 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hi everybody. How are you feeling this afternoon? I will share with you now my presentation. And I've just dropped these slides into the chat. So please let me know if you don't see the slot. If you can't download it. And I'm hoping everybody can see my screen now. Yeah. You can use your reactions to give me a thumbs up. Thank you Carol. I see your thumb. Okay, awesome. So let me get to it. Okay, and I know this is Friday afternoon. You've had the opportunity to see many presentations and thank you. I appreciate you for coming here to mine today. And so just quickly practice your annotating skills that you've probably learned here at the. A TLS or maybe you've just really gotten down good on them. So go ahead and annotate here. I'm going to give you the rights to check circle and do as you like. Here we go. Let's see. Yeah, you should have annotation. Right. So go ahead if you can put a stamp mark or a check. Yeah, okay. Carol's all over the hot diggity. Yes. So, and you've probably been are going to be emoji or bit mojita out now. So I'm sorry if you're getting a little bit too much for me I have at least one on every slide. So here we go. And thank you for showing me your feelings today. Yeah, awesome. Thank you Linda. Anybody else want to go ahead and put their stamp mark on here Karen. Thank you. And what's nice about annotating is, you can see students names, or now I can see your names you're all teachers but if you're using this in class. Yeah, thank you Tom, I see. I feel that way too. I've been up late working and doing this so I feel for you. Alright, so let's go to the next one. I'm now in annotating. If you do if I don't clear this screen right now by clearing it then it'll then all this will move on to the next slide. So I'm going to clear it. And I will also share this with you at the end of the presentation as well. So, I have to remember sometimes to select my arrow, the select tool. So a little bit about me. I have been an adult dead for 20 years. I am a D like graduates of last year 2020. And what was that in 2019. I have some coworkers with me today Linda was a former D like also member and so I, my memory was 2020. Yes. Okay, so I do have former teaching experience in community college, high school and elementary school. And so today you're here to learn about how to use online dictionaries. And but I want to give some credit to Oh I see Tom you're still able to edit. So, yes, thank you for reminding me I must disable your annotation. Thank you. And I'm hoping you guys can see my screen now yeah fully with no entertaining everybody is good. Yeah. Bronca my good. Yes, I'm sorry. I'm just excited about this annotation feature and I'm looking for it but I think I have it because I'm co-present there with you. But yes, we see your screen we say we see why even try a cute bit mode you think. Thanks and that's just also to remind you guys, I'm doing this often with my students, because we are using so many resources going back and forth from the computer to our screens and so I do like to check in with my students continuously can you see my screen can you see this. And, and I think that's normal. Yeah. So, anyway, I wanted to give some credit to our hardback dictionaries and just remember back. I remember when we had these in adulthood and I was really disappointed I love dictionaries but we only had one maybe for every two students. The type was tiny. They were old and outdated. So if anybody would like to tell us, do you remember did you use these a lot in your classroom. You can go ahead and write it in the chat or you can turn on your microphone please and share with us. If you have a. Many memories of using dictionaries. Yeah, anybody want to share. Okay, I thought we were taught we were taught not to let them use dictionaries but. Right. Yeah, it's such a good important part. I don't think about that anymore. Well, since you mentioned that. Thank you, Karen right. Thank you for reminding me to say that this is not about picture dictionaries online. This is about dictionaries that are maybe for your beginning high and above. Some of these skills you can use with a lower level beginning high beginning low probably, but picture dictionaries are a whole nother topic in this. And that's another presentation that should be done. And I would love to see that. Yeah, like you said Karen, I did use them in the classroom before, and it was difficult. I wanted to have more and better ones. Yeah. Here, this is just a few ideas of how we used those paperback dictionaries in the classroom. And I've listed a few here from what I could remember yesterday, because it seems so long ago maybe a year and a couple of a year now that we're all online. And it seems like a long time ago. And I couldn't remember I'm trying to think how did I use them in the classroom. So I put a few ideas here. You know, you would list some words from your reading and ask students to look them up, write the words in new sentences. Maybe you'd ask them to identify the parts of speech verb noun adjective, or you'd show students your pronunciation keys and how those work. And that's difficult because how do you show somebody English pronunciation when their language is Russian or something else. Right. That was always challenging. And then maybe you would give vocabulary tests, after they practiced and new thoroughly these words at the end of a week or something. Does anybody have other ideas that they would use those classroom hardback dictionaries you want to share with us. So feel free to raise your hand or use your microphone everybody's muted so you have to unmute. I see somebody wrote finding synonyms and antonym. Yeah. Yeah, thank you, Victoria. Yes, and yeah, Tom, you love dictionaries as much as I do I think a lot of teachers love dictionaries. We are teachers, you know, and so we love books and I think everybody loves dictionaries. So I hope that you'll be able to take something back with you after today. ABC order. Yeah, teach ABC order. Yes. Word searches and scrabble and yes and I learned on one online dictionary that there are some parts of the dictionary where you can cheat for word searches or even one for crosswords cheap a cheap tab for crosswords. Yes using examples. Yes sentence examples and I have that to here and I'm going to share that with you have