wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

is an application for making word clouds. Students can enter a group of words and wordle will create a word cloud that arranges the words in appealing formats. The intensity of the words is controlled by the frequency of the occurrence of that word. The students can manipulate the font, colours, layout and backgrounds to create visually appealing charts.

posted by Paula

Map maker

Map maker can be used to teach Geography by creating a map of places. Teacher may choose the countries that she wants to teach. The Map Maker will highlight the country automatically. Then, teacher may ask students to label the countries. In this way, students learn to recognise countries around the world on the map.

The disadvantage of using this application is that we can only use one colour to highlight the countries on the map.

You may visit Map Maker on Big Huge Labs.

E-learning Web 2.0 Tools and Applications: bubbl.us

In the class today, we have learnt about a few web 2.0 applications that are useful for teachers to make the teaching and learning process more interesting and engaging.

Thus, we have tried the bubbl.us applications. It is an open source website where teachers and students can use to produce mind maps. It is very convenient to use as the software will arrange all those shapes and expand the mind maps for us unlike microsoft words where we have to create and arrange the 'links' ourselves. All we need to do is we just click at the 'bubble' icon and it will create a 'new child balloon' whereever we wish. If we have mistakenly put the 'balloon', we can just easily click at the 'x' icon and it will be deleted. Very simple, right?

Another interesting feature about this application is we can adjust the position of the whole mind map easily by just stretching or moving the 'string' of the mind map. We can also change the colour of the balloons by just clicking on the 'colour' icon. There are a whole range of colours that can be chose from which will fascinate the children.

Thus, this application is a brilliant alternative for doing mind map instead of using microsoft word as it saves a lot of time. HAPPY TRYING! =)

http://bubbl.us/

By: Dayana Nayan & Nurul Hanis

of meeting pinkrain, iMovie and Windows Movie Maker

hey people,

i created this blog using an admin account, which is under the username, digitalmediaineducation. since i have my own google account and username, which is pinkrain, i find it easier to manage 2 blogs using the same name. so, if you need any help , or any information about this blog, u can get through me using the digitalmediaineducation or pinkrain account or easily just by posting your questions or anything to the comments section.

thanks to Paula, who uploaded two videos of me n the hari raya. the video was taken with a plain green background. Shaun n Paula edited it using iMovie, to give it special touch, by adding the kitchen background and the klcc background.

to get more information on how to use the iMovie application, click here.

i know that most of the malaysian students are using windows, so, do not worry, because u can still use windows movie maker to edit videos like that.

to get more information on how to use the Windows Movie Maker application, click here.

get your creativity rolling.

as they said,
'the world is but a canvas to the imagination'

klcc Masterchef in Malaysia

Syarifa also cooks in KL

Syarifa Master Chef

This is the amazing master chef Syarifa in action... with a little help from iMovie and green screen!

Web 2.0 in our Classrooms

Hi everyone!
thank you so much to the beautiful Syarifa Abd Khalib who took up my challenge and created this blog.

Syarifa is the creator and owner of this blog and will be able to maintain it, promote it and invite fellow teachers to help build the blog when you return to Malaysia. Of course, I will also be there to answer your questions and suggest new ideas as I learn of them!

This is your chance to work together as a creative community to share and build a really amazing body of knowledge for you all to share -even though you will be separated by great distance when you all begin your exciting careers as teachers.

This weeks lecture is on web 2.0 in the classrooms and you will all have the opportunity to explore and play with some of the great tools available. I will show you a few of my favourites to get you started ... but then it is your turn to choose web 2.0 applications from my list or find ideas have never heard of - explore their capabilities and then write a short review of some of their educational uses along with a couple of screen captures.

It will be a great night where we all share the research and then also have this blog as a permanent record of our shared learnings.I chose Google as the blogsite because I believe it will be with us for many years to come.
Our Digital Media For Teachers Research Blog will be something really inspiring to share with all your colleagues in Malaysia.
Just to get us started I will upload all the fabulous projects you have completed in our workshops for you to enjoy!
Please comment on each other's work ...as we all appreciate words of praise and encouragement as well as suggestions to add something extra or special to our work!

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night!

cheers Paula