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Imagine living a life you consider ideal and balanced. Sink into the desirable details of your job, your relationships, and the hobbies you pursue. Revel in the fulfillment of your experience. These will form the basis of your vision board ideas.

What are you doing to make this exciting life happen? How is your future self different from you today? Paint a picture of all that you notice-colors, people, actions, places, feelings, etc.

The process you just engaged in above is called visioning. This involves playing with our right brain to invoke creativity and imagination. It's a process that often helps us get to the heart of what we desire, what holds value for us, and then it prompts us into action from a space of aliveness and alignment.

Visioning can help increase motivation and confidence, as well as set your mind up for success in many areas of your life.

A practice for making visioning more tangible is creating vision boards, which are representations of our goals and dreams. At their core, these boards are a collage of images, words, and phrases that capture your vision of the future. The intent of this dream board is to make you feel truly giddy, inspiring you to stay focused and take action.

Vision boards that are created from the space of receptivity to what is to come can be truly enlightening. These visions can be in the form of colors, feelings, words, or sensations. Such vision boards are highly spontaneous and intuitive.

The second kind of vision boards are created from the space of intention, where we look into our deepest longings and actively engage in exploring, expressing, and representing these desires through different means. This is a form of manifestation.

Let's look at some vision board ideas that can help us capture our dreams.

1. Words

Words are a great place to start when thinking up vision board ideas. Words have a mysterious way of impacting us and helping us feel good when used correctly. Whether the words describe feelings or echo states of being, they all evoke experiences we have had or wish to have.

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Look at magazines to cut out words that describe how you want to be or what you want to feel. You can even write them in big, bold, colorful letters.

2. Quotes

Quotes are great sources of mindset formation and effectively express an idea or experience in its entirety, making them great vision board ideas. No matter what the context in which the words were originally said, the impact of a good quote is timeless.

Choose quotes that give rise to intense and accurate thoughts that match the state or experience you wish to arrive at. These can be from your role models, favorite authors, teachers, or even something out of a song. You can even add poems if they speak to you and your future goals.

3. Self-Affirmations

Self-affirmations are different from quotes since you write these on your own, for yourself. They are aimed at changing one's worldview and undoing limiting beliefs.

Research suggests that they can minimize anxiety, stress, and defensiveness associated with threats to our sense of self, while having positive neuro-psychological effects and keeping us open to improvement.

Create affirmations that start with "I am" and challenge beliefs about money, success, ability, and skill. Write affirmations that go beyond what you think is possible and change the "cannot" to "can."

Here are some affirmations you might find useful: 10 Positive Affirmations for Success that will Change your Life

4. Art or Doodles

When you're coming up with vision board ideas, art or doodles are great ways to strengthen your desired states. Since it is you who is representing your vision through imagery, there is no better way of owning it.

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You don't have to be skilled in art to create doodles. You just have to be willing to play!

You can doodle your life map, or just use colors to intuitively express your feelings without form. Draw your future successful self in your dream job or taking your dream vacation. You can also doodle your favorite quote or your own affirmation.

5. Pictures

Pictures are a wonderful alternative to the doodles, since they can snap you out of any hesitancy you might feel towards drawing. You can pin them to a cork board, glue them to a poster board, or simply tuck them into a bulletin board.

Depending on the vision you are working at fulfilling through your vision board ideas, you can put up images of associated people who are successful, and images that evoke feelings you wish to experience (gratitude, joy, love, success, etc.). If you're inspired to use pictures, you may try creating a digital vision board.

You can also find pictures that are similar to those you see in your imagination. If you wish to increase the challenge, you can have pictures representing different actions you will take.

6. Souvenirs

Souvenirs, as sources of inspiration, are highly potent. They can serve as reminders of your strengths, uniqueness, achievements, successful relationships, and positive associations.

If there are souvenirs you associate with the birth of a specific vision, those are the ones that must go on the board. You can have anything from name tags, appreciation notes, trinkets, key-chains, dry leaves, buttons, magnets, string lights, etc. The possibilities are endless.

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7. Goals and Intentions

Goals and intentions form the basis of our visions.

