Activinspire

I believe that many of you already use activinspire. For those of you who do not I would really recommend it because it is such a great ICT resource. Activinspire is a teaching software for the interactive classroom. It can be used with all ActivBoards and can be downloaded from the Promethean website.

There are a lot of functions that can be useful while teaching. I will mention some of them here. You can create flipcharts with text and pictures. I don’t have a whiteboard in my classroom. Instead I only use flipcharts to write or explain something to the pupils. One big advantage of using flipcharts is the possible to save the pages. In that way you can look back on what you talked about last lesson. The flipcharts can also be printed.

When creating flipcharts you can use text in different style, size and color. This is done using the keyboard. If preferred, you can use the pen. The pen can be used in two ways, either controlled by the computer mouse or by hand. It is possible to use either a pen or a highlighter.

Something that I use frequently is the function that lets me write or draw on top of websites. For example I have one copy online of the pupils Swedish and mathematic workbooks. In that way we can look at the pages we are supposed to work with together. By using the pens me and my pupils can write on the pages.

Activinspire provides many activities that the pupils can work with. There are puzzles, exercises with number lines and symmetry. The pupils work with the activities by using the two pens.

There are several additional tools that can be used. For example you have the magic ink tool that you can hide objects with on you flipchart and there is dice, calculators, clocks, rulers and compasses. 

/Elin Gädda

News in levels - World news för students of English

The web site News in English provides English news in three different levels. 

The Easy English news in Level 1 are for beginners. In this level 1000 most important words in English are used. If the pupils read and listen to Level 1 short news every day, very soon they can know and understand 1000 most important words in English. Level 2 is for intermediate students. In this level, 2000 most important words in spoken English are used. Level 3 is for advanced ESL (English as a second language) students. It is not simple English anymore as in Level 1 and Level 2. In this level, 3000 most important words in spoken English are used. The website also provides opportunities to read about people and their stories, jokes and books. There are also videos to look at and Skype opportunities. The exercises have a common goal for the users: Use English every day and you will be better every day. 

For teachers

In the website you can get detailed information how to use the site. The pupils can be able to train the receptive skills including reading and listening and the productive skills including speaking and writing. The website makes it possible to use the ”direct method”. The pupils train to understand English with no translation to their native language. There are recommended exercises including translating, but I think there are other better suggestions to train the skills mentioned above. The pupils get the opportunity to read and hear the same words again and again, and get in this way a good chance to understand and remember them.

For pupils 

You can improve your reading and listening quickly when you read easy English news. In the same time you practice your writing and speaking skills.

• You can read all today´s articles and try to understand new words from the content. You can also read the articles from the day before and see if you remember all new words. 

• You can listen to all today´s news. You can also listen to news you listened to the day before. Stop the video after every sentence and repeat the sentence.

• There are questions under today´s news you can answer and write into the comments. In the chatroom you can write about today´s news. 

• I you choose one person from the SKYPE section you can talk about today´s news and answer questions from http://www.newsinlevels.com/questions/

The opportunity to read short news in different levels I think is the strength of the site. The pupils can work with it on their own level. My recommendation is starting to use the News section with your pupils, and after that you can together with the pupils investigate the other opportunities and areas of use. 

Read more: http://www.newsinlevels.com/#

Joanna Waller 

Hello!

I intend to write about Kid’s English zone. There are certainly many of you who already know about it, but I think it's worth a post anyway. Kid’s English zone is 26 television programs that contain brief scenes of everyday life for children and contain cartoon characters and skits.

It is BBC who produced the programs, which are for children between 6-9 years. Themes that appear in the programs are close to the student and therefore easier to grasp. For example can the programs focus on the body and food. The children also face common phrases, colors, and more.
I have noticed that the students like to sing along and do the movements that are present in the programs. There is a teacher's guide, and to each program there is information on what will be discussed and tips on activities that can be done in the classroom after the program.

At this level the introducing to English should give a pleasure and a positive feeling for the language. Which I think Kid’s English zone conveys. Of course this is a supplement to other learning, but a quite good one, I think.
A disadvantage may be that some songs are a little difficult for children in this age, who just start to learn English. I have not experienced any major problems with it, and I have noticed that students have had a positive attitude and made good attempt to sing along.
Thank you for reading.

