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FLIPGRID

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With Flipgrid you can bring the back row in class to the FRONT row! Flipgrid, a FREE video discussion platform, gives all students a voice.  Flipgrid is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students and better yet students can provide feedback to one another. 1. The reading response goes digital. After your class reads an article, chapter or book have them respond to a question about their reading. Take the conversation further by having students comment on each other’s responses. 2 . Celebrate The Global Read Aloud all year long. The Global Read Aloud is a set 6 week period that spans from early October through mid-November and teachers all over the globe read one book and connect with other classrooms all over the world. With a tool like Flipgrid, you can connect with educators all over the world anytime and share as you read a novel together. 3 . Record an ongo...

STORYBIRD

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Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. It is a fun, collaborative, storytelling website. Storybird was designed to allow children to work with parents and friends in creating art-inspired stories to share and save. It is also now a very popular tool to for use by teachers with their students around the globe. Users choose from art hosted on the site and build a story around those images that can then be shared with family and friends. Storybird encourages creativity and is a web tool that supports working collaboratively. The final product can be printed, watched on screen, or shared in an online library with the world. You also have the option to keep it private on the network. Storybird can help students bring abstract thoughts in their mind to life and adds a dynamic, digital component to traditional storyboards. Without requiring any artistic ability, students drag and drop characters and images onto a digital storyboard. S...