
Tag: english
Emoji Story

Google Forms Choose Your Own Adventure
Songs As Poetry
And so I sent some men to fight, and one came back at dead of night. Said he'd seen my enemy. Said he looked just like me,
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online repository of books that are out of copyright, and thus freely available for anyone to use. With over 30,000 books currently available, this site provides a great source for gratis reading material. However, more important than this, it provides …
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Comics
I love comics, and am often amazed not only by how funny they can be, but also how much can be learned from them. Growing up I was a regular reader of Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side and Mad Magazine. As I …
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Library Thing
For all the book lovers our there (of which I am one), I have recently been playing with a great online tool. It is called Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com) and it can be used to catalog the books you own, have read and want …
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Storybird
Storybird is a site that allows you to create short, visual stories that you can share on the web. This is a great tool for encouraging creativity through digital storytelling.…
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Photography of Emilio Morenatti
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/03/23/photographer-collection-emilio-morenatti/
This collection of photos provide great stimulus for an almost limitless range of tasks including descriptive writing, character studies, studying culture and difference.…
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Portfolio: What they Dream and What they Do
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/sets/72157594203939203/
This awesome photo set consists of amazing photos of people; along with their life story. It is a great tool for getting students to consider the range of humanity and their own responses; or as a prompt for creative writing.…
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Example Report Text Type
This model text can be used to introduce ICT students to the report text type. It may be particularly useful to those students for whom English is a second language. Annotations have been kept brief, but colour has been used to …
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