/Helena

http://sli.se/apps/sli/prodinfo.php?article=U11191-01&db=49

There is a website called eslgamesplus.com. On this website, you can find all sorts of games and activities to use in your classroom. You do not have to sign in to use it, it is available for everyone and it is for free. However, if you want to have access to video lessons, you will have to pay an amount of money every month. There are a number of different games and activities to choose from. The games and activities often come with different levels so they can fit many kinds of pupils. The website is available from a computer, but also on mobile devices such as ipads and smartphones without even needing to install an app first.   

If you click on the link Topics, you can see all the activities that are linked to a chosen topic on the website. For example, if a teacher wants his/her pupils to practice different verb tenses, they can play a Jeopardy Quiz game. This game, and a lot of other games under a link called Classroom Games, is a good game for classroom teaching. The classroom games can also be played in pairs or in smaller groups.

There are a lot of different memory games as well. When your pupils play a memory game, they will also hear how a word is pronounced. On one card there is an image and on the other card the same word is written. When you click on the card, you hear how the word is pronounced. When your pupils play the memory games, they will practice listening, reading, spelling and word recognition.

You can also find crosswords and word search puzzles practicing different themes such as food, animals, clothes, jobs, weather et cetera. The crosswords and other worksheets are all printable.

You can find the website here: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/

If you need help with something on this website, there is a link called Help in the right corner of the screen.

This website has been very useful to me because it has games and activities suitable for pupils in all ages, no matter in which level they are in their English knowledge. There are games and activities for everyone!  

Use Adobe Spark Video as language teaching tool

At the beginning of November I was attending the SETT-Syd in Malmö, which is a big conference about how to use ICT in teaching at modern schools. I notice that the difference between this SETT and the SETT in Stockholm four years ago is that the topic of ICT-teaching in the school/preschool is not longer questioned. Instead, now we are talking about how to use ICT in school and make progress with the help of it..

It is quite often we see ICT in classrooms and more and more teachers are getting used to this. I have been working with ICT in teaching for many years and have used lots of apps. One of my favourites is Adobe Spark Video and that is what I have to tell you guys about. This is the one you should try out. 

How does Adobe Spark Video work?

First you go to the app store and find Adobe Spark Video, then download it. You can log in from your facebook or Google account (create one if you don't have an account) and use it for free.  With the app Spark Video you can make your story in just a few minutes.

When you get your pictures done you can just go to Spark Video, chose one of the themes such as schoolbook, travel, film and get started. 

In every page you can put pictures and text.  You can even record sound directly at the same page. Compared with the iMovies direct recording the sound quality in Spark Video is much better. Besides, you can create as many pages as you like. You can choose either with music or without music. There are lots of different music to choose from if you don't want to choose your own. I prefer to have music.

Before you upload your project, to Youtube for example, you can preview it and see if everything is ok. Than share it with friends, colleagues on Youtube, Google Drive or Dropbox. I would like to share one of my presentations which I made by Spark Video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8CvgLp7Q8g

One thing I have to mention is that Spark Video is based on internet, which means you can access it with any computer, phone or pad as long as you can log in from your facebook or Google account. A good point in using Spark Video is that it is very effective and you can have your project done in two to five minute. Adobe Spark Video is not an app that just aids in language learning. You can use it very broadly.

Why use Adobe Spark Video?

As a teaching resource teachers can use it for their planning. According our syllabus and curriculum (Skolverket, 2011) teachers should plan their lessons according to what pupils react to, which is called “formative teaching”. Spark Video is a good combination with pupil´s feedback and teacher´s planning. You can make a new planning in a few minutes.

One of the processes of formative teaching is feedback from teacher to pupils. Teachers can use Spark Video to make records of when you question your pupils and give feedback.  

Spark Adobe can also used as a good teaching resource for pupils. A good example I can give is once when I worked “reading and understanding” in Swedish with the year 4 pupils and we made a drama and theater “Monsterfest”.  One of the pupils was very shy and could not talk fluently in front of an audience. She agreed to make a record with Spark Video. This took much longer time, but in the end the pupil was very satisfied with her effort and the whole team-work. Though this was Swedish teaching, what I mean is that you always can use this idea in the teaching of other languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DEQog1v4U

Like every other technology resource Adobe Spark Video needs developing to fit our requirements. As an example it can still not add video into the project, which I feel is a pity. I believe there will be more people using this app when it gets improved. 

I´d like to take a moment of your time to talk about an app called Book Creator from Red Jumper Limited.

Since many schools have Ipads for ther pupils this is an easy app to make your own presentations or books. It allows pictures, sounds, Youtube clips and films in the books you make. Young pupils can write with their fingers or draw pictures. You can even make comics with it.

