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Bitstrips.com for your classroom.  Create custom comics for your lessons or guide your students through the creation process.  It is motivational and fun!

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Do you want to teach your students using Web 2.0 technology?  Check here on a regular basis for free "print and facilitate" activities for integrating Web 2.0 with your language teaching.  All materials are covered under the Creative Commons attribution to "John Allan"  and no commercial use. However, they can be freely used for your in class teaching purposes.  Use the Email account lesson to set up your students with an email account that can be used strictly for this course as the subscription messages will easier to track and they will not interfere with their personal or school email acount.

Activities - teacher notes & student worksheets

Section One - Web 2.0 site commonalities

Tagging Interactivity Media of focus Contribution Personalization
Subscriptions Community Sharing Marketing Fuzzy logic


Section Two - activities

Create a visual PodCast - Voki Create ESL games - Classtools
Create a word cloud - Wordle Make a personal poster - Glogster
Create a  poster - Wordle Learn Grammar - TeacherTube
Top ten lists - Wordle Make a Logo - Vector Majic
Complex Word Clouds - Wordle Layout a magazine/website - gomockingbird
Word frequency - Wordle Make a shared document - Etherpad
Create an audio poem - Myna Make image stories - FLickr Poet
Create a Poster - AutoMotivator Share a story - VoiceThread
Edit pictures - Picnik Collaborative doc - WriteBoard
Make a Comic - Bitstrips Kartoo - Define relationships
Take A Poll - Ask500People Look up definitions- Dictionary.com
Make a Poll - Ask500People Make a digital collage - Siide
Make a video - Xtranormal Make word connections - Lexipedia
Typing practice - TypeWeb Translate  everything! -  Google Translate
Make a presentation - Animoto Practice memorization - Funnel Brain
Tell a story - SlideShare Plan a project - Bubbl.us
Create a class website - Synthasite Make a movie - Devolver
Practice listening - Forvo Make a  presentation - Voice Thread
Reading practice - Spreeder Take a video Quiz - ESL Video
Take a spelling test - SpellingCity Brainstorm/mindmap - MindMapper


Section Three - teacher tips

Converting all media - Zamzar
Optimize Images - Picnik
Create video captures - ScreenToaster Host slideshows - SlideShare
Use "dummy text" - Lorem Ipsum Locate and install fonts - dafont
Create a text activity - LexTutor Make FLashcards - Quizlet
Create a text activty - Project Gutenburg Animate a Lesson - ScreenCast
Generate Vocab lists - Amazon & Vocab Grabber
Make Trivia games - PurposeGames
Create a YouTube Video Quiz - ESLVideo Create a reading list - BlogLines
Generate definitions - Scholastic Class bookmarking - Delicious
Create spelling activities - SpellingCity Plagarism awareness - WePapers
Join a teacher's community - NING Create a class community - NiNG
Translation tricks - Google Translate Basic image shows -Gickr

 

 

 

 

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