Put up the goals and intentions attached to your vision in creative ways. You can make an intention tree with the roots being the vision, the bark being your strengths, and the leaves being all the intentions you have to achieve the vision.

You can also create a mixed media sun, with the large goal as the core and all possible actions as the rays.

8. Going Digital with Vision Boards

Making vision boards for different areas of your life might require space and time that you might not have. However, with digital vision boards, you can create as many as you like and access them on the go on your computer and mobile devices.

To create a digital vision board, you can use online tools like Pinterest, Canva, or the tools available on your computer such as Paint to make a collage. To cut and save pictures online, use the Snipping Tool (or Grab if you use Mac).

Once you have made your vision board, you can then set it as your homescreen, screen saver or put it on a slideshow to display when your computer is idle.

5 Steps to Creating a Vision Board

In order to create a vision board that will resonate with your personal dreams and vision and drives you towards their accomplishment, you can take the following steps:

1. Reflect and Write out Your Dreams and Goals

What are the things that are most important to you? What are the big goals of your life? What would you like to accomplish in the next year, three years, or five years? What are those things you wish to accomplish in your lifetime?

Think about these things and write them down.

2. Collect Relevant Images to Your Goals

After writing down your goals, it's time to visualize them.

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Begin to collect relevant images of people, places, objects, texts, quotes, and even your own pictures that represent the images of your mind. You can cut out some sections of a magazine or find images on the internet.

Type a search query on platforms like Pinterest, it will return loads of images that are relevant to your search.

3. Make a Collage from Your Collections

Assemble what you've got and then make a collage from them. Arrange them in a way that each of the items can be seen easily. You can place them on plane papers, cardboards, poster boards, etc.

4. Personalize Your Vision Board

Add your own words to your vision board, you can use markers, paints, stickers, quote cards, or your computer, etc. to add words to those images in a way that will inspire you.

5. Display Your Vision Board

Display your vision board where you can get to see it every day. Place it in your bedroom, office space or any other place that is conspicuous.

Final Thoughts

As you're coming up with your own vision board ideas, don't forget to let your creativity rule. This isn't something you'll be publishing for everyone to see; it's something that is meant to inspire each and every day. Use some of the suggestions to help inspire you to create your goal board, and then make it your own.

In addition to creating a vision board, getting the Make It Happen Handbook can help you visualize your progress towards your goals. Get it and learn how you can make your goals happen step by step.

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It wouldn't make much sense to have a website like Visit Oregon and not have one of the most iconic Oregon video games ever made. If you grew up in Oregon during the 70's and 80's, you will remember The Oregon trail (1971 video game).

Above is a free version you can play right here for as long as you like. Be sure to bookmark it or share it with friends and family as well.

History & Game Walk Through Of The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is an older, very popular computer game that was developed by Bill Heinemann, Don Rawitsch, and Paul Dillenberger back in 1971. It was then put out on the market in 1974 by MECC. The game is simple and was created to teach school children about the life of a 19th century pioneer on the Oregon Trail. You get to play the role of a wagon leaderand guide your group of chosen settlers from Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon while traveling along the Oregon Trail in 1848. The game has since been released multiple time on multiple platforms by various game makers and publishers who acquired the rights.
Hunting
One of the most important aspects in the game is hunting. Using a pixelated pioneer with a gun, you must purchase bullets either in the beginning or over throughout the game. As you travel along, you may stop and select the option to hunt. You are then able to hunt wild animals (deer, elk, bears, bison, squirrels, and rabbits) to get more food reserves. In the early release original version of the game, there wasn't any graphics like the version above. You were basically timed on how quickly you could type out "WHAM", "BANG",or "POW" with misspelled words leading to a failed hunt. In the newer version as seen above, you are able to control a little man who can point his rifle in eight different directions and fire a single shot at the fast moving animals. In other later versions of the game, you are able to hunt with crosshairs that you control by a mouse. Bison are the slowest targets to hit but they offer the most weight in food. Squirrels and Rabbits are super fast yet give you very small weight of food. Elk (western section) and Deer (eastern section) are in the middle in terms of size, speed, and weight of food. Bear are somewhere between deer & bison in all three categories. You can only shoot as many times as the amount of bullets you purchase or trade for in settlements. Keep this in mind when starting off as it is VERY necessary to last through the game. The most bullets you can carry in the wagon is 100 pounds of ammo in the earlier versions of the game. In the later versions, 200 pounds could be carried so long as there were at least 2 living members left. It is normal for players to have to kill several thousand pounds of animals, throughout the game, only to be able to carry 100 lbs of it back to the wagon after each hunt. This is to be considered a realistic representation of what the wild west really was. In the later versions of the game, you are able to hunt in different environments as well. One example is when you hunt during the winter, it would grass covered in snow.

