Bubblr Presentation! new way of pictures presentation.

Bubblr

General information and functions for language classroom

This site name http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/ where it contains a lot of pictures from flickr (the largest site of copyright picture collections!). So you can use all pictures legally.

Search engine for the photos

It is an easy website to use by putting the key words then it will lead to picture archives. In addition, if you have flickr account, you can put your user name and that will show your pictures. Therefore, you can use your own pictures for the lesson presentation.

Moreover, this site also allows you to publish and share on other social networks: Facebook, Blogger, and Twitter.

Picture result

Suggested activities to do with this technology

1. Short presentation (i.e. Valentine's Day event presentation)
2. Descriptive writing (i.e. place description)
3. Grammar review (i.e. write sentences by using learned structure)

The Advantages

By using this site, not only presents the students a new way of presentation (besides power point!), they will also enjoy with a number of pictures instead of writing report words. Therefore, it is a good choice for the students to create some short sentences, and they can use it as a short note for their presentation.

Additionally, the teacher can assign homework for the students to work on and submit via email. For doing so, the teacher can reflect on it outside class, in other words, it saves classroom time.

The disadvantages and some limitations

There are some disadvantages in terms of spelling check, therefore; feedback is required here (when the students cannot be able to recognize the mistakes by themselves).

Secondly, prohibited pictures may show up randomly. Therefore, the teacher should be aware of this by checking before hand according to the topic. Also, the pictures cannot be filtered nor recreated in Adobe Photoshop. It is needed to be used as the original saved.

Lastly, the presentation will be only automatically publish in public.


An example of picture strips presentation:

A part of valentine presentation by me;)

http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?custom=&id=35027