Reading Resources & Digital Storytelling

There are an ever-growing number of online tools and resources related to reading material and digital storytelling.  This week, your task is to check out and experiment with some of these.  Remember to Diigo anything you find potentially useful.

From:   Reading Resources  &   Digital Storytelling Guide 

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Storybuilding Tools

• StoryBird Storybird.com
  Seven Ways to Survive School  (login required)
  Allows users to make their own visual stories using contributed illustrations. Thousands of user generated stories to read and discuss.
• StoryJumper  (how to, create, examples)
  Dumplings and Mandoo
• MyStoryBook.com
  (example My Five Senses)

Make your own comics and animations

• Storyboardthat.com - How-to Screencast - How-to Screencast#2 - Teacher ExamplesCurated Storyboards Lesson Materials Recent Boards
  Wonder Materials
   
• Makebeliefscomix.com/Comix
  
  Apps:  Comic & Meme Creator (android)  Comic Strip (apple)
   

Storytelling Podcasts

• NPR: StoryCorps Podcast
  When Living Out Of A Car, It's Hard To Feel At Home
   
• The Moth Podcast
  Texas Hold' Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns
   
• Death, Sex, & Money
  This Senator Saved My Life
   
• This American Life
  Switched at Birth
  
  

Sources of Books/Reading Materials

• English E-reader - a nice selection of graded readers that include recent publications


• Busan English Digital Library
  
• Manybooks.net
   
• AudioBooks:   OpenCulture.com   Libravox
   
• Story Online Storylineonline.net
  Videos of famous people reading storybooks. Includes printable handouts with activities, but not the original text of the books.
   
• ChildrensLibrary.org
   1000’s of children’s books from around the world , sortable by age level and book type.

• StarFall.com
  Excellent resource for younger students learning to read

High-Interest sources of reading material for students

• Time for Kids  Simplified articles from the magazine, Kid reporters, and lesson materials.
   
• National Geographic Kids
  Tigers Cuddle with Apes Print-friendly materials on countries, animals, and science.  The site also has a variety of videos, games, puzzles, and photo activities.
   
• Webtoons
   
• Kidjutsu, Comics for Kids  
  Free comics sorted by type and age level

Korea-related

• Soompi http://www.soompi.com/
  Kpop celebrity news and very active discussion forums
   
• Allkpop   http://www.allkpop.com Short articles about Kpop in English

Make your own comics and animations

• Storyboardthat.com  -  How-to Screencast  -  How-to Screencast#2  -  Teacher ExamplesCurated Storyboards   Lesson Materials    Recent Boards
  Wonder Materials
   

Social Networking + Social Credit System

Social Networking

Take a look at the Social Networking Guide . 
You can also watch thee sightly outdated the Social Networking Screencast.

Explore some of the ELT groups and communities on Google+, Facebook, Diigo, LinkedIn, and elsewhere .

Join ones of interest, bookmark them with Diigo, and/or create a blog post about any interesting discoveries.

Before the end of our first hour, please listen to one version of Planet Money's podcast on :
China's Social Credit System
9 minute version 
20 minute version

Week#14 - Things to Share/Explore

Graphic Organizers   and   Mind Mapping

Guide to Graphic Organizers and Mind Mapping Tools

Hyesuk's Mindmeister

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Charades
Create your own custom sets

TTP Vocab: BkZAZ6Jp8

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Emaze.com 
(템플릿 좋음, 3D, 다 무료)
Youngjoo's Demo

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Bookmark It
Chrome exension for adding comments to YouTube videos

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Genial.ly Guide video

• Examples:  Yujin    Yunjeong1  Yunjeong2  Yunjeong3   Hyesuk

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Riddles, Logic Games, and Puzzles

• Minsun's Using Puzzles Post
• Soyeon's Fill-in-the-Blank Wordsearch
• TTP Kitchen Logic Problems

Riddles

• Riddles-for-the-esl-classroom
• ESLmobi.com Riddles
• iteslj.org jokes & riddles
• ISLcollective riddle worksheets
• Englishclub.com What Am I? (young learnes)

Favorite Puzzle Making Site
  Discover Education Puzzlemaker

Others  (from the Activity Guide)

• Thewordsearch.com  (Interactive wordsearches)
• Justcrosswords.com *
• Hangman
• Jeopardylabs.com
• Crosswordlabs.com
• CrosswordPuzzleGames.com
• ArmoredPenguin.com Crossword Maker *
• Cloze Test Generator 
• WordSearch
• A-Z Teacher Tools:   Word Search    
• Superteachertools.com
  Jeopardy
  Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
• ClassTools.net
  Random Spinner
  Arcade Games

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Video Download

SFW (not NSFW): Savefrom.net - Download from multiple video hosting sites

More from the Video Guide

• Offliberty.co - Friendly, clean download site
• KeepVid.ch
• Torch Browser - click the Media button in the top right
• Maxthon Browser (hover over the video and 'save')
• Tubget.com - similar to Keepvid
• https://ytmp3.cc/en13/ Convert Youtube videos to mp3 files
• Downloadhelper.net - Firefox extension allows downloading and converting
• Vixy.net downlaodable program that can be used to save video and audio from YouTube and other video sites. 

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Mindfulness Resources

Mindfulness in Education

Ways to Embrace Mindfulness at School

Mindfulness Resources

Videos