Supporter Comment by Ellen Pham on August 26, 2009 at 3:03am

I adore the way you have embedded links... a presentation with lasting value! It seems like just about everything an EFL teacher would need to explore is tucked into this tidy little... powerpoint? Cool, David, a keeper!

BTW, how did you create the stages in page 10? I'll show my age (ahem, my experience) and say, neat!

Comment by Tommy Mc on August 26, 2009 at 6:17am

Everyone is raving about this voicethreads website and I don't see what's so good about it. Really it looks like a bunch of pople just doodling on a picture and saying rather uninteresting things.

The websites mentioned here that I like are dvolver, 20 questions, oddcast and some of the quiz sites.

Supporter Comment by Ellen Pham on August 26, 2009 at 9:22am

Tommy, I taught a very basic, online beginner EFL class using voicethreads as the backbone. The class is no longer active, but I archived it here, English for Friendship & Fun. Maybe you could take a look and see what you think.

Supporter Comment by ddeubel on August 26, 2009 at 9:32am

Ellen,

Yes, packed with click the picture and go see info! I didn't spend much time during the workshops explaining the sites and just concentrated on other stuff and let teachers use the ppt at their leisure...

Tommy - one thing I've found with technology or teaching methods and approaches - we all have our own preferences depending on exp. / background / culture / teaching style / personality / our needs and even our mood at the time we first encounter! However, voicethread is a keeper, have you seen our EFL Classroom 2.0 voicethreads? Lots of great examples - try this one for beginners and thousands of students from around the world have benefited from the voicethreads I put up

Supporter Comment by ddeubel on August 26, 2009 at 9:33am

Ellen,

Those are just text boxes with custom animation which enter the endings of the words. (spelling mistake in "repetition". oops!

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