GoConqr - Changing the way you learn Lulu - Self Publishing, Book Printing and Publishing Online REVISED: February 13, 2014 Lulu is a community for creators of remarkable works. We provide the tools for you to publish your work for personal use or for sale and distribution to others, a marketplace for the purchase of goods and services, and a site where you can participate in forums and discussion groups with like-minded creators. A Note About Our Community Lulu is a place where people of all ages, backgrounds, experience, and professions can publish, sell, or buy creative content such as novels, memoirs, poetry, cookbooks, technical manuals, articles, photography books, children’s books, calendars, and a host of other content that defies easy categorization. Lulu respects the effort that goes into creating your remarkable work and we are committed to protecting copyrights as well as your right to privacy. The Membership Agreement below describes in the best legal jargon available your rights as a Lulu community member, whether you are a creator or buyer of content. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Interactive Phonemic chart by Adrian Underhill - Macmillan English Interactive Phonemic ChartCreated by Adrian UnderhillThis excellent teaching tool gives audio examples of the English phoneme set. Click on the phonemes to hear the sound and a sample word. Find out more about how the chart works and how it can help you in the classroom in a series of exclusive videos with Adrian dedicated to teaching pronunciation skills.Adrian Underhill is the series editor for the Macmillan Books for Teachers and author of Sounds Foundations, the inspiration behind the award-winning Sounds: Pronunciation App. 7 Excellent Tools to Publish Students Work There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. There are several online tools that you as a teacher can use to host your students work and share them with the whole class and as well as parents .Below are some tools that can help you do that. Check them out : 1- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another popular website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free. 3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . 4- Mixbook Mixbook lets you make completely customizable photo books, yearbooks, cards, and calendars and many more. 5- ePub Bud 6- Lulu Lulu is a website that lets you publish print books and ebooks for free.
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How to Make Good Ideas “Stick”: Six Ways to Make Your Writing and Designs More Memorable If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, then you probably remember him talking about “stickiness,” the process by which ideas stick in a global consciousness. (And if you haven’t read Gladwell’s book, go read it!) Authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath took the idea a bit further and wrote an entire book on just that idea: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Stickiness is a critical design technique for causing people to remember what you make. If you are an advertiser, marketing professional, small business owner, or just some dude with an important message to share, stickiness is a concept that you’ll want to familiarize yourself with. Authors Lidwell, Holden, and Butler, who wrote the fantastic book Universal Principles of Design, identify six key areas in which you can make your ideas sticky (or, memorable, lodged in your reader-viewers’ minds). #1: SimplicityIdeas that stick are simple. #2: SurprisePeople also remember surprising information.
Using music to motivate and engage teenage learners: The story of the Jean Monnet Broons Cup Song project In June 2013, during the end-of-year party, a group of girls performed a cover of the Cup Song in front of all the members of our school. They had been inspired by Anna Kendrick in the film Pitch Perfect which started off an internet craze of 'Cup Songs'. These students brilliantly showed how they could manage to play percussion with plastic cups while singing along. We were all quite impressed, to be honest, and I thought I might as well use it in one of my English lessons. A few months later, in November 2013, after I had seen other Cup Song videos on the web, I decided to set up the project but on a larger scale. My idea was to involve each and every student in Year 10 (14-year-olds) in both a linguistic and artistic project, but perhaps more importantly to take part in a great collective adventure, shared by all the students at the same time. The linguistic part of it was central. As a musician myself, I knew how good it felt to sing and to take part in a collective experience.
ISSUU - You Publish AppShed - Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online for schools, education and business Self-Publishing and the Decline of Literary Standards By Autumn ThatcherGuest Blog PostAutumn’s Blog A few weeks ago, I sat down for tea with a local musician I was interviewing for the Salt Lake Tribune. Ironically, we began our conversation by discussing writing rather than music. “Did you read that article about that 29-year-old author who is a millionaire now from publishing her own books?” I dropped my tape recorder in shock. My interviewee proceeded to fill me in on Amanda Hocking, a young author who indeed made millions off of self-publishing her novels on Kindle. Why do writers self-publish? I could not admit to my friend that I was secretly pondering the credibility of Amanda Hocking—and any other self-published author for that matter—because I worried that I would sound like a book snob. A once repeatedly rejected writer, Hocking became an internet sensation and a visionary for the do-it-yourselfers around the world. This discovery of Hocking sparked within me both a fascination and a hatred for the powers of the Internet.
Tools for Educators - free worksheet templates, printable game templates, 100% customizable worksheet makers with images! gettingsmart According to Common Sense Media, 95% of teachers agree that using technology increases student engagement and 92% of teachers want to add more technology to their classroom. We at Getting Smart are still basking in an ISTE afterglow… we’d like to share 10 great tools that we were introduced to there and the reasons they are so worth taking the time to master this summer. These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you will notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications… real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing and transforming what school looks like! 1. LiveSlide – Ever have trouble getting students to pay attention and participate during class? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture The Noisy Classroom - How to prepare a debate with a class Divide the class into four groups Give each of the four groups one side of one of the topics to prepare Give each member of the class some sticky notes to write on Follow the five steps Step 1: Brainstorm ideas Individual brainstorm – allow five minutes silent time for individual brainstorming – the pupils should write one point on each of the sticky notes. Step 2: Organise ideas The group then need another sheet of paper on which they write 1-9 down the side. Step Three: Structure the speeches Introduce the idea of the speech structure on the board: Introduction – who are you and what do you stand for? Step 4: Prepare your speeches Introduce the Idea of developing your arguments by “Making Them REAL” Reason Evidence Analysis Link Choose the first speakers in each group and allow them some time to think about how to make each of their points REAL. Choose the summary speaker and either a chair or timekeeper from each group Step 5: Prepare the rest of the class