ICT BLOG

This is my first Padlet project! Still have to try it out with my students :)

VOICETHREAD lets you invent a story with any pictures/photograph from the web or from your computer and have a narrator's voice tellingthe story. With young students you can use the app to tell them a story, or to activate a previous story they have been working with. You can make students create a voicethread project so that they introduce some aspect of themselves to others and then share different projects with the rest of the students: (their introduction, their last holidays, a funny anecdote, what they like / don't like doing, etc) They can use the app to invent the ending of a previous story.

STORYBIRD.COM lets you create a story yourself. You can choose from assorted sets of images and arrange the ones that you select in any order of your preference. You can type the part of the story which corresponds to each image. STORYBIRD.COM for storytelling: you can choose to work with a story for please STORYBIRD FOR READING COMPREHENSION: you can choose to work with a story of your own so that students read, watch the images and complete a task. STORYBIRD.COM for work on values: you can create a story which gives room to discussion of values, or to introduce some project on values, etc. This is the one I have created!

VOKI.COM  let's you create an avatar customizing every feature of it (hair, eye colour, clothes, etc). You can type whatever you want the character to say or you can record your voice (or your student's voice) and see the character becoming alive with a human voice. Voki.com for contextualization:  the app gives you the chance to introduce/ contextualize any activity with some novelty, so that students work with higher levels of motivation. Voki.com for listening practice: students can hear the avatar and be given some task to complete. Voki.com for written or spoken practice : students can type themselves the character's lines or do some oral work and record their voices so that they see the character speaking with their own voices. 

Google Slides can be used to use images or text as a presentation. Students can see the images and work on the board, or complete oral activities such as story telling, play memory games, or just follow a lecture if they are of an older age.  

Google drawings can be used to create interactive activities for students. You can embed words, charts, audio files, and images in the document. Students can move items, click on icons and listen to recordings. Also, you can link any item in the drawing to another file. When you use it in class you can just press in the link and have access to that other file. Click on the images to have access to the original file. Ready to use google drawings interactively?

Google Docs looks like a word document which can be used online, any time, any place, and shared with anyone. Pros * You can access the file both from your home computer and from the phone * You can share the document with as many people as you wish. * Anyone who has access to the link can edit the document if they have permission to do so --they can edit it simultaneously. * Changes are saved automatically What can we use it for? *  To devise tests or activities with a colleague--with google docs there is no need to meet up to work together on it. * For students to interact with material you publish there (by adding comments, having a chat on the topic, etc) Here are some examples: