Kamal Shafie's Blog

Flipgrid - Your Voice Your Story! [Source: Flipgrid's logo from  Flipgrid.com] Hello and welcome back to my ICT in TESOL blog! I hope you enjoyed reading my previous entry on ‘ Blendspace ’ (if you haven’t then please do so – you will thank me for it!). If you are like me right now - stuck at home because you are trying to avoid crowded places since you are worried about the massive outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and you don’t have anything good to watch on Netflix, then why not spend some of your time to read this post on  Flipgrid ? Who knows, perhaps by the time you have finished reading this post, you might even want to create your very own Flipgrid video too! The story of Flipgrid is the story of YOU!   [A s creenshot of Flipgrid website homepage]   What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid is a web-based platform that can be used by both teachers and students to create  a video-based discussion on a topic or 'grid' of thei...

Introducing Blendspace  Welcome back to my ICT in TESOL blog! I hope you enjoyed reading my previous entry on Screencast-O-Matic.  In this post, I would like to talk about a website that I think is very useful for interactive online resources for blended learning classroom – Blendspace! Blended learning  The tool that I will discuss in this post is useful for supporting “blended learning” so it is best that I first briefly talk about it before we look at Blendspace later in details. According to Gruba and Hinkelman (2012, as cited in Gruba et al. 2016, p.135), “blended approach” in ELT refers to the teaching and learning process that incorporates the use of modern technologies and media in a face-to-face situation. Thus, if a teacher uses an online platform such as Blendspace to share reading materials and notes for their students before they come to the actual class, it is considered as a blended course. Here is a YouTube video on ‘blended learning’ if y...