Web tools for creating posters

Web tools for creating posters

Motivated to Write!

Motivated to Write! Tips & Tools to Inspire Our Learners! from Shelly Terrell

Resources

Writing Tools

Think and Dream in English: All Writing

Think and Dream in English: All Writing: 450 Creative Writing Prompts http://busyteacher.org/creative_writing_prompts_part_one.html http://busyteacher.org/creative_writing_prompts...

CristinaSkyBox: Writing Skills and Patterns

CristinaSkyBox: Writing Skills and Patterns: Whispers of thoughts, random musings, deliberate connections. Flickers of thought, fireflies of thought. Scattered, loose, evolving. ...

TEXTING

2b or not 2b?

Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling

LESSON plans

Whitney Houston. Why do stars fall?

 

A Commercial Break: TV Adverts / Commercials - Make and present your own advert / commercial

 

Inspiration to write

Ideas for Inspiring Students to Write

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STORYTELLING

Digital Storytelling - This series of powerpoints combines tutorials and storyboards for a supported approach to producing multimedia. It can be used to develop ICT skills in a range of subject contexts.

StoryMaker PowerPoints for Well Known books - These PowerPoints can be used as part of a large group activity (by pupils at the IWB) or on individual computers. They do not include any artwork from the actual stories but specially designed clip art that will help support the retelling of the story.

Writing stories easily | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

Writing stories easily | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

Writing skills | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

Writing skills - the Traffic Light Hamburger! | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC


Writing skills - do you know to play the accordion? :) | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC


Writing skills - difficult to write poetry? Write Haiku! | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

Mrs. Terhune's First Grade Site!: Fairy Tale/Storybook Characters Unit

Mrs. Terhune's First Grade Site!: Fairy Tale/Storybook Characters Unit: Here are some of the things we did this week for our Fairy Tale/Storybook Character Unit: We talked about what a fairy tale is and what fai...

Create Comic Adventures on Comic Master

Create Comic Adventures on Comic Master

DIGITAL storytelling

Most Popular Posts of the Year - #17, 11 Digital Storytelling Tools

Like a lot of other people are, I'm taking this week to relax a bit and do some things that I haven't had time for lately. Therefore, all this week I'm rewinding the year by republishing the 25 most-read posts of the year. I hope that those of you who are also on vacation this week, enjoy every moment of it. See you (virtually) in the New Year.

Digital storytelling comes in many forms. Digital storytelling could refer to creating podcasts, creating videos, or creating multimedia ebooks to name of few of its forms. If you're considering developing your first digital storytelling project for your class, here some resources that can help you get started.

Ebooks and web references for digital storytelling.
One of the best people I know for advice about digital storytelling is Silvia Tolisano. Silvia Tolisano, the author of the excellent Langwitches blog, offers an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators is a 120 page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for using tools like Audacity, Google Maps, Photo Story, VoiceThread, and other digital media creation tools. Silvia's directions are aided by clearly annotated screenshots of each digital storytelling tool. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators also provides a good explanation of digital storytelling in general and the benefits of using digital storytelling in your classroom. You can download the ebook for free on Lulu. You can also purchase a paperback copy of the book.

The Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide is a free twenty-eight page ebook produced by Microsoft. The guide outlines the basics of digital storytelling, offers ideas for digital storytelling projects for all grade levels, and provides examples of digital storytelling projects. Microsoft's Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide also offers instruction for using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story in the classroom.

EXPRESS yourself with the sites

GLOGSTER - Mash up music, photos, videos, & more to express what you care about. Your ideas, your emotions, your Glogster.


WALLWISHER is ideal for making announcements, wishing people, making notes, etc.

WRITING letters

Letterwhiz.com is a massive online literary encyclopedia. Check out our database for letter templates, quotes and poems for all occasions, we're constantly adding to it every day.

Type with me :a quick educative online collaborative tool

Typewith.me is an online document collaboration tool which works in real time .It is a very important web2.0 tool for teachers and educators .it is free , easy , simple to use and above all doesn’t need any registration .It has a cool functionality that allows users to work on the same document and at the same time. This feature reminds us of google document which also offers several services like collaboration,sharing, and online editing .I have already covered how we can use google docs to its utmost in Google Docs in Education.
It is Thanks to Chris Pirillo along with his friend Jake Waner  that typewith.me has  seen the light .It becomes the best alternative to the famous Etherpad which has been shut down recently by Google.

You can read the whole article here

CREATE your own stories

RESOURCES that help create comics, stories, animated cards and greetings

CardFunk - create animated cards and video greetings

Tikatok - create your own book, it's easy!

Magnoto - make your photos, notes, small videos and audios magnetic in the web - just like sticking them on your refridgerator door!

StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids.

Examples of created books are here.

Finetuna - Add Text to Pictures