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. 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. Have students email or download to their desktop their completed comics. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Apps and Ideas for Literature Circles on iPads Mobile Learning | Feature Apps and Ideas for Literature Circles on iPads By Margo Pierce05/08/12 Technology is sliding a power cord, app, or some other innovation into every aspect of education, even elementary reading classes. Darrow says that traditional methods for teaching reading have centered on a verbal-only methodology, which she describes as using one track in the brain. “You want to give [kids] different types of learning experiences so that learning sticks in the brain,” Darrow says. One method of getting kids to engage reading in different ways is through a tablet-based literature circle. But instead of using paper books, colored index cards and poster board to acheive these goals, Darrow uses iPads and apps. Don’t understand a word in the text? With an iPad, Darrow says, “you can quickly switch in and out of the book into the internet to get background research, whether that be video or images or articles.”
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. 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. Be Funky - Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click.
Educational-Blogging - How To Teach Commenting Skills Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! guest Join | Help | Sign In Educational-Blogging Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Web-based Digital Storytelling Tools and Online Interactive Resources : Danny Maas, Emerging Technologies Consultant Click Here to Download a Condensed, 2-Page Handout (950Kb) Click Here to Download PDF Handout Version of this Blog Post (2.3 MB) There are many great websites that provide opportunities for students to develop language skills, tell stories, and share back their knowledge in fun, creative, and meaningful ways each using a computer. There are also terrific websites and portals which have links to excellent online interactives which can be used in the classroom with an interactive whiteboard. Below are links and short descriptions of these sites. Underlying Beliefs: Important Considerations: What are your educational goals? Bring a buddy class with younger students – Students in kindergarten or the early grades are capable of doing a lot with a computer, but they need a lot of individual help early on. Digital Storytelling Web-based Tools Storyjumper – – Getting Started with Storyjumper.com Animoto – Blog Post – Using Animoto With Students
The 5 Levels of Digital Storytelling By kylemawer It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest blog post by James Taylor, who has been adapting gaming elements (such as leveling up) and applying them to digital storytelling. Thanks, James for a very interesting blog post and loads of great web links and resources which you’ll find near the end – Some of them we’re familiar with here at Digital play but we can’t wait to dip into all the others. Over to you James . . . When we think of introducing web-based tools into our classrooms, as teachers we often obsess over the technical side of things. We are not wrong to consider these things, whether we teach kids or adults. In this article, I will demonstrate how you can increase the levels of complexity both technically and linguistically in web-based storytelling by using tools that ask more of your students at each stage. Level One – Mad Libs Level One web-links
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.
Digital Poetry Digital poetry is a part of that conversation. While poetry has been long limited to physical media -- from tablets and parchment to books and magazines -- digital publishing platforms have obliterated such constraints, adding the modalities of light and sound to the traditional combination of words and white space to this medium of human expression. Here's how digital poet Jason Nelson explains the medium: "In the simplest terms Digital Poems are born from the combination of technology and poetry, with writers using all multi-media elements as critical texts. Sounds, images, movement, video, interface/interactivity and words are combined to create new poetic forms and experiences." Click to Enlarge As technology increases, so do the avenues of communication -- and the diversity of nuance. Digital poetry -- in goals and purpose -- is really no different than standard poetry. Classroom Implementation Teachers can also spread the burden. Conclusion Namely, your students.
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