an example of that. All right. So the good news is paperbacks. We don't have right now with our students and they may not have one at home, but they're online and there's a deludge of them. If you're online, you just do a search with online dictionaries. And yeah, they are there. So. Okay, so the last one is what I want to share with you you probably know all of these. So, go ahead and give me a thumbs up if you know Miriam Webster's learners dictionary. Can you use your reaction. Thumbs up anybody. Okay. Yeah, everybody's a lot of people are familiar with it. Okay, good. Thumbs up does anybody know. Okay, so put your thumb down. Okay, thank you. How about dictionary.com. That's one of my favorite. Anybody familiar with that one. Okay, and then I was so motivated today. And I was so excited to hear from Christy Reyes presentation that she had all these awesome resources I said, Oh, does she sleep. And so I did a search for online slang because I knew something had to be out there, and I found it and so I added it today for this presentation. And I hope you like it. Has anybody heard of online slang. Yeah. No, well, great. I'm going to share that with you and will be the first ones to use them in our classrooms. Okay, any questions up to this point. How to let Miriam Webster. Oh, Miriam Webster's yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just the plane Miriam Webster's not the learners dictionary. So, is that what you mean. Yes, because we had the Miriam Webster's representative came to Katisa and made it sound so useful. And they are very similar. If you take that learners dictionary out. It's a nice transition for your ESL learners to then go into the regular one. Yeah. So they are very similar platforms. So they'll have that familiarity. Okay. So what's nice about being on zoom is you have that captive audience. So if you love using dictionaries. It's awesome that you can share your screen and all eyes are on what you're doing. Whereas before you were in the classroom and you had to walk around and point, point it out in the books. Right, right, you didn't have that flexibility to just focus on one page or a word. With a captive audience. Here are some ideas of how you could use online student presentations and do teams or solo. They could subscribe to the word of the day and dictionary.com has that and teaching moments and I'll share a story about that. I use the dictionary in class with the students writing and it taught me a lot. Yeah. And grammar activity to and I'll show you that I have an example. So anybody else want to give us any examples right in the chat or tell us if you use the dictionary online right now and how you use it with your students. Would anybody like to share. Okay, let's go to the next slide, because this is a lot here. So, if you need to stretch, get up and do a yoga pose. I must say I'm having lots of fun with these emojis. And last night I finally learned to put the bit emoji extension on my web browser. And I guess you can say I went bunkers, and I have an emoji on almost every single page. Let's see if you can identify layer which page or slide I do not use an emoji. There is one. So, remember to model using the dictionary. And that's one reason why I love being at home and being able to show the screen. I mean there are pros and cons to teaching online and teaching at home on zoom. And one of them is the nice flexibility that you can use zoom to model how you use the dictionary. And I have examples of that coming up. Okay, so if anybody wants to share how they model using the dictionary, we'd love to. I'd love to hear about that. And if not now later I have a link for a wakelit resource where you can drop your ideas to sell some ideas for using online dictionaries on zoom. Google Chrome model and show your students how they can find a word with Google Chrome. You can teach them word search and how to ascertain a good source for a dictionary. And here's an example. This last one of my students was as said the word met for a past tense word. And so I use that opportunity to show them to go straight to the web like I am here, and to write at the end of the word definition. When you do that, then you have all of these options that pop up. There's that Miriam Webster says probably number one that everybody goes to. And so you'll see dictionary.com. I went to this one here your dictionary.com. And it looks really good, but there's just so many advertisements on there that it was really very easy for our students, and you are at me to lose our focus because so much was going past. So Collins dictionary I hadn't seen that before dictionary Cambridge Macmillan so many free dictionary. Oh my gosh, it just goes on and on. And you can teach your students that you know the first ones are probably, you know, better ones to go to. So that's an example of showing them the search how to how to do that. Let me go back here. Okay. And any questions. Oh, Bronco says she loves that feature. Yeah, well you don't have to save them on your computer. You've got to put that extension the Bitmoji extension. It saves them for you. And if we have time at the end of this presentation I'll show you what I learned last night. So, if you, if you'd like to type any messages are in the chat that would be great. And just to gauge where I'm at right now with you guys are you still with me. You can give me a hand clap to say you're, you're still there. All right, yes, thank you. Yeah, I want to keep you guys awake. And I promise I will try and make this short and sweet, because one of my favorite presenters is also presenting now, and I'm hoping to see her to, at least for a few minutes later. All right, so here's an activity that I have that I've recently done with my students and it was just homework actually on Thursday. And it was from visiting one of our presenters that I got the idea. So Cynthia will will us will us keep. I think she gave me the idea. So I went right away Thursday morning in my class and I did this. So that was great. So here's what I did. Let me show you. The book is called Arabian Nights. And we are reading it on Burlington in my low B class. And so the idea was, there's so many past tense words in that story that I want them to be able to absorb and remember some of these words. So I gave them this activity to focus on those past tense words. And as you can see here, some