Tour Builder is an interactive storytelling tool that connects people to places using Google Maps and multimedia content. It’s easy to integrate text, photos, and videos onto Google Maps to create an immersive storytelling or journey experience. Ideas for lesson design: http://mrbradfordonline.com/gtb/ Use Tourbuilder to create student tasks or activities to be completed for assessment…
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Introduction – Modeling fluent reading Children begin developing their reading skills as soon as parents begin reading aloud to them. With the assistance of voice, intonation, gestures, visuals and controlled speed parents, teachers or capable peers convey meaning through written texts and help learners understand more than they can read on their own. In other…
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Liveworksheets is an interactive workbook system, where workbooks can be assigned to one or more students at a time and are organized by class/level. You can make up to 10 workbooks and add 120 pages to each workbook. Then you can assign the workbooks to a maximum of 100 students. When a new school term…
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The Internet Second Language Collective is an international community of language teachers sharing self-made language teaching materials on a free to use platform. The printable worksheets (doc/docx) and powerpoints (ppt, pptx) created are shareable, as are teaching tips and ideas. The newest addition is the iSLCollective interactive video quiz maker and library. Worksheets and video…
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Toontastic 3D is a storytelling app that’s inspired by puppetry, theatre, and animation. It employs a “Story Arc” with five sequential scenes to guide story structure (setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution). Learners move characters around each scene as they record narration and dialogue. Toontastic 3D can be an invaluable tool for building writing skills…
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PowToon is web-based animation software that allows users to quickly and easily create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs. To get started all a user needs is to sign up with their Google account and they are good to go. If you don’t want to start from…
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