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A variety of instructional startegies for individual,small or whole group instruction.  This website also has science resources for grades 3 through 12

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The 5W Cube is a portable strategy to target open-ended questions (beginning with who, what, when, where, why, and how) as a means of exploring content and conversational speech. The 5W Cube helps students formulate questions and foster meaningful connections with content. The 5W Cube is a general strategy...

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Free graphic organizer worksheet. Also has resources for ELA literacy, foundational skills, informational text, literature, listening and speaking and writing.

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Graphic organizers are highly useful tools in education for several reasons.

Visual Representation: Graphic organizers visually represent information, making it easier for students to see relationships, connections, and hierarchies within a subject or topic. This visual format helps learners process complex information more effectively.

Organization and Structure: Graphic organizers provide a clear organizational structure for content. They help students break down information into manageable chunks, which makes it easier to understand and remember.

Enhanced Comprehension: By presenting information in a structured and visual manner, graphic organizers enhance comprehension. Students can see the main ideas, supporting details, and how they relate to each other, leading to a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

Critical Thinking: Using graphic organizers requires students to think critically about the material they are studying. They must analyze, categorize, and synthesize information, promoting higher-order thinking skills.

Active Engagement: Graphic organizers engage students actively in the learning process. Instead of passively absorbing information, students interact with the material, which can improve retention and recall.

Differentiation: Graphic organizers can be tailored to suit various learning styles and abilities. Educators can modify them to meet the needs of different students, including those with visual or kinesthetic learning preferences or special needs.

Note-taking Aid: Graphic organizers are excellent tools for note-taking during lectures or while reading. They encourage students to summarize information concisely, helping them distill key concepts and important details.

Memory Enhancement: The visual and structured nature of graphic organizers can aid memory retention. Students are more likely to remember information presented in a well-organized and visually appealing format.

Writing Support: Graphic organizers can serve as prewriting tools for essays and reports. They help students brainstorm ideas, outline arguments, and plan the structure of their written work, making the writing process more manageable.

Effective Communication: Graphic organizers can be used to help students communicate their thoughts and ideas more effectively. They can be valuable tools for organizing and presenting information in presentations or projects.

Problem Solving: Graphic organizers can be adapted for problem-solving tasks. They assist students in breaking down complex problems into smaller, more manageable parts, facilitating the development of strategies and solutions.

Transferable Skills: Skills acquired through the use of graphic organizers, such as critical thinking, organization, and effective communication, are transferable to various academic subjects and real-life situations.

Metacognition: Using graphic organizers encourages metacognitio--the process of thinking about one's own thinking. Students reflect on how they organize and understand information, which can lead to improved self-awareness and learning strategies.

Accessible Learning: Graphic organizers can be used to support diverse learners, including English language learners and students with learning disabilities. They provide a structured framework that can make content more accessible.

Graphic organizers are versatile tools that promote effective learning, enhance comprehension, and develop critical thinking skills. They can be applied across a wide range of subjects and grade levels, making them valuable assets in the educational toolkit.

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Free Printable Graphic Organizers | Student Handouts

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Here are over fifty of the free K-12 graphic organizers which are available to print on this site. Free to print (PDF files).

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Animation & Drawing by Do Ink is the fun, creative way to make animations on your iPad. The app was designed to be easy for beginners and young animators, but with powerful tools for creating advanced animations. Use the drawing editor to create vector artwork and frame-by-frame (flip book) animations. Use the composition editor to combine your artwork - along with props from the Do Ink prop library - into more complex and sophisticated scenes. Save to the camera roll, then share your creations with friends, classmates, or the world!

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Do Ink provides Creativity Apps -Green Screen by Do Ink and Animation and Drawing by Do Ink for students to show what they know in education.

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Create a Greeting Card and Draw a Picture

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for your friends, loved ones or just for fun with our positive and cheerful service!

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Draw Your Own Greeting Card and Save Drawing Process as Time-Lapse Animation - iwishyouto.com, Next Generation Greeting Service

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Here you can draw your own greeting card, save drawing process as time-lapse animation, get a permanent link to it and schedule time for email delivery. Also you can choose an animated card from the the gallery. Everything is free

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Animaker, Make Animated Videos on Cloud for free

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Animaker is an online do-it-yourself (#DIY) animation video maker that brings studio quality presentations within everyone’s reach. Animated Videos, Done Right!

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Animaker - Create Animation, Infographics, Presentatiions and Posters Online

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Animaker - Create Animation, Infographics, Presentatiions and Posters Online

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Create Videos and Presentations with some Animation Online

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Create Videos and Presentations with some Animation Online

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Video Maker | Make Videos and Animations Online | Powtoon

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Powtoon gives you everything you need to easily make professional videos and presentations that your clients, colleagues, and friends will love! No design or tech skills are necessary — it’s free, easy, and awesome!

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Make on-brand videos with the leading online video maker. Biteable is the leading solution for creating concise, engaging, on-brand video content.

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Toonator - Create Cartoon Animation Online

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Toonator - Create Cartoon Animation Online

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Create Animated GIF Video (Graphic Interchange Format)

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Brush Ninja has been getting a lot of attention from educators and teachers recently. It's fantastic. Of all the use cases I had considered for my little animation app, education was not one I had seriously considered and I really like the idea that it's being used for something useful or beneficial, as opposed to just being a toy.

It started with Richard Byrnes "Free Tech for Teachers", where he posted a video showing a short Brush Ninja tutorial.

A couple of months later Richard posted a tutorial on using Brush Ninja to create animations for presentations.

Meanwhile the Steiner Ranch Elementary Library were tweeting about their students using Brush Ninja to encourage engagement and critical thinking.

The creativity of our @SREStallions will never cease to amaze me #dotday #brushninja #animation pic.twitter.com/7PW7rJ89I4
- Steiner Ranch Elementary Library (@Stallionlib) September 19, 2018

And then a couple of days ago I saw someone tweeting about a presentation being made at TIFSouth, a place where educators in New York share their best practices.

Learning about Brush Ninja at #TIFSouth @holler4edtech pic.twitter.com/9pkR8SMfGT
- ☕Andrew Wheelock🤓 (@AMWheelock) October 18, 2018

Benefits to educational institutions

Brush Ninja is free. There's an optional paid version but it only adds a handful of extra features - for the power users. For most users the web version is perfectly adequate. And of course, free software keeps costs down. No software licenses, no new hardware. It just works.

There's no logins needed. You can open the website and get started.

It's simple to use. My objective has been to make it as easy to use as possible. My 2 and a half year old can (and does) create animations in Brush Ninja. They are just random shapes, not intentional stories or anything advanced, but he can draw, add new frames, and play back what he made.

There's no tracking or advertising. No need to worry about your privacy, or personal information being sold. You can check out the privacy policy here.

I've recently pushed live some improvements to the website. The big feature is a much improved mobile view. This allows the app to work more nicely on small screens. You shouldn't need to scroll so much now! You can also expect more changes around this in the future.

