bookr and bubblr

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HI! This week Russell shows me two new websites. They're interesting! They are called BOOKR and BUBBLR

Between these two, i choose bookr because the presentation is more interesting

What is it??

this website is a website where you can made your own slide show presentation by using pictures taken (borrowing sounds more right) from flickr. Click HERE to know more about flickr. In this slide show, you can add your own captions, dialogues or stories about the photos.

How to use it???

this is the bookr home. FIRST you have to write the keyword of the pictures you want to search in the tag box, then click GO. Then a set of 17 pictures will appear. SECOND, select the pictures that you're interested in. If not, click the next button to view the other 17 pictures.

 the photo that have been selected will be pasted into the bigger box. Then you can write the caption in the smaller box by using your own words. Then go to the next page. do the same thing until you've finished the slide show. You can add how many pages you want to. Then you can send it to anybody or embed it in your blog.

As an English teacher, I think this website is quite useful to be used in my future teaching context because:

1. firstly because this website is free and students don't have to pay for it
2. this website is funky and easy as well. Students get to borrow many pictures from flickr and they can create their own presentation
3. it can encourage language learning activity which involve both speaking and writing activity
4. teacher can use it for group presentation in classroom
5. students will be able to work on their own and it creates personalisation in which students will be more motivated
6. it encourages students' creativity to design their own slide show presentation
7. it is good to attract students' attention because it involves visuals and suits students' own interests
8. by borrowing flickr's photos, students will not break the copyright so it is legal

What i don't like about these website are:

1. the pictures of our choice might not always be there
2. it is time consuming and distracting because there are too many images to view and to choose
3. the pictures chosen sometimes can't really fit the page, so this cause students to spend more times on choosing pictures rather than writing the captions
4. the work can't be edited after you've saved it
5. the website is quite slow sometimes, and it will make students distracted and bored
6. without teacher's guide, students' writing don't really use the language as teacher want it to be (so in this case, teacher should guide the students by telling them what are they expected to write)

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