Image Slideshow using Gif Up

GIF animations generator gifup.com

Gif Up is a really great website for creating slideshows for use in the class.  You can use pictures of your own, or from Flickr (which has thousands of images of all sorts of things) or from websites.  to use it, just go to the website, click on 'Select from Flickr', and put in a word to search for (I used 'africa')

Then select up to 9 images and the site will make a slideshow for you.  It's designed to make animations, so put the speed on 'super slow' if you want it to be more of a slideshow.

This is a nice tool for use as an introduction to a topic or a reading, for example.  You could show them the slideshow and ask them in pairs to think of as many words as possible to describe them.  You could then elicit more vocabulary and add to theirs.  My class also wrote poetry from this:

Africa
Elephants roaming the savannah
Boabab trees sheltering herdsmen
Buffalo stampeding
Children playing in the rain
Africa.