Voxopop Featured 10-6-10

Have any students who are reluctant to write about how they feel, but could talk your ear off??

Why not capitalize on their love of chatter by using this week’s web tool to help them communicate their thoughts.

This web tool allows you to create talk groups, similar to blogs except that you record voices rather than text.  Students can give opinions, debate topics, add new information, and ask  and answer those Critical Thinking questions from the Critical Thinking Student Tool in a brand new and fun way!

Dipity Featured 10-20-10

I personally love timelines.  They condense information to give a general overview as well as a few tidbits to encourage delving deeper into a topic.  Rather than a Power Point, have your students create timelines to demonstrate their knowledge!

 

This web tool allows you to develop timelines and imbed into them photos, links, videos, related articles, etc.  It really couldn’t be any easier.  There are even how-to videos available to walk you and your class through making a timeline.

There is also a library of timelines already created that could be used in classrooms.  Many current events are chronicled such as the story of the Chilean miners or even the progression of the World Cup last summer.    

Forvo Featured 10-27-11

Correct pronunciation of certain words is a highly disputed topic.  It becomes even more complicated when dealing with unfamiliar languages.  If you and your students come across any difficult words to pronounce, let the contributors of this week’s web tool settle the debate.

This web tool provides pronunciations of thousands of words in hundreds of languages.  It is a compilation of recordings by native speakers from different regions of the world.  Have a debate in your class and choose the pronunciations you all think are best!  Students could even contribute their own pronunciations to the site to give representation to our part of the country.