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Wednesday, 1 June 2011
LadyBug Note Generator
You can add more Ladybug as you like.
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The widget links to stories that are relevant and interesting to readers of a particular post, keeping them engaged with your blog, and increasing your traffic.
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Don't Let Your Past Stories Go to Waste!
We retrieve and index all stories from your blog archive, not just recent stories, making them accessible to new or casual readers of your blog who would not otherwise encounter them.
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
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Free Flash Digital Clock Blog Widget
If you're like most people and are on social networks all the time, then you need a Digital Clock on your page! It looks awesome and it helps you and your friends not lose track of your day/life online! :)
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Create Video Questionnaires
Intervue.me is a new website I have been using recently. It's another website that is based around the use of webcams. The site enables users to create questionnaires and then get the recipients of the questionnaire to leave video recorded answers. The site is very easy to use.
Register the go to 'My Dashboard' and click on 'Create New' to start your first questionnaire.
First you decide on the levels of privacy you want for the questionnaire and whether you want people to be able to leave anonymous answers or add comments to the answers.
Next you click on 'Start adding questions'.
You can type in your question and give more explanation below the question if you think that makes it clearer. You can add as many questions as you want. You'll also need to click on 'Edit title' so that you can give your questionnaire a name.
Once you have added all your questions you can just click on 'Share' or 'Invite' to either get a URL for your questionnaire or to email it to specific people.
Then once people receive the questionnaire they just click on the questions and record their answers using the webcam in their laptop.
To see all the videos you can just go to 'My Dashboard' and click on the 'Videos' tab.
Here are some example questionnaires I have created. Feel free to leave an answer to any of the questions.
How to use Intervue.me with students
Related links:
Nik Peachey
Register the go to 'My Dashboard' and click on 'Create New' to start your first questionnaire.
First you decide on the levels of privacy you want for the questionnaire and whether you want people to be able to leave anonymous answers or add comments to the answers.
Next you click on 'Start adding questions'.
You can type in your question and give more explanation below the question if you think that makes it clearer. You can add as many questions as you want. You'll also need to click on 'Edit title' so that you can give your questionnaire a name.
Once you have added all your questions you can just click on 'Share' or 'Invite' to either get a URL for your questionnaire or to email it to specific people.
Then once people receive the questionnaire they just click on the questions and record their answers using the webcam in their laptop.
To see all the videos you can just go to 'My Dashboard' and click on the 'Videos' tab.
Here are some example questionnaires I have created. Feel free to leave an answer to any of the questions.
How to use Intervue.me with students
- Create comprehension check questions to go with reading homework so that students also do some speaking for homework.
- Create opinion polls for students to answer.
- Make action research questionnaires
- Play the alibi game and get students to explain where they were and what they were doing at particular points in time.
- Ask students about childhood memories.
- It's very quick and easy to create questionnaires
- It's a great way to provide speaking practice for students.
- You can add more detail and explanation to the questions.
- Students get to practice their digital communication skills.
- Students will be able to watch and listen to their replies and rerecord them so this will focus them on accuracy.
- It can be more communicative and engaging than writing down answers as students can also see the other answers that have been recorded.
- You can create long questionnaires or very simple single question ones.
- It could take time to get students feeling comfortable in front of the camera, so you might need to help them a little and get them to think about lighting and getting the correct distance from the camera.
- Be careful about enabling anonymous replies or comments as this could be abused.
- Students need a laptop with a reasonable quality microphone.
Related links:
- Create a Video Q&A Booth
- So Ask Me a Question
- Create a Video Dictation Activity
- 20 WebCam Activities for EFL ESL Students
- Teach Yourself to Teach with Tech
- Get your Students Listening and Interacting with Native Speakers
Nik Peachey
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Get your Students Listening and Interacting with Native Speakers
Listening in the EFL / ESL classroom can be a pretty dull business. Usually it consists of students all listening to the same thing at the same time and doing the same tasks. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you feel the urge to get away from the course book and get your students listening to and interacting with some real native speakers from the safety of their computer then why not check out some of the people on Vyou.com ?
