Slide My Pics

By Anonymous -
SlidemyPics is a really easy and quick slideshow maker that uses pictures from either your Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket or Smugmug account.  Here is a slideshow I made using some photos in one of my Facebook albums.  What I love is that you can choose the template and also add music.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Concrete Poetry Sites - This Is So Much Fun!

By -
Image
Poetry Month is Right Around the Corner Are you getting ready for Poetry Month in April? If so, I have some resources to share with you for creating concrete poems. Concrete poems are words written in a shape to convey a poem. They look like this: Recently I went on a mission to search for a site to use with a fellow colleague and her students. They wanted to make concrete poetry on their Chromebooks. There aren't many sites that allow the user to actually write words into any shape.  There is the Read, Write, Think interactive for Theme Poetry.  Here is what it looks like. The words can be added inside of a shape. The interactive guides students through the writing process There is a site from WildAboutWoods.org  where a person can choose a shape or draw one of their own and add words inside of the shape. There are word banks to choose from or a person can type in their own words to add to the shape. I like that adding words is as simple as click ...
Read more

The Mistakes I Made Teaching a Lesson This Week

By -
Image
This week I was fortunate enough to be asked to teach in a classroom that I had not had the chance to be in yet this year.  The lesson I taught was using Quizlet (a digital flashcard generation site).  The students were shown how to start a stack of flashcards and then invite their classmates at their table to join in their stack and work as a group to create a complete set of flashcards with 20 words.  Students could then use the stack to learn, study, quiz and play games with the vocabulary words that were in the stack.   The last part of the lesson involved showing the students and teacher how to play Quizlet Live, a classroom game using a flashcard stack.  This lesson ended up having some challenges. Some students were hesitant to participate and were unengaged. One student didn't even have a device, so he didn't participate at all.  Some students found the activities too challenging.  And some students were anxious and one student...
Read more