Flipbooks

Drawing was ALWAYS my weak point. However benettonplay,com has created an online flip book where anyone can draw something. Well in my case I resorted to stick figures and numbers. But what the heck!! As long as it educational and fun it does not matter.



The above case was done by a student after a class project about smoking.



This one is suitable for children who are learning numbers and writing.

eLearning Website

Hello

Today I want to promote the elearning website which is found on skola.edu.mt

Polleverywhere

Today in our course we have learnt how to use polleverwhere

Try this audience polling system at Poll Everywhere

Embedding PowerPoint in Blogs

Yesterday, during the summer course 2010, someone has asked me how to embed a powerpoint in blogs. Basically you need to register with authorstream. Upload your presentation. Once uploaded share the link with blogger.

Top 10 Web 2.0 Picks

See more presentations by joelk | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

Piki Strips

Pikistrips allows you to take photos and change them into comic strips using bubble speech in the process. It's fun. Students can present their work in a fun way.



Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Piki Strips

View more presentations from kdunne318.

A new way to present

Prezi is an innovative way to present your ideas. Forget powerpoint. Prezi is here and the best thing it is FREE.

Copy of Copy of Web 2.0 in the classroom on Prezi

Bounce

Did you ever want to comment about your webpages? You can do this by print the screen, pasting it on a Word processor document and then add text.



One can bypass all this by using bounce and comment directly

Take a look at this example: http://www.bounceapp.com/11673

Web 2.0 Poll

What is Poll Everywhere?

According to this site, it is the fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices



Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

What is your favourite colour?

Vote HERE

Wordle

What is Wordle?

Wordle is a free web site for easily creating beautiful word clouds from text, URLs, RSS feeds or del.icio.us account. They are a great way of visualizing the importance of particular word in text since the more frequently a word is used the larger it appears in the Wordle. You don’t need to sign up for an account — just go to the Wordle create page to get started!

Here is the most words used in my blog

Scrapblog

Another way of presenting photos is by using scrapblog

Making your pictures speak

Do you want to make your photos speak out? Imagine an outdoor activity with the class. You gather the photos and upload them. Why not add speech bubbles. The pictures could be funny but also educational. It is up to you to what you add. It is also fun. Check out Bubblesnaps.com

Bubbleply

Youtube, teachertube etc are reknowned sites where teachers can download and show videos to students. Imagine if you get a youtube video and add subtitles, notes and cliparts. How? Bubbleply.com offers this service. You can edit youtube video and add these comments which could be helpful to the students. The students do not only listen and watch the video but now they can see the annotations done by the teacher.

Check out this video from YouTube which had bubbles and subtitles added

Click HERE

Creating Polls with VISU

Creating an online poll is as easy as VISU

Online Surveys & Market Research

DocTranslator Translates Office Documents with Google and Keeps Formatting

Google's webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends them back with the same formatting.

DocTranslator runs entirely in your browser, and uses Java mainly to accept file uploads and send back downloads, so it's not quite as heavy as your cynical experience might indicate. It accepts Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in both the standard formats and the 2007 variations (.docx, .xlsx, etc.), along with text documents. After picking your file, DocTranslator guesses at the language, then offers more than 50 languages to translate the document to. The languages and services come from Google Translate, so the offerings are likely to grow in the future. That's about all there is to the app—no file size limits, no sign-up or download needed, and it works as well as Google does, which is about the best free option around right now.

Stupeflix Video

Stupeflix is web based utility where one can upload your pictures and videos. The only catch is that the video length should be 1 min long, unless one wants to pay $3. However the following videos, which look similar (but are not) are within the the time frame and thus free.





The website is HERE

YacaPaca

So what's this all about? This allows you to create quizzes, test, surveys and e-portfolios. It’s an online Virtual learning Environment. Ready made quizzes are present and can be submitted on any blog or site.

Creating Comics 2

As explained in my previous post, comics can be effective method where ICT is used in education. Creativity whilst instering dialogues can help students perform better. Pixton is another web-based software which can surely be a winner

Creating Comics 1

Language teachers can promote simple dialogues by using comics where students can use various characters. They can add bubble speeches and form a story line. The teacher can give out the topic on which the characters can talk. It is a simple way but effective to create dialogues. Grab it here ... it's free web-based

Here is something which I have created

Photos with Polaroid

Why not twist your images and spice them up? How? Using Poladroid web-based software enables all kind of images to be transformed into polaroid photos. These types of images give a touch of personalisation to your blog, web or powerpoint.

Animoto

Animoto is a web application that allows you and your students to upload pictures and sounds and create professional looking videos which can then be downloaded and shared online. Animoto is free for education.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Creating cartoons

GoAnimate is a web-based software where a teacher can easily create cartoons for their blogs or sites. However with a little twist of animation, one can engage students to involve themselves in lessons by creating cartoon based dialogues and even involving school work.


GoAnimate.com: Chromatography by rooney72

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Welcome

So this is it! Seven months ago I commenced a new role in my teaching career. Being a support eLearning teacher is no mean task. It is a challenging role but very rewarding. The role means researching and experimenting. Without any doubt trying new things also brings some failures ... but that is expected. Mistakes are important because we learn from them. I learn from them. And yes, my end product will always evolve because of these faults.

This is the whole scope of this blog. I want to share my experience with you. As I research and learn, I want to share with what I found.

I am eager to start this blog. I want to do constant changes, but above all I want you to contribute and tell me what I can add and deduct.

Jeffrey