I’ve just been going through my RSS feed links and came across this post. In the comment section, David Gilmour mentioned http://xtranormal.com .
“……I started to wonder if games might provide an engaging context for storytelling, especially if there was the prospect of mocking up the result in a game-like software environment such as http://www.xtranormal.com? If so, please lob it into your project ideas pile.
BTW, as something of a a punctuation pedant, I just love the way that xtranormal.com reads your text exactly as you’ve punctuated it. That’s got to be a better form of feedback than marking – comment-only or not – can ever provide.”
I’ve used xtranormal before, and I’ve spread the word to other teachers here, but David’s comment has made me aware of the fact that it also reads the text as it has been punctuated – that hadn’t dawned on me before. Thanks David! As usual, I heard about this tool via twitter and must have then tweeted about it again, because David went on to comment:
“….I only discovered http://xtranormal.com last week when mvass tweeted about it. I should have credited her with the discovery, and for sharing it; not that she has complained, of course.”
Now that David has commented about it on Neil’s post, I see that there are a few other teachers who have been introduced to it. In the spirit of sharing, I’ll post a (very basic) help ppt. I made. I’ve also made a further help guide for teachers who want to give pupils in their class their own account, while still maintaining some degree of control over its use ……. I should also point out that there may be one or two inappropriate gesture options available, but like many of these new tools, the advantages of using it far outway the disadvantages (in my opinion!)
Here’s the very basic ‘getting started’ guide:
This one is a guide to using googlemail to set up student accounts:
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