tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157334610186584402024-02-08T20:11:10.711+00:00Az's fun ICT in ELTwhere learning becomes more funAtiqah Azmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562748452080385362noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815733461018658440.post-8686485797237775932011-12-03T09:48:00.002+00:002011-12-05T22:32:15.940+00:00Mailvu - do things differently<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ecY7XLAo5o/Ttl_-Jg9F5I/AAAAAAAAAMc/Pz-heblI3Bw/s1600/ioioj%253Bio.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ecY7XLAo5o/Ttl_-Jg9F5I/AAAAAAAAAMc/Pz-heblI3Bw/s1600/ioioj%253Bio.PNG" /> </a><br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what is Mailvu???</b></span></div><br />
Generally Mailvu is a tool that allow us to record video messages for us to share with our family, friends or else anyone else that we wish through email. Plus you can easily create and send the video with just a couple of simple steps without having any complicated stuff to worry about. How cool is that. it is simple, fast and easy. Click <a href="http://mailvu.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to go straight to Mailvu!<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The steps of using Mailvu >>>> </span></b></div><br />
1) Click the record button on the right hand side and start recording. (max 10 min)<br />
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3)After you have already satisfied with your message, click the send button and enter the necessary details such as the receiver email address and yours as well.<br />
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4)Now your task is finished and the receiver will get your message in an instant and could also reply back to you in the same way through Mailvu.<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So what can you do with Mailvu in the class?</span></b></div><br />
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1) <b>Speaking activity</b> = The teachers could ask the student to make a a short message at home using Mailvu to promote an object that he or she would love the others to buy and send it to them. This will give the opportunity for the students to practice using the language and to improve their speaking skill as well. Plus, a connected classroom can be established as through this activity, students will not only be learning on how to use the language at school but also learning and practising using the language at home with a specific purpose.<br />
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--Draw a timeline and share stories on why the dates or the year are important to them. Is it meaningful or full with painful memories.<br />
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-- The teachers or the students can use the tool and record themselves to give the listening input for the class to hear later. Thus, the students are going to be more excited and motivated to listen to someone that they know rather than a stranger doing it.<br />
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Teachers could send videos of them speaking a certain topic to the student at home and they need to summarize what they have understood as well as they own comments about it.<br />
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<ul><li>It encourage the students to speak as well as improving their skills by practicing a number of times while doing the recording.</li>
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<ul><li>Allows connected classroom becomes a reality. This happens when it create a chance for the students to link what they have learned in class and still using it at home with a solid purpose.</li>
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<ul><li>The tool itself is fun to experiment on and the students will feel more motivated to learn in the classroom.</li>
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<ul><li>Plus, it gives a refreshing new way of learning or even as a homework where students can now change The words they used to express through writing to become more alive and real to see. Its interesting for them and even make the students become more engage with the lesson.</li>
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<ul><li>The video is only limited for 10 min </li>
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<ul><li>We can only share our video messages through email </li>
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<ul><li>There is not direct chat box for the receiver or anyone else to comment or reply.</li>
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<ul><li>As it is a free version, no code is given for us to embed our video in our website.</li>
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<ul><li>The receiver can't actually download the video and can only watch it through email.</li>
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<ul><li>There is no pause button and we need to record everything in just one go. </li>
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As an alternative, KEEK is also a website that have the same functions as what Mailvu does and it can offers a code for us to embed our video in our websites. Therefore if you would like to share your video publicly in your blog, you can use KEEK instead of Mailvu. Unfortunately there are some drawbacks of using KEEK as it only allows us to record a 30 sec video rather than Mailvu who offers a 10 min video. Clik<a href="http://www.keek.com/" target="_blank"> here</a> to try KEEK yourself!!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> B</span></b>oth Todaysmeet and Wallwisher are tools that are basicly have the same function whis is to create a platform for the students tho chat about thier thoughts and share things between the members. These great tools can be used by the teachers as a backchanneling system that allows them to get feedback or their thoughts about the lesson indirectly. Suitable to be used by learners from various level, both tools can be manipulated as a medium to get people to be engage with the lesson interactively and fun.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">TodaysMeet</span></b></div><br />
The layout is rather simple, clean and nice where we can have discussion of different topics in different rooms. Unfortunately we can't share any videos or pictures directly in the chatbox.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Wallwisher</b></span><br />
