The idea of Wallwisher is quite simple – an online notice board. Notices can be left by the wall’s creator or by anyone. The creator can also opt to review other peoples’ submission. A Wallwisher wall looks like this.
Wallwisher wall, click to enlarge
A notice can consist of up to 160 characters. Web pages, videos or audios can also be linked though. (more…)
Voxopop is a tool allowing you to start so-called talkgroups. These groups can be public, restricted or private. Other users can record their contribution. All contributions appear in a stream, if the stream is played, all parts of the conversations played back in a row automatically. So, a talkgroup is like a asynchronous discussion group.
Talkgroup entries can be downloaded as RSS feed, hence podcast. (more…)
Over the last few years, I came across a number of educational tools. Some looked very promising, but revealed some weak points on the second, third, or – when well disguised – fourth look. For me, the following criteria are important when choosing an educational tool. (more…)
Recording your own voice is great to practice pronunciation. By playing it, you can spot errors yourself and you can also send it to a friend / lecturer to get some feedback. There are two web 2.0 services that make recording (even on the go) very convenient. Audioboo and Soundcloud. You can also find some small projects you can do to practice pronunciation, grammar and phrases. (more…)
Quite often, I take the second step before the first one. In my last post, I referred to twitter quite often. It seems to be time to discuss it now. In this post, I’ll discuss twitter, how it is and why it should be used. And, as usual, I’ll discuss possible scenarios for educators and students. (more…)
Writing is a skill that needs to be learned, the more you practice the better you’ll become. And that applies to your mother tongue as well as to your foreign language. Blogs also offer the opportunity to reflect about complex issues, resulting in better understanding and the emergence of new ideas. So, blogging is good for your critical thinking abilities.
I came across a great tool today. It’s called “skitch“. It is available for MAC (app store) and Android phones (market) at the moment. iOS (hence, iPhone and iPad) may also be supported soon. Furthermore, I hope, there’ll be a Windows application, but you may also refer to these alternatives. Though Skitch and its alternatives are useful, one can always use basic graphic editors to gain the same results. So, if you have Photoshop, Firefox, Gimp or whatever, you can basically do the same. (more…)
Bloom taxonomy of learning domains is very useful and widely accepted. But how do mobile learning activities be categorized into Bloom’s levels of
A quick google search gives you plenty of guides, telling you how to compose good blog posts (1, 2, 3 examples). So, why this one? Well, everyone has her/his own ideas about this.
Paul Foreman for mindmapinspiration.com
Here is mine. (more…)
Here is my Prezi from the presentation given on 12 August 2010 at CDTL.
Lecturer for German at the Centre for Language Studies of the National University of Singapore.
Interested in neurocognition, CALL (with emphasis on Web 2.0) and science.
