Now here’s a great example of what Smore can do for you! I decided to embed this smore for 2 reasons. To obviously exemplify Smore as I had mentioned that it is a great alternative to glogster, and also to advertise the Department of Education and Communities useful series on Web 2.0 tools. There are presentations and also recordings to all sessions, which included: e-backpack, google apps in education, Blog-Ed and Adobe. Great to know for all those people teaching at DEC.
I loved the idea of using a Web 2.0 tool such as glogster to showcase a variety of web 2.0 tools that can be used in the classroom.
I heard about quizlet some time ago but I didn’t know that you could embed any set of flashcards you made into your blog or website. Today, I made a fresh set of flashcards on some common literary techniques.
Here is my set:
http://quizlet.com/11318872/learn/embed/?hideLinks
Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards
I really like the fact that any created sets can go directly to the website/LMS you use in your classroom. I think that’s pretty sleek! 
I saw this infographic and really liked it. Does your classroom look like this?
Source: itsc.oetc.org via Jeff on Pinterest
Here are a couple of unit of work I have created. They all incorporate multimedia to engage students, and make their learning more memorable and ultimately more fun! Over the years, I have planned units for subjects such as English, Spanish and ESL. Feel free to download them and adapt them for your classroom use. Or “borrow” any ideas that you might find useful!
SPANISH UNIT OF WORK
MACBETH UNIT OF WORK
YEAR 11 ESL UNIT OF WORK (CHANGE)
AUSTRALIAN VISIONS- STAGE 6 ESL ENGLISH
ELECTIVE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY
Just playing up with avatars. I liked this website as it allows you to also create your own comic and include yourself in it (It’s called “pixton”). Here is mine
This week, we are looking at using digital tools to do different kinds of writing. The first task is to compose a digital poster/magazine/brochure to summarize text (and video). We took a look at the “Digital Learning Day: Round up”webpage from Edutopia. With the information shared there, we were supposed to summarize some of it and compose a digital brochure/newspaper article, etc. I composed a brochure using the “ReadThinkWrite” interactive tool. Here’s a screenshot of my attempt for this task
My attempt at using ReadThinkWrite to summarize the text
Unfortunately, I couldn’t attach an image to this tool for some strange reason. I would suggest that if anyone’s planning to use it, to make sure students write on this tool and don’t use Word for their draft instead. That’s what I did and found it extremely hard to copy-paste and have a decent layout.