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Wallwisher is more fun and colorful where the layout comes with different colors. You can can also directly share some pictures, audio, files and videos with the other members participating in the room rather than just words.<br />
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<b style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;">How might these tools be a great help in language classroom.</span></b><br />
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<ul><li> It provides a medium for the teachers to get some feedback about the lesson and adjust its pace by monitoring the students understanding.</li>
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<ul><li> The chat room can be used as a platform for online discussion or practice. For example teacher might ask the students to come out with sentences that use modal verbs.</li>
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<ul><li>A chat room makes the students to be more relaxed and motivate them to participate interactively in the discussion. </li>
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<ul><li>As both tools are visual and textural, these enable the learners to improve their auditory and analytical skill where they need to carefully listen to the lesson and make critical judgement out of it at the same time. </li>
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<ul></ul><ul><li>Plus, students can also copy and paste all the discussion or some of the correct answer as their own personal copy as reference later.</li>
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<ul></ul><ul><li>Motivate less active students to participate in discussions.</li>
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<b style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some Limitations of using these tools. </span></b><br />
<ul><li>The students might be out of control and keep on discussing on different matters unrelated to the lesson. </li>
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<ul></ul><ul></ul><ul><li>Learners might get distracted by other people in the chatbox and loose focus of the entire lesson. </li>
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<ul></ul><ul></ul><ul><li>They might choose not to use thier real name which will make it hard for the teachers to identify the students participation in the discussion.</li>
</ul>Atiqah Azmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562748452080385362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815733461018658440.post-80317123985862687832011-11-29T20:12:00.236+00:002011-12-05T22:43:27.561+00:00elllo english ~learn english naturally!!Bored with just pen and paper?<br />
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<a href="http://www.elllo.org/" target="_blank">HELLLO ENGLISH</a> is the answer!!!<br />
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<div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is it about?</b></span></div><br />
Elllo English is another cool website that is specially design to help learners to improve their listening skills in a way that is more visually interesting and fun to do even if they are doing it alone.<br />
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It is wonderful site that contains nearly thousands of listening activities that covers a range of different topic all around the world for the learners to choose based on their interest.<br />
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Plus, it is a tool that caters different kinds of level suitable for students age 13 to 16 years old to learn and improve themselves moving from the beginner to an advance level.<br />
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Apart from that, the most cool thing about this website is that almost all the listening activities are being supported with interesting mutimedias, cartoon animation, downloadable mp3 files, vocab task, language notes and MANY MORE for FREE!!...How interesting is that???<br />
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<div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How to use this tool?? </b></span></div><br />
1)The activities in Elllo English has been categorized and designed into 5 different section which is <span style="background-color: white;">views,mixer,scenes,news and game</span>. You can choose which section that you prefer and all the topics that is related to the section will appear for you to choose depending on your level and interest of your student. You can also use the <span style="background-color: white;">search column</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>to find your desired topic instantly.<br />
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<ul><li>Creating a new fresh atmosphere of language learning for the students to keep the student to feel motivated.</li>
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<ul><li>The activities are developed from different kinds of topic accross culture for the learners to choose based on their interest making the activity more fun and exciting. </li>
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<ul><li>Different accents is being used as a medium to exposed the learners with different style of language used spoken from the people around the globe. </li>
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<ul><li> It comes with a printable version and free mp3 files suitable for classes with limited amount of computer facilities.</li>
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<ul><li>Promotes autonomous learning- students can improve their skills by themselves at home independently </li>
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Adobe connect is a software for web conferencing that has become more popular for meetings between business partners,colleagues and even being used as a tool for e-learning. Educators especially from universities, have already been using this tool to create virtual classes so that everyone from around the world can have access to the class by just going online. Adobe connect also allows interactive collaboration as the people who have access to it can also participate interactively with the other members communicatively. Unfortunately this incredible software is not free and quite complicated.<br />
