Embedded Material

Activity 6 is about embedding material in to your posts. I have been waiting for this activity since this is something that I think could be really useful for using my blog to teach Swedish.

We have gotten a long list with ideas on where you can create things to embedd in your blog posts. Of course I had to have a try with some of them. Here's something that I created at Answergarden, and since I know that right now most of my readers aren't from Scandinavia I am really interested in knowing what you know about Sweden (in just one word!).

Describe what you know about Sweden with one word... at AnswerGarden.ch.
With students I would use AnswerGarden to do for example quick grammar exercises:

• Add an adjective
• Add a synonym for "sad"

Which you later on can branch out with writing exercises or speaking exercises.


Of course I also had to try out this tool from ToonDoo and create my own cartoon. 

By annabring | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

Toondoo is easy too use and you can create your own personas or even get random personas to choose from. This would also be a great tool to use for language learners. The cartoon format is good for beginners, while it doesn't require long and complicated writing. I found it hard to fit the text properly in to the bubbles and when I look at it in my blog I can't make out the text. I have to try and redo it, but you can always check it out on ToonDoo.
Well, I wanted to add a Voki as well, but I don't seem to be able to figure out from where I should save the code. It'll be here later on!