On a high

Well, tripping in fact. Here is website which allows you to plan, review, remember, invent a trip and add photos and comments to the adventure. Sign in with your facebook account is the easiest.

This could be interesting as a class exercise on the IWB and then students could plan their own trips, online or on good old pen and paper.

http://www.tripline.net/

Babbling on

This is fun. Add photos and then talk over them. Greaat for student homework / projects. It can be used to practise any language point. You do have to sign in however, but you can use your facebook account. Well worth investigating if you don’t know it already. http://www.fotobabble.com/

Word play

Word play is a goal of this blog so here are some links to keep us moving that way.

http://www.just-the-word.com/ is a quick but powerful tool for sorting through word patterns. It includes an option which allows you to view results in Wordle.

http://graphwords.com/ is another simple but effective visual thesaurus which, depending on your browser, will also let you save the results as an image.

Two great tools for generating class material or, better still, allowing your students do their own investigation.

Imaging this

We use images all the time in our classrooms and technology makes it increasingly easy to find pictures / flashcards etc. and also to manipulate them and create customized material. You and your students may be familiar with http://www.flickr.com/ where you can store your photo sets online. I have just found, however, http://bighugelabs.com/ which offers a series of tools for manipulating photos, creating a jigsaw for example or a mosaic or poster from files you can upload or import directly from facebook or flickr. Great fun and very useful for creating stimulating images for use in class: try getting students to do their own and bring them in for discussion.

If you want to use pre-selected photos there is nowhere better to start than with http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/sets/ the great ELT picture project. Have a look at the photos already available and well done to those involved! As a continuation follow the great new blog with ideas on how to creatively use photos in your classes http://takeaphotoand.wordpress.com/

Great work by all involved!