You can download the free version or use the full version for schools. There are no in-app purchases and it´s being used in over 90 countries. For support they have a website www.bookcreator.com  with webinars and twitterchats if you want to learn more.

I´ve used it with pupils in special needs classes and they have been able to make their own books within their first try. Since it is easy to administer it soon becomes the pupils favorite way to make diaries and communication books to take home.

When you first get started there is a short tutorial in the app that shows you how to get started.
You make your book and then save it in  iBooks on your iPad. Once in iBook you cant make changes by mistake. You can email or print out the book or just have it on your iBook.

The only limit is your imagination.

SVAAPP - Listening to books in different languages, answer questions and voice record answers!

The SVAAPP is designed for teachers and students to use in the classroom! You can't even login if you don't register a school user. It doesn't matter much right now since I've seen the tutorial online on how to use this app in practicality. Below is the link and I hope it'll work for everyone to watch!

So, I searched online and have tried very many language apps on my smartphone. I think it's very difficult to find a good language app that has a good variety, different levels and interesting material for the little older language learner than the very beginner and with a focus on meaning and communication. I might be a little picky but I think quality is important!

My goal was focused on grades 4-6 and I think this app is very interesting and would target that range well. The students can hear English books being read, they get questions read out loud to them and can also voice record their answers. It seems like a good quality app, especially designed for education. Teachers have the ability here to send out different tasks to different students and if you want them to get different reading material with different levels and even in different languages, it seems easy to do that. This app could also be used in parallell subjects as well!

I don't think it costs anything, it says it's free to download, but then you never know if it's a free trial or if some of the features costs. In any case, I think it's better to pay for an app you would have great use for and I would pay to use this one. Not to say free apps aren't good, there are many good ones out there too and in the end, it's the students that are going to use them and needs to like to do it, so I think being open to their input and ideas is important too!

SVAAPP was spot on for what I as a teacher was looking to use it for. It gives a great overview of all students' tasks, what books they have completed, what books they are working on and what they have recorded! Watch the link and tell me what you think!

Thanks for reading ;)

/Patricia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYkv8QYplo

Use the app "Fun English" in your classroom

Hi colleagues out there!

In this blog post I want to share information about an app you can work with in your classroom. It is called “FUN English”, by Studycat, (you can download it from app store) and it is made for teachers who teach english as a foreign language, and it is suitable for children from age 3 up to 10. There is a free version to download in appstore with lots of material to use. It is also possible to pay for more material and lessons inside the app - if you want.

The good thing about this app - and that is why I think you are going to like it - is that it is developed for and by teachers. Every day approximately 4.500.000 pupils around the world use it. Now then, how can you use this app in your classroom and why should you?

“Fun English” provides lessons with different themes, for example colours, and there are games within every theme to help pupils acquire new skills. The lessons aim to teach vocabulary, listening, speaking, singing, spelling and grammatics in a fun way. For example if you want your students to practise colours you can use this app in various situations. You can let the whole class take part in playing a game on your smartboard or in pairs on an ipad. You can play memory with colours and every time a student turns around a brick the app says the name of the colour. There are many songs you can sing in the class. In some exercises pupils get to hear and see the colour at the same time as it engages them in a game. Another thing you can do with this app is to record your own voice inside games. That is very clever if you ask me. The pupil first hear a voice that says the name of the colour on different things in the picture. The voice says “it is red” and then it is time for the student to copy this phrase which get recorded in the game. Later in the game the pupil hears its own recorded voice again and shall choose the right picture as belongs to the phrase. I think this is genius because it lets pupils train their producing skills with no risk of feeling anxious about talking in front of others. The student can take an ipad to a private space and play this game and then I (the teacher) can hear the recordings. You can also do it in front of the whole class and record when the class repeat words in chorus.

In summary this is an app you can use as a complement to the ordinary teaching. I don´t mean that it can replace your english book, but it can be fun and rewarding to try out. The best thing about it is that the pupils get to speak, which are a rare activity in most lessons. The pupil can hear their own recordings in the game and play recordings to the teacher and classmates. If you like to involve the parents it also has a user guide just for parents and most games and lessons in the app are free. At last I just want to say - thank you for reading and keep inspire those young stars.     