Based on feedback, from teachers no less, I have added a text tool. This is great when using Brush Ninja to create animations for presentations, or to demo concepts learnt in science and technology where detailed writing is needed. It's also been suggested that custom background images would be popular and this is on my todo list.

There is also a new tool quick selector. Press l on the keyboard, and you can see all the tools laid out. Just click the one you want and off you go. It's a power user feature, but might speed up the workflow for some people.

Otherwise there have been a few smaller fixes and tweaks.

You can always see the latest changes in the changelog.

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Brush Ninja has been getting a lot of attention from educators and teachers recently. It's fantastic. Of all the use cases I had considered for my little animation app, education was not one I had seriously considered and I really like the idea that it's being used for something useful or beneficial, as opposed to just being a toy.

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Online whiteboard where you can draw, write and collaborate.

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Classhook has a feature called Pause Prompts which are short questions or discussion prompts that you build into the video clips that you plan to display in your classroom.

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"ClassHook is the creative piece I've been looking for YEARS!! Anytime I see a clip in a movie that I could use, I try and make a mental note but usually have a hard time accessing the movie. Because I teach anatomy, there are SOOOO many possibilities. This is a fantastic site."

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ClassHook | Educational TV and Movie Clips

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Make learning relevant with educational scenes from TV shows & movies.

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Need to decide on restaurants and cant make up your mind on what to eat or where to go? Write your own polls and watch users get fired up on your polls!!

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Create Your Own Comic Strips Online with MakeBeliefsComix

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We Offer Support and Resources.

From Richard Byrne, editor of Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week -- ''Creating Comics for Comfort'' -- Living in Maine and father of two school-age children, Richard wrote the following item for teachers and students dealing with the terrible tragedy of the recent mass shootings in that state. He thought this an appropriate time to review and use Social and Emotional Learning resources, such as those offered by MakeBeliefsComix.com.

Make Beliefs Comix offers a library of fantastic, free ebooks for SEL. The library hosted by Make Beliefs Comix contains fillable PDFs that you can download for free. The latest addition to that library is 50+ Ways to Talk to Yourself and Find Healing. And for something a bit lighter, take a look at Pet Words: Conversations With Your Animal Friends.

"Here's a video overview of the Make Beliefs Comix ebooks and here's one about how to create comic strips on the Make Beliefs Comix website."

For many LGBTQ+ kids, especially when they're figuring things out, finding accepting spaces online can sometimes feel safer. Seek out creative opportunities and modes of self-expression, with this section in Make Beliefs Comix.

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MakeBeliefsComix encourages students to create their own visual pandemic diary.

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One easy way to start playing with ideas is through the free, online tool at MakeBeliefsComix.com.

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Create Comics Online, it's Fun & Free at MakeBeliefsComix!

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Create comics online at MakeBeliefsComix. A fun way educators & parents can empower students to express ideas and stories in comix!

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Hello Friends,

Welcome to Writecomics.com. We are the go to place for you to create your own comic strips and share them with your friends on social media. It is extremely simple to create comics on our website. All you need to do is select a few characters, select an interesting background image and select speech bubbles.

Creating comics is a very fun way to express yourself and tell a funny story. It is also great to share your comics on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels to make your friends laugh!

Bienvenido a Writecomics.com. Somos el lugar de ir para crear sus propias historietas y compartirlas con sus amigos en las redes sociales. Es muy sencillo crear cómics en nuestro sitio web. Todo lo que necesitas hacer es seleccionar algunos caracteres, seleccionar una imagen de fondo interesante y seleccionar burbujas de discurso. Crear cómics es una manera muy divertida de expresarse y contar una historia divertida. También es genial compartir sus historietas en Facebook, Twitter y otros canales de medios sociales para hacer reír a sus amigos.

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WriteComics.com - Create your own comics!

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Hello Friends, Welcome to Writecomics.com. We are the go to place for you to create your own comic strips and share them with your friends on social media. It is extremely simple to create comics on our website. All you need to do is select a few characters, select an interesting background image and select speech bubbles.

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Pixton has packs base on books (Because of Winn Dixie)

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FREE Comic, Storyboard & Graphic Novel Maker

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Pixton is the world's most popular comic maker and storyboard creator for teachers and students. Create an account for free and make comics for English language arts, history, social studies, math or science assignments.

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Free Online Cartoon and Comic Strip Maker

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ToonyTool.com is a free online cartoon maker and (animated) comic creator tool: create and share your own cartoons, comics and animations. Choose or upload a background, add our or your own characters and speech bubbles. You can create single or multiple frames comics and combine them into one comic or animation.

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Culture Street - Super Action Comic Strip

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Culture Street - Super Action Comic Strip

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Culture Street is a one-stop destination to introduce young people to contemporary artists, writers, curators and performers and their amazing work.

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Storyboard That: Free Online Storyboard Creator

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Storyboard That: Create free storyboards online with ease. Design visuals, comics, and graphic organizers. Try it now and start creating!

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He is lazy, he is sarcastic, and he is 100% THAT cat. It's Garfield! Loves: TV, food, and sleep. Hates: Mondays and exercise. Alongside easygoing owner Jon Arbuckle and pal Odie the dog, Garfield's sass, sarcasm, and soft side will win you over! Just don't ask him to share his lasagna.

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He's selfish, sarcastic, lazy, yet surprisingly endearing - He's Garfield! Take a look back at our favorite sarcastic cat!

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Cartoon Maker Zone : Making strip cartoons is easy!

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ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator

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The Comic Creator is an interactive tool that invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts.

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Create visually appealing online quotations

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Create visually appealing online quotations

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Start with our simple text editor
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there is no space for novel.

In the slider below the text editor
you can quickly iterate over themes
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Or simply rely on defaults if you
don't want to share a quote with
friends on facebook or twitter.

This will let other users easily find it
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Start with our simple text editor and type a quote. You are limited to 255 symbols,there is no space for novel. In the slider below the text editoryou can quickly iterate over themesand see how your text plays withsurrounding. Or simply rely on defaults if youdon't want to share a quote withfriends on facebook or twitter.

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It enables explorers to start their own projects and tell the stories of their expeditions and fieldwork, while simultaneously allowing anyone to follow along in real time.

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Open Explorer is a community powered by our digital field journal platform. It's for everyone: university researchers to citizen scientists, students to professional explorers. If you have a story to tell or a place to explore anywhere in the world, you can do it here.

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ree online image maker that allows you to add custom resizable text to images.you can also upload your own images as templates.

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American Chopper Argument Meme Generator - Imgflip

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Insanely fast, mobile-friendly meme generator. Make American Chopper Argument memes or upload your own images to make custom memes

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Read Ahead -  Transforms any digital text into a guided reading activity 

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Read Ahead -  Transforms any digital text into a guided reading activity 

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It lets you paste text, or import text from a url address. Then you can divided up the text into “chunks” that appear on slides, along with identifying key words. The text then appears as a slidedeck. Reinforces reading strategies and critical reading (comprehension,

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Part you. Part text. Part machine. All learning.

