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Taking visual reading notes is not just for so-called "visual" learners. Everyone can benefit by visualizing what they are reading and making notes as they read. Review of notes later is also key to success in remembering what is read.

"How we read online. By Michael Agger "You're probably going to read this. "It's a short paragraph at the top of the page. It's surrounded by white space. It's in small type. "To really get your attention, I should write like this: Bulleted list Occasional use of bold to prevent skimming Short sentence fragments Explanatory subheads No puns Did I mention lists? "What Is This Article About? "For the past month, I've been away from the computer screen. Now I'm back reading on it many hours a day. Which got me thinking: How do we read online?"" This is a topic I've written and published on, so it's interesting to see another person trying to grapple with the same problem. It's worth exploring repeatedly.

"Join a community of schools around the world writing & commenting weekly" A nice writing challenge for each week. Appropriate for middle schools (ages 10-13).

This 11 min. video discusses how teachers can help each other with professional development.

Great projects include drawing tools, poster design, and other ways to create and present student work.

This pdf has some good ways to check for understanding while in the process of reading a longer work.

"Over time I have created quite a few help guides, presentations, and other training resources for Google-related topics and other educational technology topics. Although these resources can be found elsewhere on this site and other locations, I have pulled them all together in one place to make it easy for people to find a needed resource, as well as to be sure you are accessing the most recent version (rather than an older copy made by someone else)." T/H TO ERIC CURTS for these excellent resources

R. Stannard provides information on how to set up and manage a course online or flipped, using Edmodo.

Some very good advice on how to use flipping successfully. Begins with a video, but also in the blog entry.

This visual index might give ideas for content- and project-based projects around the climate, geography, maps, environment, conservation, etc.

A cute infographic (?) of the what and why. Visual notetaking is encouraged for lectures and readings, and may help students make the material their own. I would recommend a combination with text notes, as students do need practice in all kinds of writing.

Community worksheets for a wide variety of secondary school subjects, including STEMS and world languages. Create tests and worksheets and instructional materials and share with others.

Another writing task/essay from the IELTS Advantage series.

A kind of Instagram/blog board that lets you use photos, video, and voice recordings, sharing with others.

Covers Piktochart and Canva, with accompanying video tutorials. Teachers can design a graph to show what they are teaching, and/or students can show their understanding after a lesson.

An interesting article on podcasting by Forbes online, predictin that podcasting is the future because of its ubiquity on both iOS and Android mobile phones. The younger generation is once again leading innovation's way with what to us older users was a technology of the 2000s. Podcasting has many uses for ESL/EFL, and having your students create a regular podcast series, scripting and recording it; or having them do podcast exchanges with students in another country -- these will be memorable learning experiences.

EdTechTeacher is a site with many free parts. The mobile apps page can be searched by type of device or by type of learning activity. The team also offers webinars and other apparatus to help teachers.

R. Stannard talks about how to use Wix.com, which allows free website and free domain name as well. Website creation is a useful class or individual project and allows students an arena to create something beyond social media.

R. Stannard on blogging and what to do with it. You may be surprised at some of the things you can do with blogs, even though it may be considered an "old" technology. As a writing tool, blog entries are extremely useful and can even be used as a record of revisioins of an essay. You can also create a community of joint writing with multiple authors. The search function is more powerful than a website, and it can hold all sorts of media.

R. Stannard has some instruction about how to use the ESL magazine, Breaking News English, which has games to play online, as well as an audio reading of the content, in various accents. A well-thought out set of activities, not just drill-and-grill.