Inspiring Quotes

Love when SlideShare posts announcements of presentations to check out. This one about 20 Quotes to Inspire... strikes me with possibilities for class discussions, writing assignments, and more. Take a look. You're sure to find at least one slide worth sharing with students. You can also discuss with students who said the words and hypothesize why.

20 Quotes to Inspire The Doer In You! #MotivationMonday from Nadine @ We Are Visual

Memorble Quotes to Spark Discussion, Writing, and Other Activites

Quotes often get the juices flowing. These memorable quotes from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayo Miyazaki might be ones you can use with your students. The graphics alone accompanying the quotes are also worth showing students to stimulate classroom activities.

Although I have embedded the slides here, you can also open the presentation on SlideShare, where I found them, and show them that way, or embed them in your own class blog or website.

Let me know if you would use any or all of these slides with students.

To advance through the slide show, click the arrows, and also feel free to open the show on Slide Show if it's easier for you to view them there.

13 Memorable Quotes from Hayao Miyazaki Films

13 Memorable Quotes from Hayao Miyazaki Films by @charitytemple from Charity Temple

Exploring HaikuDeck as a Creative SlideShow Tool

HaikuDeck is a relatively new tool for the iPad that is attracting lots of attention. You don't need an iPad though to browse around the site to find reusable "Decks."

This first one, created by Fiona Walker, includes both slides and text in the sidebar.  Click on the  HaikuDeck icon at the bottom of the slide to view the Deck on the site to see the sidebar notes.

Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

Here is another HaikuDeck, created by JD Doctolero, with the notes.  Click on HaikuDeck icon to view at the site for the notes to be viewable. In this blog post, you can only see part of the presentation. The way HaikuDeck works is that if you want someone to see the notes, the deck needs to be viewed live right at the site.
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad


This deck, created by Susan Spellman Cann, is an excellent example of HaikuDeck's visual power.

Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

Here's one by Sam Patterson, a California high school educator, which I caught on his blog, Be the Distraction. He also maintains another blog, The Paperless Classroom. In fact, he recently on April 13 posted "Why Teachers Should Blog."


Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

Educators using HaikuDeck boast about its focus on the visual and the fact that images have a Creative Commons license "free to use."

What do you see as the potential of using HaikuDeck in your professional work or in the classroom? Even if you don't have an iPad, keep in mind you can visit the site and find Decks to use, as I have in this post. How might HaikuDeck offer some advantages that other presentation tools such as PowerPoint or Prezi don't offer?

Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck allows you to create visually oriented slide shows with some text. It is easy to use, and young children could easily create one. Recently, I came across a few that will illustrate how Haiku Deck works. I am posting one that addresses bullying, and which could be used to promote a discussion of citizenship and character building. If you use iPads in your teaching or own an iPad, you might want to download this app and start playing with it. It can easily be used by all age groups.
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad

50 Sites

As a fan of SlideShare, when I come across an excellent slide presentation there, I save it to my favorites for quick access.

Screen shot of My Favorites in SlideShare

Today, I was emailed a link to an excellent slide presentation, and once I opened it in SlideShare and viewed it, I marked it as favorite. Here it is embedded for your easy access. 50 Sites in 60 Minutes is an overview of new websites organized by categorized with direct links to the sites and a review of each site. Given these are newer sites, you might not know of many of them. All have applicability to education. Let us know which are of interest to you and why. If you check into any of the sites, let us know your reaction.

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VoiceThread

VoiceThread is still one of my favorite web tools. You upload slides to it, and viewers can add written and audio comments, and even draw on the slides. VoiceThread is an excellent way to create digital stories. For a preview of the possibilities, check the VoiceThread digital library. In the library, you will find a good number of VoiceThreads to use. Try out some of them.

Here's a sample of one of the first VoiceThreads I found a few years ago. It demonstrates how the tool can be integrated into the elementary school classroom to complement an existing unit on the study of story writing. But it also shows how the technology can be used to create learning experience that otherwise would not be readily possible. I hope you enjoy the VoiceThread. There are plenty more to explore through the Voice Thread digital library.

Now that you have seen one example of a VoiceThread used with students, here is a VoiceThread that explains how the tool works:



 Here's a video to learn more about VoiceThread:

Michael Fort on VoiceThread from VoiceThread on Vimeo.

Also, check this blog post about using VoiceThread in the early childhood education. There are several embedded VoiceThreads right in the blog.

After learning more about VoiceThread, post your ideas about using it in the classroom. If you have seen some good VoiceThreads, please leave links to access them.