Meet MindMeister, edPuzzle and Nearpod: A Review

Hello everyone! In these days where we see a drastic decline in the number of cases of Coronovirus, I'm here to talk about another useful website for instructors. Today we are going to talk about MindMeister. MindMeister is a website that enables you to create online mind-mapping apps. There are many different templates you can use such as brainstorming, aligned, org chart, free, planner so on. It is good way to produce classroom materials or organize your day. Here are some maps I've done to make you understand the website better.

Now, let's talk about edPuzzle. 

It enables both teachers and students to create content, resources, voice-overs, comments, quizzes and videos. It can be used for pre-teaching; you can use it to match videos with texts. You can teach pronounciation by using its voice-over feature. You can choose content from Khan Academy, Tedx or curriculum library. There is no appropriateness filter so you should pre-check the content you plan to use. There are also many boring and not helpful videos, so it can take a little time while searching for content.

Finally Nearpod:

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It creates a platform for active learning to occur as its feedback feature. Teachers can use this to prepare poll questions, maps and diagrams and make students actively engaged all these activities and get immediate feedback. Students can watch videos and take notes, design slideshares with each other. Creating presentation is a time-consuming thing and can get a little expensive; not all features properly functions on every device. 

So, that was it for today, see you next time.