SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording. With a unique interface concept, in this site you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website. An excellent way to travel around the world through your ears. Go ahead, book your sonic journey, open your ears, close your eyes and... enjoy!
Where will our children get the creative thinking skills they will need to become effective innovators in the future? The Missing Alphabet is a comprehensive guide for parents.
Bring comics to the classroom with educational software that helps students create, share and collaborate on comics - without drawing a line. Use Bitstrips for Schools to teach reading comprehension, writing and digital literacy.
I have my students use this as a choice for book reports. It is a great choice for some of those creative thinkers, and it is amazing how much time/work they put into it.
I have read good reviews about bitstrips earlier too, seems a good tool for primary students, a nice way to introduce them to writing stories. Will try it!!!!!
super heros and super powers as well as evil characters are a good way to teach values to chilren and develop storytelling, focuss ideas, etc. I find visual thinking very good for early learning and being able to make comics is great. Thanks for sharing.
The Internet and digital technologies have transformed how people learn. Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure that makes it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.
Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. This resource provides beautiful illustrations to act as a stimulus for teaching writing. You can work from a single image with drag and drop words to create a poem, put together a selection of pictures which are grouped by style or theme for you and use them to write a picture book, or create a more challenging longer format for older kids. The books can then be saved and read by other class members.
hey, i loved storybird.com! Thanks for sharing. I have always loved to read and write. This is going to be a great writing resource for my primary class.
Like it, easy for children to create their own, as you suggest, book cover. Technology in kids hands should evoke creativity and not only be a means of media consumption.
We can practice adjectives, nouns , verbs, adverbs. We can make them to create Noun Cloud. :) That would be awesome. It motivates children to create some very personalize. They would chose the shapes for their group of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, etc.
Which is a good software to help students (4-5 yrs) prepare a simple slideshow or arrange pictures in a logical sequence (eg. transformation of a butterfly from egg to adult)?
There are a lot of different ways of using word clouds as far as EFL is concerned. You name it:
1) predict the content of a text e.g. topics, style, purpose, etc.
2) writing or speaking prompts
3) reading comprehension questions just, then comparing answers after reading the actual text
4) summarise a presentation
5) identify or create the key words to a text
6) expanding vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or brainstorm words associated with a new one, match parts of collocations)
7) explore a topic (students add own ideas to a question stimulus & build a cloud)
8) student ice-breaker
9) highlight examples of misspelled or overused words in student writing by inputting their own work
10) 'grammar game' e.g. students classify words from a cloud into different parts of speech or different tenses
11) 'sentence structure' game e.g. input a complex sentence or short series of sentences into a word cloud, and have students reconstruct them in the correct word order
12) 'memory game' e.g. show a word cloud, take it off the screen, students write as many words as they can recall
13) identify parts of speech (students highlight or underline in different colours)
14) Students pre-assessing their own knowledge and understanding - "What does something mean to me?" as in a KWL chart
It is the first time I see this app and I love it!
I think it would look great on a cover and it could work really good for engaging students with a kind of crosswords´ activity.
I went through the site and it looks like an amazing site to add to my tool/resource list. I can use it as a mindmap for children in the class and collate their ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Video production is a creative task and the most important segment of a video is its intro. An intro video is a small segment of a video which is used to tell the viewer what the ongoing video is all about. For a newbie, it is comparatively easy to learn and shoot a live picturesque video.
An invention kit for the 21st century based on research at MIT Media Lab. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. The site includes a gallery of projects already made by adults and children alike, videos and guides to inspire your own startups.
Hi lauralooroll,
Well... you can start planning for next time. If you get makeymakey and experiment with your students, please share your discoveries. :)
Teachers can use this tool to organize an activity in groups getting your goals in teaching-learning with the digital board, teamwork and creativity. Here you are a website in order to make it without cost and you have my link of my own webquest The chocolate world with the characters of the Charlie's factory film . This webquest was for students with 6 years old. You can use characters, links, videos, instructions .... Enjoy it!!
http://www.phpwebquest.org/catala/webquest/soporte_tablon_w.php?id_actividad=7094&id_pagina=5
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
Futurelab at NFER is (registered charity number 313392) is committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. We achieve this through a mixture of research, workshops, CPD, training, courses, inset days, events, school development (through our enquiring schools programme), and resources across the UK and internationally.
Little Bird Tales was created to help nurture children's creativity and imagination while simultaneously creating one of-a-kind digital stories that can easily be shared.
The main advantage of this tool is that the poster can be seen at any time and that it allows the integration of diferent videos, songs and so on into the poster.
Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.
Even the youngest pupils can create beautiful stories using this free tool. They simply select the images from a large bank of illustrations then just add their own words.