Voki for ESL vocabulary and Elephant and Piggy

I'm trying out voki with an ESL student: posting this voki using a vocabulary word to Moodle for gained exposure. My student and I are big fans of the Elephant and Piggy series by Mo Willems: great for buddy reading, reader's theatre, and laughs! I first saw this series when my friend's daughter was having the best time shouting the lines of the dramatic elephant character. Highly recommend elephant and piggy for early readers, ELLs, and below level readers in the early grades.

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Animoto in the Social Studies classroom

I've been playing around with animoto again in preparation for using it with a teacher in a Social Studies class. It's really fun and easy to use: I just took some images that were already saved from my digital story and threw them in to create my animoto in a matter of minutes. It doesn't involve much critical thinking, but could be a good way to get student to use images to introduce a unit topic. Or maybe as a way of looking at images related to a topic at the end of a unit. What might be frustrating is finding the right music. I had a specific song I wanted to use, but it wasn't licensed under Creative Commons or from a free site like jamendo, so my music didn't match my images the way I wanted it to. I'm thinking this would be an issue for students as well. A Year in Morocco

Solana's glogster

Solana made a glogster on her favorite topic including a funny cat video Aunt Celia showed us! For some reason, one of our pics isn't showing up below. Warning: "Cat Flushing the Toilet" ditty on video is addictive!

Glogster: What does literacy mean to you?

Going to try using this glogster with students as a writing prompt.

More on Prezi

I love this example of using Prezi to show students responses to reading journal prompts from Kevin Hodgson's "Prezi Presentation." (A great resource!)

Reading Journal: Powerless on Prezi

He also posts another favorite of mine on playing to learn by Maria Anderson, blog author of Teaching College Math.

Playing to Learn? on Prezi