Recently, I was reminded by several bloggers in my reader about the site “Blabberize“. Thank you Teaching Sagittarian, Teach42,
Technology in our classroom.
I thought it might be a great opportunity for Jose, the travel bear to introduce his newest upcoming adventure to Costa Rica and Peru.

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Check out this site from Make Sweet Animation, that lets you create your own animated or still flag. You can add an image or text to your banner. Students could use their own avatars to display their flags on a classroom or personal blog.

A picture can tell a story…

I just found a cool new site, PicsViewr ,  that allows you to show Flickr images in different slideshow layouts. Sumply type in the username, choose the layout, then choose from different sets if available.

If you own a PC, you can download Microsoft’s PhotoStory for free .

To get started creating a story:

Download and install the program on your computer.
Once installed open the program by clicking “Start”, then “Programs”

Find the icon for “PhotoStory 3 for Windows”
Begin a new story by selecting the radio button and pushing the [...]

I have briefly highlighted a few screen capturing tools and keyboard shortcuts on Langwitches before. Here is a quick run down, links to original posts or links to the software website:

Windows Keyboard Shortcut

Capturing the entire desktop: Use the Print Screen button on your keyboard to place the image on your clipboard, then past (CTRL+V) the [...]

For a while now, I have taken photos of food in different countries. I am uploading them to my Flickr Account Set .
Feel free to use them in any digital storytelling project or world language learning class. Also check out the Times Photo Essay What the World eats?
BTW, I used Splashr to embed the [...]

I must confess, that I love Image Generators. There are many cool sites out there that let you and your students easily upload one of your images and/or type in some text that will generate a new image for you to download and use. Students have absolutely loved playing with several ones of them and [...]

Here is a nifty little image generator for everyone who is planning on creating a virtual travel experience for their students.
Airline Ticket Image Generator
Insert the passenger and destination details, choose from 33 airlines and have the ticket generated for you.
Pretty neat.

Inspired by Teaching Sagittarius, I decided to start working on a post about Flickr. Since I am planning on introducing Flickr itself and its many mash-up programs to my faculty at school soon, this is a good time to compile resources I have been collecting on my del.icio.us account, tagged flickr.
The first question I will [...]