* Block out distractions
* Break down the text
* Zoom in the key parts
* Question the status quo

Keep readers reading

Read Ahead transforms any digital text into a guided reading activity in seconds. You can use Read Ahead with new web content that you want to read today and create engaging reading experiences across all levels and content areas.

Let readers choose

Read Ahead reinforces reading strategies and critical reading by inviting you to create your own reading presentations with custom word choices. Our Wordlist tool lets you emphasize signal words or grammatical structures in any digital content you want to read. Arguing with our Smart Skimmer lets you show off your critical reading skills- rage against the machine.

Stick to the basics

Read Ahead reinforces vocabulary by manipulating the flow of words in your reading process- simulating the isolation of vocabulary recall during the reading process. By disrupting the usual presentation of text, Read Ahead emphasizes how vocabulary functions in and out of context.

Stimulate smart strategies

Read Ahead skims the text and finds the key ideas for you to get synapses firing off about concepts in passages before you read them. This front-loading technique is proven to help readers cross-reference, establish schema and make predictions.

Focus on the ACT of reading

We keep it simple and focus on the words. Black and white text. How readers move through a reading experience. What choices readers make when they read. Speaking of... have you read What we see when we read by Peter Mendelsund? Wow.

We are baffled by most of the literacy and language arts tools on the market now.

They say the answer to our literacy problem is to double down on how it's always been done. Struggling to read well? They will highlight a passage and give you the grammatical rules- to read. Or, they will take you away from the act of reading altogether and pepper your reading experience with distractions like interactive worksheets and flashy margins full of images and videos. Our answer is to empower you to play with the flow of words.

Create an Open Reading Community

We invite you to create custom reading presentations and share your work with others. Browse public groups and public presentations to see how others read. Compare your reading experiences with readers across the world.

Read Ahead is a machine learner. The more we use it to make meaning, the more it will reflect a broader world view of literacy.

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A literacy breakthrough. Part you. Part text. Part machine. All learning. * Block out distractions * Break down the text * Zoom in the key parts * Question the status quo Keep readers reading Read Ahead transforms any digital text into a guided reading activity in seconds.

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Edji is a unique, collaborative annotation tool that works on any device.

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Edji is a unique, collaborative annotation tool that works on any device.

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Students and teachers can highlight portions of text and leave either emoji comments or text comments. They can also place a hotspot on a picture and leave a comment.

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Live, collaborative reading annotation to engage students with interactive, customizable lessons

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Scratchwork - Whiteboard real time collaboration

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Scratchwork - Whiteboard real time collaboration

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A free tool for adding interactive annotations to your images.

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Give your memory a boost with visual mnemonics

Stop forgetting the basic sciences and get the score you deserve

We turn the hardest Step 1 topics (biochemistry & basic sciences) into cohesive visual pictures, making them easy for you to remember.

We'll walk you through each image with our step-by-step videos, then give you interactive images for studying and review.

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Give your memory a boost with visual mnemonics Stop forgetting the basic sciences and get the score you deserve We turn the hardest Step 1 topics (biochemistry & basic sciences) into cohesive visual pictures, making them easy for you to remember.

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Rocketium - Video creation for marketers, agencies and publishers. 

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Rocketium - Video creation for marketers, agencies and publishers. 

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Creative Operations

Run your entire creative operations with advanced AI tools in a single, connected brand compliant workspace

Design system of assets, guidelines, templates, and past campaigns easily accessible to all your teams.

Pre-flight workflows to ensure AI-powered brand compliance at every stage of creative production.

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Rocketium is an agile CreativeOps platform that helps you go to market faster, at lower costs. Do more with your existing teams, processes and tools.

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Snappa  - infographic-creating templates

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Snappa  - infographic-creating templates

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Snappa - Create online graphics in a snap

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Snappa makes it easy to create any type of online graphic. Create & publish images for social media, blogs, ads, and more!

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BeFunky - Infographic-creating templates 

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Simplify complex ideas and make them more engaging with our customizable infographic templates!

Persuasive Presentations

With our Infographic Maker, you'll knock your next presentation out of the park. When you start with the easy-to-use templates of our Graphic Designer, you can create attention-grabbing infographics that are prominent, powerful, and persuasive. Use them to seal the deal on your next client pitch. Impress your professor and ace that end-of-term project. Or, show off your achievements during a quarterly review. No matter your need, with our Infographic Maker, you'll be able to create engaging presentations that'll be a home run with any audience.

Infographics That Are Easy, Entertaining, and Engaging

Few things give your blog or website an engagement boost more than infographics. Although the thought of making them can be intimidating, they hook viewers as no other content can. Luckily, BeFunky's Infographic Maker simplifies infographic design. With easy-to-use templates, hundreds of design elements, and over a million free stock images accessible in BeFunky, anyone can make infographics that are entertaining, easy to digest, and fun to share. It's sure to skyrocket traffic and help your site take off!

Turn Mundane Information Into Vibrant Infographics

Instead of boring audiences with facts and figures, our Infographic Maker transforms information into visually compelling stories. Want to improve engagement in your classroom? By adding shapes, highlights, and photos to your infographics, you can help your students memorize and retain information easier. BeFunky's Infographic templates make it simple for you to create something attention-grabbing and easy to follow - no matter the subject.

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Download the mobile app to create engaging infographics for your business, classroom, recipes, and more - from any device.

How to Design an Infographic in 4 Easy Steps

Simplify information with an engaging infographic

BeFunky's Infographic Maker

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Beautiful.AI Presentation Software | Make Great Slides Fast

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Google Photos - You can turn your photos into themed movies

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Google Photos - You can turn your photos into themed movies

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Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

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TAG Me!: Student to Student Feedback in Writing

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TAG Me!: Student to Student Feedback in Writing

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As a member of this community, students should be encouraged to take on the responsibility of helping each other grow as writers. This is especially important because as the teacher, it is often difficult to get around to every student who needs help at the exact time that they need it. There is only one of you.

It is very empowering for students to be able to help each other. Aside from the good feelings that come from helping, being able to offer feedback helps students establish their own authority in writing. In being helped by a peer, student writers are exposed to ideas they might not have found on their own.

A good way to teach students how to offer specific feedback is to use the TAG Method.

The TAG Method can be either verbal or written feedback (electronic works too) that is designed to help the author see their writing from the reader's perspective.

To do this activity, two students who are finished with their drafts pair up to TAG each other's writing. After a thorough reading, the feedback is ready to begin.

There are three components to the TAG feedback:

T = Tell something you like. Sharing your writing is difficult for all of us. It is always a good idea to start with what's right before moving on to ideas for changes. Encourage your students to make this compliment as specific as possible:

Not helpful = "I like it" or "This is good."