Elevspel.se/Helpfulgames.com

I would like to tell you about a website you may already be familiar with. It is called Elevspel.se or its English equivalent Helpfulgames.com. This is a website that can both be used by teachers, parents and students. It has games in different subjects suited for students from preschool to high school age. These games can be played on all types of computers or IPAD. Students can play individually or in pairs, at home or at school. The teacher can also project the game onto a screen so that the entire class can see and play the same game together.

It is free to use this website but if the teacher wants to create his own game, follow-up his students progress on these games or give feedback to a student as well as have the student comment on these feedback, he needs to become a member but this is also free. The teacher can create games which teaches his student to read or write. These games can also be created according to which level his students are in their knowledge of English. The good thing about this website is students, parents and teachers can read what is being trained as well as the age or class it is meant for.

There are different levels to each game which the student can replay or move on to the next level. Each level may or may not have pictures to each question. Each question have two or three alternatives for the student to choose from. If the student gets  the answer right, there is a tick and if he gets it wrong, there is a cross.

The link to the website is: http://www.elevspel.se.
This is the link for member: http://www.elevspel.se/medlem/.


My students and I have used this site a lot. They have practiced time in Matematics, the body parts in Biology or colors in English. I have given my students homework from this site and parents think it is an interesting site. If you have not tried it, I would encourage you to go and take a look.

Below are pictures of what it looks when you go to the website.

Kunskapsspel för barn i skolan

Välkommen till elevspel! Vi har spel som barnen i skolan tycker är roliga samtidigt som de lär ut kunskap. Lärande ska vara kul! Välj kategori nedan för förslag på roliga och pedagogiska spel för skolbarn i grundskolan.

Populära ämnen

Matematik

Engelska

Svenska

Spanska

You click what subject you want to play games in and then you come to many different topics. For example:

Engelska

Det engelska språket omger oss alltmer i vardagen. Spela dessa engelskaspel så att du kan, vågar och vill använda engelska i olika situationer. Här har vi samlat alla spel inom ämnet Engelska. Spelen passar förskolan, grundskolan och ändå upp till gymnasiet. Sortera på hur populär spelen är, hur nya de är eller efter namn.

Sortera på:   PopularitetDatumNamnBetygMålgrupp

animals = djur

Årskurs 2 - Årskurs 2

Spelet tränar:

• djur på engelska

Lär dig olika djur på engelska, både vilda och tama.

3 av 3 nivåer klara

Am / is / are

     (25)

Årskurs 4 - Årskurs 9

Spelet tränar:

• Verbet är - am/are/is

Träna verbet "är" som på engelska heter antingen am, is, eller are.

0 av 2 nivåer klara

Learn English Kids Fredrik Hinic Module 1b

Learn English Kids

Hi I am sure many of you have already heard of the british council learn english, It is a webbsite filled with all kinds of activities for learners to learn english. I want to write about the version for younger pupils. On this webbsite children have the opportunity to learn and study english in a fun way on their own. One of the best parts of the website is that it is designed for children in a cartoon like way so the fact that the webbsite is fun is  very good motivation. The young learners can also learn along side their parents on this webbsite.

this is the link ------> https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/home

On the site the learners choose what they want to learn by clicking on a category, every category has its own purpose like reading and writing, listening and watching, speaking and spelling, or if they want to learn more grammar they click on the grammar icon. They could also just simply make their own monster, body part by body part or play a game. For example in the "Kids games" category there is game called Nessie in which the learner is supposed to fill the gap of a sentence about the lochness monster with the right word. They fill the gaps until there is no more sentences left.

Another fun category is the listen and watch section. There are different exercises that helps the kids to improve their skills, for example the Brushbus where they can listen to the song and because of the lyrics, they can also sing along and practice their productive skills as well.

And if they for example want to study grammar they can either play grammar games, watch a video about grammar or simply test themselves with a test.

This webbsite could come in really handy in a teachers work, the teacher could for example instruct the kids to make a monster and then they could work in groups and describe each others monsters as an exercice. This would be both fun and rewarding when it comes to improving their skills, the make your own monster exercice is found under Make.

A very good thing about this website is that you can use it on many computers and you can use it from home if the child would get incapable of attending school.

Links to the site: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/make-your-monster

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/fill-the-gap/nessie

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/brush-bus

Learn English Kids

Some of you may already know of the British Council Learn English website. This is a website filled with information and games for English learners of various levels. However, there is also a junior version called Learn English Kids. This site is devoted to the younger learners at levels pre A1, A1 and A2. It offers free online songs, games, stories and activities.

