Let Your Students’ Voices be Heard: Free Resources to Reach 21 st Century Students Corina Long, M.Ed., M.T.T.

A "normal” brain takes eighteen seconds to decide whether to keep or drop input … approximately enough time to hear one sentence from beginning to end. (Wolfe 1999 quoted in Barron 2004).

Top Five Gifts for Teenagers Portable Game Device Cell Phone Computer Video Game Console MP3 Players/iPods Source: Starkman, Neal (2007).Leave Me Alone.... T.H.E. Journal

Defining Web 2.0+

Four P’s: Basic Steps in Multimedia Projects Plan –Storyboards and scripts help students stay focused.–Storyboards Produce - Create your project. Publish - Provide an audience by posting their work on your webpage (get a free website at class blog, wiki, School Tube, etc. Promote - Get the word out by joining a PLN (Twitter, Facebook, or Ning) to promote your class projects.

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Ideas Create vocabulary shows by saving PowerPoint slides as jpgs. Use Picnik to add text to your images first.Picnik Create shows to introduce complex skills. Let students create book trailers. Add Wordles to your shows.Wordles Add Discovery (medium) images

PhotoPeach Quickly and easily create an audio slideshow with captions.

PhotoPeach Examples Sharks Gingerbread Houses

Holds any type of media (images, documents, and videos) Comment 5 different ways - voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) Share

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Blabberize helps students to take pride in their work and be motivated to become better speakers and writers. Ocean Blabbers Baby Chick Blabber Examples

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Voki Ideas Create avatars similar in appearance and record a message that tells about themselves. Exchange avatars with e-pals ELL students can use the speaking avatars to practice and listen to their speech. They may use the computerized voice first then record their own voice when they feel more confident. Create an avatar that resembles a character from a story, add a setting and give it speech. The speech could be from the story or a point of view from the character on an event. Add your own images to the background. Source: Helen Otway. January 2008.

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Mixbook Examples Shapes Around Our School Favorite Animals

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Comics Super Lame Make Beliefs Comix Read Write Think’s Comic Generator Newspaper Generator

Kerpoof Kerpoof is a free tool that allows students to create original artwork, animated movies, and stories. Use from any browser, on any computer with Internet access. No software to install No licenses to buy (free to educators) Projects can be saved and/or printed out. Projects can be private or public for all to see

Ideas As a writing prompt- provide a scene and let students choose the characters Ask students to recreate a scene from their reading and to summarize what they read For creative writing- retell a story from a different point of view

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