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| Title | Wallwisher: Web 2.0 Resources for English Language Learners |
| Body | Wallwisher lets you, with very, very minimal registration, create a “wall” where you can place virtual sticky-notes. You can allow others to also place notes on the board, or keep it so that only you can do so (which is what I would recommend for students). The sticky-notes can include images you grab off the web, videos, or websites, and you can add text to them (you can also just include text without adding anything else). Each sticky has a 160 character limit for text. Wallwisher appears to me to be one of the most useful Web 2.0 sites I’ve found in awhile. It can be a great place for students to use higher-order thinking by creating categories of images (and descriptions) or short texts they copy and paste (or write themselves). It can also be used as a site for social bookmarking of websites if you just right-click the website you put inside the sticky-note and then click on “open in a new window.” Read The Best Social Bookmarking Applications For English Language Learners & Other Students for more details on how a site like Wallwisher can be used by English Language Learners for categorization and website bookmarking applications, and I’d encourage you to take a look. The other sites listed there can be used for similar purposes, but Wallwisher appears to be the easiest and most user friendly of the bunch. Read The Best Social Bookmarking Applications For English Language Learners & Other Students at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/04/16/the-best-social-bookmarking-applications-for-english-language-learners-other-students . Wallwisher is available at http://www.wallwisher.com . |
| Source | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL |
| Inputdate | 2009-05-02 08:21:38 |
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