Friday, June 13, 2014

Useful Link List: End of the Year Tools and Activities

There are a wide variety of activities you can use with your students to wrap up the school year. Students can make posters, scrapbooks, digital portfolios, and memory books.  Here are a few tools that can be used for these assignments.  

1- Reflect on your school year, make a poster 


One of the great ways to wrap up your school year is by reflecting on the year. They can include pictures, hyperlinks, and images. Some of the tools you can use for this purpose are:

2-  Creating Scrapbooks
Scrapbooking is another good way to end the school year. Students can combine a wide variety of multimedia materials such as text, clip art, and images to create a story of their memories. When the scrapbooks are ready, students share them with their classmates and peer-comment on each others' work.



3- Creating  Digital portfolios
Creating digital portfolios is a good way for students to document and showcase their best achievements during the entire school year. Some of the best web tools they can use are:



4- Creating Memory books
Instead of the pen and paper version of memory books technology now affords a wide variety of possibilities to create awesome memory books stored in the cloud and accessible anywhere anytime. Some tools for this are :




5- Creating Autobiographies
There are different ways for students to create autobiographies. They can do it through a write-up using tools such as Google Docs or by video clips. Some tools for this are: