Hi everyone!
Now, here I am, ready to start blogging with all of you.
Though familiar
with blogger and blogging, I have to admit that I'm both thrilled and anxious.
Thrilled to be part of this group and to begin an exciting learning (and
sharing) journey, but, at the same time, anxious if I'll be able to keep up and
accomplish all tasks.
Believe me, expectations
couldn't be higher! This journey will be a new one once this will be my first
online course with colleagues from all over the world.
As I have just said, blogging has been in my routine for a couple of years now. I started this blog as a task for a teacher training course (just like now!) and enjoyed it so much that I am still running it :-)
Once I mentioned Thinglink in our forum and by means of introduction, I decided to roll up my sleeves and would like to challenge you all for an activity with this free tool that I've used before and with different teaching goals. I started by making a printscreen of a world map and uploaded it to Thinglink to make it interactive. Not all countries are on it - not even my own - but we all know exactly where we are. The challenge is then to ask you to tag your country on the map and add a link (can be for youtube, wikipedia, whatever) with some info about your country or the place where you are. I've left a youtube link for a video I created about Soure (the small village where I teach) with my own photos, as a way of publicizing the place but also to introduce vocabulary in a tourism course. Willing to join in? Place your cursor on the map, "edit" and double click on the map. In the end, please save.
As I have just said, blogging has been in my routine for a couple of years now. I started this blog as a task for a teacher training course (just like now!) and enjoyed it so much that I am still running it :-)
Once I mentioned Thinglink in our forum and by means of introduction, I decided to roll up my sleeves and would like to challenge you all for an activity with this free tool that I've used before and with different teaching goals. I started by making a printscreen of a world map and uploaded it to Thinglink to make it interactive. Not all countries are on it - not even my own - but we all know exactly where we are. The challenge is then to ask you to tag your country on the map and add a link (can be for youtube, wikipedia, whatever) with some info about your country or the place where you are. I've left a youtube link for a video I created about Soure (the small village where I teach) with my own photos, as a way of publicizing the place but also to introduce vocabulary in a tourism course. Willing to join in? Place your cursor on the map, "edit" and double click on the map. In the end, please save.
PS: You might think this is a repetition of the activity in Donna's wiki, but my goal is to share this tool with you and more info on your countries and / or hometowns. Thank you all.
