Choice Boards

One of my favourite topics has recently been choice boards for students. I've recently created a choice board for my EFL learners to visit during their Easter holiday. The students are invited to choose any three of the activities suggested on the board.  You can make a copy HERE.

👉You can get more ideas about Choice Boards in Shelly Terrell's blog post HERE.

Travelling brochure template

Make a copy of the following tri-fold travelling brochure template and share it with your students to let them write about their favorite holiday destinations. The students enjoy adding pictures by searching on the web via 'Insert' and then 'image' - 'search the web'. They also enhance their writing skills by typing in their text after searching for information about the place of their interest. The final product can be printed and folded similarly to a real brochure.  
Use this LINK to make your own copy.

Drag and drop the summer words below the right picture.

Here's a drag-and-drop activity to enhance your students' vocabulary related to summer.

Cick HERE to make your own copy for your students.

Animating an image with google slides

Yesterday I stumbled upon one of Tony Vincent's periscopes on twitter. I was impressed by one of the presenters, Kasey Bell, who explained how you can create animation using google slides. I had read about this hack somewhere else as well, but yesterday I consolidated the way you can achieve this effect. And as the title of my blog suggests it is designed for my tech notes; thus, I would like to post this tip here so that I can remember it in the future!

To start with, I inserted a free creative commons image on a google slide and a butterfly png (an image without a background). Then I duplicated the slide (Ctrl+D) and I dragged the butterfly a little farther than its original position. I duplicated the new slide and moved the butterfly a little bit again. I followed the same process creating eight slides - I absolutely believe the result will be much better if you create more slides, though! After this, I published the google slides (File- Publish to the web). I changed the auto-advance slides to 'every second' both for the link and the embed code options and here I embed the result: