Monday 23 December 2013

TOOLS FOR WRITING SKILLS

Some fantastic tools for Teachers... :-) If you use some of them tell me about it!


DVOLVER MOVIEMAKER is an easy tool for creating short movies. The movie maker makes it easy to create and share short online movies, pairing cartoon-like backgrounds and characters with the users´ ideas and text.




WORDLE is a tool ("toy") than enables the users to create word clouds form a given text. These clouds give more relevance to those words with a higher occurrence. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with the rest of the teachers, pupils, friends... and to prepare activities in which we need to use these word clouds to create a story, a poem...




TAGXEDO is a tool similar to Wordle that turns words -famous speeches, articles, news, slogans, etc.- into a visually amazing word cloud. Words are also individually stressed according to their frequency within the body of the text.





STORYJUMPER is a web 2.0 that allows students and teachers to create their own online story book. You can make adventure stories, fairy tales, treasure maps, photo books, calendars, among others. A great source of creativity and inspiration for everyone!





STORYMAKER is another online programme whick allows the user to create his/her own story in a very intuitive way. You are given some support and instructions to develop your story. There are some characters and settings already created.



ZOOBURST is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his/her own 3D pop-ups Books.






Monday 9 December 2013

I´M BACK!! :-)


Hello to Everybody!!


Wow!!! The time has passed very quickly and unfortunately I´ve been very, very busy lately...sorry. Anyway I´m back, I´m here and now I desire to continue this blog with all of you so that... I hope you have nice time reading me. Besides that I have good news...yeah!!!


First of all... I´m working again and I´m so happy for that because this year was difficult for me. My job is practically the same one that some time ago :-) I´m working in the area of Drug Prevention with Teenagers and young people. Moreover I´m teaching Abacus in English in a Primary School on the outskirts of Madrid so...It´s Great!!!! If you feel like to find out more information about this topic I recommended you to visit the web: http://www.kidsbrain.es/es  





And second of all... I´m preparing the next post related on "Tools for Writing Skills", in a few days you can see it :-)


Well, that´s all for today!!

Have a Happy Day!