Personal Experience with the New Tools
Homepage netvibes.com
Netvibes.com will definitely be a part of my life from now
on! It helped me to create my Personal Learning Environment (PLE) by using it
to get course information, to combine several e-mail addresses, which I have
but do not often check, with my social networks and to got everything on one
page.
Homepage weebly.com
Another very useful tool in my eyes is weebly.com, on which I am going into detail the following subpage. Here just to say that we used this tool to create our e-portfolio by creating our own homepage, as you can see, because you are just regarding my creation.
Homepage bubbl.us
One very handy tool is called bubbl.us and helps you to generate mind maps. With this tool, creating a clearly arranged and helpful mind map is very easy and contains the possibility to create it in real time, whether in cooperation with your students or even without the teacher on their own.
Homepage wordle.net
To create word lists or pictures out of words or to make clear what words are used very often, the web tool wordle.net would be the best choice I know right know. As you can see on the right upper corner of this page, such works bring out facts very clear.
Homepage titanpad.com
Titanpad.com is the perfect tool if several pupils have to
work on the same topic. By using this tool, they are allowed to access the same online document and to edit it. Every pupil has his own color so that it can be reconstructed which pupil changed anything in the document.
Homepage flickr.com
Tools I did not like to deal with are for example flickr.com and prezi.com. We had to load up on flickr.com some pictures we had to take about English in our everyday life, which was not that challenging. But after that, we should combine these pictures with our netvibes.com site by using the feed of the pictures. Up to the present day, I was not able to deal with this task and I have absolutely no idea, why flickr.com is against me and my willing. But I start believing that it never will.
Homepage prezi.com
With prezi.com the situation is different. In this case, I was not able to submit the tool to my willing, too. But here, I know that I will be after I have dealt with it for several more times. I have seen a lot of examples how a prezi.com based presentation can look like and now I get kind of an impression, what great and impressive possibilities this tool contains.
