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Comic Life ideas

Comic Life allows students to illustrate dialogue along with narration in a comic-style layout. It's super easy to use. It shows critical thinking, application of knowledge and creative use of digital publishing. And it makes an amazing display either in your classroom or outside my office. Here are a few ideas, and it can be something they start in class and finish for homework, or offered as a choice of mediums for project-based learning. • Moral/ethical issues: scenarios and solutions • Bible stories (new or old testament). Creative interpretation. • Poems that have a common poet, theme, time period, or other connection • Battles during Civil War, WWI or WWII, etc. • Scenes and dialogue related to culture, • Creative retelling of events in history, literature • Events in the life of scientists/mathematicians/artists/ writers • Social Justice issues: presenting issues and solutions through creative dialogue I will come in and review with them how to use it , but I b...

Online Discussions - FlipGrid

VoiceThread has been around for a while but I'm constantly running into issues with it. So many different browsers and users and computers seem to complicate things. FlipGrid is a new one I'd like to try... not free. $65 annual fee for 10 grids. The idea is you have noe grid per class with unlimited questions and responses. The discussion looks really streamlined, and can be embedded nicely! you may get a warning from your browser about unsecure content, however. After playing around with it, there is one thing I recommend... Hide Social Links Block users from sharing videos on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Note: Turning this feature "OFF" will also set "Hide Direct URLs" to OFF I wouldn't want students to share other student responses on their facebook pages!