Friday, June 3, 2011

Toondoo.com

This is another tool that my students really like, and it's great for telling stories.  If the kids are artists, they can make transparent gifs of their work and put it into the cartoon shot.  There are educational versions that can load to your school, as well as the freeware version that I use.

Toondoo is definitely worth a look for people in all content area.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Vocaroo

Is anyone out there using Vocaroo for student oral work?  I find that many of my students do better when they have an option to respond to essay questions orally.  Vocaroo provides an easy way to do this, as they don't even have to sign in.   They simple hit record, and then when they are done, there's a button at the bottom that allows them to download the .wav file so I can listen to it.

Pretty easy to use!