Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Friday, April 6, 2012

Comic Strips Makes Learning Interesting

Do you still use the traditional teaching skills in your classroom, like text-books, handout and paper materials? Would you like to try the different learning approach for your students? Try to use the photo stories or comic strips with technology which makes your classroom more interesting and interactive.
This is my comic strips which I made by Dvolver


This tool helps teachers or learners to create their comic strips with the ready-make characters, scenes and music. Also, it is an animated movie, so students will be attracted by the colorful scenes and dynamic sounds. This tool can be utilized in all learning skills, especially for communication classroom. The teacher can ask students to create their own stories with comic strips or movies. They can use their imagination to make a dialogue and share with classmates. This making process not only gives students a chance to practice the grammar but increase their learning motivation.
Why don't you start to use this amazing learning tool in your classroom? Have Fun.

There are other links for making photo stories and comic strips:
Stupeflix,  Animoto and GoAnimate

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Let's Tell a Story with the Digital Tool.




Have you ever use such a Digital tool to tell a story in the second language classroom? Let's take a look how wonderful this great Digital tool is. We are going to take a trip in Taiwan to explore the beautiful scenery and visit the famous spot sites. Are you nervous? Let's go!!!!

This is my story book Let's take a trip to Taiwan. which was created by bookr. Bookr is a tool to create and share your own photobook. Teachers can create their photobook, like mine "Let's take a trip to Taiwan" or they can focus on one topic, such as shopping, movie, travel, and entertainment. In the second language learning class, the teacher can show the picture with some vocabularies and sentences so students will feel interesting and they can connect the vocabularies with the pictures easily. It is a quite easy photobook making machine. The teacher can also teach students how to create their phtobook and it can be one of their assignment.

For example, when the spring break or summer vacation is coming, the teacher can ask students to add some photo that they visit or some places that they want to go. Students will try to look up the vocabularies that relate to their pictures through this assignment. They can share with other classmates and they can also learn the new words from other people. It is a really interesting language learning styles, right? Why do you start to make your own photobook for your classroom? Have FUN!!