Need to Motivate Your Students in Writing?

While working this morning, I ran across these awesome visuals for Story Starters that teachers can use in their ELA classes. What a super way to inspire writing by viewing a visual that pulls you in and gets your thoughts running. I would encourage you to post two of the visuals and allow them a choice for writing. Then the next setting, you could add another visual to the choices. I appreciate Teaching Packs for the free download offer (there are more to download after signing up for free newsletter), so that I am able to share this resource with you. Another reason I appreciate this resource is because it gives teachers power and inspiration to make some of your OWN visuals. Here's a writing prompt I created with a PhotoPin image and a second writing prompt created with 4Freephoto.I hope you will create your own. There are some great photo sites that allow FREE downloads of awesome photos (I listed a few of my favorites).

1. Canva.com
2. 4Freephotos
3. PhotoPin
4. Unsplash

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Posted in Bing, ELA, images, license, prompt, Teaching Pack, tech tip, writing

New Settings on Google Images

One of the tips I gained at TCEA was that Google images now has a setting for selecting images that are free to reuse without the worry of breaking copyright privileges. I think this is a great move on Google and I feel it will help teachers as they work to teach proper digital citizenship and digital ethics. Here are the steps to getting images from Google that are free to reuse:

Step 1: From Google.com choose images.

Step 2: Click Search Tools after typing in the keyword to the image you want.

Step 3: Open up the menu for Usage Right and choose which one fits your needs.

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Posted in Copyright free, digital citizenship, digital ethics, filter, Google images, images, new settings, reuse, search tools, tech tip