Pixton.com

An amazing tool with which you can create awesome comics online is Pixton.com. It is user-friendly and gives you many ways to design your comics. Also you can annonate each panel with a title and explanation. There are unlimited range of expression. it is possible to give text and speech bubbles personality in any language.

How to use it:

Sign up or log in to maintain a successful creation of comics.Click the pen that is on the top and left side of the website.Choose the layout you will work on.Choose your panel size and your panel layout. After that, you deal with other technical details such as designing the characters, placing them on the panels, adding new panels and speech bubbles. After you are done with your comic, it is time to either share it on pixton.com, open to public or take the (embedded) link  and put it wherever you want. You can publish the comic in your blogs easily.

English Mania in the World

why english?

with a single word  opportunity, opportunity for a better life, for putting better food on the table....

let's watch this video about English mania.

Bubbl.us for Brainstorming

The tool Gülsüm and I had shown in the classroom was Bubbl.us. This application is used for brainstorming and making mind-mapping activities by usig several diagrams. Now let me explain how to use and make mind-maps step by step.

Bubble-us is a tool which enables you to create brainstorming diagrams for any topic.

How to use?

1. After opening up bubbl.us on your browser, you need to sign up with your e-mail if you want to save your diagrams.

2. After having an account you can easily begin to create your diagram with clicking the first bubble that appeared on the page. First bubble is the parent bubble that is its good for you to write your main idea on parent bubble.

3. By clicking ctrl+enter you can create a child bubble. This bubble is a subcategory of the parent bubble and also you can create sibling bubbles,with using tab button, that are in the same category with the child bubble as well.

4. After completing your diagram you can save it as an image using export feature. If you want to share your diagram  you need to click share button and share it with e-mail.

Also you can export your work.You can move, delete, change the colour of text and the bubble itself. I suppose you to use this tool creating brainstorming diagrams. In classroom environment we can also use this tool to create family trees. for instances; we create the tree itsef then give it to the students and want them to fill in it. Interactively we can create a brainstorming with students; we as teachers give the main idea and expand the diagram with students' opinions. It is easy to use so we can want them to create diagrams at home too.