Two Cute Web 2.0 Sites
One of the best things about Web 2.0 is the ease with which they fit into the curriculum, ranging from Foreign Language to Lower School Reading. There always seems to be a way to incorporate these sites into a digital storytelling project, an exploration of verb tenses, or a strategy for summarizing skills learned in class each week.One of the two cute sites is blabberize. This is not the best site ever, but it can be used for many purposes. Simply upload a picture, draw a circle around the mouth, record a sentence or two and there you have it: a talking picture. Think of its uses: talking animals telling about their habitat, students describing a recent event, a political candidate voicing an issue. Try it. The second site is Bubbleply. This site allows the user to add pop-up bubbles to a youtube video. You can choose when and for how long the bubble will appear. Bubbles can include text and hyperlinks. Again, think of the many ways to use this site: a history class can annotate a famous speech, a French class can dub a commercial, a lower school reading class can add bubbles to a video of a class trip. The link feature makes this an even more powerful tool for upper school students, who can create links to websites, maps, and other resources.
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February 21st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
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February 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 am
Both the sites mentioned are great! Blabberize can be an excellent educational tool and bubbleply a promotional tool.
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