I've already written about how you can set up your own Vyou Q&A video booth, but it's also well worth looking round some of the people who are already there and seeing if there are any your students would be interested in, as a lot of the people there a quite young and some are quite interesting and quirky and Vyou offers your students the opportunity not only to listen to them and hear a range of accents, but also to ask them questions, though the answers might take a while to come.
It's very simple to use. You just go to : and there you can either search through some of the featured people or you can click on channels at the top and look through the more topic related people.
Each person has their own video channel and you can either type in questions below the video or you can click on the questions on the right of the video to listen to the answers to questions that have already been asked.
Here are a few people your students might find interesting.
This one is a British guy called Jonny and he claims he will write a song about any subject that readers suggest. There a quite a few there already: http://vyou.com/Spontaneoussongs
This one is Loren Rochelle for North America. She works in 'Social Video seeding' (Yes that seems to a job these days). She answers questions about a wide range of things from the personal to the trivial: http://vyou.com/lorenrochelle
It's also worth checking out the channels.
If you and your students are more interested in literature then there is an ask the author channel where writers answer questions about literature and their books: http://vyou.com/channels/simonandschuster
If your students are more interested in music, EMI also has a channel where you can submit questions to some of their recording artists: http://vyou.com/channels/emi
So how can you exploit this with EFL / ESL students?
Well I hope you try Vyou.com and that your students find it engaging, entertaining and useful.
Related links:
Nik Peachey
I've already written about how you can set up your own Vyou Q&A video booth, but it's also well worth looking round some of the people who are already there and seeing if there are any your students would be interested in, as a lot of the people there a quite young and some are quite interesting and quirky and Vyou offers your students the opportunity not only to listen to them and hear a range of accents, but also to ask them questions, though the answers might take a while to come.It's very simple to use. You just go to : and there you can either search through some of the featured people or you can click on channels at the top and look through the more topic related people.
Each person has their own video channel and you can either type in questions below the video or you can click on the questions on the right of the video to listen to the answers to questions that have already been asked.
Here are a few people your students might find interesting.
This one is a British guy called Jonny and he claims he will write a song about any subject that readers suggest. There a quite a few there already: http://vyou.com/Spontaneoussongs
This one is Loren Rochelle for North America. She works in 'Social Video seeding' (Yes that seems to a job these days). She answers questions about a wide range of things from the personal to the trivial: http://vyou.com/lorenrochelle 
It's also worth checking out the channels.
If you and your students are more interested in literature then there is an ask the author channel where writers answer questions about literature and their books: http://vyou.com/channels/simonandschuster
If your students are more interested in music, EMI also has a channel where you can submit questions to some of their recording artists: http://vyou.com/channels/emi
So how can you exploit this with EFL / ESL students?
- Show students some of the people and get them to think of questions they would like to ask. Then get them to submit the questions (try to get them to submit questions to a few different people) then in the next lesson they can see if they have any answers and share the information they got from the answers (Also good for lessons on reported speech).
- Ask students to choose one person each and give them 5 - 10 minutes to discover as much information as possible about that person. They can then discuss and share the information in class.
- Collect some of the questions that have been asked and get students to think of possible answers, then watch and compare to their own answers and see how much they have in common with each person. Then get students to find the person they are most like.
- Get students to watch two different people and then compare and contrast their character and interests.
- Get students to think of one or two good questions and submit them to a range of people. Then in the next lesson students can check the answers and decide who they think gave the best answer.
- These are real people that students can interact with.
- The use of the looped introduction videos gives a real sense of presence and this can be much more motivating and engaging for students.
- There's a real wealth of listening materials with various accents on a range of topics.
- The answers are quite short so they aren't too demanding on students concentration despite being 'ungraded' and authentic.
- Students can listen multiple times.
- I've looked at quite a few channels and there doesn't seem to be anything inappropriate or offensive.
- Some of the channels allow for anonymous submission of questions, so students might be tempted to ask something inappropriate (though they are unlikely to get an answer.)
- It is possible that your students might stumble across something they might find offensive or some bad language, but I haven't found anything like this yet.
Well I hope you try Vyou.com and that your students find it engaging, entertaining and useful.
Related links:
- Create a Video Q&A Booth
- So Ask Me a Question
- Create a Video Dictation Activity
- 20 WebCam Activities for EFL ESL Students
- Teach Yourself to Teach with Tech
Nik Peachey
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