"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow."
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Animated Research Tutorials

Richard Byrne's blog,  Free Technology for Teachers, introduced me to 4 free animated web tutorials created  to help students with web research strategies.  The tutorials, which are on the Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University website, include:
  • Credible Sources Count,
  • Research It Right,
  • Searching With Success,
  • You Quote It, You Note It
In the Classroom:
  • Show the movie of your choice on the big screen with a projector.  Have students take notes, fill in a worksheet, or create a web over the information in the movie.
  • Divide students into four groups.  Have each group watch one movie and become "experts" on their movie, then teach their topic to classmates.
  • After students watch these tutorials, have them create their own, maybe for the topic they are researching.  Sites for online animation include: Xtranormal, ipopetz.tv,  Go!Animate, FluxtimeStudio.
    Be sure to check that your students can acess the animation site from school.
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