Wednesday, June 11 Creating a Literacy Empire

Presenter:  Susan Cintra
                  Madison Central High School
                  susan.cintra@madison.kyschools.us
                  Twitter:  @cintrizzle
                  www.cintrasclass.weebly.com

Agenda:

• Weebly, making your classroom and content available from anywhere all the time!
• Google Docs: taking peer revision to new heights
• Digital Pieces sources: a quick run through on platforms for developing digital pieces
• Work Time:  we'll focus on building your Weebly website today and I will be back to work on the rest of it later!  Check out the quick links below if you want to get started on your own!

Weebly

Watch the following series of videos to walk you through the process (please excuse some of the lapse, it was my first time using Screencastify! But it's an awesome extension if you are a chrome user!)

Step 1: Creating Weebly

Step 2: Organizing Pages in Weebly

Step 3: Adding Contact Forms and YouTube videos

Google Drive

• What can I do with Google Drive?
• Google Docs:  Allow students to share papers with you and grading becomes 10 times easier and more efficient!
• In Google Docs: Students have writing workshop groups where they can share folders with you and other group members and leave comments on others' papers as needed.
• Google Forms and Flubaroo: Allows you to create tests and grade them in a manner of seconds for speedy feedback!

Digital Piece formats 

• PowToons: Student Sample, Teacher Sample
• Animoto
• iMovie, Student Example
• Windows Movie Maker
• Puppet Pals (app)
• Creation Studio (app)
• GoAnimate
• VideoShop (app)
• Screencasting Apps (Educreations, ShowMe, ScreenChomp, Explain Everything)
• VidEditorFree (app)
• The list of apps is relentless...more to come!