creator

 

Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

User experience：

Book Creator is an intuitive and user-friendly digital book creation tool that allows both students and teachers to easily create interactive e-books incorporating text, images, audio, video, and links. It supports both individual and collaborative writing, making it ideal for classroom use.

Key Features ＆ Function:

•  Multimedia Integration: Add images, audio, video, and hand-drawn content.
•  Voice Recording: Record and embed audio directly into the book.
•  Rich Templates: Choose from a variety of templates like comic books, diaries, and reports.
•  Real-time Collaboration: Multiple students can work on the same book simultaneously.
•  Publishing & Sharing: Export as an ePub, PDF, or a public link.

Usefulness in Language Teaching:

1.  Students can create personal storybooks or cultural-themed e-books to practice writing and self-expression.
2.  Teachers can develop engaging reading materials with integrated text, images, and audio to enhance reading comprehension.
3.  By recording and listening back to their own readings, students can improve their pronunciation and intonation.
4.  Excellent for project-based learning, such as "My Holiday Journal" or "Fairy Tale Adaptations."

About My Hobbies

One of my hobbies--

1. The part I would like to mention

One of my hobbies is playing video games, especially asymmetric competitive games. For example, 1v4 games like Identity V and Dead by Daylight.

Both games are available in multiple languages, including English and Chinese.

2. Perhaps the benefits？

These games have trained my real-time strategy and prediction abilities.

 At the same time, since I am used to using English as the gaming language, my sense of language and vocabulary have also been stimulated and maintained in a good way.

By the way

Play in moderation!

idv's ytb channel
(5) Identity V - YouTube

DBD's ytb channel
(5) Dead by Daylight - YouTube