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- Using Animoto, assign one term or item on a vocabulary list to individual students or small groups to make slideshows that can be posted on a Web page.
- Use the built-in music choices or upload music (must be an mp3 audio file). Among Animoto's built-in music choices are Top 40, Indie Rock, Electronica, HipHop, Latin, Jazz, Classical, Country, and others submitted by musicians.
- Add images and choose special effects.
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Use the Web site's money flashcards for student practice or review activity when teaching the words for coins and expressions for making purchases (How much is it? How much does it cost?). Teach the meaning of the dollar sign and the decimal point by showing some money and writing the amounts. The flashcards show coins and bills and ask "How much money is there?" with an answer field to type in the amount.
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A simple PPT on goal setting for social skills.
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Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides electronic access to information about U.S. history and government. This site is organized by levels and ages: Apprentice 4-8, Journeyman 9-13, Master14+. This helps in presenting the information by reading level as well as complexity.
This site is particularly useful in teaching the basics of U.S. Government as needed in the GED test. Assign each topic to a student or student pair. Have them read about the topic, write about the topic and present what they learned to the class.
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Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.
By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.
For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.
For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.