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Facebook can work as a search engine for teachers and students. Teachers can assign different projects for students to work on using Facebook as a source of information. Again, in Facebook you can join different groups that offer life experience anecdotes that can be used to learn about.

Shadow Puppet EDU is a free App, which allows students to create their own videos and share the videos on platforms with other users. The App supports recording narratives and adding effects and texts.Students can use images or videos to create their own video clips.

Quizlet is a free website that allows instructors to create flashcards to teach words through multiple activities. The App is available in 15 languages including English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.

Piazza is an online portal that connects all your students in one place to easily reach them and direct throughout the course. Then, It is a free platform designed to help you build an educational community that can connect instructors with their students and help them get easy access to classroom resources. In Piazza, teachers can create their own courses and invite students to join.

Second Life is a 3D technology platform that can accommodate all kinds of activities for study, work, and play. It provides a sense of immediacy that is not possible with online courses.This app provides a 3D space to share information.

Showbie is used by three million teachers and students worldwide. It is considered by many schools as the fastest, easiest, and most effective app for communication between students and their teachers.The app supports in delivering classes digitally; students can do the assignments and receive feedback on their smartphones and iPads.

Copia is an e-learning platform that combines groundbreaking digital learning and assessment tools. It gives the students and their instructors the access to all of their class materials in one interactive environment from any devices and at any time. Teachers and administrators can set up courses that automatically connected to the students.

Google Cardboard is a low budget VR (virtual reality) viewer created by Google to provide a unique experience for its users.To use this device please check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHkOnsvpHiA

Students have to download for free different applications that will allow the unique experience of virtual reality.

An Initiative for Integrating Emerging Technologies in ESL/EFL Classrooms

Project for R678, 2018 Spring

by Amani, Ebrahim, Natalia, and Pengtong

App Evaluation