MINDMEISTER & NEARPOD

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Hi everyone!! Hope you are having a great day. Today I will share two different apps, both of which offers a better learning environment for students,  to use for your lessons. As you know students give their attentions more if the lesson is interesting and easy for them to understand. Mindmeister and nearpod makes it happen for students. Nearpod allows students to enjoy slides, videos and games made for the lesson while mindmeister lets you make mind maps to teach any lesson or sum up lessons. Hope this review gives an idea about how to make better use of online materials for your lessons.
NEARPOD
Nearpod - Bye bye boring presentationsNearpod is an app to make interactive lessons for your students.  It's really easy to use and students' engagement makes lessons interesting. Firstly, you have to sign up if you are the teacher, for students there are codes to join lessons. You can create your lesson on your library. You can choose adding content, web content or adding activity. On "add content" option, you can make slides using photos, videos, audio and gifs. You can use nearpod 3d or simulation as another choice. For web content, all you have to do is enter the useful website url. On activity section, you can create matching paire, open ended questions, quizes, memory tests or fill in the blanks activties. After saving your lesson, you have to give it a title and choose the grade and the subject of the lesson. Apart from all those options, nearpod also allows live sessions. 

MindMeister - WikipediaMINDMEISTER 
Mindmeister is an online mind mapping app. You can have a basic, personal or pro versions. personal version is $4.99 while pro version $8.25 and business version is $12.49. Don't worry basic version is free. However, what each version includes is different. Basic version only allows
up to 3 maps and real time collabs while other versions offer unlimited maps.  To create your map, you can choose the templates that are already given by the app like aligned, org charted or brainstorming templates. You have many options to make your maps better and more interesting. After making a map you can add another slide as its follow up. You can share your maps with your students or you can share them for public so anyone searching with similar titles can see your map as well. There's also comments and like/dislike part for all the maps. This app makes complicated patterns easier to understand and makes you enjoy studying. It does not take time to create those maps as well as not taking a lot of time to study those maps. It is a material that can save time and your energy. 

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