Thursday 18 October 2012

Bubblr

Bubblr is a site where presentation is made easy with huge amount of images at hand.



Why is it useful in language teaching?
  • Fosters creativity  and thinking through wide selection of images. Students need to choose the best suited and appropiate pictures.
  • Allows students to create a presentation or stories.
  • Develops speaking skills from the presentation.
Advantages:
  • Huge amount of images to select from various themes.
  • Use of different shapes as caption box.
Disadvantages:
  • Requires internet connection to access the presentation.
  • Images are generated only from Flickr. Some images are not in database.
  • Limited amount of words can be used in caption box.
  • The font cannot be changed.
  • The caption box covers the images when placed.

Here is an example:

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