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General Information S impleshow video maker is an online tool that helps customers create simple, professional explainer videos — without needing any animation or video editing skills . Video Production Method Demonstration Making a video consists of three main steps, namely story, visualize and finalize. In the story step, you need to provide the topic, keywords, main characters and other factors for the website to write the story, of course, you can also create your own story. In addition, you can choose the style of the video to better match the audience. Since I chose AI to write the story, after filling in the relevant information, AI will present a text for me to edit as shown below. This is followed by the second step, the visualisation of the text, which corresponds to the sketch to form a simple video clip. After the above and a second check, the final version of the video can be output and quizzes can be added as required. Implication in Language Teaching 1. Vocabulary Introd...

Frame VR as an Example of AI Programming for Learners Introduction With no need for downloads or installations, Frame VR is a web-based platform that lets users create and engage with immersive 3D environments right from a browser.  Accessible via desktop, mobile, and virtual reality headsets, it  is a flexible tool for a range of educational and collaborative uses, enabling virtual meetings, events, seminars, and exhibitions. Background Users can create their own virtual learning community or be invited into one. The environment of the community is somewhat like a park, with many buildings and a green colour scheme. The user ’ s identity is set as a guest. There are a variable number of AI models playing the roles of professors and classmates, both male and female. The user has to find them. Users can manipulate their own models to dialogue with these AIs, and the AI models can answer the questions accordingly to help users solve the difficulties they encountered in their stu...

A Brief Introduction to Speechling Website Speechling is a language learning platform focused on helping users improve their speaking and listening skills through one-on-one feedback from real coaches. It offers daily pronunciation practice using audio recordings, where users repeat phrases and have conversations with coaches by uploading recordings to native-speaking coaches for personalized feedback. Strengths and Weaknesses Strengths: 1. The website uses a one-to-one teaching model to ensure a customized learning experience for students. 2. Uploaded recordings can be freely played, auditioned and re-recorded before uploading. As the recordings need to be sent to the instructor for guidance, students can improve their pronunciation and fluency by practicing several times and also pay more attention to their mistakes and deficiencies in pronunciation. 3. The buttons are cute so students have more interests in exploring their functions. Weaknesses 1. There is no trial or free version o...

A Brief Introduction of Memrise Memrise is a tool for English learning. It is a platform that features a combination of different memory techniques and entertainment elements to achieve the effect of learning while having fun. It offers more than 150 courses in 25 languages. Advantages V S  Disadvantages l Advantages 1.  All the words and phrases are useful in daily communication or specific situations. 2.  Unlike some apps or websites that help learners memorize expressions by repetition, this website introduces videos and natural human voices to bulid  multi-sensory memory and arouse learners' interests. 3.  AI can serve as your partner to make dialogues under a certain topic.  ( Its questions and answers can be translated into learners ’   first language and it can also helps learners translate sentences in their mother tongue into English  ) l Disadvantages 1.  Lack of proficiency tests   causes incorrect estimating of the user s ’ a...

An Introduction to the Group Collaborative Task Our group chose the first question “How does technology scaffold autonomous learning strategies?”   to answer. Each of us takes a role separately since we have four people in our group. The tool we choose for brainstorming is Tricider website and the tool for writing this essay is Stormboard website. Our Experience in Applying Tricider and Stormboard Figure 1 shows what we brainstorm in our minds. The advantages of Tricider are that it provides a platform that allows people in different places to share, comment on and vote for ideas for free. The page is clear to exhibit group members ’   ideas and favor for specific views. Then we use Stormboard for organizing ideas. At first, the first drafter proposed that she could paste information from Tricider website to Stormboard so that group members can have a better view of all ideas. When she typed on Stormboard page and asked for agreement from others, they answered her also by typi...

An Introduction to Educaplay Educaplay is a n educational games maker that enhances your audience’s motivation by transforming your content into engaging learning games in just seconds.   To get a feel for the effect of this tool, I chose the game crossword puzzle from the options it offers. The game is generally given a rectangular table. The table is divided into a number of squares of the same size, which form a number of intersecting rows and columns of varying lengths. Students fill in the rows and columns with letters to form the correct word according to the information given in the question, with only one letter in each square. A Customised Game To get an idea of the experience of using this game, I chose 8 words based on common stationery vocabulary for primary school students and composed the game shown below. Points are awarded for spelling a word correctly and deducted for spelling it incorrectly. The game can be played by more than one player at the same time, and a le...