of my students have already added to this. Okay, and is here on this first one I put the pronunciation because some somebody asked about it. Yeah. So this is just an activity they put a meaning or synonym. And then they write a sentence in my instructions. This is this is on my classroom. And as part of my instructions, I told them no easy words, I will remove easy words. So that's something that you can do too. And I told them everybody had to do at least two. So so far I have one student that has participated. Yeah. So, again, let me know if you have any questions. If you've got me by raising your hand I'm looking to my left here to see if you've got any questions. And Bronca is a great host or co host, and she too is looking in the chat if you have any questions. So there's an idea this is a Google doc. Okay, so ways of showing your students how to make do searches. If you just type the word in the search bar, this is a screenshot. Then all of this information appears, and you can do screenshots to teach them what everything is, or take them straight to the word. So this is one way for the same for this word appear, and because I typed in the past tense word appeared. And let's look in the next screen, how I also type the word in. And it also shows that you can teach the students that they can go to the next word, they can just click on one of these, and also find more information. And here I have a link to go to that word appear because I want to show you something really cool. You can use Google to teach pronunciation here appear. And they get a picture. I love this. There used to be a web page which showed you the actual picture. So, of the mouth moving up here. And then the students can record and practice appear. And, and it'll play for them. And it'll give them a response. And they can check they can also change this to go slow. And they can see appear. They can see the word. So that's great. I love that about Google. Has anybody seen that yet on Google search. Have you. Love to know anybody have you seen that yet know you haven't agreed. Awesome. I taught you something new today. I'm excited. Okay. It's Google that does this. Yeah, yeah, can you believe it Google just Google.com. Just go to the web browser. Yeah, awesome isn't it. So that's the part of the title in my title how to use Google and online dictionaries to teach pronunciation. Can you demonstrate another word, please, please, please. Another word. Yeah. Okay, let's do. We'd like to give me another word. So let's see here. I'm going to go back to the original search. So I don't, I don't search how to pronounce but you can put any word in here. Notable, or do you have a word sorry. But category that's one that gets mispronounced a lot. Okay category. I see the number 30th. Let's do category here. Okay. And there's category. It even has the symbol, the APA or IPA American pronunciation, or the international pronunciation. I'm not sure which one it is doesn't say here but there you go. Category. And then you click on the learn to pronounce. So this is great if you just teach your students how to do this. Category. Practice. Category. And I said cat instead of try to say cat instead of chat. Yeah, so it gets them. And then I think here, it tells them look at this I love this product got that tells them what to do. Bring the back of your tongue to the roof of your mouth to block the air then release it. Isn't that cool. Yeah. Okay. So that's an example. Okay, and so something that you can do to is to learn a new word every day. It's a project you can have your students. And earlier I talked about student presentation. I think that's cool. Any balloons, smiley faces. Can I see something? Yay. Thank you, Mary. Thank you, Karen. Yes. All right. Okay, we're on our way here. Let me keep going. So that's an example. Yeah, student presentations. And so they can present a new word. So if you share your screen with your students, I think with higher levels, this is a lot easier. They can present a word. They can just go to the internet show the students how to do it. It's repetition that makes everybody feel comfortable with computers. So if you give your students the opportunity to do this, make a little video, there's an idea, a tutorial for them on how to do it, and they can practice it that way. Yeah. So dictionary.com, this is the word notable. And I want to take you there. I think that I mentioned earlier about a student that I had in my class. So she did this lovely review biography review of a for African American history in February. I gave them to history.com and found a link for eight inventors. And I asked my students to, I gave them an example of course one that I did, and I asked them to also write a few words sentences about an inventor, or they could pick any African American, you know, in honor of African American history, black history. So, as that, for that activity, she did a beautiful slide I could share that later from time. And she had some sentences in there. So I was really curious because this is a low B class. And I thought, notable, do you know what that word means. I was like, did you copy that word, right. So while we were in class I asked her said not to can I share your slide with everybody. And so I did, and it was a teachable moment. And so I took everybody to the internet. I opened up her slide, I clicked on that word notable, and I showed everyone how you can go to the internet and find other words synonyms go to dictionary.com and source for synonym. And she explained to me that that was the only word she could find to come bring across the same definition that she had in Spanish. And so, that's why she used that word. So, anyway, that was a teaching moment where I was able to use to ask her why did you use that word. How come that word came up. Because you know at a low level like that notable that's a hard word, but she'd used Google translate and found that word. All right, so for a homework assignment. Yeah, you can have them find the word. And then what I do is they copy the sentence a sentence from the definition and I'll show you that in just a minute. And then they write their own sentence using the same definition in that sentence. So here's an example. So for notable. There are examples. Here's dictionary.com. And when we go down and also teach them about these ads and how they're where the exes