1. TIE 2012 MakeBeliefs Comix WallWisher Dipity

2. What Are These Tools? MakeBeliefsComix –Create Your Own Comic Strip WallWisher –An online notice board maker (or sticky notes!) Dipity –Timeline Creation Tool

3. MakeBeliefsComix http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ "Readers in the 21st century need to be able to analyze what they read and understand the motive of the author and the accuracy of the reading. They need to see themselves as active users, not merely vessels to be filled. Graphic novels offer a forum for these essential discussions." -- Nancy Frey, Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School

4. Why Read Comics? Read Write Think, a partnership among the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, comics can teach:Read Write Think –narrative structure –genre –popular culture –homophones –characterization –math –poetry to students in kindergarten through high school

5. Why Create Comics? http://www.makebeliefscomix.com /How-to-Play/Educators/http://www.makebeliefscomix.com /How-to-Play/Educators/ Pre-writing Pre- and post-reading activities Response to literature Sequencing Dialogue

6. Why Create Comics? For the pre-reader –purely graphical in nature –help provide practice with sequencing –concrete to abstract transitions using illustrations instead of written words For more advanced readers –can contain all the complexity of 'normal' written material which the student must decode and comprehend, such as puns, alliteration, metaphors, symbolism, point of view, context, inference, and narrative structures –can also be a stepping-stone to more complex and traditional written work –A single pane in a comic can represent paragraphs worth of written material in a manner that is effective for the early or challenged reader

7. Why Create Comics? Timelines (history, events, sequences) Historical figures (history of, life of) Instructions (step by step, details, illustrations) Dialogue Punctuation Character analysis Plot analysis Storytelling Pre-Writing Tool Post-Reading Tool Teaching Onomatopoeia

8. Another Resource ReadWriteThink Comic Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom- resources/student-interactives/comic- creator-30021.html

9. How to Use MakeBeliefsComix http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Diagram/ Demo Site Let’s Play!

10. WallWisher

11. Ways To Use WallWisher In The Classroom

12. Language Arts Use with an Author Study: students post stickies about their favorite book by the author. Figurative Language: after reading a text, students post stickies containing examples of figurative language from the text. You could have separate walls for various types of figurative language and students could write their own similes, metaphors, etc. Character Traits: students post evidence from the story to verify a story character’s traits. Brainstorm writing topics: students post ideas they would like to use for writing. It would be a great resource for students with writer’s block! Great Leads: post a writing topic and have students write various introductory sentences for it. Word Choice: post several “bland” words and have students list synonyms that would be more interesting or descriptive. Book Talks: students make recommendations about good books to read.

13. Social Studies Cause and Effect: Why did certain events happen? What were the results of the events? (economic crises, wars, rise and fall of governments, impact of new technologies, etc) Important Historical Figures/Point of View: students imagine they are the historical person and write comments that could have been made by that person. Timeline: post sticky notes listing specific events and arrange the notes in sequential order Compare and Contrast: post comments about how 2 events were similar or different

14. Science Make Predictions: before an experiment, “What do you think will happen?” Experiment Observations: “What actually happened?” Landforms: students create a “sticky note” glossary of landform vocabulary with links to websites about each. Habitats: post comments comparing how habitatsare similar and different.

15. Other Random Ideas Resource Page for Students: post links to online resources and activities related to a unit of study. Collaborative Planning: small groups could post sticky notes to plan a project. Quick Formative Assessment Parent Feedback Affinity Diagram: collect student ideas on any topic (What makes a good student? How can we improve learning in our class?) http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105- classroom-ideas/http://seanbanville.com/2010/06/26/wallwisher-105- classroom-ideas/

16. How To Create a Wall Using WallWisher http://friedafoxworth.edublogs.org/2010/03/ 21/wallwisher-in-the-classroom/http://friedafoxworth.edublogs.org/2010/03/ 21/wallwisher-in-the-classroom/ Let’s Play!

17. What Is Dipity? Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. Aaaand, it’s been running VERY slowly, so we are going to learn a different online timeline creation tool.

18. Why Use Timelines? A graphic organizer –visual tool for studying a brief period of time -- a day, a year, or an individual's life –examining a topic across the centuries –visual, mathematic, and kinesthetic intelligences –organizing ideas –understanding scale –sequence of events –project planning

19. TimeGlider http://timeglider.com/ Navigation bar at the top (it can be moved or removed) Add a title and a description, select the starting date, starting zoom level and whether you want this timeline to be public or not Create an event, and provide a description, date or date span, link(s) and an image. –Each event can also have an importance and can have one of several little icons to set it apart in the timeline

20. TimeGlider By clicking on the event’s icon, you can select a level or size. Important events should be bigger to set them apart and you can easily adjust that without having to open up the event editor You can get the link to the timeline, the code to embed it into your website –You may invite someone to edit the timeline

21. Other Resources For Creating Timelines http://www.timelinemaker.com/ http://www.smartdraw.com/specials/time-line-software.htm?id=137541 http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelArticles/create-a-timeline.html http://www.ehow.com/how_5065383_make-timeline-template-microsoft- word.html http://www.templatekit.com/tstore/product_info.php?products_id=256 http://binginfodesign.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/building-a-timeline- template-in-flash/ http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/timeline.htm http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timelines/ http://www.timetoast.com/ http://www.preceden.com/ http://www.worldhistory.com/ http://iath.virginia.edu/time/