Internet Sidekick for English Teachers—Triptico

Internet Sidekick for English Teachers—Triptico

Source: https://www.tripticoplus.com/

A variety of creative, interactive and visually engaging activities!

I think this is the best description for Triptico. This website is a fundamental tool for teachers who want to get students motivated by technologies, just like the Oxford dictionary for any language learners. 

1. introduction

For using this website, you just need a few steps to register and you can enjoy a free trial for a while. After that trial, you may need to pay for the subscription. There are many different kinds of activities of Triptico, which I will introduce in groups later (see in Pic 1). One of the big advantages of Triptico is that you can not only create your own Triptico, sometimes you can also view others design of activities through the official blog. All your designs of your activities can be saved into your own account for your next time using, that's very convenient. 

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Source: https://www.tripticoplus.com/

2. Quzzies

This group of resources is offering you the opportunity to give out questions in an engaging and creative way. Usually, this activity will ask for some critical thinking and knowledge. So, it's quite useful for you to review some knowledge by these activities. 'Find ten' is my favourite game in this category (see in Pic 2). In general, you just need to decide your topic question and add several answers to that activity. It's very easy to make and edit. When you choose to open this resource, there will be an introduction for you to guide you on how to make this activity.

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3. Selector

Getting tired of selecting students to join in an activity? The selector function suits you the best (see in Pic 3). Triptico offers you many different activities in selecting students in the class, like the most common one-the spinner. Just choose one of the resources and input all your students' names in that, boom, you get one creative tool for selecting students in class!!!

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4. Timer

I don't think that I need to spend some words on introducing this one. This group of resources offer you fresh ways to time your tasks in class. It's so easy, just type in the time and start!

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5. Tools

In that part, Triptico provides you with some activities that are a little bit more complicated. This will require a higher understanding of knowledge from your students. For example, the word magnets (see in Pic 5), this one is so good for English teachers. In the vocabulary review part fo your class, use this activity to test and help your students review the vocabulary.  Imaging how engaging they can be in this activity!

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6.Comments

If you are one innovative teacher in engaging students, I think the website that I introduce to you this time is one of the must-try websites for English teachers. It contains so many aspects of the English class and it's so good in the knowledge review part. So, try this tool and make boring words review interesting again. 

This is the fourth Episode for Simon's ICT blog.

Hope to give you some useful information for teaching English with technology.

See you next episode!!!

07/02/2019