My favorite tweets this week happen to include various multimedia I have embedded. I hope you enjoy the various videos, Glog, and Voicethread! I invite you to check out the rest of this weekly series, What Did They Tweet?.
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Jokes for Chase
I am always looking for an activity involving character education. Students do not get enough of these lessons. Stacy Bodin shares an opportunity for your students to learn about the gift of laughter for healing. Your students or you can leave a joke for Chase, a boy who has Leukemia. If you have never used Voicethread, then this is an opportunity to try this fantastic educational tool.
Stop Motion Videos
Larry Ferlazzo often shares wonderful links via Twitter and through his educational blog. When I checked out this link to 50 inspirational stop motion videos, I had to share. Vimeo is another great educational tool I recommend. I will have my English language learners choose their favorite video and create a story, poem, or journal entry about the piece. Check out my favorite of the videos, A Short Love Story by Carlos Lascano, which brought back beautiful memories of falling in love!
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
Cool Chemistry!
Christina DiMicelli shares a video about the period table of elements from the famous group, They Might be Giants. Students will have fun remembering the elements with this cool video.
Digital Learners
EdtechSandyK shares an Edutopia video about digital learners that is creative and great for professional development.
Web 2.0 Tools Glogster
Arjana Blazic shares her favorite Web 2.0 tools through this creative Glogster. I highly recommend Glogster as an innovative presentation tool for students. Replace all poster projects easily with Glogster. For a creative use of Glogster, have your students join Arjana’s Glogsters from the world project!
Add the people in this post to your PLN by using Russel Tarr’s mass Twitter tool. Just copy and paste this list!
stacybodin, mrsdi, abfromz, edtechsandyk, larryferlazzo, kalinagoenglish
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If you enjoyed this post, you may also want to check out these posts with a more extensive list of favorite tweets:
- August Best Tweets by Larry Ferlazzo.
- The Blogosphere, the Twitterverse (ELT 08/09) by Karenne Sylvester, Kalinagoenglish.
Challenge:
Take some time to leave a joke or have your students leave jokes for Chase.
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Hi Shelly,
Thanks for shring these useful tools for teaching and learning. They encourage students and teachers to be creative.
Regards,
Marisa
Hi Shelly,
This week’s tweets are really cool!I loved the stop motion love story. What a brilliant way to tell it! Glogster and Voicethread have always been my favourites and enjoyed all the jokes on Voicethread.
And the others have become my favourites for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for sharing these links! You did a very good job as usual!
Thanks Shelly,
I digg the article. I also loved the stop motion love story. Absolutely beautiful artwork. This is the first time I’ve seen an example of Glogster. Looks like a really handy tool to build posters online. I’ll definitely have to check it out when I have time.
I also like the use of VoiceThread. I hope Chase gets well soon. Keep up the useful info!
Hi Shelly,
Thank you for including my project in your list of educational tools. It was you who first tweeted about Glogster and I embraced it with enthusiasm, just like many other tools and links that you share with us.
Keep on doing it!