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. 

How to download a facebook video

To download a facebook video on your laptop, right click on the video to grab the url address. Then, use this site https://www.fbdown.net/ to paste the Facebook video link, and click on 'Download'. Right click on the video in the new window that appears, and 'Save Video as'. 

Virtual Dice

Using virtual dice can be a great idea to engage your students and provide some fun language practice. A great site I learned about from Eva Toth through my participation in 'Developing transversal skills through eTwinning projects' run by Alenka Miljevic and Arjana Blazic was this https://rollthedice.online/en/
Below you can see the dice I created.

BookSnaps Challenge

The significance of a PLN is really great to me. Having a PLN provides you with free Professional Development from people you choose to follow and share ideas with. It also offers learning at your own pace! One of the persons in my PLN I appreciate a lot is Peggy George. I met her on twitter and I feel so lucky for that. She always shares excellent posts with resources, tips, and tools, helpful to any educator. Peggy is one of the hosts in classroom2.0 live free webinars. During one of the #liveclass20 sessions, attendees were introduced to Tara Martin  and her idea of  SnapBooks challenge. In short, Tara's idea is for readers to take snaps of the books they read and interact with the text by providing their reaction to what they read. This can be done by readers adding emojis, stickers, text boxes or speech bubbles with their thoughts and feelings, highlighting a key idea and so on. She suggests tools you can use for this purpose; some of them include Snapchat, Seasaw, photo apps such as Fotor or even google drawings/ slides which may have been prepared by a teacher and then edited by a student. You can read about the Booksnaps2018 Challenge Tara Martin organized for 2018 HERE.
This year some of my EFL students participated in the SnapBooks2018 challenge and here's one of my students' booksnaps based on an English book she read.

 Next year I would like to integrate this idea into my lessons early in the year so that my students will have the time to engage in the process to a greater extent.