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2. Mentimeter

9. All assignments can be viewed in the Activity Feed or Submissions:

III. III. ASPECTS IN USING THE APPLICATION:

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• It can be used for learning through the individual study necessary to solve the missions (tasks);

• Can be used to consolidate and apply theoretical content in everyday life; • Can be used to assess acquired skills (knowledge, skills and attitudes), as a digital portfolio;

• teachers can choose to download all submitted media teams - a useful feature should the teacher choose to create a movie, presentation or share some student findings on social media;

• The free version of GooseChase EDU is limited to five teams with one active game simultaneously;

• It is very useful in interdisciplinary lessons; • It is an attractive way of learning and assessment that stimulates students' creativity and team spirit.

2. MENTIMETER

I. DEFINITION: Mentimeter is a web-based easy-to-use presentation software for leaders, educators, and speakers that’s interactive, engaging and fun II. STEPS IN USING THE APPLICATION:

1. Create the account on https://www.mentimeter.com/, at the bottom of the page:

2. First, teachers go to the website to create a new presentation:

3. You can choose from several slide types:

4. Each slide is good for a different type of an activity: You can use word cloud for a brainstorming, as a mind map, You can use multiple choice or image choice to test the knowledge, there are scales and ranking, that can be used to let the students give their opinion, there are open ended and Q and A to give a (correct) answer. There are slides for quiz competitions and content slides, where you can also load some images, write your texts etc.

5. When your presentation is ready, You ask students to go to a web site https://www.menti.com/ and enter the code, they can see on your presentation. Students use an iOS or Android or computers. They can work either in teams or individually.

6. You can remote control your presentation from your mobile device or from another computer using a button mentimote. Simply by signing to your account you can:open and close the voting and hide or show the results.

7. The students can see the results of voting in a real time, or when you unlock the hiding button.

6. ASPECTS OF USING THE APPLICATION:

As the platform is free only to make two presentations, each one consisting only of two slides, the options for users of the free versions are quite low.

● It can be used for the feedback from the students ● very useful for short brainstorming in a warm-up part of a lesson ● good for a short summary at the end of a lesson ● It is an attractive way of learning and assessment that stimulates the creativity and team spirit of the students.

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