Wallwisher - an easy Webtool

This year I've completed an intensive course online entitled "Formação em Linha: das ferramentas à sua utilização com alunos de Inglês". One of the collaborative tasks I had to undertake was to build a Wallwisher. But, what on hell's name is a Wallwisher?

http://www.wallwisher.com/

What is wallwisher?
Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily.

What is a wall?
A wall is basically the 'web page' where people actually post messages.

What can I do with Wallwisher?
You can use wallwisher for:

■Personal note taking

■To-do lists

■Party Invitations

■Feedback Collection

■Wishing people on occasions, like birthdays, anniversaries

■Anything that might need input from a lot of people, eg. a Mac Vs PC wall (that'll be a war, not a wall actually).

Anyway, I've decided to put the idea into practice with my own pupils. Here is the result with two walls built by two different classes of the nineth grade from Escola Secundária Fernando Namora. They are still in progress until 31th May, but I couldn't resist...

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/zZXufMKZ9O

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/EfEyuJEXd9

Did you know?

DID YOU KNOW?

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SOME FACTS:

 The top in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2010.

 The US Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.

 1in 8 couples married in the US last year met online.

 There are over 200 millions registered users in MySpace.

 There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.

 The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992. Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total of the population of the planet.

 There are about 540,000 words in the English Language. About five times as many as during Shakespeare’s time.

 Predictions are that by 2049. a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

SO WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

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