Death
While playing the game, people in your party can suddenly fall ill and die from multiple causes, such as a snakebite, measles, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, and even just exhaustion. You can also die from a simple broken leg or just drowning in a river you may be crossing. Your oxen are also likely to illness or death along your journey. When someone in your party dies, you hold a brief funeral. At the funeral, you are able write an epitaph, then simply continue on down the trail.

Scoring
At the end of the path and game, points are awarded according to survivors, remaining possessions, cash in hand, and by the profession chosen at the beginning of the game (banker, carpenter, farmer). The points at the end of the game are doubled if you chose a carpenter & tripled if you chose a farmer.

The Oregon Trail Card Game

If you haven't gotten enough of the Oregon Trail fun here, you can have even more fun at home with the new card game. You and the family can now play at home with the all new card game made by the same makers!
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Below is a video walking through the game. The way he puts it sounds gruesome, but it really is a lot of fun:

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History Of The Real Oregon Trail

Most people believe that it's dead and long-forgotten. However, we see a glimpse of it every time an entrepreneur takes a risk to bring an innovative product to market. It's the pioneer spirit that helped to establish the contiguous United States. Nowhere was that spirit on display the most than on the Oregon Trail. Let's trace the steps of those determined men and women who conquered the American West.

What Is the Oregon Trail?

The Oregon Trail was an early-American wagon thoroughfare that spanned over 2,100 miles. The eastern starting point of the Oregon Trail was in Independence, Missouri, and it ended in Oregon's Willamette Valley. The Oregon Trail went through portions of these states.

While fur traders made their own rudimentary routes in the Pacific Northwest throughout the 1700s, the formal Oregon Trail was mostly used between 1840 and 1870. It became nearly obsolete with the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. By taking the train, settlers from the East could arrive in the Pacific Northwest in one week versus six months.

Reasons for Its Establishment

The fur trade was a major source of commerce in the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest. Beaver pelts were traded for useful supplies and durable goods and sold to merchants across Europe. The fur trade was the primary driver of the establishment of the Oregon Trail, which was to be used for other commercial trade purposes later. As the Oregon Trail was just beginning to be established, the Hudson's Bay Company acquired most of the independent fur trapping and trading companies. The British-sponsored agency had a monopoly on the fur trade and simply made use of established trade routes along the Oregon Trail.

Many settlers continued south of Oregon to seek their fortunes during the California Gold Rush. They followed the same Oregon Trail between 1848 and 1855 to get to mines in California after gold nuggets were found in the Sacramento Valley.

Hazards of the Oregon Trail

Harsh Natural Environment

Oregon Trail travel was well documented by government surveyors and amateur journalists. According to the statistics, there were 10 graves for every 1 mile of trail. The cause of death for some was simply the harsh environment that they had to pass through. Wagon train members helped each other out, and they usually had plenty of provisions. However, wagons and livestock had to pass through rivers as well as overland. There were many accidental drownings as people attempted to cross rivers.

