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:
