Link: http://www.szoter.com/
Link to this example: http://i.szoter.com/d1a0afb8318cd36d
Description: Szoter is an incredibly easy to use online tool
for annotating images. The user has the choice of loading saved photos, taking
them from the web, making a screen shot or capturing an image with the
computer’s camera. The program can be used online or it can be downloaded with
Adobe Air and used offline. There isn’t a tutorial but it is very easy to use
and seems like it would be accessible even for students with very little
computer experience. Once the image has been annotated it can be saved to the
computer or published to the web and shared with the class. Students could use
it to label maps, the parts of a plant or create a story board. A teacher
history teacher could open a new unit with a photo and then ask students to
label the image based on their predictions about what the photo represents.
When I started playing with this program, it made me think
of my lowest level ESOL students. Many of them come to school with very little
background in terms of their use of technology and need to build both their
social and academic vocabulary. This tool allows the students to create an
amazing visual dictionary using their own photos and images from the web.
Students could create a collection of photos labeled with vocabulary words and
then share them easily on the web. Also, teachers can use it a quick assessment
tool by sending an image to the class and then asking them to label it
appropriately. It is so easy to use that very little instructional time will be
lost to learning how to manipulate the different tools.
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