Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
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Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
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5 - 12
Strategy Guide
Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
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Website Planning in a Bilingual Classroom
3 - 5
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Students complete a family survey and plan a website to share the responses, increasing their understanding and appreciation of their own families and cultures, and their classmates as well.
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I've Got It Covered! Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts
6 - 8
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Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on students' agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.
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That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
9 - 12
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Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
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3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
6 - 8
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Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
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Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
3 - 5
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In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
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Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic Scrapbook
9 - 12
Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.