Avatar Languages Blog

How about drawing all over a website in class – web 2.0 style?

Twiddla is an odd concept, but one that is proving useful in language lessons.  It is a free website that combines a whiteboard with other webpages.  The result is that the teacher and student can look at a live website and then joinlty draw all over the site at the same time.

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I’m really exited to see another online whiteboard – and better still to see that it is browser based. You can have a go at using Dabbleboard online (www.dabbleboard.com) or watch their video below.

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Avatar Languages isn’t the only school to use Google Docs – The Guardian newspaper reports today that many UK schools and universities are starting to use free services from Google to enable virtual learning.

This video below (from Google themselves) explains how Google Docs works…

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Google Docs (essentially word and excel presented as a wiki) are an excellent tool for working with students on their compositions. I was doing this yesterday with one of my students and we were able to edit the same document at the same time. Admittedly there are times when there is a conflict of who is editing, but if you are discussing what you are doing (which given that it is a classroom situation, is the most probable way to work), then it goes smoothly.

In the screenshot below I am about to highlight in yellow the text “Take good shoes because Berlin…”

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