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</div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It gives the opportunity for students to receive the knowledge by the teachers even though they are at home or anywhere else.</span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It creates a new kind of learning environment of collaborative interaction that is less formal and refreshing for the students to experience in thier learning system.</span></span></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Students can use the tool as a medium for group discussion between the members and even for the teachers to create additional classes for the students who needed it. </span></span></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">The software is not available for free. </span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">Teachers could not actually monitor the students participations towards the lesson as they might been doing something else at home.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: black;">The only way for all the members and teacher to interact is only through the chatbox as only a limited number of participants are allowed to speak at a certain time.</span></span></span></span></li>
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Audioboo is a platform where we can record our voice and share it with our family, friends and the public through the internet. Fancy trying it click <a href="http://audioboo.fm/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!<br />
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1) In order to use it, first you have to sign up for an account so that everything is organised and all your podcast made by you can be traced in your account. You can also sign up using your twitter account if you already have one.<br />
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5)You can also embed your podcast in your blogs or any websites that you got.<br />
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<ul><li>A new way to practice speaking skills, where students can record thier voice and reflect on thier way using the target language.</li>
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<ul><li> As a medium to get all the students to speak up confidently especially the ones who are a bit shy to speak in class.</li>
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<ul><li>It is a free tool and students can record as many podcast as they want to share it with the others.</li>
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<ul><li>Teachers can record further explanations about the lessons in class and share it with the students so they can understands much clearer at home.</li>
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<ul><li>It is a tool that can be use to record students own voice for a listening activity to be more real and fun. </li>
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<ul><li>Some students might feel shy to share their podcast. </li>
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<ul></ul><ul><li>It is a tool for students to reflect on thier skills but not in terms of learning new knowledge</li>
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<ul><li>It might be boring to some of the advance students </li>
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The website includes several activities such as grammar, vocabulary, global knowledge and others that could be used by the students to improve on their English proficiency level individually or for the teachers to use in class. Plus it comes with different level of difficulties that we can choose for different level of students.<br />
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The best part about this website is that although is made for the Spanish students, The activities and instructions are in English so that other people who would not know Spanish could make use of this website as well.<br />
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1)Choose the level and criteria you want the students to practice.<br />
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<b>Personally I would not recommend this site to be used frequently because:</b><br />
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<ol><li>We need some time to really understand on how it works and how it would benefit the students</li>
<li>Sometimes the visual aid are not accurate and in low quality</li>
<li>No audio help in certain exercises</li>
<li>Its sometimes frustrating and confusing as it does not allow us to move forward if we couldn't answer any question or even go back to the previous page</li>
<li>The level and topics is rather vague and hard to understand for us to choose on which one is much more suitable for our students.</li>
<li>Some of the text are too long and make the student even feel demotivated</li>
<li>The games are not really fun and even make the student feel stressfull. </li>
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<b>However there are some good things about this website:</b><br />
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<li>Promotes autonomous learning for the students to practice their english at home </li>
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<b><a href="http://www.wordle.net/" target="_blank">Wordle</a> </b><b><br />
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Both wordle and wordsift are great tools that could distill a long complicated text into a visual representation for text data. In simple the tools grabs the most important and frequent word used in the text and organise it in a way that people could predict what the long text is actually about. Like in the example below it automatically exagerates the important words by making it much bigger that the rest of the less important words.<br />
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<b>How to use it?</b><br />
Copy and paste the text in the box provided. click submit and choose the style, layout, font and the color that you want your visual to be.<br />
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Some extra things in wordsift:<br />
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2)The tool links with a thesaurus and grabs pictures that is associated with the word.<br />
