The Awesome Teaching Space

          ToonDoo is an essential web tool for creativity. It allows users to create comic strips, digital storybooks, cartoons, and doodles that can be shared online in public, limited audience or completely private. It is very simple to manipulate as students may enjoy creating their own comics and characters. ToonDoo has its own digital gallery that includes cartoon figures, voice bubbles and a lot more to mention. Its features include a variety of characters, background and other options to enhance the user’s creativity.           ToonDoo is F.R.E.E. and an easy-to-use tool. This site is so user-friendly to kids and kids at heart. Users are allowed to create their accounts for free. This is where their works will be saved. However, just like the usual web tools, it requires secure and fast internet connection in order to enjoy using this site with no hassle. It also consumes a lot of time on loading its interface from t...

          Wordle is an educational web tool that generates “word clouds”. It is another way of presenting words visually by combining words and arranging them in different layouts, fonts and colors. Individuals may find this website interesting for designing book covers, combining vocabulary words, highlighting important texts, creating image headers for blogs, merging writing pieces for artworks and other project ideas. It is a great tool for teachers and students of all ages.           Wordle, just like other web tools, requires secure internet connection for better usage. It is definitely FREE and does not need an account to create word clouds. It has a digital library where users may share their own ‘wordles’ and look into other ready-made ‘wordles’ as guides and resources. In creating a word cloud, we can add a bunch of texts or paste an URL from sites that is compatible with Atom or RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed. However...

          This is definitely one of my favorite web tools before entering this course. I used to look and pin photos more about do-it-yourself (DIY) crafts, drawings, hairstyles and food escapades. However, I just found out that Pinterest would also be a great web tool into the dimension of educational technology.           Pinterest is a web tool that handles photo sharing. Viewers have the chance to find photos of their interests and showcase their own visual content by uploading their own images. Pinterest has a high visual engagement that has several categories to look upon with its particular topics and subtopics for better searching.           Pinterest is free and very convenient to use. For newbies, you may register an account or sign up through your social media network such as Facebook. If we are to use Pinterest in a classroom set-up, students may use this site to search for, s...