See you later!

Hi, This is my last post in the blog for this subject, and I created a Voki to speak for me:

Even though I look very outgoing and self confident, I'm a bit shy when speaking of my feelings, and this is what I wanted to share with you here, my feelings! I've loved attending this subjects and I feel I've leartn a lot, and most important, I've opened myself to a whole new world.

See you soon, I'll keep you posted!

Voxopop

Well, well, well... This was a disappointment!
I was thinking of starting a discussion gruop for us to discuss the way we use Tech in the ELT classroom, and I did:

But unfortunately, I couldn't record my own voice, and there is no other way of including your opinion by other means.

It is really disappointing, I thought it was a great tool, but in real practice it isn't.

I thought it would be great for commenting on different things such as values, ethical issues, stories, articles, etc. What a pity!

Blabberize

Have you ever thought of making EVERYTHING speak?
Well, Blabberize is the tool that will make it possible.
Using the tool you can get any picture and make it speak, in my case, I have chosen a Koala, because I thought that instead of us presenting animals, animals can present themselves, tell us where they are from, where they live and what they eat, among others.

Look at my Speaking Koala:



I think young learners would be really motivated if animals spoke to them, or if they were to give them a voice, Do you agree?

Go Animate!

Have a look at this joke I made in a GoAnimate video.
I think this would be useful for students to give opinions and tell stories, teachers can also make students prepare comics and then make the students design their videos and present them to the class. I believe this is a great idea for shy students, given that instead of recording the audios, they can use the 'text to speech' tool, just as I did.
Would you use it in your classroom?

Content curation

I have chosen the tool Scoop.it! to curate online content. I have found ir really easy to use and interesteng, given that they recomend some content for you to have a look at and decide on. Besides you can log in with your Facebook or Linkedin account, so it automatically shares your curated material on the social networks.

This is my Scoop.it!

And these are some of the people I follow, including both experts and classmates, which in my opinion, are experts too! ;) The great thing is that we can check out what we are Scooping, and ReScoop, as well!!

Would you like to be part of this community? Come join us! :)

Web tools and Apps!

I've just finished watching Nik Peachey's talk, and found it really enriching.
While watching them, I chose one of them, which I think we could use both as teachers and students, and it is the video mail. In the talk Nik very well proposes its use for developing speaking skills and how it would be useful for shy students and I think it's a great idea!
On the other hand I think it is great for our lab lessons. Sometimes we get terrified when it comes to reading in front of our teachers, and it would be great if we could send them a link with our production. I made an attempt at reconrding the tongue twister "Peter Pipper" Have a look!

My video

What do you guys think? Would you give it a try in Lab?




See you around!

Puentedura on Twister!

Have you ever dreamt of being someone else? And what about being someone else on Twitter? It's been made easy! Class tools allows you to speak through their mouths.

I've tried this tool with Puentedura, an expert in education, discussing both Technology Pedagogy Content Knowledge (TPCK) and SAMR model, want to see what he says?

What do you think of his ideas? I have chosen the ones I liked the most from his talk.

Welcome!

Hi! Welcome to my blog on Technology in the ELT classroom!
Hope it turnd out to be a warm place to foster reflection!

I've created an avatar in Voki, can you see it?

   
I think they could be used in class for students to introduce themselves or other charactersthy create, as well as to describe different people, animals or monsters.

See you soon!