A book on Bookr

As I said on the previous post, I love to take pictures!! But I don't like just to take them, I like to appreciate good pictures too. I think a picture can say more than a lot of words. That's why I want to share two things with you on this post.

The first thing is a video about how a musician composed a song based on a photo that he saw on a newspaper. You can watch the video below (the composer tells the song's story in Portuguese, but you can read about it HERE). The song is really perfect!!

The reason I'm posting this video and talking about photos is because I believe that a picture can awake some feelings on us and this feelings can make we produce and learn better.

After this brief explanation, here's the second thing I wanted to talk about. It's a book I've created using Bookr. Bookr allows you to create picture books using photos available at Flickr. I've heard about it some time ago, but I've never tried it, so this is my first one!

I think it's a good idea to use this tool with the students to make them see , literally, what they're learning. Sometimes we stay in front of them trying to make them understand the new words. Sometimes we just translate the words. But the worst of all is that, most of these times, the students forget those words as soon as they get home. By using pictures with subtitles created by them, the chances that they won't forget the new words' meanings are higher. The negative points that I see about using Bookr is that when the person deletes  the picture, it disappears from your book. And when you search for a picture about something, everything can appear! So, we have to be careful to use it with children!