Mentormob——Create your multimedia playlist for your students!

What is Mentormob?

Mentormob is an online platform where teachers can create your own multimedia learning playlist for students to go through in a certain predetermined sequence.

As Bernie Dodge recommends for Web Quests, learners can spend 

time using the Internet, not searching for stuff, which can be a 

waste of time for many students. (Thanks to Tilly, who suggested 

this point.)

For more information about Mentormob, please watch the video below.

How to use Mentormob?

Teachers can put or create various kinds of learning materials or resources on their Mentormob. You can paste links, upload files, write articles and even add a pop quiz in your learning playlist. Besides, teacher can decide in which order students should go through these materials. 

For a video tutorial on how to create your own learning playlist, please watch this video.

For an example of what Mentormob looks like, please click here. This is my own learning playlist that introduces Edmodo. I created 7 steps as follows:

Step 1: Insert a video to give a brief introduction about Edmodo.

Step 2: Give a little quiz based on the video in Step 1 to check how well students watched and understood the video.

Step 3: Insert a link from Russell's Teacher Training Videos website that provides a detailed tutorial of how to use Edmodo.

Step 4: Insert another video from YouTube that shares 20 ideas of how to use edmodo to promote students' learning.

Step 5: Write some instructions to my students to encourage them to create their own Edmodo account.

Step 6: Upload a file in 'PDF', which I think is very helpful for students and ask students to read it.

Step 7: Upload a picture of the App of Edmodo on iPhone and ask students to download this app.

How does Mentormob foster language teaching and learning?

• Teachers can use it as a repository tool.
• Teachers can create their own quizzes to check if students have actually read the article or watched the video.
• Teachers can share a collection of high quality materials of all kinds, including files, pictures, powerpoints, pdf, videos, links.
• Teachers can write their own instructions to make it clear how to use these materials for students.
• It promotes students' autonomous learning.
• As long as the playlist is public, everyone can go and search for information here without logging in. And it is likely that the information here is of better quality than that you find on Google since people tend to be selective when they put materials on their learning playlist.
• As long as the playlist is public, everyone can leave comments on a certain playlist or a certain step of it. And the auther or other viewers can reply. Therefore, it is interactive to some extent.
• Students can write their questions on a certain article or a quiz or a video as comments and teachers can give them answers by replying those comments.
• You don't have to go through all the steps. There's a list on the left side of the screen where you can choose which step do you want to focus on and you can always go back and forth.

What are the limitations?

•  Sometimes the internet speed is too slow, especially when you insert some videos.
• Although there are places for quizzes, the types of quizzed are only limited to 'True or False' questions and mutiple choice questions.
• You can at most create 16 steps. (But I think it's enough.)