seven quick reasons why Tumblr may be perfect for the writing / blogging / posting / literacy piece in your room:
Students can post by email.
There’s an “ask” system.
It’s social-by-design.
Hashtags, sharing, reblogging, tweeting–it operates both as social media and a blogging system.
It’s flexible.
It can be visual or textual; video or gifs; audio or links; conversational or one-sided.
It’s already on their phones.
Well, most of them. Though they may delete it when they found out that you know.
It’s dead simple to use.
Reblogging is an interesting way to share thinking–and simple too. Maybe too simple to be considered cognitive heavy lifting, but that’s all in how you use it. Liking posts, using hashtags, posting new blogs–all simple to do from a tablet, phone, laptop, or desktop.
It’s platform-agnostic.
It works (almost) equally well across operating systems, much like Evernote. In fact, it can be thought of as the Evernote of blogging platforms.
This article presents a research about the effects on integrating multimedia sources on second language vocabulary acquisition. The researchers exposed the language learners to different stimulus: video with audio and captions, video with audio, and video with captions and compare the results to analyze their effect on language acquisition.
