Bring Your Textbook to Life!

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Reading furnishes the mind

only with materials of

knowledge; it is thinking that

makes what we read ours.

- John Locke

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Your textbook is one of many tools!

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Deconstruct the textbook!

Exercises

Assessment

Examples

Table of Contents

Vocabulary

Visuals

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Sketchnote it!

TeacherRebootCamp.com/Notetaking

Bit.ly/sylsketchnote

• List the chapter titles on the board • Under each title students write down whatever they know about the topic

Linoit.com

Padlet.com & iPad App

Google Drive

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Social bookmarking & curation

Diigo

Storify

Pearltrees Scoop.It

Flipboard

Pinterest

Livebinders

Educlipper

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Educlipper.net & iPad App

Hypothes.is

Genius.com

Tellagami.com

PrimaryAccess.org

YakIt for Kids iOS app

Retell it

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Graphic Organizers

Creately.com

Bit.ly/RWTCube

ReadWriteThink.org

Popplet.com

TinyTap.It

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Games Scratch.mit.edu

GetKahoot.com

MineCraftEdu.com

Infogr.am

Canva

Visme Smore

Data Visualization

Piktochart

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Genial.ly

Timerime Hstry Dipity

Timelines Timetoast

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Tiki-Toki Timeglider

Timetoast.com

ComicsHeads

Comic Creators

Toondoo Pixton Friendstrip

MakebeliefsComix

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Pride & Prejudice by Raquel León Jimenez, Pixton.com

Idea: Transform a piece of literature

Virtual Fieldtrips

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Google Cardboard

Google Earth Google Cultural Trips

Google Lit Trips

World Wonders Project

Interviews News sound bytes

Radio shows

Audio Projects

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Audioboom iPadio

Soundation GarageBand

Audacity Soundcloud Podomatic

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IDEAS Animation

Commercial News report Documentary

Chapter Trailer Claymation Class movie Machinima Silent film

TOOLS & APPS Magisto iMovie Puppet Pals Powtoons TouchCast Wideo Plotagon Instagram Screen-o-matic Splice Shadow Puppet

Video Projects

QuiverVision.com

Augmented Reality

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Aurasma

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Gum.co/learn2go

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