Lets get a Smart Table for The kids

SmartTech wants to bring multitouch tables to the people who would probably most appreciate them: Kids

It is the world’s first multitouch table. It is a fantastic learning tool. It makes learning fun and its a medium that some children learn quicker from.

Have a look at the video.

Making a movie in Dvolver

Movie

This is another great web site that allows you and your students to make your own videos.

Dvolver  is extremely user friendly. All you have to do is to select a background, a sky, a plot, characters, type in characters’ lines, choose a backgroung music, select and write a movie title and then it’s ready for you to send via email or you can also copy the embedding code and paste it to Moodle or your website, for eg. facebook.

In the class, this video can be used as a reading comprehension activity or the students can make their own videos and that would be a writing exercise.

Let us know if you use this movie maker with your group and how you used it.

Create a Fancy Quiz

This is really eye-catching!Looks nice on Moodle and the students love it!

This site allows you to create quizzes enhanced with pictures, audio or video and post them to your Moodle course on ezone.

MyStudio is an interesting web-based quiz making software that lets you create multimedia quizzes and also tracks reader submissions.

You only have to register a free account at MyStudio, name your quiz and then just start adding questions, you can add as many questions as you like and may even supplement quiz questions with hyperlinks, images or YouTube videos.

 

 

  

Animoto

Do you want to have a fancy presentation, looking really professional?

Go to http://animoto.com, and get started: Upload the images you want to use, these can be from your own files or taken from your facebook etc…, you can also add music. Animoto will customize your images and it will create a fancy presentation.

When your animoto video is ready, you can email it, post it to youtube or your site or even download it to your computer.

It is a great tool and it will make a difference in your presentations. There are a few examples on the website, check them out.

Here is one of my 30 seconds presentation I have used with my students to introduce vocabulary.

Speech Bubbles

Pizap.com

This is a great website to use with your class! And it’s free!

For example: Practicing writing and telling stories.

Students can use their own pictures or they can save a few images from gettyimages, flickr or istockphoto and then add on speech bubbles, images, titles and drawings.

At the end they can show their edited pictures to the rest of the class and tell a story.

It is easy to use:

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Choose the photos from your files and to edit the picture just drag and drop the speech bubbles or pictures to your image. Save it and show it.

Share with us the outcomes of using the website. We would all like to know!