While I haven’t had much time for reading
myself lately, I’ve been instilling reading habits in my teen students.
To be honest, I’m not that demanding in
what concerns language. In other words, whether they read in Portuguese or
English, what really matters is that they start or keep reading. I do have one
demand, though: whatever they read, they’ll have to present a review
in English. Fair enough, after all I am their foreign language teacher.
For my students’ book reviews and
recommendations, I’ve used the free tools below:
Animoto is an excellent tool for creating audio slideshows the only problem being the lack of space for writing / text; I have created 30 secs videos and longer but only with an “Animoto
for Education” account. Here are two examples:
This is a multimedia storytelling tool that allows
us to easily tell stories including photo, video, music, voice recordings and
text. Have a look at this bilingual book review:
Fotobabble allows us to create beautiful talking photos / pictures. Listen to this book review now:
Another possibility is the creation of ebooks, flippable PDFs. An example is the one below I created with youblisher:
5 comments:
Dear Alex the Great,
A rich and informative post about some web 2.0 tools to use in our classrooms. I spent hours navigating these Apps and will spend much more in thinking about ideas to use them personally and with my students. You always provide us not only with knowledge but with ideas and active spirit to create a better learning as well as teaching contexts. Thanks a million.
Greetings from Egypt,
Amira
Dear Amira,
I find these tools really user-friendly and they are absolutely free! Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you.
Thanks Amira, for your constant encouragement.
With best regards from Portugal,
Alex
Every time I visit your blog, there is always something new and useful and I'm delighted and impressed! The tools you are suggesting us are fantastci, I just I wonder how you succed in finding time to realize all this little masterpieces!!!
Cogratulations
Dear Sonia,
Thank you so much for your compliments. It does take some time, but not much and once you are familiar with the tools, it is all done in the twinkling of an eye ;)
Hope to hear from you soon,
Alex
It feels great to be back to blogging routine. Hi to everyone!
Thank you for your suggestion!
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