I have been trying out Voice Thread and think it has a lot of potential for teaching. However, I experimented by copying 4 photos of my daughter from when she was younger and asking my relatives to post comments on the photos for her birthday. The uploading and commenting with the webcam were easy for me [...]
Archive for the 'SMiELT' Category
Voice Thread
February 4, 2008Sidebar Woes and Tool Discovery
February 3, 2008Well, I’ve messed up my sidebar by adding del.icio.us tags. I wonder if there is anyway to get back the former sidebar?
Today I had a great time with Dave’s EVO Tips and Tricks group. We used our webcams to chat in WizIQ, a virtual classroom. Next week the SMiELT group is going there [...]
Great Teaching Tools
January 30, 2008As usual I’m way behind on what I should be doing for the Social Media in English Language Teaching course I’m in, but as I was tagging some sites into my del.icio.us account I just had to post something about my favorite teaching tools, videos from Common Craft. Sachi and Lee LeFever have created marvelous vidos to [...]
Social Media in English Language Teaching
January 19, 2008I am in the first week of the Electronic Village Social Media in English Language Teaching free, six-week, online course. As part of our homework for the week we were to sign up for the various tools we’ll be using and compare them to each other and to a conventional LMS. I have created a [...]