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60 Second Recap

November 12, 2009

60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments.

60 Second Recap is a very new service still in its alpha phase of development; current book titles in its library are...

  • Animal Farm
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Frankenstein
  • Great Expectations
  • Hamlet
  • Jane Eyre
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Crucible
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The turn of the Screw and
  • To Kill a Mockingbird.

60 Second Recap could be the basis for a learner project in which they create their own video recaps of books they read. If practitioners or learners don't have access to video cameras, they could use a service like Animoto or Stupeflix to create their video recaps of the books they've read.

Find out more by visiting http://www.60secondrecap.com/; apparently new books are added each week.

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Literature 

 

Shape Poems

November 3, 2009

Shape Poems is a poem generation template hosted by Read Write Think.

Shape Poems provides a template...

  • for writing poems in the shape of an object, selected from one of four themes including...
    • sports,
    • school,
    • nature, and
    • celebrations,

...about that object.

Learners then...

  • select a shape
  • identify words that they associate with their chosen shape.
  • Write a poem

When completed, learners can...

  • hear their poems read to them and/or
  • print their poems.
Try it out at http://www.re...
Continue reading...

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Poetry 

 

LitCharts

November 3, 2009

LitCharts is an online service that provides outlines and summaries of classic literature.

Most of the outlines and summaries are ten pages, give or take a page or two.

LitCharts...

  • colour code...
    • the themes addressed and
    • the symbolism 
...within a particular work. The colour coding makes it easy to quickly pick out the themes and symbols in each chapter of a book.
  • can be...
    • viewed online,
    • downloaded as PDFs, or
    • accessed through iPhone applications.

Note: LitCharts provides n...


Continue reading...

Posted by John Dalziel. Posted In : Literature 

 
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John Dalziel
Liverpool Uk

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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