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.
Of course, the changes to the website (scribbles, drawings, adding shapes, even erasing it) are only seen by those using Twiddla – and of course, only those sharing the exact “Twiddla room” (shared surface).
This tools is very useful when one person wants to highlight a part of a website (perhaps a part of text or to be able to draw over a map – see example below).
It also has a text and audio chat system built in (which we don’t use as we are anyhow using Skype at Avatar Languages), but this will be very useful for some. There is an embed function that allows you to add videos to the surface.
It certainly doesn’t replace Dabbleboard or Google Docs, but it is useful for certain situations in the language class.
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