GoAnimate for Schools Creative Writing: Topics, Tips & Guidelines A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers 1- ZimmerTwins It is all about creative storytelling. ZimmerTwins is a web2.0 tool that allows students to give vent to their imaginative powers and exercise their storytelling skills from early stages to advances ones. 2- Digital Story Telling in The Classroom This section provides resources and materials for teachers to use with their students in storytelling. 3- Story Bird This is an awesome website that allows students and teachers to create short art inspired stories to read, share or print out. 4- Someries Someries is a fantastic storytelling site . 5- PicLits This is another awesome website where students can choose a picture and start drawing or writing a text on it to create a story. 6- Generator This is a creative studio space where students explore the moving image and create their own digital stories to share with others. 7- Capzles This is where you and your students can create rich multimedia stories with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.
The 10 best classroom tools for gathering feedback Getting feedback from your students can serve multiple purposes: it can help you understand your students’ comprehension of the material, it can give you insight into what teaching methods work or don’t work, and it can help engage students in their learning process by knowing they have a voice that is heard. Not only can feedback offer insight for both teachers and students, it can be an integral part of group work and classroom time, given the plethora of connected devices in the hands of our students these days. That said, there are a lot of classroom tools available for gathering feedback. You can poll students or have them create a survey for a project, use clickers and other classroom response type tools in real time, get feedback on teaching methods, and more. But which tools are best? Twitter Sometimes, a particular tool ends up being awesome for a slightly different purpose than it was originally designed for. Socrative Verso Plickers Doodle Polldaddy Poll Everywhere Google Forms
Learn more about Smilebox and Club Smilebox Creative With more than 1000 customizable designs for any occasion and style plus the ability to add your own photos, videos, words and music, Smilebox lets you be as creative as you want. Personal Whether sending a digital greeting or printing a collage of your vacation, sharing life's moments is more personal with Smilebox. Fun Smilebox is a fun place to explore what you can do with your photos and videos. What is the Smilebox Application? Our simple application for PC or Mac lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks and photo albums right on your computer. WritingFix For Educators | 21 Ways to Use MakeBeliefsComix.com in the Classroom How to Play with MakeBeliefsComix.com How to Play: For Educators Click here to watch a video of students at City College, New York, talking about how MakeBeliefsComix.com helps them learn English. Their instructor, Tamara Kirson, was named The New York Times 2009 ESOL Teacher of the Year. To see her lesson plan click here. By Bill Zimmerman, Creator, MakeBeliefsComix.com Download "WAYS TO USE MAKEBELIEFSCOMIX IN THE CLASSROOM" and print it out! 1. At the beginning of each new school year have students create an autobiographical comic strip talking about themselves and their families or summarizing the most important things about their lives. 2. Have students create a comic strip story using new vocabulary words that are being taught. 3. Have students break up into pairs or group teams to create their comic strips together. 4. 5. 6. Have students who are learning new foreign languages write their text in languages they are studying. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators Most of us are working at full capacity, and keeping up with technology can feel like one more chore on the to-do list. Still, learning your way around a few of the best Web tools is worth your time. Innovative teachers are frequently using intuitive programs and websites that are easy to learn. These web tool can save you a lot of daily hassles that you might not even realize you have been tolerating. Sharing and Collaborating The Internet was invented to foster communication. Google Docs First of all, you never have to hit “save” in Google Docs. Google Forms Whether you want to send a quiz to your students or organize a field trip, Google forms can help you distribute and gather information. WordPress Create a class website or blog on this free, easy-to-use site. EduBlogs Set up blogs here for yourself or your students, and you can control the safety settings. WikiSpaces This is a great place for group or classroom projects because multiple users can edit documents. Classroom Innovation EdX
Creaza Creaza MovieEditor Do you have a school assignment to make a documentary about your summer experiences or global climate change, or maybe a narrative film about your neighbourhood. Or do you just feel like making a short film to show your friends and family? To make it easy for you to get started, I am going to show you how to use the movie editor in Creaza. To start using the movie editor, you need to select a universe. The movie editor has three main components: The Library, Media Window, and Timeline. 1. The area on the top left of your screen is the library window. Creaza’s videos, in various categoriesSound effectsMusicGraphicsYour media files 2. If you click on a media file in the library, you can watch a preview in the media window on the right hand side on the top of your screen. This is where you can play back film clips, listen to music and sound effects, or look at your uploaded image files. 3. Video/Still Shots Sound You have three soundtracks at your disposal. Good luck.
RAFT Papers TO: Personnel Director FROM: William Dollar DATE: April xx, 19xx RE: Request for Vacation My name is Dollar, Bill Dollar. I've been on the job for the last twelve months without a break, and I am writing to request a two-week vacation. My journey through the many hands that hold me begins after I leave the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and get sent out to a Federal Reserve Bank. In my case, I went out of our bank with a whole lot of other bills to become part of the day-laborer payroll of a construction company. I went into this very nice woman's purse, but I didn't stay there long. But I know how crucial we are: employers use us to pay their workers, and the workers use us to buy food and medicines and clothes and gas, and then we're used to pay the people who work in the grocery and drug stores, the malls, and the gas stations. Sincerely, William P.
Web 2.0 Digital Storytelling Tools - 21st Cent Teaching & Learning VoiceThread Group conversations around images, documents and videos. ReadWriteThink FlipBook Maker - provides a template for students to use to create and print a ten page flip book. Students can use the flip book maker to design pages that contain various combinations of text and images. Keerpoof - Kerpoof, created by Disney, is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Animoto Glogster Simply put, a Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Blabberize is a rudimentary way to create parodies of people creating an elementary "animation" of a moving mouth. Yodio - Students can upload pictures and use a phone to add audio to the posted pictures to create a digital story. Moglue is a new program, available for Mac and Windows, that enables you to create interactive ebooks and publish them to Android and iOS devices. Go Animate - An easy-to-use animation tool for teachers / students to creatively complete an alternative project assessment or presentation.
Les capsules de profs c’est bien… Les capsules d’élèves c’est mieux Cet article fait suite à celui-ci (d’où son titre). On voit fleurir de plus en plus de capsules vidéos d’enseignants (je m’inclus dans le lot) et c’est une très bonne chose ! Comme vous le savez sûrement, je regroupe d’ailleurs les miennes sur L’idée est vraiment chouette et nous vient de nos amis Canadiens. La capsule du prof est ludique, visuelle, simple à comprendre, donc un plus pour l’élève mais, on en revient toujours à la même chose : les élèves auteurs, les apprentissages au travers de tâches complexes mais surtout concrètes ! De la même manière que je propose aux élèves de réaliser des webdocumentaires en science et en Histoire, la création de capsules a été systématisée et je leur demande régulièrement maintenant de réaliser de très courtes vidéos qui reprennent des notions de français ou de maths qu’ils étudient. Ils le font en groupe et discutent et argumentent sur leurs choix de présentation. Voici quelques capsules réalisées par les élèves.