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Tools to Create Digital Newspapers. To help you create digital newspapers for your class, we curated a list of some of our favorite web tools for this purpose. The list below is an updated version of the list we created last year. enjoy 1- Issuu This is my favorite. To create a newspaper using Issuu , all you need to do is upload the content of your news paper into Issuu and choose the template you like and there you go. The tool is free and requires a sign up. 2- Scribd This is another popular web tool to use for publishing your class digital magazine. 3- Zinepal This tools lets you create an ebook or magazine from posts and articles of a blog. This one here is very simple and easy to use. The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper.

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Sarjakuva. eBook. Sync.in - samanaikaiseditointi. PiratePad - samanaik. kirjoittaminen. Jos...niin - tarinoita. Choose Your Own Adventure stories allow readers to pick the course of the story they read. The story changes based on the decisions that they make. These stories can be great fun for students as wrap-up activities to stories they’ve read (how does the story progress from here?) Or simply as a creative writing activity. Google Forms (available in Google Drive) provides a great format for creating Choose Your Own Adventure stories. Link to Google Drive: (For notifications of new Ditch That Textbook content and helpful links, “like” Ditch That Textbook on Facebook and follow @jmattmiller on Twitter!) Related Tech Tuesday Screencast: WeVideo Today's Tech Tuesday Screencast is about WeVideo. In "Screencasts" Tech Tuesday screencast: Storybird Today's Tech Tuesday screencast is about Storybird.

Tech Tuesday screencast: Feedly Today’s Tech Tuesday screencast is about Feedly. WordSift - Visualize Text. Textivate. Text Expansion. I’ve recently started using text expansion software to improve the written feedback I provide to my students with regard to their writing, and it’s made a huge difference.

Let me explain. I teach students how to write. It’s a huge part of my job, and I love it…for the most part. I love talking with students about their writing. I love looking at their drafts and giving them feedback. The reason I don’t love doing this is because it’s an activity that can get very repetitive. With all students in possession of the same assigned writing handbook, rather than write out the rules for commas myself in the margin of every paper that has comma errors, I can just write, “See section C of the handbook,” instead.

Maybe, just to be sure, I should write, “See section C of the handbook for an explanation of the rules about commas.” So that takes care of making comments about things like grammar or punctuation. Conclusions: It’s still too early to tell, to be honest. How about you? Return to Top. 10 Minute Mail. LiveTyping. Twitter Tips. How To Use Mood Boards For Visual Learning 5.03K Views 0 Likes Mood boards are used for photography, game design, interior design, marketing, fashion, music, advertising and even architecture; but who’s to say they shouldn’t be used in the classroom? (You might be doing this already!) Ideas For Using Hashtags. If you are an Educator looking to use Twitter in the classroom you might have noticed most tweets include a #Hashtag.

The use of the # sign with a word attached to it makes up one. Hashtags trace their history to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks where they are used to label groups and topics. When Twitter came into the social media scene users quickly adopted hashtags as a way to group Twitter messages based on a particular subject or topic. The question now is how do you use them to engage students in the classroom. The first thing you need to do is create a hashtag identifying your subject, project, workshop or any other event you want to track. I would recommend you search hashtag directory services like tagdef.com, twubs.com and hashtags.org to see if somebody is using the one you want. When you visit one of these services you can enter a hashtag, view what it means and register yours using Twitter’s app authentication system. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Twitter Cheat Sheet. Want to step your Twitter game up? Think you’re supposed to actually type a full 140 characters for each tweet? Not quite. That’s just one of the many handy tips found in this useful Twitter Cheat Sheet. You probably know most of these terms already but, as mentioned in the previous sentence, there are some parts that are a little more clearly defined than previous cheat sheets we’ve featured on Edudemic. However, this sheet is already slightly outdated now that Twitter has done a slight redesign. See Also: A Useful Social Media Cheat Sheet & The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education In any case, what are the most important parts of using Twitter that you’d want others to know about?

Source: LexisClick. Twitter In The Classroom. Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought’s favorite), and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Communication Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. Organization Twitter’s hashtags and other tools share a great way to organize information for your classroom.

Resources Use these ideas to take advantage of the vast resources that Twitter has to offer. Writing Skills. Teaching With Twitter. Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. The last several semesters, I have been incorporating Twitter into my teaching style and lessons, and it has quickly become an inextricable part of my teaching tool box.

Twitter allows me to stay in touch with my students quickly and easily, it fosters discussion in the classroom, and it helps to create a community among my students. I am able to engage students 140 characters at a time, and it makes sharing cat pictures way easier. This post walks through some of my reasons for using Twitter in the classroom, before providing some strategies for incorporating it in your own courses! Why Teach With Twitter? There are several reasons that Twitter has become important in my classroom. Twitter is free, easy to sign up for, and exists on multiple devices. The Twitter platform is uniquely suited to fostering discussion. How to Teach with Twitter. Introduction_to_Twitter.