are that they're sneaky about them, and you can close them. And a way to get around this is by doing control plus on your computer. And that usually takes care of a number of ads. But I think the ad people have discovered that. And so now sometimes I get this huge ad at the bottom of my screen. But for right now dictionary.com is is pretty good with letting us see most page. So, so down below it has examples has synonyms. Antonyms to what somebody mentioned synonyms and antonyms, and a quiz. There are quizzes. And the origin I love to look at this sometime with my students, just for interest and to get them interested in researching or looking further into something. Okay. So, so here, here we go. They have words that are nearby notable and words related to notable and example sentences. These are very long. And so that's why I asked them, copy a sentence that you know, a sentence that you like a sentence that you understand. And then use the same definition to make your own sentence. So, I know we don't like to have our students copy. I think it's one way that they can learn how to write, because after all, speaking, they are copying what other people are saying by listening they tried to repeat the same words. So why not by writing try to have them write the same words. They have write the same material. Okay, and then if they click up here on the source, you can then teach them. So, you can then teach them the, the center in the day but there's a there's a part here where here that the most search words are in red. And let me see if I can make this smaller. There's an actual, let's show it's coming up here now. Sometimes it comes up, and it'll show you a whole list of words. Okay. Anyway, it's, there's just a lot here. Sometimes it's the way they showed is not exactly the same. Yeah. But you can see, you know, there's emoji means like all of these pop culture, lots of great stuff. Okay, and word of the day we talked about earlier that's up here. Take them to word of the day, and they can subscribe to the word of the day. And I also let them know that word of the day, gosh grub steak, I've never used grub steak before has anybody here. Give me a thumbs up anybody. No, you've never heard of it either right. I often tell them that that it's usually a very odd word like this. But again, they have examples. It takes them down to you examples and how it's used pronunciation, how cool is that. And then you can listen to the word of the day. So this is an idea to for presentations. You want your students to do presentations, they can present on a word. Okay. Any questions right here. Anybody want to say anything. No. All right, let's go on. I just want to say I'm so excited about the Google feature for pronunciation I had to share with everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what that is actually what motivated me to do this presentation Bronco. I started realizing how much I go to the dictionary for for information. And for, for words, how much I go to the online dictionaries. And this is just the trove, a treasure trove of stuff. Right. There's so much. Wait till you see what else I have for you. There's even more. I was hoping to end this early, but I'm actually getting excited myself because I love the stuff. Okay, so, oops, I went back to a little too fast. So here is one of the videos that I got really excited about I want to share this with you. So you can find videos that have confusing words. And here's one of them. Before we go there. Oops, let me go back. Keep doing that because it's my scroll, my scroll. Okay, so I wrote here at the bottom read with your students. So with my low level students, they love to read. And they, and it's good practice for them. So you can find a word and have a student read. They just love that. All right, so let me show you this effect versus effect video. It's really pretty cool. You're gonna like this. Okay, and don't forget to quiz yourselves. You quiz yourself. links are awesome. So here's an ad there's little X teach them. There's that little X. Okay, here we go. And then I get to make this big once it turns on. There's always ads. Otherwise, this stuff wouldn't be free. And thankfully, this is a free. This is a good little ad. It's quick. No words. So I found out for this word of the day thing on dictionary.com. Every day I get an email about a different word. And you wouldn't believe some of them. I just want to point out here that behind this, the writing, the translation, you can see that there is action. It's closed caption and the words are big. So that's really nice if you want to share a video in class. Well, all these words have had a big effect on my vocabulary. Or is it affect on my vocabulary? Effect and affect, they sound the same. They have similar ideas of influence. Speaking of efforts, they both come from the same group. It's just that one begins with an E and the other with an A. Let's break them down. Most often, effect beginning with an E is a noun and it means a result or consequence. Thank, cause and effect. For instance, I was hangry. I ate some pizza. Okay, I ate a lot of pizza. And I looked at pictures of puppies for like 20 minutes. But the effect, the outcome was that I felt better. Effect beginning with an A is most commonly a verb that means to act on, to influence or to produce a change in something. I was hangry. I ate some pizza. And it affected my mood, which means it had an impact on my mood. Because I felt a whole lot better afterwards. And yeah, the puppy pictures help. Effect brings about an effect. Here's another example. True story. Concerned about distractions and disruptions, my school decides to take away the free Wi-Fi. It had an effect, which means that in result of students paying more attention in class. It also affected our ability, which means it altered our ability to get work done because we couldn't look up information online. In everyday speech, effect and effect sound the same. So sometimes people emphasize the niche of a little more for clarity. It's when we're writing them that we tend to get tripped up and it's in writing them that we need to be careful. We might remember their differences this way. Effect, alter. Effect is the end result. B, the two A's. Effect, an alter. And two E's. Effect in, in result. Okay. So how'd you guys like that? And of course you can replay it. We're not going