More helpful = "The details you wrote help me see the characters very clearly" or "The graph you included really helps explain your point."

A = Ask a question. As a reader, what questions pop in your mind as you're reading? What's missing that you want to know? What is unclear that you need help understanding?

G = Give a suggestion. This is a chance for the TAG partner to offer an idea the writer may not have considered. This could include:

A suggestion of moving events around to make the piece flow better

A suggestion of possible dialogue between characters

The addition of a text feature to help clarify ideas

A needed clarification of details

In the end, it is ultimately up to the writer whether or not to incorporate the changes their TAG partner suggested.

When you begin teaching your students how to TAG, it is fun to share a short piece of your own writing. As a class, go through each step and let students offer their feedback to you. You might just be surprised that they see something you didn't and they will love being able to offer their input.

It has been my experience that students who learn how to offer and receive TAG feedback love it and it makes the revision process more meaningful and fun!

Looking for more support to become the writing teacher

Teach Write offers virtual and in-person coaching and professional development services to help you grow your writing habit and/or become a stronger teacher of writers.

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As a member of this community, students should be encouraged to take on the responsibility of helping each other grow as writers. This is especially important because as the teacher, it is often difficult to get around to every student who needs help at the exact time that they need it.

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The benefits of movement in the classroom aren't limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding-and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

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High-stakes tests often measure how well students cope with stress rather than how much they know, but they can prepare for the stress.

Students' emotional states have a profound impact on their ability to do well on any given test. Especially with high-stakes standardized tests, the pressure on students can be enormous. These very limited assessments often reveal who memorized and was able to retrieve the greatest amount of content under pressure, penalizing students who learned the material but were more affected by stress and anxiety.

The good news is that teachers can help students reduce their stress responses and succeed in retrieving and demonstrating what they know.

Promoting Students' Ability to Remember

Neuroimaging research reveals that high-stress environments disrupt the brain's learning acquisition and memory retrieval. The flow of information into and out of memory requires that it pass through the amygdala. In a neutral or positive state-when students are comfortable and confident in their ability to do their best-information can pass through the amygdala to get to and from the memory storage and executive function networks in the prefrontal cortex.

In a high-stress state, the amygdala reduces the flow of information to the prefrontal cortex, reducing access to the information stored in memory and providing less guidance from the executive function networks.

With less access to the executive functions of emotional self-regulation and judgment, students are limited to a narrow set of behavior responses: fight, flight, or freeze. They have less cognitive ability and judgment to evaluate test questions and their own responses.

Guiding your students to build emotional and self-regulation skills is a powerful way to help them reduce test stress. One such skill is self-awareness-recognition of the signs that they are becoming stressed or anxious. That recognition is the first step in overcoming amygdala blockage.

Because of the brain's neuroplasticity, each time you guide students to recognize, name, predict, and consider interventions for their test stress, you help them build stronger neural circuitry that increases their awareness of the interventions they've practiced for these stress producers.

Reducing Negative Expectations

Many tests don't allow students to show what they know-they emphasize recall of memorized facts that don't reflect real understanding. One of the most valuable lessons teachers can offer students reflects that they are far greater than the sum of their test results and that mistakes provide opportunities.

You can show students that incorrect answers on homework, quizzes, or tests don't reflect their true abilities by anonymously sharing the errors that top students from previous years frequently made. Give general descriptions of the successful academic or professional outcomes of these former "mistake makers."

Examples of frequent errors include not looking carefully at what is asked, prematurely selecting an answer without reviewing all the options, not using estimation to see if a math answer is reasonable, and forgetting to check that their answers are in the place corresponding the question number.

Guide students to look for patterns of their most frequent types of errors and to keep these on a reminder list. They should record their progress at making fewer of their frequent errors.

Self-Corrected Practice Tests

Self-corrected practice tests, when well-constructed for building understanding with corrective and goal-progress feedback, can promote stronger neural networks and connections relevant to memory access and understanding at the concept level.

These are not traditional "test prep" practices, but rather guided metacognition. These self-corrected practice tests are opportunities for students to judge for themselves their level of accurate understanding and to evaluate and either revise or reinforce relevant memories.

Self-corrected practice tests build students' true awareness of what they know, rather than what they think they know. Simply rereading can leave students thinking they understand and accurately remember what they read-they think they understand it at the time of the rereading. However, this is often a false impression, and the text is just temporarily held in working memory. Self-corrected practice tests reveal the weak links in students' knowledge and provide feedback on their progress. Self-corrected practice tests can be provided at graduated challenge levels to best match students' progressing knowledge.

Possible benefits of self-graded practice tests:

Students see current status and changes in how, what, and when they study and prepare for tests.

With the immediate feedback of mistakes on the test, students' brains seek to revise inaccurate memories or understandings. When they study again, their attention is alerted when they come to topics where they made mistakes on the practice test.

Repeated testing guides students to prioritize content to study.

As the number of correct answers on practice tests increases, students can see the progress they've made, enhancing the long-term benefits of self-paced practice.

Tips for Test Day

Prior to starting the test, suggest that students write their frequent errors on scrap paper, if this is permitted, to use as a guide during the test taking and to review again when they check their tests.

Students can create-in advance-abbreviations or anagrams of the pertinent frequent errors they want to remember. To remember the frequent errors mentioned above, for example, a student could use WREN: W (what is asked?), R (read all answers before choosing), E (estimate if a math or science calculation is reasonable), N (numbering on answer sheet).

Some students experience reduced stress and increased memory retrieval if they begin the test by writing on scrap paper, if this is permitted, things like formulas, dates, procedures, and definitions that they think are critical but are difficult to remember when they're nervous. Their retrieval efficiency for other information will increase as this "external memory storage" reduces the strain of holding information in working memory.

Even the most challenging tests can be approached with a stress-reducing mental state when schools are safe environments and teachers incorporate activities that build students' emotional awareness, self-regulation, and confidence.

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High-stakes tests often measure how well students cope with stress rather than how much they know, but they can prepare for the stress. Students' emotional states have a profound impact on their ability to do well on any given test. Especially with high-stakes standardized tests, the pressure on students can be enormous.

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Easily Create, Analyze, and Share Maps. Share with friends, embed maps on websites, and create images or pdf.

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Digital mapping tool

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MapMaker is National Geographic’s free, easy-to-use, accessible, interactive, classroom mapping tool designed to amplify student engagement, critical thinking, and curiosity to tell stories about the interconnections of our world.

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A tool for adding interactive pinmarks to images and videos. You could use Thinglink to upload an image of a map and then add pinmarks to it. Those pinmarks can include text, videos, links to audio recordings, or images

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StoryMap JS is a free tool that you can use to create map-based stories

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A free tool that you can use to create a variety of map-based stories. The basic ESRI Story Map lets you combine pictures and locations to playback as a series of slides.

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Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.

