Dotsub,+Storybird,+Voicethread+and+Jing

Well, I'm going to talk about useful programs to learn languages like French, English, Japanese, Spanish..., and these are some of them... All of them are very useful but each one has its particularity...

All of them are programs that are in the net but, in the case of jing, we have to have an external aplication. They are very easy to use and very funny.


 * First of all, let's see dotsub!** [[image:http://www.handstohearts.org/Assets/dotsub.jpg width="159" height="56" align="right"]]

Dotsub is a program that we can use to subtitle ours videos, and with that, we'll be able to improve our listening comprenhension and our writting... To use this program, we have to go to dotsu.com and there we have to register ourselfs... Once we have finished, we can start subtitling our videos. You can take them from youtube.com or from our own computer. Once we had done it, we have to upload our video which we want to subtitle... Then, we have to wait for it beacuse it could be very slow-the process-. After that, we'll recieve an e mail that will tell us that the upload is finished. Now, with the window that will appear, we can begin to subtitle the video, choosing in every moment the time that we want to take to each sentence...Finally, we click in publish this video and that's it!


 * Let's continue with Storybird!**[[image:http://technostories.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/storybird.jpg width="286" height="181" align="right"]]

Storybird is a program, like Dotsu, that consist in create our own storys using some images which the page offers us. First of all we have to go to storyird.com and there we have to sing up like in all pages of this sort. Well, once this is done, let's use this wonderful web. We have to click in create and there we'll be able to start our story. First, we have to choose the image that we want to use like principal page, where we are going to write the title of our story. After that, we can choose other pictures and start writting whatever we want, because, at the time of publish them, we can put a filter of age. Then, we can publish them going on the indications and that's already finished. On the other hand, if we want to read a story which is not mine, for example, we can do it. The only thing that we have to do is going to read and choose the one we'd like read! In our account we can see what we have written and delete them if we want! This program is very useful to improve our reading comprenhension or our writing.


 * Let's see with voicethread!**

Voicethread is a program that we can use to improve our speaking or writting. With it, we can use our videos taken by our own web cams, mic, mobile phones to coment whatever we want, like pictures or news... To use this web we have to register ourselfs, after we have finished we can start using this web. There are some function that we have to pay but, they are not important to us because they are to buy some products that we don't want to. Well, there there's a tutorial where a man explains us how to use it, this is the link http://voicethread.com/?#q.b409 and it's very easy. In this same page, we can rec our voice and upload it to coment the images, or whatever... And more, we can listen to the coments of everybody...


 * Let's explain the last one, Jing!**

It's the last program, but not the less important. We can use it to everything relationated with the languages and their options... Well let's see! We have to go to jing.com and, in difference with the other three programs, is not a program that we can use in the web, we have to download it. Once we have downloaded the program we have to register ourselfs and once we have done it, we can start using the program. we can use it to chat with people from different countries and explain them where are some interesting places here for exemple, using shot of screen or maps from the web or our own video explaining that. It's like Skype, but with better tools. There's also a tutorial that explain us very clear how to use it without any problem.