Common Craft is a great site to get a quick and simple explanation for lots of stuff. I'm most familiar with the technology things but there are other videos for everything from 'augmented reality' to 'zombies' (I'm not kidding!). When you get into the site choose 'browse videos' and select a category. These videos are simply done and may give you or your students an idea for a homemade video project. Common Craft videos are usually no more than 3 minutes long and are perfect to show in class.
The site looks like they are selling the videos and indeed they are, but you can watch everything online for free. So, don't be put off by the sales pitch.
Oh yeah, Common Craft videos are available in multiple languages... how can you use that?
Monday, April 25, 2011
Weebly Test
I've heard from some of you that Weebly restricts many of its add-ons to paying customers. I checked it out on my travel website and found that all the things that I think you need for our project are still free. I even added my Voki by pasting the html code from the Voki site into an html piece I drug into the site. I also added a YouTube video by pasting the URL into a YouTube piece I added to my page. See the site for more info.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wordle from Comments
One of the features of Blogger is the ability to see all comments in one place (see the Stats tab at the top of Posting page). I copied all 127 comments, took out your names, dates and times using MS Word, and then pasted the words into Wordle. Makes for an interesting and revealing picture of what you've been commenting. See the Wordle on the right, double click to enlarge.
K-3 Diagnostic Test Support
As much as it pains me to support the test-crazy system, I know it is part of your life. Here's a link that you may already know about but just in case you don't...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Symbaloo | Access your bookmarks anywhere
I know many of you have used Symbaloo but thought I'd give the rest of you the link... think: a Symbaloo for your class or course. Students could help it grow. Hmmmm maybe we should start our own 675 Symbaloo.
I've started a Symbaloo for EDUC 675... see if you can add to it.
TESOL Resource Anyone?
This site is a blog maintained by a UK professor, it has lots of links to TESOL sites:
Quizlet Video
Another Web 2.0 tool that you can use right now with any subject (including World Languages). Watch the video, use the tool. Write a review.
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