 

Young learners using the website can learn English by exploring the site on their own or alongside their parents. By playing games like Memory or creating their own monsters limb by limb, the users can learn new words. They can play grammar games and read jokes and write comments. Learners can also listen to songs and sing along with the help of music videos with lyrics.

 

 

Users find their way around the website by choosing if they want to focus on reading and writing, speaking and spelling, grammar or perhaps just playing games. If they click on 'grammar', they will be able to choose if they want to watch videos on grammar, play grammar games or test themselves with a grammar test. It is also possible to search for features on the site based on subject, age or level using the 'parent mode'. 

 

The Learn English Kids website can be a fun tool in school. A teacher can instruct the students to visit the site and practise their spelling, grammar or  knowledge of animals, for instance. It is also possible to create your own story on the site. This feature is found under 'make' - 'make your own'. The user is taken through several steps and chooses genre, settings, key objects, characters and names and then the website creates a complete story. Students could be given a task to create a story, which could then be read aloud in front of class. This might make for some really interesting stories and a few laughs. Another task could be to ask the students to perform a role-play based on the story.
 

The website can be used whether the school has got computers for all of the children or just a single computer in the classroom. Students can work in pairs or singles and tasks can be performed during an entire lesson or just 20 minutes.

 

The Learn English Kids website does not require membership, but teachers, parents and children aged 12 or younger are welcome to become members. Some features require that the user has an account. Some features require downloading, otherwise most things are done on the site. Parents are welcome to search for advice and tips on the site and parents who are members can also download learning resources.

 

All and all, the Learn English Kids website is filled with activities for young learners, whether at home or at school. Go check it out to see if you could use it in your class!

 

 

Here are some links to the site:

 

Learn Englis Kids https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/home

 

Parents https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/parents

Teachers http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/teachers

 

Learn English http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

Kahoot!

 Kahoot! is a website where you can find and create question-games “Kahoots” with multiple choices. You can choose between different kinds of quizzes, discussions or surveys.

It is easy to use Kahoot!

First, you start by creating a free account on https://getkahoot.com.

Second, create a “Kahoot” with questions of your choice. There are also a lot of public games that you can choose from.

Third, log in at https://kahoot.it/#/ on your device. Type in the game PIN you are given. Choose a nickname and play the game alone or together in a group. The question is displayed on a shared screen and all players have to answer on their own devices. The result will show after each question.

It is easy to navigate on the website to find information, teaching ideas and guidelines of how to use Kahoot as a pedagogical tool.

There are some supplies needed.

Most important, Internet connections to all the devices are necessary. The group plays around a screen that everyone can see. A computer screen might be suitable for small groups and a projector or smart board for larger groups. All the players need a device to connect to Internet. That can be smartphones, tablet computers or laptops.

Teachers can use Kahoot! in different ways.

Kahoot! can be used to introduce a new topic in a fun way. Everyone will have the same chance if the questions are created in a pedagogic way, for example if they are build on logical thinking and “see behind the picture” exercises.

Another way is as a review tool. The teacher will then see the result right away and can give more attention to areas that are difficult. The review can also be in the form of a competition between the students. Or, let the students compete against themselves by doing the same game more than once to review the topic. Kahoot can also be used to make a contest against another class, anywhere in the world.

There are three options on the website, between quiz, discussion or survey. A discussion can be started by asking the students to anonymous take a stand in a sensitive topic. Or finally, use Kahoot! to make a survey in the class.

Before you as a teacher starts to use it, I believe it is important to consider if it is going to function as a competition tool between the students. Does everyone gain from this or will the weaker students be exposed in a bad way? Some ways to avoid this might be to do questions that are more about what they see in picture or opinions. You can also let the students choose what name the want and be anonymous in that way.

An example how to use Kahoot in the class:

Let the students do some teamwork on a subject. Where the students:

1.     Research the subject.

2.     Prepare a presentation in front of the class.

3.     Create a Kahoot where the answers can be found in the presentation.

4.     Let their fellow classmates do the Kahoot after the presentaion.

Super Simple Learning

I would like to recommend the website Super Simple Learning that offers an extensive material for English teaching in pre-school uptil grade four. When you register as a member, on the website www.supersimplelearning.com, you get access to a lot of learning material - for free. Flash-cards, games, worksheets and coloring pages are some of the materials the website offers you as a teacher. You will also have access to a duty free electronic course, based on eight lessons, in how to teach young pupils English by songs. A subtitle under the tab Free resources is Teaching tips where you find various kind of ideas in how to teach English. All you need to use the material of the website is Internet and a computer or an Ipad. I strongly recommend working with this website on a Smart Board. That makes it possible to have full class lessons with your pupils where you for example can play video clips and tap and draw directly on the board.

