I've been thinking over the past my next days what am I going to wirte in my next post? After restless search for long black hours skimming and reading tens of webpages I found true treasure. Now I know what I'm going to write about, I'd love to share with you three mines of gold. They'll make us wealthy and rich in blogging.
Have you ever thought about your students' technical and computer/internet-related needs? Do you feel bitter over the difficulty to get the help of IT Lab guys in your institue to help the students who lack basics of computer literacy? Do you wish to train your students how to use your blog?You needn't be worried any more! You don't need a super power but only Screencast-O-Matic. It is an easy web tool that enables you of creating video tutorials. You can record your screen and upload the video for free hosting all from your browser with no need to install any software. Fantastic and Free!
Another wonderful web tool is VoiceThread. If you'd like your students to do speaking activities, one amazing thing is to talk about their favourite subject using your target grammatical item. For example, they can work indivudlaly or in groups on projects about holiday photos, new movies' trailers, or chosen articles from newspapers. It is simple and takes only a minute to get used to it.
The last web tool for today is the KidsSpace story builder. It ca be used to create or improvise a story using the website library of images, scenes, and characters. The website is very user-friendly. It takes you right to the author seat and what you've got to do is to pick your favourite characters/setting and let go your imgination. I believe, using it with young leaners will encourage them to express their own feeling, ideas and emotions. Creativity. therefore, is reinforced. I wish you will like these three web tools and use them in your ELT and blogging.What do you think?
What uses/employments have come to your mind so far?
My best wishes,
Amjad
URL:
Screencast-O-Matic
http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com/#home
KidsSpace
http://kidsspace.torontopubliclibrary.ca/story.html
Links found in:
Daniela Munca ESL Class Blog
http://dvmunca.blogspot.com/
Bahrain
5 comments:
Dear Amjad,
you are such a proactive member of our group. Posting the information about the tools above plus the comments is very helpful. It is also an excellent example of how we can use our own E-teacher blogs.
I am familiar with VoiceThread. And it certainly is a great way to use the Web not only for writing, but also speaking practice. As such , it could be integrated into the curriculum and ten used over several sessions, for example. Changing too many tools in too short a time is not advisable, I think.
Best regards,
Andreja
Thank you very much dear Andreja for your kind words. As a matter of fact, it's me who is learning much from you. It's so nice to hear you're familiar with VoiceThread. It opens rooms of choice over how to "integrate it into the curriculum." I agree with you that crowding web tools in the ELT wouldn't necessary make one's lessons successful.
Hi Amjad,
I will follow Andreja and congratulate you on this wonderful, creative blog!
I really like the way you display all the relevant links.
I intend to use the links in the classroom very soon. It's a shame we have a winter exam session now.
Manana
Hello Amjad,
Thank you for sharing these useful information. At the moment I am having a bit difficulty to understand; therefore I sometimes get worried but I hope I'll try to manage it in later weeks...
Dear Manana and Gülsen,
Thanks for your comments, which I find very encouraging to give out my best. I'm very happy that you like the web tools I linked. I'd love to read your reflections Manana after employing some of them in your classroom.
Gülsen, you needn't worry about a thing. It may see absurd sometimes, but we've got to work together, with all colleagues, as a team to better understand the whole process. If you'd like to get help on any task, I'd love to do that. That's because we're a team and should work as a team!
Thanks very much.
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