Smilebox - Collage/Slideshow maker tool

Free photo collage made with Smilebox →Enable Flash Player

Creating a comic strip

You can create a comic strip at http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/games/comic-strip-maker.
Click on START, provide a title, type in your name. Edit each of the six frames provided for you by adding backgrounds, characters, word balloons, objects and text. You can edit these features by increasing or decreasing their size, moving them around and so on. When you finish your comic strip you can download it, print it or send it to a frienf via email. There's no need to register. It's ideal for kids to practise writing in a fun way. (You need to enable flash.)
Here's a finished comic strip:

Happy New Year 2019

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2019 full of health, inspiration and lots of creativity!

Let's hope all of us blossom like beautiful flowers!!!

Sketchnoting with Sylvia Duckworth

I enjoyed my #sketchnotefever experience with Sylvia Duckworth, the famous sketchnoter. She provided 21 free lessons on sketchnoting, which I completed. You can even now catch all her lessons, each with a video and a google slide with the icons she drew for each lesson, here. I was so excited about what I learned that I preordered the paperback version of her new book How to Sketchnote: A step-by-step manual for Teachers and Students. As I ordered earlier than 13th November, I received two bonus posters with sketchnotes by Sylvia. I'm also looking forward to attending a free webinar she will deliver for the same reason.
Here are the sketchnotes I made and shared on twitter, curated using wakelet. 

Youtube videos clean

To get a clean version of a youtube video, you can

• replace watch?v= with embed/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sgCUnWwves
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-sgCUnWwves
or

• Eliminate everything before the word youtube and type in quiet

http://quietyoutube.com/watch?v=-sgCUnWwves

Make checkboxes in googlesheets

Below you can see my screen recording on how to create checkboxes in google sheets. I learned about this new google sheets feature from Alice Keeler's tweet.

Creating Checkboxes in google sheets

Strategies to engage more learners

There is a great number of strategies and techniques a teacher can use to differentiate and enhance instruction. Some of the most significant strategies to engage learners are displayed in the interactive image below. Hover over each tagged strategy and click to get some further information about an explanation and ways you can implement it in class.