Let me share another great site I've just learned about via Andressa Cardoso in her blog "Words and Ideas"
With WHAT2LEARNyou can create customizable games for your courses. You can create anagrams, hangmans, word searches, multiple choices and question and answers and questions.
Check some examples I created with simple clicks:
- a hangman with vocabulary from English File Intermediate Unit 1A
If someone asks you for help, and you keep on giving them instructions but still that doesn't help, sometimes you wish you could see their screen in order to spot what's wrong , right?
Well, some weeks ago , I bookmarked a site I found in Orli's great GO2WEB20 blog and was saving it for the right moment, which happened today. A friend of mine was trying to explain to me how to update a blog by clicKing on a button and I couldn't find the "so-called" button. I remembered I had the right tool to help me, "Showmewhat'swrong" .
I found the link, send it to my friend, Camila Sousa, she recorded her screen showing me how to do it and I was e-mailed 5 minutes later with her screencast. No subscription needed, no log ins, nothing. GREAT!!!! Solved my problem.
This is a DEMO of SHOWMEWHATSWRONG. Hope you can make use of it some day, like I did.
Yesterday, February 06, I gave one more online workshop to a group of teachers I've been training at the Cultura EDtech online course. I talked about Edmodo features and how some teachers have been using it with students.
You can view the RECORDED session by clicking on the links below:
The session is part of the Cultura Edtech Course, an online course for EFL / ESL teachers who wish to begin exploring blogs and webtools with some help. It's a 3-month course where teachers carry out weekly tasks in order to learn about technology integration with classroom activities.
Yesterday, I invited several teachers who have TOKBOX accounts to help me test the group video chat feature.
I created a video chat and invited teachers who were online in TOKBOX to join me. We were six people in the room. We could see (via webcam) and hear each other. I´ve read somewhere that you can video chat w/ up to 20 people.
We introduced ourselves, talked about where we live and teach, talked about our goals for 2010 and brainstormed ways we could use the group video chat w/ students.
You might say " I can video chat w/ my friends in MSN or Skype." Not really, with MSN and Skype you can chat to various people at the same time but you can´t see their webcam image. And you can only chat to people who have an MSN account or Skype account.
With Tokbox group video chat , you can VIDEO CHAT to many people at the same time, whether they have a tokbox account or not. You can invite people to join you via TWITTER, FACEBOOK or even send the link of the video chat to your friends via e-mail.
The webcam images were very good and so was the sound. Except for some voice delay, it was almost perfect. I regret not having taken a screenshot of our chat room. But I completely forgot about it.
How to create a GROUP VIDEO CHAT? Watch this quick TUTORIAL
How can we use this tool with students?
invite students to have online conversation lessons.
if you have individual private students, you can invite all of them on one specific day to join the room and talk to each other.
you can invite all your students to join you and interview a guest. Then, each student would have the chance to ask a question.
