February 05, 2009

BUBBLESHARE

BUBBLESHARE is a tool that allows you to upload your photos, create albums and share them in an easy and entertaining way.
It’s very simple to use. You can add clipart and text to the photos, you can display them using different backgrounds, you can add a title to the album and the photos and you can leave comments.
Although the feature ‘add audio/video caption’ is offered, it doesn’t work, which is a pity because I could think of many more potential applications of this software in EFL if audio was available.

Of course the visual presentations (albums or slideshows) created with Bubbleshare could be used as a springboard for writing down the story shown or predicting the ending (ideas contributed by Leigh Thelmadatter, a teacher based in Mexico DF), writing about 'A special place in my country' (idea contributed by Margaret Redus, a teacher from Texas, USA).

The following lesson plans are some other examples of how BUBBLESHARE can be used in EFL.
Wishes and regrets
Personal guided tour of my city

The following link is to a blog by María Victoria Saumell, a teacher from Argentina, who used Bubbleshare as part of a fables project after her students had read the story The Lion and the Mouse. Go to the post of February 6th, 2009.

Educational Technology in ELT

Now if you want to create an album go to

http://www.bubbleshare.com/

and read the information here.

http://www.bubbleshare.com/help/

No comments: