Critical skill for students to understand how to present themselves to the world. In such a digital society, we are our own brand. The course developed (and published on iTunes U) has students give themselves a brand that is meaningful and also evolves as they grow.
This website is designed as a resource to help students with school projects. You will find tools and tips to help you boost the quality of your projects and helpful hints about using technology.
There are free and paid portions to the website. It provides pre-reading, reading, and post-reading images for many stories. Another cool feature is the visual dictionary that has 3 images to represent the literacy vocabulary words.
Major news stories are displayed by size - the more popular a story it is, the bigger the story title appears. The stories can be displayed based on type and region. Great visual image to show the priorities of the readers in different regions - what we might think is significant in the United States is frequently insignificant in other countries.
Simplified explanation of visual notes. Goes along with "On the Back of the Napkin" which I loved reading last summer. I want to experiment more with this style of note taking. Could I combine this with screencasting the Promethean board as a study aid for students? Lots of possibilities. I would just have to over come my lack of artistic ability.
