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Archive for October 14, 2006
Newspaper clipping generator
25 years ago
On Thursday night I came across this simple web based tool from David Muir’s post about it – luckily for me I was teaching my class about newspapers last week so I used it on Friday in my literacy lesson. If you have read our class blog you will have noticed we have been doing Dracula as a class text – the kids love it! – and on Thursday and Friday we looked at an event in the story and planned a newspaper article on it. As a class we generated a piece of writing and I typed it into the newspaper clipping generator – the children thought it was great!
Bubblr + Quikmaps
55 years ago
Thanks to Doug Belshaw for making me get on and write this after he pinged my Bubblr post. There are people who are reading my blog 
My Bubblr and Quikmaps idea is essentially an extension of a History activity I did with my class of Year 6 kids – they added photos to a quikmap placemark, we then embedded them in our wikispace (see my post about the lesson)
Bubblr is a comic strip creator – once these have been made they can also be added to a Quikmap placemark. See an example I made quickly here.
They can also be emedded into a class wikispace like this one.
All you do is click on BLOG THIS after you have published the Bubblr strip – then copy the first set of code and add it into a placemark in Quikmaps.
I have noticed that Bubblr works much better with Internet Explorer than my usual Firefox – so I would recommend to switch to work with it.
