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Make direct connections between the content and local, national, or global events. Make direct connections between the personal interests, hobbies, and/or life experiences of the students.

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Use graphic organizers, mind maps, flowcharts, images, and infographics  to visualize complex content in nonlinguistic ways.

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Teachers can share personal anecdotes related to content or meet with students ahead of time to see if they have experiences that they would like to share. This can also be done in the moment

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The use of this strategy depends on the teachers personality. Using humorous animations, political cartoons, gifs, meme, can be useful when used strategically.

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Use movie and film clips to connect content to the real world events and situations.

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This element involves using verbal and nonverbal cues to enthusiastically, yet sincerely, deliver content.  

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This element involves using verbal and nonverbal cues to enthusiastically, yet sincerely, deliver content.  

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Use Skype to host interviews with local, national, or even global interviews with people who are knowledgable or have experienced things that are relevant to the content.

Students can also conduct their own interviews using iMovie, GoToMeeting, or Audacity with people who are knowledgable or who have experienced things that are relevant to the content.

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Tools for Nonlinguistic Representations 

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Tools for Nonlinguistic Representations 

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Wordle (Word Clouds), Glogster and Padlet (Collaborative oragnizers) , Lucidchart (mind maps), Google Draw (collaboratively work on graphic organizers), Google Slides (collaboratively work on graphic organizers)

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Tools for Capturing Personal Stories from Students 

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Tools for Capturing Personal Stories from Students 

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Poll Everywhere (for Chrome and iOS), Google Classroom's Question feature, Google Forms, Flisti, and Micropoll

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When using this element it is necessary to consider your personality.  Avoid trying too hard because this comes at the risk of losing the audience.  Use this strategy with content that you honestly and truly find interesting and valuable.  Students can sense when pitch, so to speak, is forced and unauthentic.

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Use these strategies strategically and in moderation to avoid unnecessary theatrics.  It's not realistic to start every lesson with a personal connection or story, or to us cartoons every lesson to attempt to get a laugh from students. In reality some events and topics are novel and unique or not a laughing matter.

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When introducing concepts, strategically, ask students if they can relate and how.  Google Classroom and so many other apps allows you to ask students questions and for student to share and comments publicly for to see.  Also, this is a chance to be strategic with your start of the year interest and "all about me" surveys.  Ask students targeted questions that you can spiral into instruction later.

Also try to provide space and to encourage students to find and submit video clips, cartoons, and other things that find that they feel connects or brings humor to the subject. If your students are old enough to handle posting original comments on LMS, like the Google Classroom STrEaM or on the class website, encourage it by incorporating what they find into your lessons.