to. Okay. So yeah, right? Did you, did you think you'd find all this great stuff on there? Okay. I'm going to close that page so we can get out of there. All right. I love that. There's a lot on online. Yeah. Okay. And you could stop that video. I think it was slow enough that you could stop and talk a little bit in between. So if you have a few minutes at the end of your classes, go to the dictionary online, show your students what they can discover. And watching a video like this is fun. Yeah, she was cute. I really liked her. I think she was so cute. Okay. Now punctuation, I think is something that also we could use online dictionaries to teach our students. That, that's a real mouthful punctuation, huh? Does anybody have any ideas on how you teach punctuation? Can you share with me here or with us, everybody? Thank you, Mary. And Tom, your grub steak, huh? Is that really a steak? Is that what that means? I wasn't paying attention. Okay. All right. Well, Dental of this meme. So a good opportunity to show your students that quotes people do this and why and what it means. Yeah. So let's take a visit over here to punctuation. This is a really good part too. And I think you might see that I am pro or lenient-traditionary.com. Yeah, they do a really nice job. So close those Xs if you can. Yeah. And let me make this bigger. Okay. So here you see I, by increasing my zoom, zooming my screen, I was able to get rid of some of those. Some of those ads. Yeah. So here an opportunity to read, an opportunity to have a student read a sentence, right? And this was really funny because I love this example. Let's eat grandma or versus let's eat grandma. Okay. And then they mentioned that grammar book eats, shoots and leaves. Now who's read this book? Because I have and it's fantastic. Anybody here? It's a small little book like this big and you're going to love it. It's not the easiest fastest thing to read, but it's so good. I'm going to type that in the chat here for you guys, because if you haven't read it yet, everybody knows about it. A friend of my husband from the Peace Corps gave it to us. And it was just wonderful. It's, it's, it's shoots and leaves. And it's got a picture of a panda. And it's all about definition and how we use words language. So it's really, it's really cool. Okay. And so it goes through the period and comma all of these and if you click on that word that's underlined, it takes you to it to the pronunciation of the word synonyms definition. So it's kind of like going through a what a, a tunnel a maze. Yeah, so going to one of these web pages and explain to your students is like going through a maze. And it's fun, a fun maze. They like definitions right. Can you guys still see my screen here? I've been jumping around to a couple. If you can't please let me know. Yeah. Okay, how do you get to the punctuation section of a dictionary at dictionary.com punctuation section. Ah, okay. So I've got this link for you. And do you mean Mary punctuation for each word or just this link for punctuation. Just this thing six, what you're showing us right now. I wanted to just go to dictionary.com. I don't. Yeah, I see writing at the top but I'm looking for something that says, I think if you just go punctuation dictionary.com and I'm going to do that. I want to show you right now that it might, it'll take you there. So that's what I just did I typed in punctuation dictionary.com. And can you see on my screen there that it says six common types. Yes. Okay. So you are. I did drop the the slides for this and they are interactive. So you'll be able to click on that link. So I came back to this also to show you, let's see what else I wanted to show you on this page. Well, that I like that it has a lot of examples. Okay. And simple and accessible examples. I teach low level how many of you teach low level ESL. Can I see your reaction a thumb, or yeah low level one got one, two, three, four. Okay, great. And for me that's a lot of what I have to share with my students, I have to look and make sure it's easy and relatable accessible to them by definition right so this looks pretty easy right my brother isn't feeling well semi colon, he's been sick for a week. So, pretty accessible. Yeah. Okay, and then. So you can sign up to I like that they can sign up. And it's just. Yeah, so we don't have a whole lot of time and I know it's Friday and you want to get here. So let me go to the next one I won't get too excited. All right. So perfect timing and so let's reflect here and type in the chat if you have any ideas now for how to use an online dictionary in class. Let's see. Okay Carol your comments about students are keyboarding related to punctuation, no space before a period but one space after yes. And yeah that's, that's a tough one if you've got any ideas or you want to share with me to find any resources. I will link to a wakelit page that I have and a place where you guys can go and put any resources like that in there, and I will keep, keep that stocked, like my refrigerator. Always keep it with ideas about using dictionaries. So you can go ahead and type in the chat. And if you don't I understand that your battery is on low. Okay. All right, let's move on. So, the last thing that I want to tell you is that dictionaries do offer curriculum as a curriculum resource. Okay, and I have with me here, a book. I started teaching a conversation class and this is a dictionary look at that dictionary. This is a Cambridge advanced learners dictionary. And I was happy to see that at the back of this book. At the back, it had a CD ROM with some downloadable activities that I could use. Okay, but even nicer in the back are ideas for conversation. I didn't think that I could get that in a dictionary, right. So it even has it's called let's talk conversation. And it has all these prompts, speaking prompts for my students. So one of them, for example, and it puts them in subjects or topics, conversations at work, opinions, how to speaking up. So it has these prompts that you can give your students, put them in breakout rooms so they can practice the opinions. And so that's, that's just really nice. A curriculum resource at the back of a hardback dictionary. So if you still like dictionaries that are hardback. I recommend that one Cambridge advanced learners dictionary. And on my wakelit link that you see down here. I'm going to