This document discusses using Photoshop and interactive whiteboards (IWBs) to create visual contexts and narratives that students can engage with. It describes how placing characters, templates, and visuals created in Photoshop into IWBs allows students to role play and explore different situations. Functions like hyperlinks can be used to differentiate activities for varied abilities and reveal information selectively. Objects on IWBs can also be moved around and resized to help with classification and explanation activities. Combining these functions allows for limitless engaging classroom resources, such as discussions using movable characters. The document suggests other activities using visual clues and movable words to solve problems or give guided tours in Acrobat using tools like audio comments. It also discusses

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3. Photoshop is a fantastic program to create visuals, situations
and visual contexts.

4. These characters, templates and visual contexts can then be
used with IWBs.

5. Putting these visuals together to create narratives where students
can role play a variety of characters and explore situations.

6. By using the functionally in IWBs to support narratives
within virtual worlds you can create hyperlinks within the
document to differentiate activities for students with varied
abilities. Also you can hide information off screen until you
wish to reveal it.

7. Creating objects that can be moved around a page to help with
activities dealing with classification and explanation. The
images on the virtual noticeboard can be resized and moved.
The television contains a hyperlink to a YouTube which will help
the students formulate their answer.

8. When a number of the functions are combined together the
potential for creating engaging resources are limitless. The
resource above demonstrates ways that you can create dynamic
classroom discussions by using resizable/movable characters.

9. Activities where the teacher provides students with visual
clues to solve problems. The movable words correlate with
the visuals to help students piece together how a series of
events may have taken place.

10. Transferring these activities into Adobe Acrobat allows for
students to use functions like the Record Audio Comment tool.
Where they can give a guided tour of an art exhibition or
create conversations between characters. The painting of the
Weeping woman by Picasso can be hyperlinked to an external
website and his cartoon character portrait picture can be
hyperlinked internally to another page in the digital booklet.

11. Working on images with the Sticky Note tool can allow students
to locate a number of different objects within a space and place
their answers at the correct location.

12. Creating templates that can be used with OneNote is a good
way to have students engage with digital worksheets. They are
able to type their responses onto the document and then email
their answers immediately to the teacher.