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3)It gives examples on how to used the word portrayed in the text.<br />
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1) The tool can be used as a medium for teachers to create a pre- reading activity for the students to activate thier schemata and get the gist out of it.<br />
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2)Encaurage students to communicate between each other while discussing and predicting what might come in the text.<br />
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3)The visuals by wordle can be used as a guidance for students to get the important features that should be included in thier own version of stories.<br />
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<b>The good points of wordle &wordsift</b><br />
<ul><li>Its free and everyone can use it</li>
<li>Its colorful, fun, and exciting to be used</li>
<li>It motivates students to be more creative cognitively </li>
<li>It grabs the students attention for the next flow of the lesson and make them more engage with the topic.</li>
<li>It promotes interactive communication between students and even teachers.</li>
<li>The product can be printed out.</li>
<li>Great for teachers to quickly identify the main context of the text or even choose some pictures or even videos that could be associated with the text. </li>
<li>Suitable to be used for any languages and any text. </li>
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<li>need internet connection</li>
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Mybrainshark which you can go to by clicking <a href="http://www.brainshark.com/mybrainshark" target="_blank">HERE</a>.. is a fantastic websites that can drastically change the traditional way of learning into something more flexible and exciting. It is actually a tool where we can upload various documents such as power point presentation, or documents which the user can add their own voice and produce an online videos for FREE!! Plus, the tool also allows background audio, photos, video,surveys and quizzes to be incorporated into the video and making it more fun and realistic to be seen by other people. The best thing about this website is it allows our presentation to be set for public view and they can actually put their own comments about it. The uploader itself can actually track down how many people have actually seen it and there is also a code provided for them to post it in their blogs.<br />
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1)Upload a content(power point/document)<br />
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2)Add your voice for each slides. Choose the slide you want to add your voice in and click the record button. You can always play back what you have just recorded and record back if you are not satisfied with it.<br />
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3) When you have finished, click the end recording session button and proceed with other things that you may add for the videos such as background audio or etc....After that you're product is done and you can share it with the others by making it public or even embedded it in your blog.<br />
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Here is a sample of the outcome.<br />
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<b> How we can use it in class?</b><br />
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By using mybrainshark we can actually test the students in their writing, speaking and listening capability.<br />
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Through teacher's presentation:<br />
1)The teachers could create a new environment of learning by creating a lecture through power point presentation using their own voice and test their listening skills with quizzes based on the presentation earlier. Rather than having an unknown person to listen to students will be more engage to listen to something more real and personal to them.<br />
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2)Teachers could also make a presentation as a follow up of her teachings as a guidance for the students who might want to clarify things about the topic and even revise by themselves with the help of the videos.<br />
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Through the students itself:<br />
1) Speaking activity: Teacher could asks the student to create an online presentation of a certain topic to be displayed and discussed in class.<br />
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2)Writing activity: Test students capability of writing for presentation and writing for the end product. (further explanation about the topic/positive or negative effects/etc...)<br />
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<b>Good things about brainshark!!!</b><br />
1) Its free<br />
2)It allows us to edit our work<br />
3)Exciting and motivating the students to engage with the lesson.<br />
4)Promote autonomous learning where students can improve their skills personally at home and ask the teachers for feedback privately.<br />
5)Encourage communicative interaction while in group works or presentation<br />
6)Motivate students who are normally shy to speak or as an introduction like ice braking activity. <br />
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<b>Some negative side about brainshark:</b><br />
1)we could not exactly set how many people that could watch it online. <br />
2)It always need an online connection to see the presentation. The final work is not downloadable.Atiqah Azmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562748452080385362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815733461018658440.post-4829800354248784662011-11-03T10:46:00.117+00:002011-11-14T23:37:04.132+00:00PimPamPum~Bubblr<object height="180" width="400"><param name="movie" value="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/bubblr_blog.swf?id=32905"></param><embed src="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/bubblr_blog.swf?id=32905" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="180"></embed></object><br />
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Do you remember the times when we see our teachers cut some pictures from the newspaper or in the magazine for us to use in the classroom??<br />
