Use your imagination and your students may too

Nik Peachey describes two games that he finds very intriguing. The images are composed from photographs with cartoon characters imprinted. I love how he has taken these games which will be exciting for students to play and incorporated retelling and other stratiies to get students to use English language and literacy skills. I think that the activity about doing a news broadcast and video tapping it is very cool.

Incorporating games in your language and literacy lessons

This is so cool. I can only imagine students reactions when they get to create a character not only through the words they write on paper but then be able to really bring the character to life Visually. I think that this link is one of the coolest I have found so far and hope that I can try to create something for my students. We are getting ready to write animal research reports so maybe i can find a way to bring their words to life. I will post if I am successful.

Audio-visual Monologues


I am again amazed that I have been in the dark for so long. I can't believe how much good stuff there is on the web that can be used to benifit my classroom. This seems to be another way to capture the interest of students and have them be able to create movies from their writing. I also see this as a nice tool for teachers when trying to teach dialog an other writing techniques.

If you can type you can make a movie