Purpose:
Bubblr
is an online tool that allows users to create and share online picture strips using high quality pictures sourced from Flickr.
Relevance:
If
you believe that learning outcomes improve when students are highly motivated
then this tool can be quite helpful. It facilitates a great deal of creativity,
which may ultimately increase student motivation.
The
high quality and wide variety of pictures available means that you can
reinvigorate any topic by making a visually appealing presentation.
Bubblr
makes it compulsory for students to comment on pictures, which means that
they will always have the opportunity to develop their writing skills.
Tip:
Why
not introduce idiomatic expressions or proverbs using pictures? Following your
example, ask your students to create picture strips that portray idiomatic
expressions or proverbs in the target language and/or their mother tongue.
Limitations:
The
availability of thousands of pictures means that creating a picture strip is
potentially quite time consuming.
There
is no way to filter the quality of the pictures; some may be inappropriate for
young audiences.
Tags used to describe pictures may not be reliable.
Published
picture strips are automatically made public.
