Infographic: MLA Format

Great Classroom Idea From Padlet

I received an email from Padlet (formally Wallwisher) advertising a great idea for the ELA classroom.  If you are not familiar with Padlet, please review my post on it.  Padlet has many options for working collaboratively with your students.  One way is you can create a wall to develop writing skills through poetry with your students.

Wings of Flight is a wall created by Padlet as a great example of students displaying short poems they have created.

Check out Padlet's Gallery of examples others have created to help create ideas of your own.

Palet is safe.  Students need NO account in order to participate.

Mad Libs

Here's a fun activity you can add to your Moodle course for ELA.  Mad Libs offers a widget that can be put on your own website.  Simply copy and paste the HTML code they offer into an HTML box on your Moodle course.

If you are interested in this, but are uncertain of how to copy/paste HTML, let alone what HTML is, please do not hesitate to contact me, nasonb@sad1.org.

Firefox Add-on Feature - Readability

Readability.com is a powerful tool that pulls online news articles and cleans them up.  In other words, gets rid of any other content on that web page - i.e. advertisements, other headlines, comment posts, or links - and displays a "clean" article with any images that pertain to it.  Readability.com, also, allows you to print, share on social networks, and customize appearance.  You, now, have the ability to save your chosen articles as PDF, add annotations for your students; or have your students add annotations.  The document below covers more detail.

This Add-on tool will be embedded right into your Firefox browser for easy use.  No Admin needed.

The document is very easy to read and user-friendly.  I have the web link in the document, however simply go to readability.com

Open publication - Free publishing - More add-on