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Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.

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The desktop version provides one of the classic ways to create a multimedia map. Students can add pictures, text, and videos to the placemarkers in their Google Earth tours. And students can use the built-in recording tools to make tours that viewers can watch on their own

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Make a virtual reality tour that can be played back in your web browser and or in the Google Expeditions app. You can have students use it to make virtual reality book tours

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Overview of Options for Making Digital Maps

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Overview of Options for Making Digital Maps

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In yesterday's post about English Heritage's Map of Myth, Legend, and Folklore I included a mention of using StoryMap JS to create interactive maps. That prompted a response from Cindy Rudy who suggested the idea of using Thinglink or Google Earth to make similar maps of myths, legends, and folklore. That was my inspiration for this run-down of eight options for making digital maps.

Scribble Maps
Scribble Maps is a free service for making multimedia maps in your web browser on your laptop or tablet. You can use Scribble Maps without creating an account on the site. You can create a map by simply going to the site and clicking "create a map." Scribble Maps gives you a variety of base layer maps on which you can draw, highlight, and place multimedia markers. Watch my video for an overview of how easy it is to use Scribble Maps.

NatGeo MapMaker Interactive
National Geographic's MapMaker Interactive is another digital mapping tool that students can use without an email address or any kind of on-site registration. Just like on Scribble Maps students can choose from a variety of base layer maps to which they can add placemarkers that include videos and images. MapMaker Interactive also provides students with a selection of datasets that they can have displayed on their maps. View my video below to see an overview of how to use MapMaker Interactive.

Thinglink
Thinglink is a tool for adding interactive pinmarks to images and videos. You could use Thinglink to upload an image of a map and then add pinmarks to it. Those pinmarks can include text, videos, links to audio recordings, or images. A short overview of how to do that is included in the video below.

StoryMap JS
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, StoryMap JS is a free tool that you can use to create map-based stories. This is accomplished by matching slides to locations on a map. In the following video I demonstrate how to use StoryMap JS.

ESRI Story Maps
ESRI Story Maps is a free tool that you can use to create a variety of map-based stories. The basic ESRI Story Map lets you combine pictures and locations to playback as a series of slides. The learning curve is a bit steeper than the other tools in this list, but the finished product is quite slick. Here's a good example of an ESRI Story Map.

Google My Maps
My Maps is a free Google service for creating interactive maps that are similar in style to Google Maps. My Maps lets you add placemarkers that contain pictures and videos. Here's a set of videos detailing every part of using Google's My Maps.

Google Earth - Desktop Version
The desktop version of Google Earth provides one of the classic ways to create a multimedia map. Students can add pictures, text, and videos to the placemarkers in their Google Earth tours. And students can use the built-in recording tools to make tours that viewers can watch on their own. Here's a short overview of how to make a Google Earth tour.

VR Tour Creator
Google's VR Tour Creator lets anyone make a virtual reality tour that can be played back in your web browser and or in the Google Expeditions app. Don't limit use of VR Tour Creator to geography lessons. You can have students use it to make virtual reality book tours. Here's an introduction to using VR Tour Creator. And here's how you can use your VR Tour Creator tours in Google Expeditions.

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In yesterday's post about English Heritage's Map of Myth, Legend, and Folklore I included a mention of using StoryMap JS to create interactive maps. That prompted a response from Cindy Rudy who suggested the idea of using Thinglink or Google Earth to make similar maps of myths, legends, and folklore.

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What is a Flowchart?

In simple terms, flowchart or flow chart, is a type of diagram that describe processes. These diagrams compose of blocks, often rectangular, connected by arrows. The blocks contain information of a step in a process. In such way, flow charts help keep the information of a process clear and concise.

Learn more about Flowchart's History, Tutorial, Symbols, Tools, Flow Chart Creator, Free Online Flowchart Maker, Flowchart Software, Flowchart Examples, Flowchart Templates and much more in our Comprehensive Flowchart Guide.

Hiring Process Flowchart

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History of Flowcharts

It is not clear who was the true inventor of flowcharts, but the first standardized documentation on flow chart was first introduced by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. In 1921, the couple presented the graphic-based method in a presentation titled: "Process Charts: First Steps in Finding the One Best Way to do Work", to members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

After that, in 1930s, Allan H. Mogensen, an industrial engineer trained some participants in his Work Simplification Conferences in New York. Participants from this conference such as Art Spinanger and Ben Grahamthen began to use flowchart in their respective fields, which helped propagate the usage of flowchart.

In the year 1949, flowchart began to be used for planning computer programs and quickly became one of the most popular tools in designing computer algorithms and programs. Nowadays, flow chart is an important productivity tool, serving employees in various industries and functions.

What a Flowchart is Used For?

Flowchart is a very versatile tool that can be used to:

Document a process

Present a solution

Brainstorm an idea

Design a system

Explain a decision making process

Store information

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Zen Flowchart is the simplest online software to create flowcharts, flow chart, org charts, process charts, sitemaps, and more. With a minimal and intuitive user interface, creating professional flowcharts and diagrams with our online flowchart maker / flowchart generator is easy and delightful. Our simple free flowchart maker also has Export and Publish features, which allow users to easily share their work. Try our free flowchart creator now!

How to use Zen Flowchart?

At Zen Flowchart, we pride ourselves in having the most intuitive, easy-to-use flow chart maker / generator on the market. And as such, we hope you'll be able to create flow charts with our flowchart tool without much help. However, here's a quick guide on the main features to get you started. Let us know if you have any issues by emailing us at help@zenflowchart.com

Flowchart Templates & Exemples

Zen Flowchart offers ready-made free flowchart templates that let you create flow chart with just 1 click. To use any flowchart template, log in to your Zen Flowchart, click on Templates > Hover over the flowchart template you would like to use > Then click on "Use Template".

How to Make a Flowchart?

Step 1: Map out major steps in a flowchart maker

Start with a piece of paper, or a free flow chart creator like Zen Flowchart with ready-made flowchart templates. Next, draw several major blocks that represent the most important steps in your process. Don't worry about the details for now. Because flow charts are read left to right and top to bottom, start your first node at the top left corner of your workspace.

Step 2: Key in details of your flowchart

Fill in the remaining steps. We recommend working in the natural order of the process. An optional step here is to style your chart with different shapes and color to make it easier to follow.

Step 3: Test your chart

Work through all the steps in your chart to make sure they are clear and exhaustive, and that there is no open-ended node remained.

Step 4: Gather feedback & share with an online flow chart creator

Share a draft of the flowchart and get feedback from the intended users to improve upon it. Flowcharts should be made easily accessible to all parties involved. So make sure you publish your work in the right place. Our online interactive flowchart maker Zen Flowchart has a handy publishing feature, which allows you to publish and share your flowcharts. Any future updates you make to the document will automatically be updated.