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Need better pictures from around the world?<br />
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Fancy having a cool presentation rather than the plain traditional one?<br />
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Worry not!!! <a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/">Bubblr</a> is here to solve everything!<br />
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Bubblr is another cool website that we can use as part of our teaching process to make it more fun and exciting for the students. It is basically a tool that can grab all the images in flickr for us to generate a presentation by using our own text. By using Bubblr learners could come out with new style of wacky presentation that will upgrade the learning standards into the next level.Plus,teachers would not have to worry in trying so hard to search for real pictures for the students as flickr will do everything for you in just a blink of an eye. How facinating is that!!.Rather than having a plain text of words in our slide, it is much exciting to create a comic like presentation that is full of colours and real life pictures describe by our own text.<br />
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It is tool that is not only suitable for learners of all ages but also a magnificient way to change on how we deal with presentation in class. Students are motivated to display thier own creativity of making thier best presentation and slowly improving thier writing skill at the same time.Bubblr can also be used as a speaking activity to test the students capability to speak using the target language spontaneously with the help of the pictures that they have choosen.<br />
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How to use Bubblr:<br />
1.write the topic of the things that you want to present (eg:food)<br />
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3.add some text/describe the pictures<br />
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The good things about Bubblr<br />
<ul><li>free</li>
<li>easy,quick,and fun</li>
<li>thousands of real pictures taken by real people from around the world to choose from</li>
<li>suitable for speaking and writing activity.</li>
<li>motivate the students and allow them to be more creative</li>
<li>encaurage personalisation-less stress and learners will be more open to their teachers and friends</li>
<li>learn with style and stimulate the learners to keep experimenting with thier works.</li>
<li>can be used in the classroom or even as homework </li>
<li>promote autonomous learning</li>
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Some limitations of using Bubblr:<br />
<ul><li>the bubbles are not transparent and it might distract the images.</li>
<li>students might not be using much language if there is no proper requirements or instructions by the teachers beforehand.</li>
<li> the size of the bubble restricts the amount of words that can be used in the pictures.</li>
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There is also another websites that is similar with Bubblr in terms of how it works if you fancy having something different. Why not try <a href="http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/">Bookr</a>.Atiqah Azmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562748452080385362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815733461018658440.post-66644563556743282022011-10-18T21:58:00.004+01:002011-10-19T17:35:51.265+01:00Listen & Write >> Improve listening skills through audios and videos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-88tW6UxNm1Q/Tp77FKU09aI/AAAAAAAAAD0/xH6s-SXLGPI/s1600/Pulse-Smartpen-468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://www.listen-and-write.com/"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">LISTEN & WRITE</b></a><br />
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In order to start the activity, learners should begin by selecting the level they want to challenge themselves with and choose a topic that interest them from the news options available in that level.<br />
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<ul><li>Apart from being completely free, this websites offers a lot of topics for the learners to choose from starting from the latest news updates or even to the knowledgble one. This will somehow generate the students interest to polish thier own skill by choosing a topic that they like.</li>
<li> It also promote students to become autonomous where it is an activity that engage students to continue in their learning process and improving thier skills without any help from the teachers or anyone else.</li>
<li>In fact, by listening to the speakers, students could be more familiar with different accents by different people and also learn on how to pronounce certain words correctly.</li>
<li>Visual aid also provide some kind of support for the learners while they are listening by making it more real and fun to do.</li>
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<ul></ul>Some of the limitations while using this website:<br />
<ul><li>only suitable for working individuality and not as a group. May be difficult for schools who have limited access to computers or even the internet.</li>
<li> Some of the clips are easy although it is categorized as some of the difficult ones.</li>
<li>students might be unfamiliar with some of the speakers's accent</li>
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Fancy trying it for yourself?? click <a href="http://www.listen-and-write.com/">HERE! </a><br />
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It is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills through music videos and lyrics of your favorite songs.<br />