Pestilence

The Pacific Northwest was looked upon by many as clean and unspoiled. However, the settlers from the East brought diseases with them that spread via unhygienic practices. Some settlers also had difficulty finding clean water sources along certain portions of the Oregon Trail. Many people died of cholera, smallpox, and dysentery before reaching Oregon. The cholera epidemic of 1849 left thousands dead in the Nebraska and Kansas portions of the Oregon Trail.
War
While early-American settlers looked upon the Pacific Northwest as a land of opportunity, several Native American tribes already considered the region to be their home. As the settlers encroached upon hunting grounds and carried strange diseases to the area, conflict inevitably ensued. Tribes within the Sioux Nation such as the Blackfoot, Oglala, and Santee were hostile to pushy settlers. However, other Native American tribes such as the Arapaho and Cheyenne were friendly to the new settlers and helped them as guides and trading partners.

Besides skirmishes with the Native American tribes, the early settlers were caught in the middle of a war between the U.S. government and the British. The United States wanted to expand its territory to the north and west, but the British still had interests in those North American regions. The United States managed to defend itself against the British and their Canadian and Native American hired guns even as the British captured Washington D.C. for a time. The War of 1812 ended in 1815, and colonization of the Pacific Northwest resumed sporadically after the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent.

Oregon Trail Memoirs
Explorers and Farmers
John Fremont was an explorer who was paid by the government to finish mapping out the region. He joined a wagon party that was on its way to Oregon in 1843. Fremont saw the beginnings of a civilized Pacific Northwest on the journey with the wagon train. He described the campfires blazing warmly and the women cooking delicious suppers. Cattle grazed on the surrounding grass while children frolicked among them. After observing these sights, he said that the remote wilderness valley felt strangely like home.

Farmers were the new fur traders of the Pacific Northwest during the 1850s. The fur trade had slowed dramatically due to changes in men's fashion in Europe. Farmers such as J.T. Kern set out on the Oregon Trail to escape droughts in the Midwest and to take advantage of fertile lands in and around Bear River Valley. He wrote in his journal in 1852 about a country with rich, fertile valleys, streams that were full of fish, and mountains that contained an abundance of timber.

Enoch Conyers was on the Oregon Trail the same year as J.T. Kearns. Conyers was also a farmer and was impressed by the abundance of grazing land in the Bear River Valley.
Pioneer Women
The Pacific Northwest had always been attractive to men who sought adventure and fortune as fur traders. The average man's wages during the early 1800s was $1 per day. Fur traders made $4 per beaver pelt, and beavers were plentiful in the Pacific Northwest. To women, the uncivilized West was far less enticing. The lack of amenities such as stores and cultivated farms meant that their workload multiplied considerably. However, most met the challenges of the journey and subsequent frontier life with gusto. As they said goodbye to friends and relatives and headed west, we can get a glimpse of their feelings about the new environment in which they found themselves immersed by reading their journals and diaries.

Margaret Frink took to the Oregon Trail with her husband in 1850, which was well after the first fur traders carved out their rustic routes. By 1850, previous travelers had already set up feed supply stores, mercantile shops, and high-yield farms. Even with these advantages, Margaret describes a physically difficult journey.

She described fording rivers and climbing steep mountainous terrain with wagons in tow. She said that part of the climb was done on horseback and the rest of it was accomplished on foot. After setting up camp, she reflected on the beauty of the scenery that surrounded her.

One evening in early July, her party was greeted with overnight rain. When she woke the next day, the surrounding mountain ranges were snow-capped. She mentioned that Bear River Valley, the site of their encampment, was stunning and that it would be quite an appealing area after settlers established more towns and farms there.

Abigail Scott was a young woman who traveled the Oregon Trail with her parents and nine siblings. Her father assigned her to be the scribe for their family journal. The girl arrived in the Bear River Valley in mid-July. She described a land of great beauty. Mountains were covered in lush grass and dense groves of fir trees accented their summits. Her wagon party stopped at plenty of streams that provided them with water that was clear, cold, and fresh tasting.

Famous People Who Helped to Blaze the Oregon Trail

While fur trappers laid crude routes throughout the western frontier, it was Thomas Jefferson, America's third president, who was credited with attempting to map out a formal route from the East that led to the Pacific Northwest. He commissioned Lewis and Clark in 1803 to discover a practical, direct route to Oregon to expand America's commercial interests. Lewis and Clark's findings were a disappointment to Jefferson as passing over land through the Rocky Mountains was a difficult feat for covered wagons. However, the pair succeeded in mapping out a key area along the Oregon Trail that was helpful for fur trappers and other trades people.

