Wattpad Cover Experiments

 

Wattpad Experiment

Medieval ThingLink

This is my second attempt at ThingLink. If you hover over the image above (which I downloaded free from Morguefile) you'll see that I've attached a number of Medieval resources I found at YouTube. Naturally, it occurred to me (once I'd attached my links to this particular image) that I should have created an image collage of all things Medieval - food, clothing, knights, revelry, the church etc... and THEN added the resource links acording to the category.  never mind, next time.

If you'd like to learn how to use ThingLink in the classroom, come and talk to me in the ISC or book a time where I can introduce this new web 2 tool to your department.

Dreamtime Stories on YouTube

Thing Link

ThingLink

ThingLink is a wonderful tool where a single image can be used as storage for stimulus links.  For example:

English: 

A creative writing piece on penguins could include links to YouTube with footage of penguins, to research websites dealing with the topic such as national geographic, to examples of poems and short stories, to an image bank etc...

History:

An image of London in the 16th century could include links of important buildings which when clicked on would go to visuals of that building. Important events could be linked to YouTube explanations etc...

Geography:

Students studying a particular country, say China - could add links to images and interesting facts and details concerning that country.

The important thing is to make the 'grabs' of information brief and of high interest particular where middle school students are the target audience.

Multiple Intelligence apps

Here is one example of what can be achieved. For more examples got to the ThingLink gallery

The Crucible Online Resources

Researching the Crucible

Background

 McCarthyism - part 1/5 The Hollywood Ten (1950) Miller Interview, Part 1 Miller Interview, Part 2 Miller Interview, Part 3 The Atheism Tapes - Arthur Miller - Part  1 and 2




Aurthur Miller, Salem, MA (1991): Crucible & Trials

Lit2Go

Lit2Go is a fabulous website that offers 'classic' (for want of a better term) audio books for free. The books can be downloaded chapter by chapter - a chapter download only takes around 30 seconds or so. The books are organised via author, book titles, genres, collections and readability. The site would make an excellent differentiated addition to your wide reading programs OR if you happen to choose a text that is a 'classic', for example a text by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain etc..., then students who need audio support can download the text on their netbooks as pdf or as an audio file.

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/authors/index/s/