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Bring Your Textbook to Life! Ideas & Resources
This document provides many strategies, tips, and technology tools for bringing textbooks to life and making textbook content more engaging for students. It suggests deconstructing textbooks into their key elements like exercises, assessments, examples, vocabulary and visuals. It also recommends sketchnoting, using social bookmarking tools to curate content, creating graphic organizers, games, infographics, timelines, comics, and digital stories. Additionally, it lists ideas for virtual field trips, audio projects, video projects, and augmented reality tools to enhance textbook learning. All of the tips and technologies are aimed at helping students better understand and interact with textbook material.
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- 2. Photo by MonicaHolli, Flic.kr/p/epeTqi Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke ShellyTerrell.com/Textbook2Life
- 3. Your textbook isone of many tools! ShellyTerrell.com/Textbook2Life
- 4. Deconstruct the textbook! Exercises Assessment Examples Tableof Contents Vocabulary Visuals ShellyTerrell.com/Textbook2Life
- 5. Photo by byLuigi Mengato, Flic.kr/p/hgwjYu Sketchnote it! TeacherRebootCamp.com/Notetaking
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- 10. Photo by Hertsens.Stef,Flic.kr/p/qaL8sk Social bookmarking & curation Diigo Storify Pearltrees Scoop.It Flipboard Pinterest Livebinders Educlipper ShellyTerrell.com/research
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- 24. Pride & Prejudiceby Raquel León Jimenez, Pixton.com Idea: Transform a piece of literature
- 25. Virtual Fieldtrips ShellyTerrell.com/fieldtrips Google Cardboard GoogleEarth Google Cultural Trips Google Lit Trips World Wonders Project
- 26. Interviews News sound bytes Radioshows Audio Projects ShellyTerrell.com/audio Audioboom iPadio Soundation GarageBand Audacity Soundcloud Podomatic
- 27. ShellyTerrell.com/video IDEAS Animation Commercial News report Documentary Chapter Trailer Claymation Classmovie Machinima Silent film TOOLS & APPS Magisto iMovie Puppet Pals Powtoons TouchCast Wideo Plotagon Instagram Screen-o-matic Splice Shadow Puppet Video Projects
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