John Jacob Astor was a well-known businessman, and his family made significant contributions to Industrial Age America. We see that his family name lives on at places such as the Waldorf Astoria hotel. In 1810, Astor owned a fur trading company that operated in the Oregon Territory. He hired people to scout out the surrounding area to discover better trading routes. They established an outpost that was called Fort Astoria. Astor's company, the Pacific Fur Company, weathered deadly Native American attacks and the War of 1812. He finally sold his fur trading company because of feared political opposition from the British who gained temporary control of the area via treaty after the war.

The Oregon Trail has many on and off ramps, and thousands of Mormon migrants took to those routes in 1848. They helped to establish the Oregon Trail by putting down roots along the trail with thriving farms, ranches, and towns. Other travelers who came after them benefited from their efforts. By 1860, a large group of them left those settlements to others and followed Brigham Young to Utah to start one of the most well-known Mormon communities in the world.

Conclusion

Today, Washington, Oregon, and California are known for their cozy coffee shops and overly commercialized retail scenes. It's hard to believe that such posh surroundings came at the cost of such extreme hardship and struggle. I guess it's good to remember the trailblazers of the Oregon Trail the next time that your favorite barista gets your latte order wrong or you have to wait a month for a sought-after designer handbag that's on backorder. Be inspired and count your blessings!

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https://www.canva.com/

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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https://www.animaker.com/advertisement-maker

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How to make Video Ads?! [For beginners!]

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https://videomaker.simpleshow.com/professional/

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Create your own explainer video with simpleshow video maker

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https://www.powtoon.com

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https://sites.google.com/

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How to use Google Sites - Tutorial for Beginners

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https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

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https://www.kapwing.com/studio/editor

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Kapwing — Create more content in less time

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Content creation made easy, accessible, and collaborative. Kapwing allows modern creators to create and edit videos, GIFs, images, audio, and more.

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Project: How do artists make money? You can sell prints, products, or a new popular idea: coloring books! Create a coloring book full of your original images, and then create a website to teach people about the benefits of mindful coloring, to advertise your book and as a place where people can “buy” your pages individually. 

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Project: How do artists make money? You can sell prints, products, or a new popular idea: coloring books! Create a coloring book full of your original images, and then create a website to teach people about the benefits of mindful coloring, to advertise your book and as a place where people can “buy” your pages individually. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBsW_wpFBxc

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Zentangle art || Doodle patterns || Zen-doodle

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https://docs.google.com/drawings/

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Creating Rooms in House Blueprint Google Draw

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https://sites.google.com/

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How to use Google Sites - Tutorial for Beginners

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https://www.wix.com

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Wix Tutorial For Beginners 2022 - Create A Wix Website In Minutes

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Project: Wow, you have the best job ever: a world travel tour guide! Create your own travel blog (descriptions about what to do in at least 5 amazing locations) and include a "virtual tour" video to inspire your followers to follow along. There are no rules, regulations, or budgets to worry about. 

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Project: Wow, you have the best job ever: a world travel tour guide! Create your own travel blog (descriptions about what to do in at least 5 amazing locations) and include a "virtual tour" video to inspire your followers to follow along. There are no rules, regulations, or budgets to worry about. 

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/

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https://sites.google.com/

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How to use Google Sites - Tutorial for Beginners

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https://www.wix.com

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Wix Tutorial For Beginners 2022 - Create A Wix Website In Minutes

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https://www.tinkercad.com/

Class Code: VHG12Q3SIVKF

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TinkerCAD - Tutorial for Beginners in 9 MINUTES!  [ COMPLETE ]

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Sign in to your Wix account to access the website editor and complete business solutions.

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https://code.org

Section Code: MVQBWN

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https://docs.google.com/drawings/

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Creating Rooms in House Blueprint Google Draw

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Project: You won the lottery! You get to design official plans for your own personal dream house. Then, build digital or 3D models or detailed 2D blueprints of your dream house so it can be made exactly to your liking! There are no rules, regulations, or budgets to worry about. 

