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Another source of legal images – FlickrCC
FlickrCC, Flickr Creative Commons, is a tool that searches Creative Commons images from the Flickr site itself. This means that you can bypass the Flickr advanced search option. The display is very appealing to the eye. It displays image thumbnails, attribution information and a text definition. A full image editor that can be instantly accessed …
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Visuwords for discovering word relationships
Learn the nuances of words through word relationship diagrams you can quickly create at Visuwords. Word associations such as synonyms, homonyms, part of speech, derivation, and much more can be found by simply typing the term or phrase in the text box and pressing search icon. Visuwords draws its data from Princeton University’s open source …
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Quickly locate keywords in texts with WordSift
WordSift is a great tool to preview text to identify keywords or concepts for lesson preparation. Teachers or materials developers can identify images and videos to use with the text. Start with the video tutorial to orient yourself to this useful resource.
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Have fun with Graffiti Creator!
Have fun with your students. Let them create graffiti without paint at Graffiti Creator! Students just select a style and type their message.
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A quick but fun task, create an Ecard with “someeecards”
If you need a warm up activity or an end-of-week reward activity try someecards to allow the students to create their own card. The focus on this lesson can be satire or factual information based on the abilities of your students. You may want to use these as introductory brain teasers or language models for …
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ScreenCast-O-Matic
ScreenCastOMatic is a web based, free one-click screen capture recording on Windows or Mac computers. Yes, no installation required. A recently published 5 minute video providing you with clear instructions on how to use ScreenCast-O-Matic is now available on YouTube. I’ve been using it for a year or so and it has been reliable and …
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Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit v. 2
Design Thinking for Educators is a creative process that helps educators design learning opportunities. The free toolkit provides instructors or developers with instructions to explore Design Thinking while they are creating learning opportunities. this enhanced version of the Toolkit is available online to inspire and guide educators through the design process.
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Issuu a digital publication tool for publishing and for viewing
Issuu is one of many digital “publication-ing” tools on the Internet ready for use with students. Others include myebook and Youpublisher. Teachers can use these as a vast source of published documents or as a tool to foster collaboration, writing, digital media, marketing and layout skills for their students. ESLIcebreakers is an example of using a …
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