ThingLink is a free online tool to digitally annotate images. There area wide variety of reasons for using ThingLink in your classroom, ranging from visualizing complex ideas, to streamlining presentations. Here you will find a number of tutorials that walk you, step-by-step, through the tool. You will move from complete beginner to expert in less … Continue reading Video Tutorial Series: ThingLink, the Digital Annotation Tool
The Media Triangle was first created by Eddie Dick, and has since been used as a way for people to fully analyze the messages and meanings of media texts. By focusing not only on the text itself, but also the audience, and the production, one is able to tease out complex concepts that might otherwise go … Continue reading Introducing The Media Triangle
Whether you've arrived here as part of the larger Gender Representation Unit, or while searching for a strong short story to use with your students, X: A Fabulous Child's Story by Lois Gould is perfect for your classroom. A copy of the story can be purchased online or downloaded from The Gender Centre (currently the fourth link from the top at the time … Continue reading X: A Fabulous Child’s Story – Literacy Skills Review
One thing that few people realize is that not every picture on the internet is fair game for teacher use. At the end of the day, will you face legal reprimands for using a picture you downloaded from someone's website? Probably not. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to stick to using legal images. … Continue reading Pixabay: Royalty Free Stock Photos for Teachers and Professionals
In our last part you learned how to write a Choose Our Way tale with Twine 2, and share it on a website so that it could be shared with people outside of the classroom. Now you will learn how to transform your Twine 2 story into an Android APK App file which can be played on … Continue reading Converting Twine 2 Stories to Android APK Apps for the Google Play Store
Twine 2 is a piece of software that allows you to create Choose Our Way tales. In our last parts you learned about palm stories, familiarized yourself with the basics of choose our way tales, and then learned how to write basic choose our way tales. Now we'll look at how to digitize those tales using Twine 2. … Continue reading Using Twine 2 to Create Chooseable Path Stories
Point Evidence Explanation paragraphs have all three requirements for supporting an opinion. The point is what the writer believes, the evidence is what the writer is using to prove their belief is true, and the explanation is an explanation of how the evidence supports the point. I use the following activity as a diagnostic to assess Reading and Writing knowledge. It … Continue reading Alligator River: Point Evidence Explanation Paragraphs
Now that you have learned all there is to learn about Google Forms you may want to print physical hardcopies of the tutorial. Feel free to distribute my sheets for non-commercial purposes. DOWNLOADS Google Forms - Tutorial Book - WhatBinder.pdf PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE FORMS PART 2: CREATING A BASIC GOOGLE FORM PART 3: … Continue reading Google Forms Downloadable Resources
In the last part you learned how to create a self-marking Google Forms quiz. Now we will see that there is always more to learn, and always more to explore. Even though you have learned how to create self-marking forms, your journey is not at an end. Sadly, your journey with me has all but reached … Continue reading More to Learn About Google Forms
In the last part you learned how to make an Advanced Google Form. Now that you know how to create a number of different types of forms, you will be putting those skills to use in an effort to make your life easier. If you have not read the previous chapters, please familiarize yourself with that … Continue reading Creating a Google Form Quiz
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