take you there now. I have a picture of that dictionary on there. So let's let me open this up and show you what it what it is I just learned about wakelets. And I love this page. I haven't learned yet exactly how to do it, but I've been to a few webinars, I think they call them, or I think they're just jam sessions for teachers and they teachers will be will be showcasing their pages. And I've heard some teachers say that they teach from their wakelit page. And I'm hoping to get there someday. So here is my resource that I'm sharing with you. And that I've invited you on that link that you can go ahead and add ideas. So here's also my presentation. Okay, and I'm sharing this a power mirror screen app, because if you have students like I do that use their phones to come to class and for almost everything. I think like us they're in denial that COVID will be over any day, we'll go back to regular life and back to the classroom. And so I've, you know, told them, I'm sorry to inform you but this is going to be the new norm, you're going to have class online at least one day a week in the fall. So please get a computer. In the meantime, if they're not using a computer. I use this app. And I love it. I use this app to show things from the telephone. And if we have time, and you're interested, I can share that with you. I can switch to my phone mode and show you how I use that. So here are the resources that I shared with you today. There's that Cambridge advanced learns dictionary. It is for sale on Amazon, I'm not promoting Amazon, and I'm not getting any money for it because I have weight, I have this on wakelet. I've borrowed my copy from the Sacramento Public Library. So they do have it. There's a wait, I did wait for it. And so if you want to add anything more to this collection, please feel free. And, and that that's it any questions about a wakelet while I'm here very quickly. Okay. Oh, phone apps. Yes, yes. So I'll try and show you that phone app. I don't know anything about wakelet actually. It's fairly new, at least new to me. But I'm excited about it. I, I think all of all of these teaching platforms I think they all have their plus. And eventually we will all find the one that we are comfortable with our niche. And that's what I'm still looking for my niche, the one that the app, the platform that I'm most comfortable teaching with, and I'm hoping that it's going to be wakelet because it seems easy, but I might have to use it with Google classroom, because wakelet I think it's just a place for presenting, presenting information online. Let's see I cut to new kit cannot get into wakelet. Oh, sorry, Tim. Let's let me let me drop this. Okay, so here if you can see on my screen, you can do a with your phone, a camera you can get on that Q&R code reader, and I'll also drop that just pasted that link. Into the chat for everything you can follow along there. And that works. Oh, okay. Tim, Tim, I'm sorry. Okay. Great. Mobile apps. Yes. Yes, thank you for mentioning that Frank Bronca I have that on my phone. Yes, I do. Also, and do a tip word idiom punches in the day and prepare a jam board of Google slide to present it Mary that sounds great. Aha. Okay Tom Tom's gonna use the punch station. Yeah. All right. Oh, I'm so excited everybody's getting something out of this. Oh, that's great you're making my Friday. Yeah. Okay, and put the presentation link in the chat. I shall do that again. Right now. Let me see. Let me drop that in there. Me too. I'm kind of like brain dead right now. Let's see if I can just click on this and put it in there again for everybody. I'm doing it too. Here. Okay. And I got it from Wakelet and I was able to get to Wakelet from the previous link that you put in. Okay, and I just realized now I found I figured it out I clicked on file. And so I'm doing this through the file also. So I'm going to my desktop and finding that document also know as much as I would like to admit, I like to think that I'm a little techie savvy, but once you stop presenting. It all comes out. You get a lot of practice with your students too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So the link that you see before the chat before your question, that's the link to the to the presentation. If you just want to save it is on your Google Drive or download from Google Drive but what Marisol is doing right now also, she's uploading a PDF and soon you will see the PDF again of the handout and then you can take it from there and download onto your computer. Okay, and so I just got on here. There it is. Okay, and I'm going to get in the chat. So I have to actually drop it in the chat. See. Some reason. Yeah. Okay, see. Sorry about this everybody thank you for your patience. Let's see if this works now. Yeah, it worked. We dropped it in here to Bronco. And once for everybody at the beginning so yeah, I actually have it two times for now in my chat and. Okay, great. So the chat's not working for me right now and I don't know why I will, I will do it too I will do it again and I will upload. Okay, great. Thank you. So, and you can see on my screen, yeah, the the wakelet any questions on wakelet what while I'm here. Any other questions. Okay. Okay. And I will try at the end also to upload it. And thank you Bronco for doing that again. I gave that to Bronco at the beginning because I knew this was going to happen. I just had that feeling. All right, let's go. I think that's my that so that's my last share with you. I hope you enjoyed this. I just had to put this emoji on the side here that said I would recommend the five stars. Please don't get that. But I just had to share with you that you can have so much fun with emojis. And so, while I'm here, look up at the top here can you see on my screen let me get my little flashlight annotate. And you can see my little bit moji extension. Yeah, thumbs up. So I'm doing this for Bronco. And the rest of you, once you put emoji as an extension on your browser like that, it share it saves. So these are all the ones that I used recently. Okay, and then all the popular ones, and then you can look at the bottom, and you can get all the ones that you really like there's tons of them. So that's the bit moji extension up here at the top of the browser. Is either any questions right now that I can help anybody with Tom is asking how is Wakelet. I think Wakelet. Yeah, different