Using Photo Shows in Teaching and Learning

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

    This is a short video of Christmas song i've made using Animoto, which is a digital tool to tell stories using photos, texts, and videos.

    I can use this video to in an English as a second-language classroom. The level of the students will be Grade One children of elementary school. With such a video, I can not only teach students some vocabularies, but also teach them this interesting song which is named 'We wish you Merry Christmas'. In addition, I can also give some extra information about Christmas as an American holiday such as its orign, meaning, and ways of celebration.

    For those higher level students, I can show this video as a model of small project. I can let students to make a 2-3 minutes video to introduce one kind of American holidays using whatever pictures or informations related to it. They can make it by themselves or work as a groups.

    It's a good way to teach and learn by digital materials like this.

Twitter - a new way to teach!

    There are many different kinds of free technologies you can use in your teaching. Today, I want to introduce a excellent tools for you -- Twitter!

    Here's an article which can teach you 28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter. It contains many functions you can use in blogs, for example, communicating with each other, making comments for others, and following others' posts.

    However, the most important thing is that Twitter also provides you with specific technologies teachers can use in education. One of them is 

2 Really Simple Ways To Send Audio Tweets To Twitter. With this, you can record a short instruction for the assignment or project and send it to Twitter for your students. In addition, you can also use Educational Twitter Chats Calendar as a syllabus. You can schedule each task of specific days for your students to discuss some topics or submit their assignments. Furthermore, teachers yourselves can also search the helpful information of teaching through Twitter. Here's an introduction which can tell you How To Use Twitter's Advanced Search Options to help you search things more effectively.

    Google Reader is really helpful and saving time. Once we add blogs addresses we can see all the new posting in the Google Reader at the same time.

    This is one of the interesting posts I found from Google Reader. It's from one blog named Free Technology for Teachers. In this blog, we can find many useful technology we can use in teaching.

    This post is about use YouTube Teachers, which teach you how to use videos in the classroom. I think almost every teacher use videos in teaching in recent time. However, many times, we spend much time for accessing problems. This technology can help you with all these tasks.

    Click on the below address and learn more about YouTube Teachers:

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/youtube-teachers-ideas-for-using-videos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29&utm_content=Google+Reader