Motivating young writers with “Read the Words”

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Thank you to Bob Sprankle at Seedlings for this great Web 2.0 tool. Students can type in text or upload Word or pdf documents to the Read the Words website. A ‘voice’ is chosen to read the text. The resulting sound file can be embedded into a blog (as I have done to the [...]

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Collaborative multimedia projects: building teamwork AND saving paper!

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Do you have only a few computers in your classroom? Do you want to engage your students in a motivating project? Why not think about having your students create a multimedia slideshow which interweaves words and pictures, movies, voice narration and music.
ICT projects provide excellent opportunities for group interaction, which improve students’ collaboration, communication and [...]

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