from zoom. Okay, so Wakelet is a page. And zoom is your platform for so you have to open your zoom. Right. I just typed in my wakelet.com. You have to open your zoom, and then you have to share your wakelet like I did on the screen. Okay, by Mary. Thank you for coming. And waving. I have a question similar. You were waving goodbye. Yeah. So you can probably wave it into how is it like zoom. And then Tom asked like PowerPoint. And mine is what is the difference and why do you like Wakelet, as opposed to Padlet because I know you have been a big Padlet fan. Yeah, Padlet. So what I like about Wakelet, and it was pointed out to me the other day when I went to a webinar about Wakelet that in Google Classroom, I have to go back here in Google Classroom. When you drop documents or files into an assignment. When you're doing classwork, you're creating an assignment, you have to drop your documents in there or copy them in. It keeps them in that order. You can't move them around. So when you're in Wakelet, you can move things around. The last thing that you dropped if you want that to come at the top of your, at the top of your stream, you can pull it up and put it right there. I like that. That's one of the features. And like I said, I don't know Wakelet very well yet. I've been discovering it since maybe November, December. So I went to a presentation at Katesel. It was a, it wasn't a presentation but it was one of those book posters, poster session of Wakelet and it was fantastic and I thought, oh, I got to try this. And so, and that's how I found out about it there. And ever since I've been looking for it and trying to figure out ways of using it. Yeah. The other thing is that it's kind of a place where you can put all your resources. So if we have time, I can show you that. Does anybody else want to see what I mean about Wakelet? We have a few minutes. Yes, we don't end until 2.30. So we have plenty of time. Yeah. All right. So is there anybody else that would like to learn a little bit more about Wakelet? Uh-huh. Okay. All right. So this is my Wakelet page. Yeah. Okay, great. Let me go back to the home, the home button here. This is, when I come into Wakelet, this is what I see. And it labels them as collections. Collections. And so for example, here are, here's a collection that I have. I can just click on it. And this is in a sense how you could present from it. You can go to it and share things. So this is a picture that I got out of Pinterest. And then a poem that was recited by Robert Frost. A video. Okay. A near pod lesson. Okay. A gift to tell my students, yeah, you did it, you know, so you can, it's a, it's like a doc. I'm not a, a docking, DOCK, a docking place, or a hub, if you will, of everything that you want to use in a lesson, for example. And I think maybe I like that because I don't have to go to all these different pages or all these different tabs up at the top. I only have this one place. Videos and my music that I like to open my class up with. Usually I put an instrumental music from YouTube. Just while students come in after five, I give it five minutes at five minute point, everybody who's there, I start, but I usually put a video and sometimes students I'll pause the video will annotate do prepositions, things like that. So, here's one, this was a screenshot that I got from a music, one of the YouTube videos. I used that was great for prepositions. There's the video, it's a music video that I share and so it was, this is my holiday collection, right. So then I go up back home to the top. And this is a collection that I'm starting to, to make. So it's a place where you can collect things and have ideas for the future. Mary, you have another question. Is it anybody else. Mary, did you have another question, your hand is still raised. Yeah. No. Oh, no. Okay. I have a question. When I had a classroom, I used to have music on all the time when students were coming in, or while they were doing a worksheet or something like that. And I have not figured out how to do that so how do you how do you play music. Okay, so it's very low. I played low. And I only play it in the first five minutes of class. No, I understand that but but do you just go to or or. Yeah, I see what you mean, I just go to YouTube. And that's what zoom is nice for. So like for right now, let's let me show you I can open another tab, and I can go to Tim Janis. I love his videos. So I just pull up. Here's one. And I just pull it up. And, you know, open the the full zoom. And I don't know my answering your question that face. So how do you play music in your class right you just put it on a shared screen or something. So I'll see when they're in when you're in zoom. They see the grid, the same grid that you're seeing now you see, you should be able to see a grid where you see the participants. And if you have two screens, you can move from your grid to that. Now, when your students join class. They have a choice, I believe, to see the to see your screen view speaker screen, or view the other screen. Am I right, Bronca? Maybe you're so when you know it's just when you're sharing with the way you would share your presentation or website where you have activities. When you share the YouTube video, you just make sure when you are clicking when you click on share to check share computer audio, and then you're playing that. Yeah, as students are coming in you're just, and they all come in and say hi teacher hi how are you. And you say hi I'm good everyone shut up and watch the video. No, we're just going to wait a few minutes while, while everybody comes in. So enjoy this lovely video, and I put the volume low and I can hear them still and they can hear me, and we talk. So it's a little conversation moment. And how are you teacher hi I'm good how are you. We just start to talk back and forth a little bit. Yeah, it works nice. Try it. So you can, you can have the music on a different volume than the speaking, like students speaking to each other. So let me play, let me play for you now let's try now. Okay, we could talk. Yeah. So, so you can just still hear everybody while the music's in the background. Okay. Can you hear the music earlier. Yeah, we can hear it. Because in regular during regular zoom you can't have two people talking once. But I'm still hearing the music. Yeah, so it works in background music. Yeah. Is everybody