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Teaching The Hunger Games with Storyboards. Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.

Teaching The Hunger Games with Storyboards

Storyboard That is continuously building new teacher guides. Their guides provide dozens of lesson plans for teaching language arts skills through the use of storyboards. The latest additions to Storyboard That's teacher guides include lesson plans on The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451. The Hunger Games teacher guide includes plans for teaching point of view, cause and effect, and character analysis. The plans call for students to create storyboards to illustrate their understanding of the characters, themes, and plot of The Hunger Games. SoundCloud Is Making It Easier for Anyone to Publish a Podcast. 5 Free Tools for Creating Animations in Your Browser or On Your Tablet. Monday's post about Parapara Animation was quite popular and prompted questions from readers looking for similar tools that either work on tablets or offer more features than Parapara Animation.

5 Free Tools for Creating Animations in Your Browser or On Your Tablet

Here are some other sites and apps for creating animations. ABCya Animate is a web-based tool from ABCya that allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames. On ABCya Animate students build their animation creations by drawing, typing, and inserting images. Students can change the background of each frame, include new pictures in each frame, and change the text in each frame of their animations. The feature that I like best about ABCya Animate is that students can see the previous frames of their animations while working on a current frame. Animation Desk is an iPad and Android app (free and premium versions available) for creating short, animated videos.

A Handful of Tools That Help Students Analyze Their Own Writing. Earth - Home. Thematic - A Nice Tool for Creating Visual Stories. Thematic is a new service designed for building and sharing visual stories.

Thematic - A Nice Tool for Creating Visual Stories

Thematic allows you to display up to twenty pictures organized around a theme of your choosing. You can add one line of text to each image in your story. Your completed story is displayed in a vertically scrolling format with each of your images occupying all of the available space in your browser. Completed stories can be shared publicly or kept private. Each public story can be shared via Twitter, Facebook, email, or embedding into a webpage. Creating my Thematic story was rather easy. Applications for Education Thematic, like the similar iPad app Storehouse, could be a good service to use to tell a story about the highlights of a field trip, a research assignment, or a school event. Dragontape - Remix YouTube Clips. At last night's TeachMeet BETT Martin Burrett reminded me of a neat tool for remixing clips of YouTube videos.

Dragontape - Remix YouTube Clips

That tool is called Dragontape. If you made mix tapes in the 80's, the concept of Dragontape will be familiar to you. Dragontaape makes it easy to string together a series of YouTube videos and or sections of YouTube videos. Create your mix tape of videos just launch the Dragontape editor, enter a search term for videos, then drag videos on to the Dragontape timeline. You enter searches and drag videos as many times as you like. Camtasia Studio - zastosowania programu w praktyce. Welcome to Fotobabble - Talking Photos. Voki Home. Glogster: Multimedia Posters. Storyboard That Pricing - Starting at Just $9.95 per month. Do You Offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee?

Storyboard That Pricing - Starting at Just $9.95 per month

Absolutely, if you’re not happy with Storyboard That, we will refund you within 30 days. Is there a minimum duration? No. We understand that sometimes you just need Storyboard That for a short period. You can cancel at any time. How long will you keep my storyboards if I cancel my subscription? We will keep your storyboards for at least one year post cancelling your subscription.

If I forget to cancel my subscription, will you refund the last charge? Yes, if you request within two weeks of the charge and have not used Storyboard That we will happily refund your money. I am not a school teacher, can I use the educational version? No. Can more than one teacher share an educational account? 3 Ways to Map Stories. Creating mapped stories is one of my favorite activities to help history students see the significance of location in historical events.

3 Ways to Map Stories

Most of the time I have students include dated placemarks on the mapped stories that they build. Articulate Storyline 2 - Case Studies. 100+ mobile modules built in 8 months Remember when learners sat down at computers for online training programs?

Articulate Storyline 2 - Case Studies

Not so anymore. Increasingly, learners want to access courses from mobile devices—and that poses a problem, because all that beautiful Flash-based training content in your library isn’t going to work perfectly on mobile devices. Enter Unicorn Training, one of the premier providers of e-learning solutions, specializing in the financial services sector. Earlier this year, Unicorn landed a massive refresh project on 100+ modules of content they originally created for the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) in 2006. At the same time, Unicorn committed to working on a charity global learning initiative through LINGOS and Last Mile Learning. Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream - Storyline Online. Welcome. Storyline I: An Introduction & Storyline Revisited Are you ready to learn what makes the Storyline Method so successful in the classroom?

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The Storyline I: An Introduction course is for K-12 teachers who wish to learn how to integrate curriculum using the Storyline method. Participants will experience a Storyline unit both as a student in the process, as well as observer of the teaching method. Explore how and why the Storyline method motivates students to learn as they become their own ‘meaning makers.’ Would you like to revisit the method and still earn Portland State credit?