Jennifer Verschoor's Blog (4)

Dear Participants,

 

I love learning new Web 2.0 tools to enhance my teaching. Check my recent blog post where you will be able to take a look at the different web tools I learn daily. Some time ago I used a web 2.0 tool called Fotababble that allows you to create talking pictures. It is a very simple tool and you can…

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Dear All,



Today I am travelling to a very beautiful province in Argentina called Córdoba. It is 700km from Buenos Aires. Luckily I will be able to meet Maria one of our participants face to face :-)



Unfortunately I am not taking my laptop with me therefore I won´t have full access to Internet. It has been a very enriching experience to share this session with you. I would also like to thank my wonderful team Vance and Nina for their constant help and support.



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In the next few weeks I have to give several teacher training courses. One of the Web 2.0 tools I love to explore with my participants is Wordle



Do you want to know what has been going on in our Help Desk tab?

These are the main words used in our Help Desk. To create this word list I choose the option "Enter the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom… Continue

After reading Chapter 1 of From Blogs to Bombs I thought it was a good idea to test my digital native students to see if they were able to understand the txtspk in the book.

To my surprise most of them found this activity quite challenging. Out of 25 students not only one was able to understand the whole text.

They couldn`t believe that this was an essay a student sent to their teacher. We had a very interesting debate on text messaging.



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