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So basically, lyrics training is a website that allows us to listen to thousands of songs along with the lyrics available in the internet as a way to improve our listening skills. In simple, the listeners need to complete the lyrics as they are listening to the songs. Although it may sounds and look as normal as what the teachers normally used with the students in class, Lyrics Training is more to a modern way of practising listening skills with some extra new features that excites people in doing it. Furthermore, the best part of this activity is that it is specially made to accomodate different level of learners in terms of listening abilities where learners could choose wheather they want it to be suitable for beginners, intermediate or even expert. The more advance level you choose the more complicated it will get. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MiaKmV_ZzqE/TpyMmEkZKRI/AAAAAAAAACs/mc8VFkCbkKw/s1600/Lyrics20Training.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MiaKmV_ZzqE/TpyMmEkZKRI/AAAAAAAAACs/mc8VFkCbkKw/s320/Lyrics20Training.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>It is an easy tool where we could start practising our listening skills by just picking on one song and the level that we wish to test ourselves. Amazingly, the most cool part in this website is that the music will stop from one line to the other one as we type in the missing words. We could also listen to the same line again and again if we missed any part of it. Moreover, the most interesting thing in this activity is that you will get a score at the end of the song depending on the time you get to finish with the task and you could even compare yourselves with users from different countries. How great is that!!!<br />
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**Some things that I like about this site are:<br />
<ul style="text-align: center;"><li>It's free, so we could use it as many times as we want.</li>
<li> Full with up to date songs to choose from where it could boost up the students interest to keep on testing their listening abilities using songs that they like.</li>
<li>Fun and motivate learners to learn by themselves at home without any teacher guidelines.</li>
<li>It also provides score in the end as a type of feedback for the learners to keep challeging themselves and improve thier current ability.</li>
<li>This activity does not only concern about the learners listening ability but also thier spelling capabilities of writing the correct words.</li>
<li>Students will also get to learn new vocabularies and how to pronounce words correctly as it should.</li>
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**Some things that I don't like about this site are:<br />
<ul style="text-align: center;"><li> Some of the videoclips may not be suitable to be shown in class as it might offend certain people.</li>
<li>Students might be out of control and choose inappropriate songs unsuitable for their age.</li>
<li>The learners might not be able to predict words that they have never heard before such as slangs or dialects that the singers used.</li>
<li>Certain schools might have limited computers and internet acces. </li>
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That's all I have to say for this site but personally, I would like everyone to try it for yourself by clicking <a href="http://www.lyricstraining.com/">HERE</a> and experience this new form of excitement of making learning language more fun and alive!!!Atiqah Azmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562748452080385362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815733461018658440.post-31647092073543593602011-10-13T11:35:00.000+01:002011-10-17T18:52:24.318+01:00DvolverFancy becoming a director? Eager to create your own short clips? Tired of writing boring stuff? Worry not..DVOLVER has the answer to all of it. <br />
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DVOLVER is a new technology that could make learning English more creative and fun for the students and even for the teachers to use it in class.It is a website Which encourage students to come out with a cartoon comic strip type movie online using pre-made graphics.The sites is so easy to use,free and suitable for beginners of lower secondary students aged 12-15 years old. In fact, with just a few minutes familiarizing with the website, students can easily start their own short creative production using different context, storylines and crazy ideas!! Just how much fun is that. The best part is students will not only think on how to make their clips interesting but also need to think hard on how to make use the language comprehensible to the readers.<br />
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Here's a sample that we can make through DVOLVER..or you can click <a href="http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-623613">HERE</a> to try it for youself.<br />
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Although Dvolver has some of the main interesting features that could make learning becomes more fun and addictive, it does have its own drawbacks especially when it comes with technology.<br />
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The advantages:<br />
<ul><li>I find the websites amusing as it promotes the students to become more creative by making thier own stories as they desire through pre-made graphics available.</li>
<li>Students will also engage with real life communication as they need to carefully compose the right language used with the right context.</li>
<li>Plus, the website itself is load with different characters, musics, and scenaries available for the learners to choose from making the results more interesting and fun to do in class.</li>
<li>It could also encaurage the students to become autonomous as the students could make use of the website at home and experiment with the language more freely and countinuosly.</li>
<li>Surprisingly, the most important thing Dvolver has to offer is that the website is completely FREE and anyone could use it till their hearts content.</li>
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The drawbacks:<br />
<ul><li>The number of words that is allowed in the dialogue are limited to 100 words. Thus, this will restrict the students capability of using the language freely.</li>
<li>Too much freedom would make the students to be out of control and use inappropriate language in thier work.</li>
<li>Some of the schools or even the students' home will not have the access to the internet and this will make learning through Dvolver unaccessible. </li>
<li>Students are not able to edit thier own product and need to start all over again in order to make new corrections. </li>
<li>The learners creativity are restricted as they can only use the characters, musics, and background that is pre-made for them to use without having the opportunity to create one of thier own.</li>
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