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 😍Nearpod Experience Tour: Go to a coffee shop to find a "task point"! The classroom that day was very different. We were divided into several groups, and my group was assigned to go to the caf é on the first floor of Oculus with the goal of talking to the staff and completing the tasks assigned by Nearpod. The instructions on Nearpod are like task cards in a variety show. We follow the instructions step by step, including watching videos to understand the task background, walking to the task point, answering a few questions related to the task, and finally having a conversation with the staff and uploading the results to the platform. Does it sound like a "escape room"? However, the real 'reversal' came - when we arrived at the coffee shop, there was no door open and no staff🤯. What should I do? The task cannot be stopped! Our group had a sudden idea and played the role of a coffee shop staff member, simulating a conversation and taking serious photos to ...

  In graduate school classrooms, sometimes you are not just learning knowledge, but also being bombarded by certain tools - such as the magical tools I recently encountered in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Material Design courses: H5P. H5P？ At first glance, I thought it was some kind of vitamin supplement or a 5G upgraded version. I didn't realize until the teacher opened a presentation page, clicked the mouse a few times, a question box popped up in the video, tags appeared on the image, and the quiz was directly embedded in the slide “Wait a sec… is this the mythical ‘interactive teaching super tool’ I’ve been waiting for?” Before this week's ICT class, we were encouraged to personally experience creating H5P content in the Material Design class. So, I carefully clicked, dragged, copied, and pasted to create my first Course Presentation. Although the content was very basic and the page was very simple, at that moment I felt a little proud: “So… this is wh...

 Have you ever tried to instantly "travel" to a different dimensional space in class? No need to wear special battle clothes or heavy helmets, just tap a link to step into the door of the virtual world - this is the true portrayal of our experience of Frame VR in the classroom! Frame VR: Not a game, but more fun than one https://framevr.io / When we entered this space, we found ourselves transformed into little people of different colors. We could have conversations or turn on our cameras for video chats. All of us were clamoring to find our friends, mocking their colors and pretending to hit them, laughing heartily. The classroom atmosphere became very lively. We even forgot the task assigned to us by the teacher, to find the spy placed by the teacher among all our real people, which is the AI made dummy. In this virtual space that simulates the actual space of Warwick University, I use the directional keys to walk and talk to people everywhere, sometimes sending emojis and ...

 The web version of this platform cannot be used and can only be accessed by downloading the software. After downloading the software, when I enter it, it will ask you to do a personal assessment, which will comprehensively understand your mother tongue, English proficiency, as well as your learning objectives and interests. Then, it will develop a personalized learning program for you. At this point, everyone thought he was a very good software, but something unexpected happened. At this moment, the page suddenly popped up: If you want to get this tailored course for you, you must become its member, that is, you need to become a paying user, which made my impression of him plummet. Personalized oral course system ELSA offers a variety of training scenarios, covering: Daily communication (ordering, greeting) Workplace English (Interview, Self Introduction) IELTS/TOEFL Speaking Practice Module Business English and Conference Speech Training Each class is not long, about 5-10 minutes...

 In the fourth week of class, our group evaluated a collaborative mind mapping website called bubbl and a collaborative writing website called Overleaf. BUBBL