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Page history last edited by Teresa Almeida d'Eca 15 years, 4 months ago

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

Where can we store and share with the world outside the classroom all the work our students do in blended and online lessons with the type of tools I've just shown? Blogs and wikis are my favorite suggestion.

I've been calling them text tools for quite some time, but in fact they are much more than that. They are multimedia tools, because we can link and embed in them different types of tools, from text to audio, image and video. Thus the title "Multimedia tools".

Blogs and wikis are not only great tools to practice reading and writing. They can also be considered the "4 in 1": the four basic tools integrated in only one tool.

And then there's my latest discovery, "My Posterous", which allows for text, images, audio and video to be sent by email and uploaded in a matter of seconds.

Here are a few examples of work done with these tools.

Blogs

Two very young friends meet through their blogs

Vicky's Learning Blog

Sudanese-Rahma

Elementary school

Fun English for Kids (curricular)

Have Fun with English! 2 (extracurricular)

CALL Lessons 2005-2007 (curricular)

Middle school

Teenage Life (8th grade, 4th year EFL) - Etelvina Figueiredo

University