TECHY TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS & EFL

The challenges in the new millennium require that both teachers and students become competent users of ICT, able to integrate Web 2.0 tools into their daily teaching and learning. Many of these tools are currently being used by educators to teach ESL or EFL. This blog is dedicated to those tools which can easily be adapted for use in the English classroom. It's a question of using these tools in innovative ways in order to engage our digital learners and motivate them to learn English!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

XTRANORMAL

Xtranormal is a tool to make movies. The first couple of movies are free so it could be used for a one-off project. Fun and easy to use. The only negative thing I find is that you can't record your own voice and have to use one of the voices given to you. I can see a lot of possibilities for using xtranormal in my English classes with ESO level students. Here are two examples of short clips I have made.

An example of a short clip made by my 7 year old and I. She loved making it!

An Example from a student