Video: Eating out

This week, during my Basic 1 lessons, we focused on language used to order food in restaurants.

After practising the language in class, I asked pairs or groups of students to create their own dialogues, rehearse and then present to the class. During their presentations, I recorded the dialogues in my mp3 player and had planned to post them in our class blog.

Today, I decided to add all their recordings into one video where I added images to help understanding (with windows Movie Maker). Do you think they´re going to enjoy watching it?

Classtools

I´ve just found out about this amazing site which helps you create online activities based on content you want to reinforce. There are various templates available and below you can see my first trial where I used vocabulary we´ve covered with Inter B students recently. What do you think? Try it out http://www.classtools.net/



Click on the link to see the full screen version and click on PLAY.

Game about Irregular verbs
http://classtools.net/my/quiz42960.htm

Game testing vocabulary about SHOPPING
http://classtools.net/my/quiz17157.htm

Another cool site for editing images

This is a cool site I found in the blog "Thoughts from a Tech Specialist" . It´s called Be Funky and it offers tools I hadn´t seen in any other site so far. YOu can cartoonize pictures, create your avatar, distort images and so on. Very nice!!!

The effect generator

This image was created with THE EFFECT GENERATOR. You can edit several images and create texts + effects to publish online. Watch the tutorials and get started, it´s quite cool!!!

Edit effect!

My TIMELINE

Found out about http://dipity.com yesterday and wanted to try it out. This is the timeline I´ve created to illustrate my life. Quite interesting tool! Have a look, what do you think?
Another way of browsing it is clicking on FLIPBOOK at the bottom.

JOOCE : An online desktop

When I first heard of Jooce, I asked myself "Do I really need another internet toy?". And then as I tried out Jooce I suddenly saw how brilliant the idea of an online desktop is.

Whenever you use your computer at home where do you record your files? To your computer desktop. Where do you record your songs? Your photos? Then, when you go to work, there you go with your pendrive to take your files. Well, with Jooce it´s not necessary to carry stuff anymore, YOu have all your stuff online at your hands (provided you have internet access).

GREAT FEATURES:

• you have a private desktop and a public one which you can share with other Jooce users.
• your msn and yahoo contacts are all concentrated in one desktop. YOu can talk to people from jooce.
• It´s very easy to upload all kinds of files to your jooce desktop: word, ppt, mp3...

• You can download videos from your computer or from Youtube with a single click and very QUICKLY.

This is how my public desktop looks. Wanna have a look at my files? Then join JOOCE and let´s share our files.


Watch this video about JOOCE