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Pro Prof is an online quiz making tool that allows us to make quizzes that based on videos, songs and any other means that can be tested on. In step (1), this tool has been used to quiz the students on the understanding of the listening clip. This tool can provide a great variety of question types, such as MCQ, fill in the blanks and essay question. For students, it is in an online quiz format that students can do it in a place with computer and internet whenever they like. Also, they can know their answer is right or wrong immediately. For teachers, they can have the summary report of how did the students do. The summary report contains the duration of how much time they have used to do it so that teachers could know whether the students had sought help from other body or they had any problem if some students took longer time than the others to do it. Another good thing for the report is it has IP address so that it can prevent someone help others do it. Also, there is RSS feed function and both students and teachers can receive the updates of the quiz. It is used in step (1) because the student can gain access to the quiz anywhere at any time and the teacher can save time on marking and doing analysis. Voicethread is platform for users to post pictures and uses different means to comment on it, such as sound recording, typing, webcam, drawing etc. It can act as a mean for storytelling. It is a best tool for discussion as it allows many comments and users can comment based on the others’. It has been used in step (1), (2) and (6). In step (1), I have used it to produce a dialogue. The picture and the voice can be shown at the same time so that students can see the picture and know which aspect the dialogue is talking about. For teachers, according to Bull (2004), it is a good to create digital story with using video equipment that teachers can tell a story with pictures but not video-recording. In step (2), it is used to create a sense of achievement for students with a concrete product and as a preparation task for step (6). In step (6), it is used for a platform for discussion which is the best feature of it. Students can voice out their opinion after listening to the others. Also, the opinion will be listened to facilitate a discussion atmosphere. Teachers can also join the discussion and keep track on different group’s discussion at the same time to make sure they are not off track. Users can draw when they are recording, too. Bubbl.us is a tool for making mind map in computer and on the internet. It has all the features to create and decorate a mind map, such as bubbles, arrow, dragging, changing the colour, creating a web-like connection etc. Moreover, users can zoom in and out for a clear image or an overall look. In step (2c), it has been used for brainstorming because it can be published online and allows students to work together. This shows how students can share there map with others. This shows how collaborators can edit the map.

This feature allows student to edit the map when they could think of some amendments and the map will be updated immediately, just like a wiki. This can help them learn collaboratively.