Practising with Web 2.0 tools

A kind of crossbreed - between a sandbox and a showcase

Comic on ToonDoo

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Toon Doo gave me a bumpy start. It had something to do with Flash, but at first it wouldn't run on either IE or Chrome. Then it just got sorted out by itself, and .... wow!!It was sheer delight! I first created my own characters through TraitR (I felt like a witness working...

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Make Beliefs Comix

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Make Beliefs is again very simple to use, and requires no registration. At first I couldn't get the "Start" screen on IE, so I switched to Chrome, and there it was. When you finish you can print the cartoon or email the link, but even after emailing it you can still edit...

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Garfield

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  This is my first Garfield comic. It was really easy to create, and can be saved as jpg or png. The only little problem I had is that I could not insert a question mark. It doesn't understand my keyboard fully, and it doesn't read ASCII, either. But that's just a...

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Comics: using them in the classroom

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 This is an activity one of my students (a teacher-to-be) carried out in 2010. After reading the novel Nice Work by David Lodge  I suggested a number of Creative Response activities, which included, among others, a trailer for an imaginary film version or writing an alternative...

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Cartoons: Zimmertwins

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I have created my first Zimmertwins cartoon.  It's called A mystery present. The site is really user-friendly, and the How to introduction extremely clear. Note to self: do watch the initial tutorial instead of wasting minutes or hours figuring out how it works! http...

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3-2-1 Introductions

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Digital Storytelling for Young Learners asked participants to start the workshop by introducing themselves including the following information 3 things we should know about you , 2 of your favorite activities in the world, 1 dream job you would have if you weren...

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One True Media

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Inspired by Eva, I tried One True Media for Digital Storytelling. It's really easy, with a lot of options, as long as you keep to 30 seconds. This is not really a story, but a collection of covers for Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared...

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Little Bird Tales

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I have created this tale using Little Bird Tales for Digital Storytelling 4 Kids. The story is by Indian writer Suniti Namjoshi. The pictures were selected via CompFight and Wikimedia Commons. However, they all require attribution, and I don't know how to include...

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Social networks

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Final project submitted for a course in Spanish : Las redes sociales como entorno para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en internet

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Mariel Amez

Mariel Amez

Lifelong learner. EFL teacher & Eng. Lit. lecturer . Passionate about Web 2.0.

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