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Flowchart Symbols & Components

Flowchart is a very intuitive method to describe processes. As such, in most cases, you don't need to worry too much about the standards and rules of all the flow chart symbols. In fact, a simple flowchart, constructed with just rectangular blocks and flowlines, can already get most jobs done.

However, if you want to get technical and precise, there are preset rules and standards you can follow. Specifically, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) set standards for flowcharts and their symbols in the 1960s. Afterwards, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted the ANSI symbols in 1970. In general, flowcharts flow from top to bottom and left to right. For a full list of flowchart symbols, read our Flowchart Symbols Guide.

1. Flowline: Shows the process' direction. Each flowline connects two blocks.
2. Terminal: Indicates the beginning or end of a flowchart
3. Process: Represent a step in a process. This is the most common flowchart symbol.
4. Decision: Shows a step that decides the next step in a process. This is commonly a yes/no or true/false question.
5. Input / Output: Indicates the process of inputting or outputting external data.
‍6. Annotation / Comment: Indicates additional information regarding a step in a process.
‍7. Predefined Process: Shows named process which is defined elsewhere.
‍8. On-page Connector: Pairs of on-page connecter are used to replace long lines on a flowchart page.
‍9. Off-page Connector: An off-page connector is used when the target is on another page.
‍10. Delay: Any delay period that is part of a process
‍11. Alternate Process: An alternate to the normal process step. Flow lines to an alternate process block is usually dashed.
‍12. Data: Data input or output
‍13. Document: A document
‍14. Multi-document: Multiple documents
‍15. Preparation: A preparation step
‍16. Display: A machine display
‍17. Manual Input: Data or information into a system
‍18. Manual Operation: A process step that isn't automated.

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Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning

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Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning

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Research available for on the use of technology in schools

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WWC | Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning

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This practice guide provides higher education instructors, instructional designers, administrators, and other staff with five recommendations for supporting learning through the effective use of technology.

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Elements of quality blog posts and comments.

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The 22nd Student Blogging Challenge is finishing up this week. Over 10 weeks, students from 20+ countries have been learning about publishing online while connecting with a global audience.

Through a range of weekly topics, the students have been learning about the elements of quality blog posts and comments.

When high standards are set for publishing online, students tend to yield the greatest results. They can meet academic outcomes while learning how to be a safe and positive digital citizen.

This post goes through 10 elements of a quality blog post. Feel free to share these tips with students (they might be useful for adult bloggers too!).

10 Elements Of A Quality Blog Post

Scroll down for summary poster that you're welcome to use in your classroom or on your blog. You'll also find some student examples below.

1) Great Title
Does your title explain what your post will be about and encourage visitors to read on?
Put a little thought into your title and you might find your readers are more willing to click and read through your post.
Tips for writing effective blog post titles:

Brainstorm a number of titles and then choose the best one. Many bloggers start with a "working title" and then change it before publishing.

Make your title specific and enticing.

Think about what will encourage readers to click.

Avoid clickbait. That is, a title that entices readers to click but is dishonest about the content of the post, or doesn't explain what your post is about. For example "You Won't Believe These 100 World's Best Study Tips". This sort of title might over promise and under deliver. Do you really have 100 tips? Are they really the best in the world?

This flowchart from Orbit Media shows that when people come across a headline, they decide in about 2 seconds whether to click and read the post or keep scrolling.

2) Short Paragraphs
Do you break up text into short paragraphs to make your posts easier to read?
Many readers will just be scanning your post and if they're presented with a big block of text they may not read it at all.

It's also a good idea to break up text with:

subheadings

bullet point lists

numbered lists

You might have been taught at school that you don't start a new paragraph until you change topics but this does not apply to digital writing.

Short paragraphs are good. Very good!

3) Visuals Or Multimedia As Well As Text
Does your post include at least one visual?
High-quality posts include more than just text, they have visuals as well.
Along with being nice to look at, images serve two purposes:

They help readers understand what you're writing about (especially if your image is something like a graph, diagram, or video).

They break up your text and make it easier to read.

What sort of visuals can you include in posts? Here are a few examples:

Photos you take yourself.

Creative Commons images (this guide shows you some good websites for students).

A graph or chart (try BEAM for an easy web tool).

Videos (e.g. embedded from YouTube or Vimeo).

Google Slides presentations.

Google Drawings (check out this tutorial from Sheri Edwards).

An image you make in Canva (learn more about Canva here).

4) Internal And External Links
Do you include links in your post either to other posts you've written or inspiration/ideas you've come across on the web?
In the past when we only wrote with pen and paper or on word processors, writing was more linear. Writing on the web is different. An important part of digital writing is using hyperlinks.

Hyperlinks are the heart of the web. They bring together various pages from different websites and your own website.

Any article you read on the web probably includes hyperlinks. It's important for students to learn how to include these in their own writing.

Hyperlinks:

Help readers learn more about a certain topic.

Help readers understand where the writer is coming from.

Cite sources to back up what you're saying.

Save you having to define words or ideas. You link the word/phrase to an explanation and readers can choose to explore the definition if they need to.

Allow you to practice good online etiquette by showing where your ideas or inspiration is from.

Remind readers of older posts you've written that they might like to look at.

This Edublogs help guide shows you how to add links to your blog posts.

5) Fonts And Colors
Are the fonts you use easy to read? If you're using colors, do they stand out against your background?
Many students love playing around with different fonts, colors, and backgrounds but it's important to always keep these question in mind:

Can people easily read the blog post?

Are you being consistent in your color/font choices?

Are your fonts big enough and clear enough?

Is there enough contrast? (e.g. red text on an orange background would be hard to read).

Is there too much movement? This can be very off-putting for readers.

Overall, less is more!

Find out how to change your fonts and colors in this help guide.

6) Proofread
Have you proofread your work before publishing?
No one expects bloggers to be perfect but proofread work is much easier to read.

Before you publish, it's important to check your spelling, grammar, punctuation, and spacing.

If you can, enlist the help of someone else to check your work. It's harder to spot your own mistakes! Perhaps students could pair up with another student for proofreading.

For older students, Grammarly is a great free online tool to check your writing. Grammarly is 18+ but if you're aged between 13-17, you can use it with permission.

7) Digital Citizenship
Have you checked that you haven't revealed your personal information (YAPPY) or copied text/images/work that doesn't belong to you?
It's great for readers to learn a bit about you but it's important to avoid sharing too much information or personal details.

I like to tell my students to never share their YAPPY online as per in the image below. There is some other information that's more of a "grey area". These are things that students should discuss with teachers and parents.

Students also need to make sure they're not using work that doesn't belong to them. This includes images as well as text and other content.
Further advice on digital citizenship and copyright:
8) Categories And Tags
Do you assign your post to at least one category? Bonus points if you use tags to organize your posts too!
Tags and categories on posts are used to help readers locate information in different ways.

You don't have to use tags but each post has to be assigned to at least one category. If you don't do this manually, it will be assigned to a category called "Uncategorized" by default.

