BP3_2009111_WebTools2.0Assignment

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There are so many choices to choose from when searching through the Web Tools 2.0 site. The majority appear to deal mostly with social networking through websites such as Facebook and Twitter. ALthough these are very popular sites, especially with my students, I would have an extremely difficult time trying to get then incorporated into my classroom curriculum because my school district has strict usage rules and regulations. I was able to find a web tool however that I thought would be user friendly for my Foreign Language classroom. The tool that I think would assist me in one of my classroom assignments would have to be Blurtt. Blurrt is a postcard writing tool which allows the user to send virtual postcards to anyone, anywhere in the world. The user does not even have to know the recipient's address. The only requirements that are needed is the receiver's name. An email address would be great, but not necessary. The user has the option of linking it to their Facebook page so that the user can easily surf through their friend's email addresses, when possible. The tool has multiple images to utilize for the front of the virtual postcard and then the user must include a message. I could easily create an assignment whereby my students would have to create a postcard to send to one of their relatives elsewhere in the world . THe students would be required to include in their message that they were on vacation and decided to send out a virtual postcard. Each student would have to write a message in the past tense explaining what they have been doing while on vacation and how the weather had been. The students would be evaluated on their vocabulary usage and their grammar structure. The only "down side" to this web tool is that it is not free. There is a charge of .99 or 1.99 for international cards. I would have to set up an account through my school for this an ensure that the students would not submit more than one card that would be sent to my email address so that they would be abel to be evaluated. Unfortunately, this would pre-empt the idea of actually sending it to one of their own relatives.