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/

Flipping out

In many posts I have mentioned online tools which could be interesting as a means of setting students homework, creating online cartoons, recordings etc which can later be looked at and discussed in class. Here is another idea which is in vogue but which takes the whole concept of what happens at home / in class to a different level.

Try flipping your class. Forget those up-front presentations. Record them (powerpoint, video, audio, slide presentation etc) and put them online, on your blog for example. Let the students work through the presentation at home. That frees you up in class for much more interesting work be it practice or student feedback on the work they did at home.

Have yet to put it into practice but love the idea and how it could help make classroom time all the more useful and rich. Follow these two links for a little more on the area:

http://flipped-learning.com/

http://marynabadenhorst.global2.vic.edu.au/2010/04/01/to-flip-or-not-to-flip/

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/

Clozing time

Yes indeed, clozing time at http://www.learnclick.com/

You can make your own cloze test in minutes.

Not very sophisticated but practical and quick to use.

It is worth the Waits