I have two fun, useful
and FREE websites for you:
The first is
called ‘Trading Card Creator’ (http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/trading_cards_2/ - you can also go to www.readwritethink.org and type ‘trading card’ in to the search
box). On this website students can
create sports style cards for famous people, places, or fictional characters,
or even abstract concepts such as an emotion.
By entering the title of the person, place, etc. then clicking on the
type of card to be created, the website will walk the student step-by-step
through the process of uploading an image, entering important dates, events and
sharing their impressions of the character or geographic location. This is a great tool for students working on
social studies or history (Prime Ministers and explorers are great starting
points) as well as language studies of novel characters. Cards can be saved and shared via e-mail with
instructors and peers for evaluation.
Additionally, I
would like to share with you another useful website called Online Convert (www.online-convert.com) This website will convert anything to
anything – a PDF document to an MP3 for students to listen to, a GIF image to a
JPEG image, even convert a COREL file to a PDF!! Yes, finally when you e-mail
documents created at school in Word Perfect for editing at home, online-convert
will change it into a PDF or Word file for you! Simply click on the web address
and choose which application you need to convert. Here is how I changed my word perfect
document to a Microsoft Word document…
1. Type in web address
(www.online-convert.com) into the address bar
2. Choose the type of file to convert – here I
chose ‘Document Converter’ and from the drop down menu I picked ‘convert to
DOC’ and clicked on it
3. Where it says ‘Upload your document you want to convert to DOC:’ I
clicked on ‘Choose File’ and found where on my computer I had stored the
document (FYI - you can also add the web address of a webpage if you need it
converted instead)
4. Then click on ‘convert file’
The only
difficulty is that it does not convert back to Word Perfect. I hope that this website proves to be helpful
in the future.
Cheers,
S
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