Online Classroom
Advantages: Using a wide range of online interactive content to personalize learning activities. Students engage much more in class and participation through gamification. Fun and meaningful learning. Recommended digital tools: - Padlet - Wordwall - ClassDojo - Liveworksheets - H5P (Scorm content) Disadvantages: Devices and internet connection will be always required. Problems if there are not devices and connectivity. Not all students have access to devices and wifi.
Receptive Skills
Listening, Reading Grammar & Vocabulary H5P is a powerful tool which can be easily used for creating and personalizing learning in both, online and offline classroom environments. However, it is not very recomended for efficient use of speaking & writing
Productive Skills
Speaking and Writing Speaking: Vocaroo can be a very good digital tool for recording students' voice online and depelop their oral skills for free. Writing: Although it is not the best option, Google Forms can be an easy and convenient digital tool for promoting students' written production as it is free and intuitive to use.
Worsksheets
Advantages: Created for personalized classes and students needs Based on Task Based Learning where students learn by doing meaningful tasks (e.g., solving a problem, completing a text, drawing and writing) rather than just studying grammar rules. Effective for classroom management and class orientation. Can be used as portfolios of class and progress check on students Disadvantages: Time-consuming when designing activities. Cost-effective if school does not provide photocopies for students. Manually-graded which implies more time for scoring tasks.
Offline Classroom
Advantages: Not devices or connection needed for class activities. Not dependency on third party aspects for teaching the class. More oriented on the use of realia, Total Physical Response approach and/or traditional methodologies. Disadvantages: Time-consuming when designing materials for the offline classroom. Teacher must provide elements when school does not supply tools. More knowledge about how to use tools which can be used in an offline context.
How to use Writing online?
When it comes to Writing online, this can be the most difficult skill to cover digitally as there are not enough tools that can guarantee genuine writing production. Some of the issues regarding online writing are:
- Not software and devices for online writing.
- Lack of knowledge and training for online writing tools.
- Can be expensive and/or time demanding
However, Safe Exam Browser is a very effective and low-cost digital tool for writing online.
The Online & Offline Classroom
Christian Serrano
Created on March 24, 2026
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Online Classroom
Advantages: Using a wide range of online interactive content to personalize learning activities. Students engage much more in class and participation through gamification. Fun and meaningful learning. Recommended digital tools: - Padlet - Wordwall - ClassDojo - Liveworksheets - H5P (Scorm content) Disadvantages: Devices and internet connection will be always required. Problems if there are not devices and connectivity. Not all students have access to devices and wifi.
Receptive Skills
Listening, Reading Grammar & Vocabulary H5P is a powerful tool which can be easily used for creating and personalizing learning in both, online and offline classroom environments. However, it is not very recomended for efficient use of speaking & writing
Productive Skills
Speaking and Writing Speaking: Vocaroo can be a very good digital tool for recording students' voice online and depelop their oral skills for free. Writing: Although it is not the best option, Google Forms can be an easy and convenient digital tool for promoting students' written production as it is free and intuitive to use.
Worsksheets
Advantages: Created for personalized classes and students needs Based on Task Based Learning where students learn by doing meaningful tasks (e.g., solving a problem, completing a text, drawing and writing) rather than just studying grammar rules. Effective for classroom management and class orientation. Can be used as portfolios of class and progress check on students Disadvantages: Time-consuming when designing activities. Cost-effective if school does not provide photocopies for students. Manually-graded which implies more time for scoring tasks.
Offline Classroom
Advantages: Not devices or connection needed for class activities. Not dependency on third party aspects for teaching the class. More oriented on the use of realia, Total Physical Response approach and/or traditional methodologies. Disadvantages: Time-consuming when designing materials for the offline classroom. Teacher must provide elements when school does not supply tools. More knowledge about how to use tools which can be used in an offline context.
How to use Writing online?
When it comes to Writing online, this can be the most difficult skill to cover digitally as there are not enough tools that can guarantee genuine writing production. Some of the issues regarding online writing are:
However, Safe Exam Browser is a very effective and low-cost digital tool for writing online.