Take a look at this chart to learn more about the differences between categories and tags.

Learn more about using categories and tags in this help guide.

9) Questions
Do you include questions at the end of your post to encourage visitors to leave a comment?
Comments bring blog posts alive. They turn your blog from a static space to an interactive space. Some fantastic learning can happen in the comment section.

Readers can leave feedback, offer constructive criticism, or share new perspectives. This can help you grow and learn.

You can't assume that readers will think to leave a comment. You need to invite them. Try coming up with some open-ended questions that you can include at the bottom of your blog posts.

10) Comments
Do you approve comments quickly and write polite replies?
If you do receive comments on your post, it's important to approve them in a timely manner and write a reply.

This will encourage readers to keep returning and interacting.

Try to make your comments high-quality.

Here are some elements of a quality blog comment:

Written like a letter with a greeting, body, and sometimes a closing.

Includes correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and spacing.

The content might include questions, compliments, and/or relevant new information.

Aim to make connections without revealing personal information like surnames, specific plans, addresses, birthdays, etc.

You won't always include all of the above in your comments but these are the sorts of things you might aim for.

Summary Poster: What Makes A Quality Blog Post

Student Examples Demonstrating Elements Of A Quality Blog Post

Examples are always helpful to show students. Here are some examples of posts from Student Blogging Challenge participants.

You'll notice the annotated posts don't necessarily include all of the 10 elements described above. Blogging is a learning journey and it's also a personal representation of yourself. So you don't need to follow a formula although having some tips to refer to is always helpful.

Raise the bar and reap the rewards!

Check out the examples from students in:

2nd Grade: Miss Blessings Class

Cherie Blessing is an experienced teacher and longtime blogger from central Vermont in the United States.

Cherie's class blog is called The Great Adventure. Her student blogs are linked to her class blog using My Class.

Let's take a look at examples from two of her young bloggers. The students use pen names. These students have just turned 8 years old proving you're never too young to blog!

3rd Grade: Mrs. Yollis' Class

Linda Yollis from Los Angeles has been blogging with her 3rd grade students for over a decade. This year she has helped her students set up individual blogs on Edublogs.

Linda has always set a high standard for students and is also very dedicated to involving parents in student learning.

Because of this, Linda's students are already producing some fantastic work despite only blogging for a few months and only being 8/9 years old.

The students in Mrs. Yollis' class use pen names and their work is moderated by Linda using My Class features.

Let's take a look at two examples:

6th Grade: Wilderness School

The students from Year 6 at Wilderness School in South Australia have been keen participants in the recent Student Blogging Challenge.

Their students are very creative at trying out various web tools and adding an assortment of multimedia to their blogs.

One student, Lauren, even made a tutorial video for Student Blogging Challenge participants about blog headers.

Here are two examples from Year 6 at Wilderness:

Emily is a grade 10 student in the Performance Learning Program at Seycove Secondary in Canada. Her school uses a CampusPress network to host their impressive blogging program.

Emily has been blogging for nearly 3 years. You can read about her experiences with the Student Blogging Challenge in this post (she made a video about the challenge with two friends).

The following annotated post is just an example of the high-quality content that Emily regularly publishes on her blog. She's an exceptional student and role model for other bloggers.

Along with excellent writing, Emily includes creative graphics, charts, and diagrams to make her posts a true delight to read.

Due to the length of Emily's post, only snippets were included below. Be sure to read the full post here.

Nadia Matveyeva is an English instructor from a university in Kazakhstan. She started a class blog this year with her second-year college students.

2019 is the second year her students have been learning English. They were excellent participants of the Student Blogging Challenge.

Here is one of their posts about family celebrations in Kazakhstan for the new year. It was written collaboratively by Nadia K., Lisa T., Christine M. and Farisa S. The poem was by Sasha R. and Ruslan B.

Due to the length of the post, only snippets were included below. You can view the full post here.

Over To You

We've shared the 10 elements of a quality blog post but this is not an extensive or rigid guide. No doubt, you and your students will have your own ideas about what makes a quality blog post.

We'd love you to share your own ideas and examples in the comments below.
Scroll down the find the comment box.
Further Reading
My Class: Student Blogs Made Easy Different Approaches To Using Student Blogs And Digital Portfolios Check Out These Class Blogs

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10 Elements Of A Quality Blog Post: Tips For Teaching Students

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How to approach the use of technology in learning environments to maximize opportunities for learning and minimize the risk of doing harm to students.

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Using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)

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Using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)

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Are you new to the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)? Or maybe you want a refresher and some materials to share with colleagues?

You're in luck! Here are some quick and easy resources for planning and facilitating a QFT-based lesson.

Watch the QFT in action

This nine-minute video provides a step-by-step depiction of how to run the QFT in a high school setting. In this video, students in a humanities class use the QFT to prepare for a Socratic seminar. You can see how the teacher introduces the lesson, facilitates the process, and guides students through each step.

The process is similar for other grade levels and academic subjects. You can find videos depicting the QFT in elementary and middle school, and in a science class, in our resources section at rightquestion.org.

Steps of the Question Formulation Technique

This three-page guide outlines each step of the QFT. Let's not call it "a cheat sheet for running the QFT" (shh, that's basically what it is). Instead, let's say it's an easy-to-follow roadmap that includes useful tips and links to the above-mentioned videos.

Lesson planning workbook

Using this workbook will help you tailor a QFT lesson to specific teaching and learning goals. With this workbook you'll identify and articulate those goals, design a Question Focus, consider how students' questions will be used, develop prioritization instructions, and create reflection questions.

Plug-and-play PowerPoint template

This PowerPoint template allows you to facilitate a QFT experience right out of the box. You just need one ingredient: a Question Focus. Insert your Question Focus into the PowerPoint slide on page six and you're ready to go.

Bring your QFT game to the next level

If you've already done the QFT a few times and are looking for fresh ways to use it, this blog post by Jennifer Brickey, a teacher-librarian in California, offers some great ideas.

Also, check out this Teaching Channel series about the Question Formulation Technique. It features teachers from around the country who use the QFT in different situations.

More resources

You can find more tips, guides, workbooks, and ideas in the resources section of our website.

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Quick Guide to Using the Question Formulation Technique - Right Question Institute

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Real Media Literacy: Spotting a Fake Story

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Real Media Literacy: Spotting a Fake Story

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ncreasingly today, the ability to analyze and evaluate the techniques by the fake news creators is more important than ever. But are students receiving sufficient coaching and practice in questioning what they read?Experts are now recommending that students read laterally, as opposed to vertically.  Lateral reading involves “the act of verifying what you’re reading as you’re reading it

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In 2019, the prevalence of fake news and disinformation online is causing many educators to rethink how they teach critical thinking skills to students.

Do your students know how to "read" a news story they've come across on a website or in social media and evaluate the information the creators have presented?

