Optional task

For those who have already finished all the assigned tasks, I am going to give you some other alternative web pages for you to carry out an optional task.

For those of you who like comics you can start creating your own comic strips using Toondoo. That way you can continue practising your writing skills. Writing is also the skill required to go into Storybird, a web site where you will be able to create your own tales.

As regards sound you can try Fotobabble, a web application which allows you to choose an image, then record your voice and later embed the player in your blog. Try to think about a task you may carry out using it.

Voicethread is another web application which allows you to upload images, documents and videos as well as recording your own voice. The application will show all your files while you keep talking, a very good way to show people all about you.

Finally, for those of you who like videos, you can make your own videos using your photos and other types of documents while listening to a background music. This is called a slideshow and you can get your own ones in Animoto.

I hope you enjoy them and continue with the blog love. Now it is your turn to find the best way to express yourselves through blosg. Use your imagination and be creative.

10th task: Multimedia poster

Making posters has always been a wide-spread learning technique which pupils have enjoyed. The Internet now allows us to make posters in a very easy and fun way. Glogster is a website which provides you with all the resources you need to make a colourful and eye-catching poster.

You can use glogster without creating an account though I recommend you to create one for yourself as you will probably find the application fun and you will end up doing more than one poster.

Once in your account you can start making your poster from scratch. Use your creativitiy to choose both the glog wall and all the elements to embellish it.

Your glog will be about one of the following topics related to world problems:

hunger

homelessness

war

natural disasters

sickness

poverty

Once you have chosen your topic, search the web in order to find at least a video file and a sound file. Apart from that you will use as many photos as you please and a bit of text to introduce and explain the topic to the potential readers. Remember to provide a link for further reading on the topic.

Once your glog is finished, copy the embed code and paste it in your blog as a new entry.

I hope you enjoy this surprising application and keep using it in summer.