Make your presentation attractive Part 2

http://www.showbeyond.com/show/home



What is this?

This is a powerful tool to make your presentation more attractive. Basically it has same function with Bookr which I already introduced on this blog.

What's the difference between Showbeyond and Bookr?

• Showbeyond can insert your voice and music so you can use sounds effectively. (Click and see below)

        http://www.showbeyond.com/show/view?sid=1058ed347f67ca6ecfdac9d3f3838127

Limitation

• This presentaion style is more suitable for the presentation automatically.

Make your presentation more attractive Part 1

                                                         http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

What is this?

This is a great tool to make your presentation attractive by using visual aids effectively. You can search suitable pictures on website and insert them into your slides easily.

Why is the content food for language learning?

• It gives you a lot of choices of images once you put keywords on Tag box (see below)

• Pictures help audience to understand your content.
• It is totally free.
• You can get idea from other people's work. (click ↓ This is amazing example)

                         http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/?id=12946

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• The teacher can give students examples of great presentation.
• Project based presentation about cultures are suitable.

Limitations

• It might be a little casual for academic presentation.
• It is a little bit difficult to delivery because the pages can go forward and backward easily.

How to learn English through songs!

www.lyricstraining.com

Your task

If you like music, serch your favorite song and take a dictation.

For example, if you are interested in British pop music, have a look at Beatles's songs.

You can select 'begginer' 'intermediate' 'export' according to your English level.

Songs are good tool for improving your listening skill. Once you can understand the mechanism of changing the sounds such as liaison and assimilation, you can gradually hear and understand what English native speakers are saying.

Tell me which song you chose and which part of the song you had difficulty in listening.

Tongue Twister!!! (Betty Botter's Batter)

Can you beat the boy in Youtube?

Betty Botter's Butter and Batter

Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter's bitter,
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better,
So she bought some better butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter,
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.

Yout task!

Count how many seconds you take, say your achievement in comment box.

Or you can record your voice and post it here. I can count it for you!

Here is the easiest way to record yourself

http://audioboo.fm/

Have fun!

Technology for teaching!

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3135914/Technology_for_teaching%21

This is how people think about the technology for teaching!

Record your voice and send it to your teacher Part 2 (Only voice for shy students)

http://vocaroo.com/

What is this?
This Vocaroo has a wonderful function which can record your voice and send it to anyone.

Why is the content good for language learning?

• It can expand the possibility of new style of classroom
• It is totally free

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• This tool is useful outside the class.
• The teacher can get students to record about any topic as homework and send it to her.
• Any topic will be good, it might be about students' family, hobbies and school life.
• The teacher can correct students' pronunciation, intonation and expressions.
• The teacher can introduce the best perfomance in the next class.

Limitations

• You need a microphone for recording.
• It can not include video.

Record your voice and send it to your teacher Part 1

http://mailvu.com/

What is this?

This mailVU can allow you to record yourself and send it to anyone. There are another features below;

-Plays on most smart phones

-Video mails up to 10 minutes.

-Self-destruct after # of views

-Retract video email at will

-Send and Read notifications

-Video stored up to 365 days

-No account or downloads



Why is the content good for language learning?

• It can expand the possibility of new style of classroom
• It is totally free

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• This tool is useful outside the class.
• The teacher can get students to record about any topic as homework and send it to her.
• Any topic will be good, so the teacher can say 'SHOW & TELL' which is an activity to get students have something and simply talk about it.
• The teacher can introduce the best perfomance in the next class.

My soft toy can be a student!

Limitations

• You need microphone and webcamera for recording
• You cannot embed it to your blog