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Project: You won the lottery! You get to design official plans for your own personal dream house. Then, build digital or 3D models or detailed 2D blueprints of your dream house so it can be made exactly to your liking! There are no rules, regulations, or budgets to worry about. 

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https://www.sketchup.com/

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SketchUp - Tutorial for Beginners in 10 MINUTES!  [ COMPLETE ]

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https://docs.google.com/drawings/

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Creating Rooms in House Blueprint Google Draw

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https://www.tinkercad.com/

Class Code: VHG12Q3SIVKF

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TinkerCAD - Tutorial for Beginners in 9 MINUTES!  [ COMPLETE ]

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Project: It is important to teach children and teenagers how to cook and to encourage them to develop their cooking skills. You will become a celebrity chef, create your own recipe blog (at least 3 recipes) and record and post a step-by-step instructional cooking video for your followers.

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Project: It is important to teach children and teenagers how to cook and to encourage them to develop their cooking skills. You will become a celebrity chef, create your own recipe blog (at least 3 recipes) and record and post a step-by-step instructional cooking video for your followers.

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https://www.wix.com

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Wix Tutorial - A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/

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https://sites.google.com/

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How to use Google Sites - Tutorial for Beginners

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https://www.youtube.com/

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How to Edit Videos with the YouTube Video Editor!

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https://www.animaker.com

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How to make animated videos [Tutorial for beginners]

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Project: Children who love reading, excel at school and go on to become constructive members of society. You will become a children’s book author and design, write, and publish a digital "read aloud" of your own children’s book. Your book must be child appropriate, educational, and engaging.

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Project: Children who love reading, excel at school and go on to become constructive members of society. You will become a children’s book author and design, write, and publish a digital "read aloud" of your own children’s book. Your book must be child appropriate, educational, and engaging.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/

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https://www.animaker.com

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How to make animated videos [Tutorial for beginners]

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https://www.powtoon.com

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https://www.wickeditor.com/#/

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https://www.youtube.com/

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How to Edit Videos with the YouTube Video Editor!

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Create your own printable, poster-sized games to use in your classroom! Choose from pre-made board game templates or come up with your own from scratch.

If you're assigning this to your students, copy the poster to your account and save. When creating an assignment, just select it as a template!

How to Use Game Boards in the Classroom

It's easy to create printable board game templates for your classroom! Board games can be used for teaching critical thinking and communication skills, whether by helping students learn a new game or having them build and create their own!

Our poster-sized game boards give students more space to create a perfect game. These boards can be laminated and used during lessons or indoor recess. Making a game allows students to learn and present information (try trivia or flash cards), but also lets them explore the complexities of building a game, from the rules to method of gameplay. Creating a narrative from facts and information can prove infinitely more fun and beneficial to understanding!

How to Make a Game Poster
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What is a game board template maker?

A game board template maker is one of our simple tools to create unique and engaging game posters for your classroom. Storyboard That's poster layout options and incredible art make for a one of a kind online board game maker for teachers.

How do I create my own game board?

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Board Game Templates | Make Your Own Classroom Game | StoryboardThat

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Create printable games to use in your classroom, or for a game project at ❰Storyboard That❱ ✩ Choose from several pre-made game boards templates or create your own!

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https://gamilab.com/

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A game based learning platform offering students a new and exciting way to learn

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https://code.org

Section Code: MVQBWN

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https://scratch.mit.edu

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Scratch Tutorial 1: Make Your First Program

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https://www.codesters.com/

Class Key: 5933a5

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https://www.wix.com

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Wix Tutorial - A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

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How to Make a Jumping Game in Scratch | Tutorial

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How to Make a Virtual Town in Scratch | RPG | Tutorial

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How to Make a Character Designer in Scratch | Tutorial

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This is the official YouTube Channel of Scratch (scratch.mit.edu). We share resources and stories about Scratch. With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others in the online community.

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https://www.youtube.com/

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How to Edit Videos with the YouTube Video Editor!