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Visually Inspire Your

Learners! Reform Symposium 2013

Janet’s Abruzzo Edubloghttp://civitaquana.blogspot.com

IMAGES....

Image of eagle, courtesy of krb

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Image of hubby’s motorbike in ‘ Little Tibet’, Abruzzo, Italy 3

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Visual Icebreakers / Introductions

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Tagxedo face shapes: http://www.tagxedo.com/

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Students’ Brainstorm of adjectives http://www.tagxedo.com/

http://www.glogster.com/

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http://www.glogster.com/

Glogster poster activities

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http://www.fotor.com/

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Coat

of A

rms

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text2mindmap.com12

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British People

By the Pink Room

Class

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http://www.slideshare.net/JanetBianchini/visual-blogging-with-muzy

Muzy Apps

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Writecomics.com Collage created with Ribbet.com

http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons

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http://www.photofunia.com/

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http://www.toondoo.com/

Try Weekend questions via comics!

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What did the Pink Room Class get up to at the weekend?

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Use Tagxedo word clouds to introduce a reading or discussion topic!

Can you guess these famous people?

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Dvolver used by teachers on the

Creative Teaching course at the

Lake School of English, Oxford

http://creativesecondary.blogspot.co.uk/search/

label/Dvolver

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Add Image Chef visuals to a Padlet wall for memorable collaborative storage of new words learned: http://padlet.com/wall/creativesecondary

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Describe the view. Why do you think this road is important for Janet?

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What am I thinking?

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I wish I could fly!I wish someone

would give me some clothes!I wish I

hadn’t ....................

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Where I am now

27Guess the idiom

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Exploit photos of graffiti

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Eye IdiomsSee .......................

Be the .............. of one’s eye

Be ...................-eyed

Pull the .............. over someone’s eyes

Turn a ................ eye

Have a ................’s eye view

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Eye IdiomsSee eye to eye

Be the apple of one’s eye

Be eagle-eyed

Pull the wool over someone’s eyes

Turn a blind eye

Have a bird’s eye view

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Mini Sagas – 50 word storieshttp://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

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It was a dark and stormy night ........

Creative Writing prompt – part of a circle story

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Tuxpi.com

Fotor.com

Photofunia.comRibbet.com

Imagechef.com

Some image-editing sites.They are free, fun and easy to use!

34By @janetbianchini 2013

Thank you for attending my session http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/visually-inspire-your-learners

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I hope you enjoyed it!

ABRUZZO, ITALY