Increasingly today, the ability to analyze and evaluate the techniques by the fake news creators is more important than ever. But are students receiving sufficient coaching and practice in questioning what they read?

Reading Laterally

Experts are now recommending that students read laterally, as opposed to vertically. Lateral reading involves "the act of verifying what you're reading as you're reading it." ( Source)

For example, imagine you come across a data point on screen-time for children. Maybe the statistic sounds far-fetched (e.g., "Children ages 8-14 spend an average of 12.6 hours a day staring at a screen). Instead of continuing to read by either accepting the data without consideration or being skeptical and eroding the credibility of everything else you read from then on, 'lateral reading' would have you stop and fact-check that data point. (TeachThought)

Source: Elk Grove USD Digital Citizenship site

Researchers from Stanford University agree and say that today's students must become like fact checkers. They observe that "lateral readers don't spend time on the page or site until they've first gotten their bearings by looking at what other sites and resources say about the source at which they are looking." ( Source) Want to know more? Download the free eBook Web Literacy for Student Factcheckers.

Deconstructing Any Media Content

Those of us in media literacy have recommended students ask these questions about all media messages, including those online:

Who is the author/creator? Can they be contacted?

Who is the intended audience? How do you know?

What techniques does the author use to make it authoritative or credible?

How might other people understand this message differently from me?

Who or what has been omitted and why?

Who benefits from the media message?

Where was the message published and who is likely to see it there?

Where might I go to confirm or verify the info that I am reading?

These are important critical thinking questions, and you can locate a number of infographics online which use these questions, and others, all of which are designed to jump start student skepticism.

I recommend you post one of these "pay attention!" infographics at every computer at school. See for example the CRAAP Detection infographic or the HOW TO SPOT FAKE NEWS Infographic.

Lesson Idea: Teaching With Examples

Beginning in 2016, a number of news stories about the explosion of "fake news" have referenced the importance of incorporating media literacy instruction in our schools.

Here is an approach I have found useful. I take a "fake news" webpage or site, create a handout from it, and engage either teachers or students in an exercise where they are challenged to identify the techniques used to fool the visitor. In addition, I ask students to consider some media literacy-oriented critical thinking questions about the site and its contents.

I have converted a notorious fake website page (below) into a one page handout (you can download here) to provide a show-and-tell for you.

Website page recovered via the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org)

Will your students know instantly that this website content is fake? Let's do some analysis that models the "lateral thinking" strategy.

► Using the Obama "news" story above (click to enlarge), let's start with the URL address. It is:
http://abcnews.com.co/obama-executive-order-bans-pledge-of-allegiance-in-schools/

The source appears at first glance to be ABC NEWS, but notice the domain name indicating the country of Colombia in South America. A quick check on Google shows the real ABC News does not include a country designation in its URL.

► Second, have students study the fake ABC NEWS logo and compare it to the logo found at ABC.com. It resembles the real ABC News emblem, but it uses a detectably different font and different shape. It's been designed to fool unsuspecting or inattentive readers and transfer the news organization's credibility to this fake content.

► Third, have students locate the name of the author. Is/was Jimmy Rustling a real reporter for ABC NEWS? Do some quick searching to find out.

► Fourth, have students consider the headline. At the time this story appeared online, a reader should have asked themselves: Have I seen, read or heard anywhere else, from any other news source, that the President signed such an executive order? If not, does that make sense? This should be another red flag.

► Next, have your students consider the photo. In this case, it is a real image of Obama signing an executive order. By conducting a Google Image search (using a search string like "President Obama signs executive order"), students may be able to discover the exact image and read the authentic caption associated with it, revealing that this image has been appropriated for false use.

► Readers could also do a simple search for "Executive Order 13738" mentioned in the article and discover at the Federal Register website that the real EO was an amendment to an earlier EO regarding fair pay and safe workplaces. Nothing to do with the Pledge.

► Finally, ask students to notice the dateline, Washington DC, followed by the letters AP, which stand for the Associated Press news agency. By citing AP, a venerable and respected media service, the author again hopes the unsuspecting reader will not question the story's authenticity. In this case, a quick search of AP.com stories for the date range shown will help confirm it's a fake.
To learn more about this particular fake news story - and about a good resource to share with students - visit this post at the FactCheck.org website, which suggests the post was "satirical" because it contained some nonsense text in the second half of the story. You might ask students if they would typically read that far or would (at most) depend on headline, photo, and the first few paragraphs. Another fact-checking source, Snopes.com, described the story as "an old hoax" used by "malware spreaders." A Google search on the day I've posted this article revealed that some extremist websites still present this story as true.
A Healthy Skepticism

With the 2020 election season underway, fake news and deceptive social media posts, photos and videos are expected to become commonplace. It is more important than ever that educators consider how to best help 21st century "digital natives" acquire the critical thinking and "healthy skepticism" skills they will need today and tomorrow to function as citizens.
Other Resources
Frank W Baker is a media literacy educator and consultant. His book Close Reading The Media: Literacy Lessons and Activities for Every Month of the School Year (Routledge, 2018) has been recommended by the School Library Journal. See our review. (Use discount code MWEB1 at checkout on routledge.com for 20% off.)

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Google Classroom is a powerful tool that allows teachers and students to create assignments, turn in work, grade assignments, share resources, have class discussions, and much more.

Classroom is constantly improving with new features. To help schools make the most out of Classroom, I have put together a series of videos on how to use this tool.

My goal for these videos is to keep them as short as possible, and have each one cover just a single topic. This way users can find just the information they need and can watch it quickly. Also, since Google Classroom gets frequent updates, it will be easier for me to replace a small video when it becomes outdated with a new version.

I plan to continue adding more videos to this series, so please let me know what Google Classroom topics or questions you would like me to address in a future video. See below for the current list of my Classroom help videos.

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You can use the links below to open each video on YouTube, or scroll further down to watch any of the videos embedded in this blog post.

How to Create a Classroom (3 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Add Students (3 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Post to the Stream (4 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Add Materials to the Classwork Page (4 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Create an Assignment on the Classwork Page (7 minutes) - YouTube link

How Students Complete Assignments (5 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Grade Assignments (5 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in Google Classroom (8 minutes) - YouTube link

Google Meet Integration with Google Classroom (6 minutes) - YouTube link

How to use Rubrics in Classroom (7 minutes) - YouTube link

How to use Originality Reports in Classroom (8 minutes) - YouTube link

How to Create a Classroom (3 minutes)
How to Add Students (3 minutes)

How to Post to the Stream (4 minutes)

How to Add Materials to the Classwork Page (4 minutes)

How to Create an Assignment on the Classwork Page (7 minutes)

How Students Complete Assignments (5 minutes)

How to Grade Assignments (5 minutes)

How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes (8 minutes)

Google Meet Integration with Google Classroom (6 minutes)

How to use Rubrics in Google Classroom (7 minutes)

How to use Originality Reports in Classroom (8 minutes)

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