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Blabberize & Jose the Travel Bear

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

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.

China Blog
Egypt Blog

Create your own Animated Flag

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

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.

Leaving Buenos Aires…

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

A picture can tell a story…

PicsViewr- Flickr Slideshows

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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.

Digital StoryTelling Part III- PhotoStory

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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 [...]

Screen Capturing Tools

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

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 [...]

Food Around the World

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

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 [...]

Image Generators

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Airline Ticket Image Generator

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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.

Flickr Use for Teachers

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

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 [...]