Web 2.0 tools are now very common and they should be fully utilised for educational purposes. While there are hundreds of tools out there, the aim is not for an educator to boast on the number of tools that he or she use, but how to maximise the potential of the tools to meet one’s [...]
Using animated cartoon as a teaching tool can be fun, especially when you are teaching young learners. GoAnimate is a free online tool that allows you to create animated cartoon for free. The free account allows you to create cartoon videos with text-to-speech functions and interesting scenes to work on. Registration is free and you [...]
If you’re familiar with Eliza, the computer therapist, then Cleverbot may not be something that amazes you much. However, the fact that Cleverbot is using user-generated corpus of linguistic inputs (via millions of conversations) makes it even more intelligent! Via Cleverbot, the user is not holding a conversation with a bot that directly responds to [...]
First of all, it’s not related to Google! Glogster (http://www.glogster.com/edu) is a great e-learning tool site with the tag line “poster yourself”. A ‘glog’ is basically an online poster web page. Students can combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio to create an interactive online poster. Glogster has a very simple to use interface. The final glog [...]
When it comes to open-source e-learning tools or LMS (particularly in Malaysia), many would only know the existence of Moodle. Of course, Moodle is famous mainly because it is widely used by educational institutions across the globe especially when The Open University (UK) is spending millions in using it as its main LMS. With large user base, this [...]