Under the tab Songs you find a variety of songs with lyrics and sounds that treat common words and categories, for example; animals, food, body parts, emotions, clothing and counting. There are also songs for special holidays such as Christmas and Halloween. These songs are great for teaching the pupils English words about our feasts and traditions. On the front page of the website you are given the opportunity to browse songs by topic.

The website also offers several different cartooned alphabet exercises. There the pupils can see a letter and an object that begins with it. They can also hear the phonetic pronunciation. The words presented in these exercises are common every-day-life words that are familiar for most children and very easy to make gestures to. You are also given the opportunity to download worksheets (level 1-4) that are associated to the cartooned exercises. I think that the fact that the exercises allow students to use multiple senses contributes a learning that is remembered in both body and mind.

The author team of the Super Simple Learning website also links to their blog. There you find categories that the team blogs about. They give you great examples about how to use their learning material and they also have giveaway competitions where you can win some of their toll material, for example a book and an audio-cd. Besides that, Super Simple Learning has accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. They also have a channel at Youtube that, at the end of the year 2015, had more than three billion views.

Super Simple Learning is an award-winning website that I strongly recommend for all English teachers educating younger pupils. The learning material fulfills much of the core content in Lgr11´s syllabus of English in primary school. I hope you will find Super Simple Learning as good and inspiring as I do!

// Sofi Andersson

På Riktigt!

Hi!

Finding reliable teaching resources starts to become a dilemma. There are so many programs and apps to choose from, but finding the one that suits your needs and class is more difficult than ever. It seems that the only way to find something educational and reliable is to either trust the judgement of those who recommend a resource or simple just try it out yourself.

For me, an app or program has to give me the ability to collaborate and communicate with my students, yet at the same time provides me with updated materials. Just recently I was recommended a program named På Riktigt (https://upplev.pariktigt.com/login). It is an interactive program where you can collaborate, communicate and hold lectures together with your students. As a teacher you need to have an account in order to be able to invite the students to the program.

Here's how it works:

    You create an account as a teacher using your provided school e-mail address. Once your e-mail has been verified, you receive a specific code that you later use during the creation of your personal account. When your account is finished and verified, you're then able to browse through the different ''lärcirkel'' (activity circle) for all subjects. Once you've decided on a subject and chosen an activity, you then invite in your class. The activities vary in hours, depending on what subject you want to teach or focus on. 

This is one of the examples of the many activity circles that På Riktigt offers. Students start at the starting point and with pop-up instructions, videos, information, games and tasks and projects, they work their way through the map. They can either work separately on their own individual Ipads or computers, in groups or together as a class. Teachers can choose as many subjects or activity circles for the class to do. While the circle is active, teachers can track every students individual work.

         When the student is finished with all the different tasks, the teacher receives a notification beside the students' name. The projects and tasks can be corrected and graded, which the student then receives through a private message. Students can always go back and correct their works. The circle does not allow a student to jump over a task or activity, so no cheating or laziness! If a circle is not completed, the teacher will receive a notification, thus providing the appropriate help for both the student and teacher on which task/activity the student is struggling with.

       Another useful feature that this program contains, is the syllabus for every major subject. For every circle you choose, it provides the specific curriculum. I believe it is a very useful feature because it not only helps the teacher focus on the subject, but helps provide a grading basis that can  later be used for assessments. It is also practical for the students to be reminded of the curriculum and can assess themselves. 

         The only downside to this program is that it is fairly new and there aren't so many activity circles to cover every major subjects' area. The circles are created by either other teachers or the actual creators of the program. So if you yourself think that you can provide an activity circle that can benefit others, you can create and share it with the other members and students. For the time being, there is still a descent amount of circles to go around. I myself have not yet create my own circle, but it is something I am looking forward to doing.

       Even as a beginner within this program, I find it very easy to use and puzzle my way around. We have only yet tried it amongst ourselves (teachers), so we are looking forward to sharing it with our students! Feedbacks will be collected and sent to the creators of the program. I know that the program is educational, but the fact that it is very easy to use, even for someone who has no interest for apps and programs, it is just the icing on the cake! I don't usually recommend apps and programs, but this is an exception! Try it and leave a feedback! Good luck... På riktigt!