My second assignment for my Design Online Class is to review a Web 2.0 communication tool. I was almost beside myself with excitement when I found www.penzu.com. I have been wondering how could I integrate an electronic journal application into my Spanish class in the near future. I said to myself "I could have a computer section in my classroom with 4 or 5 workstations where the students could come in and privately write anything into their journals". Then I saw that on Penzu it had an option to print it out I became even more excited. I thought that the class could print it out at the end of the year and keep it forever. This journal would not only full fill their writing area of their grade it would also be something that they may take pride in.
But my bubble was completely busted when I started typing in Spanish and I realized that Penzu is only programmed for English. This application automatically has a word count log, spell check, and it is free! Of course anyone could pay $14.95 for the Penzu Pro but it really doesn't add that much variety in my opinion.
I have a link below where you can see where I started my first journal entry in both English and Spanish you will clearly see within just a few words in Spanish it has a wiggly red line below it for spell check. I will have no problem using this for my English classroom but for my Spanish classroom I will have to find another
http://screencast.com/t/vhkiNpiBxr8
If anyone knows about a Spanish online journal application please let me know.
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