good with that. Yeah, we can hear something you could try. Okay, just just checking that's something that I didn't, I didn't think that I could do in my zoom sessions also. And thank you for asking because I had wondered about that. Okay, there's another somebody just shared another site Bronca for relaxation videos. Okay. And I will definitely go to that one. I learned about this one from Corona Norco adult ed colleagues. But the school is just is actually Hesperia and I think actually Karen Zachary, the administrator of adult education office at CDE shared it early on in this year. And it's all different visual relaxation videos that you could potentially use with your students as well. And I just wanted to add for Mary and Ruth, I learned a bunch of setting features just over the past two days is I'm acting as the tech support. So you may have to play with your participant options on the back end to make sure that you can share multiple multiple people can share audio and. Okay, yeah. Okay, thanks. Okay, and Tom says that zoom has a share computer audio only. And so I'm looking at that on the on the three dots with the more setting on my, my zoom bar share computer video sound only. I don't have that set that choice now share sound and then optimize for video clip, which I'm told not to do for this presentation. So, I think it depends on the site you're at because I know I've seen that choice to that you're talking about Tom that says share video only a share computer audio only yeah. Somebody asked, let's see. Oh yeah Tom you asked about what I was going to show about emojis. So did you see where I was showing at the top of my toolbar, see if I can make that bigger. I, you know that's the one thing I don't like is that you can't zoom on your on your search bar at the top. I've tried that in the past that is there a trick to that Bronca, to be able to zoom your, your menu bar your search bar. I don't know if anybody can see at the top next to this little puzzle piece is a little square. And that's what I was sharing about bit moji. So, go to the next step how did you transfer those images into your power. Okay, so if you click on it this is what I like bit moji will say right click and choose. So I have to click on it copy the image. And then let me open a discussion board and then show you a whiteboard here and see okay so here's the whiteboard that over here. Can everybody see my whiteboard, we can see your whiteboard. Okay, great. And so now I'm going to annotate so. So I'm going to use the, let's see can I do that on here. No, I guess it's not just don't work with all the platforms. So try just putting open up your Google slide show. And put it in there, but you got to share again, because okay. Yeah. Like, you know, I sometimes try to put it in my Facebook comments. Yes, it won't let me, but I think it's really well with Google so you can just show us how you embedded in your slides. Yes, yeah, it does. It does really well with Google so let me share the screen with you. And you use it with Google classroom. So, you could use it with a little classroom but like, because I'm not able to like post paste one into the stream or I haven't figured it out but okay, I've only been getting emojis for six hours so. My screen is a little. Okay. Can everybody see my, my, my screen now. Yeah, yeah, it's gigantic on my screen. I'm going to resize. It'll just take a couple of seconds. It's gigantic. Okay, so let me. Okay, so I can't annotate on that. Well, let me annotate on that. So sorry about that. Let me stop. Let me stop sharing here a second and get my screens back to normal for you. And is it okay if I share a Facebook group bit moji craze for educators. Yes, I've seen I've seen those two. Yes, thank you, Bronca. Yeah, so, so all you do is just copy and whatever Google slide or doc you're on, you just paste you right click and paste. And it happens. Yeah, so let's see. Okay, so Bronca does that I can share my one screen with you. She's looking for that to share. So here's that bit moji up at the top and just pick one right click copy image. And then I can go to my slide here. And I have to get out of my have to get out of the out of the present mode. Yeah. And that's what I'm trying to do is go back to that present mood, because it's just some reason go to the bottom of your screen and click exit and it'll take you to the draft. I think. Yeah, thank you. See those little bars hide. Yeah, for sure. They hide and didn't see that down there. Okay. Happy Friday. Yeah, so I just copy pasted that there for you. So that's it you just go to that bit moji extension. And then copy and paste, and you're, you're good to go. Well, yeah. So any other questions. I'm going to stop sharing and Bronca you wanted to share that Facebook page. I already shared the link. If anyone's interested in joining. I think Alisa the coach he does an OTN workshop on this how to use bit mojis. Yeah. So, really, I just taught myself but in a nutshell, the way to get to know bit mojis is definitely just go to bit moji.com. And I'll write that in the chat bit moji.com open an account. And then once you do that, go to your, if you can still see my screen everybody. Go up here to your menu bar and find where it says extensions. And it says manage extensions. And then you can add extensions. This is the bit moji extension. And when you find it, you can add it. These are all the ones that I have. You click on here search extensions. And it'll say add. And I could close it to by pushing this button right here and it'll take it off. I pinned it to my. So that's one thing to know. If I click on that thing, it'll tell me to pin little pin here. If you click on that pin that's how it stays on your menu bar is that am I using the right word for that Bronca menu bar up here. I think so. Yes. Yes. So your extension. So that's that's how I did that. And so when you do that. Magic happens and automatically transfers and your bit mojis are there. Okay, any questions. Any questions right now. Okay, I hope I'm so glad. I think a lot of you have given me so many nice compliments. So thank you. Thank you. And feel free please to contact me. And if you can't get into the PDF on this, feel free to email me. Or you find it on my the wait list. Okay, that's it. Thank you everybody for coming. Appreciate it. And I look forward to seeing you guys around someday.