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I love the look of this new tool I've come across courtesy of this blog - 'Gettin' Techie with it' - where there are regular posts sharing web 2.0 tools useful for education.
The idea is that you can upload a photo and then record about a minute's worth of audio talking about the photo. It's incredibly simple and so obviously lends itself to language learning. I think it would be great to use this with students who can upload their own photos, record themselves talking about the picture and then share it on a class blog, or a wallwisher, for example.
I've babbled some stuff over this photo as a trial, see what you think!
It's really easy to sign up and use, here's the fantastic Russell Stannard's training video for this tool.
Also Ian James' blog post on the potential uses of fotobabble and wallwisher in elt.
I think these great tools so I thought I'd share them here!
Have you used them with a class already? If so, please leave a comment and share your experiences.
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Fotobabble
I love the look of this new tool I've come across courtesy of this blog - 'Gettin' Techie with it' - where there are regular posts sharing web 2.0 tools useful for education.
The idea is that you can upload a photo and then record about a minute's worth of audio talking about the photo. It's incredibly simple and so obviously lends itself to language learning. I think it would be great to use this with students who can upload their own photos, record themselves talking about the picture and then share it on a class blog, or a wallwisher, for example.
I've babbled some stuff over this photo as a trial, see what you think!
It's really easy to sign up and use, here's the fantastic Russell Stannard's training video for this tool.
Also Ian James' blog post on the potential uses of fotobabble and wallwisher in elt.
I think these great tools so I thought I'd share them here!
Have you used them with a class already? If so, please leave a comment and share your experiences.
- First Time Blogging
The aim of this blog is to offer my students a new tool to learn English while enjoying their favourite activity, the Internet. It's sometimes difficult to open a new way to get your students motivated when learning but I think it is worth the effort...
- Electronic Village Online 2012: Classdigitools
New year, new resolution: to take any opportunity I can to improve my professional development. No sooner said than done! Seven days ago I joined Electronic Village Online Sessions 2012 which are free virtual courses. For five weeks teachers will connect...
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One year on How time flies?! I've only just realised that it is now more than 12 months since this humble blog was launched with this post. The original purpose of the blog was to reflect on the process of initiating my first class blogging project...
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Ok, this is my ten blogs thing, I was tagged my @martulmj and @livesofteachers, who both have interesting blogs that I like. It's quite hard to get a new slant on it though, because lots of choices have been used up already and I don't want to...
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