Links to sites can be found on the teachers list on the Lake School diigo at https://www.diigo.com/list/creativeteaching or on my diigo at https://www.diigo.

com/user/janetb I hope you have fun exploring these links.. Moviemaker http://dvolver.com/moviemaker/index.html Moviemaker http://goanimate.com/ A website for creating animated cartoons. You can email your movie to people. You can embed it in a blog or wiki. Create your own animated cartoons. Suitable for older pupils.

Cartoon strips:
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ There is a teachers guide, and a very useful bank of free printables for teachers. An easy site to use, but you need to have an account. You can store all your comics in one place. The easiest comic site to use!

http://www.toondoo.com/createToon.do

http://writecomics.com/

http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Cartoon_Maker/

An easy comic-strip site with lots of nice lesson ideas!

Janets Comics & Cartoons curation site:

http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons You will find many lesson ideas, materials and links to resources

Excellent writing sites

http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp Create some lovely newspaper snippets for short writing projects.

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http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php

Create short ebooks with images

http://padlet.com/ http://padlet.com/wall/creativesecondary

Add your ideas to a collaborative Padlet wall, as in our Creative Secondary New Words class example

http://storybird.com/

Create beautifully illustrated digital stories like this one: http://storybird.com/books/living-thedream-10/

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Sites for speaking / listening / recording students

http://vocaroo.com/ http://voki.com/ http://www.fotobabble.com/ http://audioboo.fm/

Voki

Word Clouds
http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm http://worditout.com/ http://wordle.net/ http://www.tagxedo.com/

Vocabulary flash card maker

http://quizlet.com/

Make your own flashcards and quizzes

Lesson plans
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ http://lessonstream.org/ http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

These sites all offer free lesson plans to download

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Slideshow makers
http://animoto.com/ http://photopeach.com/

Blogs to follow
http://shellyterrell.com/ http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/ http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com http://www.englishblog.com/ http://evasimkesyan.com/ http://www.teachingvillage.org/

These blogs inpire me, motivate me and teach me a lot!

http://www.slideshare.net/JanetBianchini/spice-up-yourteaching-with-apps-tools-from-a-z http://janetabruzzo.wikispaces.com/VRT+2013+Resources

Apps & Tools to explore

CPD
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Russell Stannards great video training tutorials will teach you everything you need to know about how to use web 2.0 tools! Nik Peacheys web tool on scribd

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19576895/Web-20-Tools-forTeachers

My Notes

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