Tag: story
Google Forms Choose Your Own Adventure
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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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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Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html
This video is really interesting; and comes to the heart of how we use language as a social semiotic (i.e. a socially constructed set of common meanings and understandings). Language is changing. How can this be used in teaching? Get students to write a …
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