Saturday, January 22, 2011

MapCrunch: travel around the world

MapCrunch


The website can teleport you around the world and you can view every street, road, building, view sight in the world that available in the Google Map. 





Value
  •   The website is funny and motivate students' engagement
  •   It  offers a ranges of vivid pictures that built a virtual world where students can 'walk' in.
  •   The language is English
  •   By exploring the world, students can not only be exposed to the new vocabularies but also the culture of other countries 
Usage
  • For demonstration: teacher can demonstrate  the view of a street or a place to provide the basic background of a relevant  topic, including building, view sights or culture of a country. Good sources for warming-up task;  students can select their favorite  places or countries and demonstrate them to their peers with presentation. 
  • Improving describing skill: because all the things in the website is visual able, so students can explore the world and then describe their trips or a specific place to their peers. 
  • Gap-filling activity: one student describe the place and the other draw on the paper and then reflect his or her information. 
  • For brainstorming: lots of images available in the virtual world can help students to brainstorming their ideas via visual aids. 
 Limitation

  • Speed of net- connection is demanding. 
  • Time-consuming for students to find the destination. we need a 'search bar' to help students to find a specific place. 

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