These web tools that will energize your lessons and your students. Andrea Duggan will share four tools, Blabberize, Piktochart, Thinglink, and Powtoon, each of which has a unique way of making lessons come to life. Useful in any classroom, you don’t need to be high tech to check them out.

1. By Andrea Duggan
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Making
Lessons
Come to Life

2. Easy tech tools to
launch your
classroom into the
21st Century
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3. “Multiple literacies, including
digital,
have now joined information literacy
visual,
textual,
and
technological
as crucial skills for thisPhoto from Pixabay (CC0)

4. But that
doesn’t mean
it can’t be fun.
Photo by Andrea Duggan CC BY SA

6. Features
• Easy to Use
• No account needed
• Can use any image
• Imbed or convert
videos
• Add additional
mouths
• Switch back and forth
between imagesPiece of Cake by Nerissa’s Ring (CC BY 2.0)

7. Drawbacks
• Mouth takes some
getting used to
Erica Wittlieb on Pixabay (CC0)

8. Standard
mouth
After
changes
Erica Wittlieb on Pixabay (CC0) Created using Blabberize
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9. ALA Library Symbol (CC SA) Created using Blabberize
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10. Martha Washington by Kat Duggan (CC SA) Created using Blabberize
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11. By Ethan Duggan (CC SA) Created using Blabberize
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12. Blabberize It!
• Instructions
• Vocabulary words and
definitions
• Conversations between
characters in a book
• A debate between important
historical figures
• Writing exercise for voice using
animals or inanimate objects.
• A public service announcement
against drug and alcohol use
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13. Second Tool

16. For civics
service projects,
students can
create
infographics
explaining the
value of their
chosen charity
Toronto Theatre Dance Company (CC BY SA)
Created using Piktochart

17. Ausdoc (CC BY SA) Created using Piktochart

18. Make posters for your
classroom illustrating
important concepts
Jtlaby701(CC BY SA) Created using Piktochart

22. Features
Features
• Variety – link to
anything
• Easily embedded in
blog or web page
• App Available
• Students can have
account without
email.
• Teachers can create
Andrés Nieto Porras (CC BY SA 2.0)

23. Drawbacks
• Pushing Upgrades
• Full screen – not
available
• Personalize links –
not available
• Can only link
YouTube and
Brightcove videos
Life-of-pics on Pixabay (CC0)

24. Ideas
• Before, during or
after novel studies,
link students to
content that adds
background
knowledge or invites
further analysis.

25. example
Made by Chrisite Collins using Thinklink. (CC BY SA)

26. example

27. More Ideas
• Geography
• Languages
• Anatomy
• Parts of a Plant
• Parts of a Cell
• Webquest
• Terms for items on
a newspaper page
• Text Structures
NASA (CC0)

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References
Kostanecki M. (2013, Jan. 31). How to give great presentations. An alternative to
PowerPoint, Bullet Points, boring presentations [video]. Retrieved from YouTube
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30. Features
• Animation
• Templates
• Icons/Props
• Can Import
• Can add Voiceover
• User Friendly
• Has Royalty Free
Music Options
Run by Shadow Forever (CC BY SA)

31. Drawbacks
• Need an account
• Can’t get MP4 downloads without
upgrading
• Limited Text Flexibility
Harmony by RetSamys (CC BY SA)

32. example
References
Duggan, A. (2015). Book trailer for “Some Assembly Required” [video]. Retrieved from YouTube
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33. example
References
Duggan, A. (2015). PowToons lesson ideas [video]. Retrieved from YouTube
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34. Have Fun
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35. References
American Association of School Librarians (AASL). (2007) Standards for
the 21st century learner. Chicago, IL: AASL
Andrews A. (2014). Some assembly required: The not so secret life of a
transgender teen. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
Blabberize.com [web tool]. Retrieved from http://blabberize.com/
Duggan, A. (2015). Book trailer for “Some Assembly Required” [video].
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXmNK5aXxj4
Duggan, A. (2015). PowToons lesson ideas [video]. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKOO9yM2uxA

36. Kostanecki M. (2013, Jan. 31). How to give great presentations. An
alternative to PowerPoint, Bullet Points, boring presentations [video].
Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ruwY1fnxT4&spfreload=10
Library of Congress. (2009). Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in
World War II [video]. Retreived from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VNBM1PqR8
Ohio Medical Group. (2015.) Shocking fast food statistics you should
know [web article] retrieved from
http://blog.partnersforyourhealth.com/Blog/bid/85971/Shocking-Fast-
Food-Statistics-You-Should-Know
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37. Piktochart.com [web tool] Retrieved from http://piktochart.com/
Powtoon.com [web tool]. Retrieved from http://www.powtoon.com/
Roth, V. (2011). Divergent. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
Thinkglink.com [web tool]. Retrieved from https://www.thinglink.com/
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