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I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.

Monday, August 11, 2014

New tool: Clarisketch


Have just returned from some days off and shared a guessing activity with my students in our class blog using a free Android app Clarisketch.


How?
1. Download the Clarisketch application into your tablet or smartphone. This app is for free and works on Androids 2.3.6 Gingerbread or higher.
2. Take a picture or use one from your camera.
3. Record your voice.
4. While adding voice to your pic, you can also draw on it highlighting details and commenting.
5. In the end, send or share it. No embedding, but a link to share. Here's my example - the one I used with my students:

http://www.clarisketch.com/sketch/7Y5Fla3i0h56U9N2yQXJ8N

What?
As you can see, it's very user-friendly and relevant for classroom use as a listening activity, eventually also combining reading; it can be used for tutorials, for homework, instructions, directions... or as a guessing activity. By the way: where was I???

Enjoy your holidays :)

4 comments:

Lina Pereira said...

Thanks for sharing! Your blog is really inspiring! Congratulations for the excellent work!

Anonymous said...

Gibraltar, teacher? :)

Teacher Alex said...

@Dear Lina,

You're always welcome. Thank you so much for your words of praise. I'll be waiting for more visits and comments :)

Teacher Alex said...

Ooops!
Yep, you got it- Gibraltar, yes, really worth sightseeing. It has lots of historical places to visit, stunning views over Spain and Africa,and even apes roaming around and stealing food from tourists ;)

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