MyBrainshark

MyBrianshark----Presentation can be fun!

1. What is it?

MyBrianshark is an online tool which allow users to upload their documents such as pictures or powerpoint slides and add audios, and then they can share the video presentations with others through email, facebook or other communicative media.

2. How to use it?

Click the following video to have an idea of using it.

3. Why is it relevant to ELT class?

• Basically, it can be used to prepare a presentation, and then the presentation can be sent to teacher or shared with peers.

• Teachers can use it to deliver a lesson outside classroom, especailly useful in distant learning. Teaching materials can be shared such as powerpoints, document or videos in previous lessons, so that the viewers can have a vivid learning experience.

• It is a good way to have students do some collaborative activities. They can share their ideas of a particular task or an activity with their partners and accept their feedback or comments as well.

• Some classroom performances such as role play or debate can be recorded and uploaded so that parents or other students who have interest can have a look at it.

4. Benefits or using this tool

• It's free and hands-on.
• It can help students to overcome their shyness of doing presentation in front of people.
• It can increase students' motivation to do more reflective thinking about a group work.
• It saves a lot of time for teachers to arrange an activity in the class.
• It offers teachers an opportunity to add some relevant information or materials outside classroom.

5. Limitations

• It may take a lot of time for students to accomplish an online presentation.
• It requires stable Internet, so home or office may be the better places of using it.
• It can only record 15 minutes, perhaps it's not long enough for teachers to deliver a complete lesson.
• It is quite time-consuming for teachers to give individual feedback on students' work.