ePals

The most amazing and useful part for me in epals is that the collaboration of classroom project.  Under the collaborate tab we could search by country, project, and teacher forum. It is easy for teachers to look for what they want depend on their needs.   Since there are lots of teachers looking for cooperative classrooms with a variety of topics, in the future, I would minimize my search by choosing a project first and then choose a partner classroom. I would have the project last for around three months and have an assignment once a week. When I go back to Taiwan I am going to teach elementary school, thus, I would like my students work in groups or as a class to come up with more ideas and not feel too stressful. In addition, I would also like to follow the essential questions based on the epal projects as my guideline to provoke the discussions. Afterwards, when my students get used to these form of discussion, I would like them practice storytelling via video instead of writing email back and forth.  

Have Fun with Photos

              I made this comic style caption photo by one functions of  Big Huge Labs. It is amazing that Big Huge Labs offer various of  applications that could have fun with photos.
             Since I teach in elementary school, adding comic book style captions to the photo by Captioner would be appropriate for students, they could create photos with ease. One the one hand, they can choose a photo and creat a dialogue. Students can use their imagination and add any captions they want. On the other hand, they can choose a photo that is related to them such as with family or friends, and then create a dialogue or write a dialogue according to what have happend in the picture. Creating a conversation is fun and makes the photo comes to life. In addition, the function of stamp makes Captioner even attractive. To sum up, by using Captioner students would definitely output what they have learned and involved their life into learning.

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