Technology in Use

Useful apps, sites and programs are seen here. If you see technology as a challenge you have to try some of the following. You can consider some of them very well known but they tend to be very useful tools to design and download material. Try and see!

MEET THIS VIDEO DOWNLOADER: Atube Catcher

If you need to download videos to deliver your lessons Atube Catcher is the program. You can download videos from the likes of YouTube, Dailymotion and Metacafeand convert them to formats suitable on a variety of devices.

It is very easy. You have to open youtube for example and look for the video.Then you have to copy and paste the URL (the adress),choosing the format you'd like to save the video in, and clicking 'Download'.

When the download has finished, you will find your video either in “Downloads” or in the “Videos”file of your computer. I hope it will be useful for you!

LINK TO SEE THE VIDEO TO INSTALL IT

https://youtu.be/Nt23zfcM96s

Read and Write virtually

Here I will leave a brief summary of an app that one of my third year of secondary school students introduced me. She is fond of reading and writing literature. She has been writing stories about scince fiction and in Wattpad she found interesting and inspiring material to keep on doing it. A nice story that shows us that everyone can be updated and learn somthing raeally useful from our students.

Wattpad is a community for readers and writers to publish new user-generated stories in different genres, including classics, general fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spiritual, and teen fiction. It aims to create social communities around stories for both amateur and established writers.

The platform claims to have an audience of more than a million users, who can directly interact with the writers and share their opinions with fellow readers. Although available in over 50 languages, 77% of its content is written in English. A number of Wattpad users are translating stories .

In order to be a user you have to create an account in its site and after that you are able to publish your own content or to read others.

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