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In an era of developing technology, teachers' responsibility increases over integrating these technology tools into their educational purposes. In today's blog post I would like to share my experience of using EdPuzzle and Genially online platforms.  EdPuzzle To begin with, in my opinion EdPuzzle is a great tool to create educational videos with related questions so that students while watching a certain video stay focused trying to answer questions coming right during watching it. There might be a question why should educators use this type of tools if they can just play the video and ask questions at the end?  So my answer for this question is the while playing video teacher can easily lose student's attention and not receive expected results.  However, with EdPuzzle teachers can create questions with the help of AI regarding different parts of the speech in the video and place them inside the video. Basically, the video will be played and at certain parts it will be st...

"Technology has always been at the forefront of human education. From the days of carving figures on rock walls to today, when most students are equipped with several portable technological devices at any given time, technology continues to push educational capabilities to new levels. In looking at where educational methods and tools have come from to where they are going in the future, technology’s importance in the classroom is evident now more than ever."  (Richardson, 2024) Nowadays it is crucial to realise the fact that teachers must follow the trends in using technology in their classroom as traditional approaches in delivering lessons have being experienced dramatic shift to a modern and more engaging approaches. From my own experience of teaching, when I was starting my carrier as an EFL teacher, I was used to work with course books and dictionaries. I was asking my students to bring their dictionaries and search for the meaning of the words by themselves. It was very...