My Favorite Three Educational Apps

In my Chinese class, my favorite apps are Edmodo, Quizlet and Kahoot. 

Edmodo is a very helpful class management tool which is very effective on desktop, tablet and phone. Using Edmodo, I can not only post announcement, homework but also share learning materials, class pictures or projects with students. Students can summit assignments electronically to save paper; and it saves me much time to do grading. Edmodo provides a very secure and free platform for both teachers and students to keep good communication. What's more, I really benefit a lot from Edmodo by joining many professional communities, such as technology communities. Other teachers' generous sharing gives me a hand to solve problems in my teaching.  

Check the official website of Edmodo here.

Quizlet is a popular flash card app, not only just used in language learning. In my Chinese class, students can create their own flash cards to preview and review Chinese vocabulary. Instead of traditional way of memorizing vocabulary mechanically, there are several fun games for students to play with to learn new words or phrases. Quizlet can also generate tests randomly based on the vocabulary given, which helps me save time on lesson planning.

Check the official website of Quizlet here.

Kahoot is an interactive and game-based app. I use it to create small quizzes, discussion and poll.  When I show the quiz through the projector, students can join in the game by the code using their cell phone or iPad. Taking a quiz as an example, students have to respond to the multiple- choice questions within limited time and they can get the feedback of the question and their ranking right away. Every time, students are totally engaged in this game and become very competitive to win the game. In the end of the game, teacher have access to the result which gives teacher clear data showing how well students performed on this quiz and which question teacher has to reteach. I think Kahoot is a very useful formative assessment tool for teachers to adjust their lesson to better meet students' need. 

Check the official website of Kahoot here.