Friday, November 30, 2012

Vocaroo: Literally voicing out your opinion.

Teachers would usually ask students to write their opinions. However, Vocaroo brings about a change in classroom as it allows students to literally voicing out their opinions and record them. Exciting, isn't it? Vocaroo is a free online voice recorder which allows sharing not only via emails and by embedding it to websites, but also across social networks such as facebook and twitter. If teacher knows how to manipulate this tool wisely, it can be...

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Bubblr: A new paradigm in doing presentation

The ideas of doing presentation on board, papers or Microsoft Powerpoint has become too typical that students begin to lose interest in doing the task (what's more listening to the teacher/peers' presentation). Hence, Bubblr - a tool which creates comic strips using photos from flickr - provides teachers and learners a new paradigm in doing presentation which promises more fun and excitement! This tool is not only free, but also allows...

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Sing it and spell it: Lyrics Training

Traditional listening activity which involves listening to audio recording can be boring because it is too common. Hence, Lyrics training brings about a revolution in listening activity. Lyrics training is a tool in which challenges users to transcribe the lyrics while listening to the song. This tool will surely be fun when incorporated into language classroom. Let's check it out! How to use it? Using Lyrics training is very simple. Go to...

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Learning is more enjoyable with Dvolver Movie Maker

Learning can be more enjoyable and fun with Dvolver Movie Maker. It is a tool which enables users to create their own short animated movies. Users can personalized the movie as they can choose not only the scenarios, but also the background of the scene and the characters involved. After users have created the movie, they may share it with their friends through email and also by embedding the movie to their websites. So far, more than...