How to create your app smashed Study guide

I've recently posted about Visual Study Guides which I've been making for my students. Instead of only telling them the pages of the course book they have to study, I organize materials which we have used during our classes, such as video grammar lessons, online exercises, ppts and word files, into a visual poster with links to the resources which should be revised.

A few times, I created such Study Guides embedding the resources to a Glogster poster , more recently I've been using Thinglink for the same purpose.


But, HOW CAN YOU CREATE YOUR OWN APP SMASHED STUDY GUIDE?


 

https://tackk.com/eanvuv

Try scrolling down the image above to see the rest of the Instruction Poster.


Hope you find these tips useful,

Sharing your digital production with Tackk

I love exploring tools which allow our students to share what they produce using English. This week, I noticed Tackk for the first time. This post has the objective to briefly explain how it works and also share some examples of tackk projects and assignments which I've come across.

WHAT CAN YOU PRODUCE WITH TACKK?

Tackk allows you to publish photos, videos, audios, maps and forms. It's great for digital portfolios, assignments, promoting events, storytelling, book and film reports and so much more, all it's needed is your creativity. The site is free and it's DEVICE NEUTRAL, a term I learned from Lisa Johnson today. And what does that mean? It works on laptops, Ipads, and cell phones (IOS and androids), therefore it's perfect for BYOD. Students can create a tackk page without signing up, however, it is deleted after one week. If you wish to have your content saved, consider creating your free account. https://tackk.com/

To learn how it works, watch the tutorial below:




For references on how teachers have been using it, I suggest the reading of two blog posts and the TACKK education page:

• From Freetech4teachers
• From Emergingedtech

As I believe we can learn a lot by checking examples, these are some I've collected:

Try scrolling the image above to see the rest of this tackk page.


MORE EXAMPLES:

• This assignment was to answer the question "How would you increase the peace?"  Students added the tag #PeaceDay2013, this way all the pages created by them can be found on the same board. https://tackk.com/board/peaceday2013

• Márcia Lima and Marjana Smolcec have been developing a collaborative project (Brazil + Croatia) and a final task developed by their students was a presentation about a city in their countries. Check out two of their amazing tackks: https://tackk.com/gq09ek and https://tackk.com/rio (Juliana's presentation).

• This teacher developer created a page to present some webtools and apps  https://tackk.com/qslelh

• My second trial making a page with a simple recipe https://tackk.com/334dcy

• The very creative Lisa Johnson used a tackk page as a virtual handout after a presentation, adding the resources shared. https://tackk.com/agdf1g

Have you ever had your students use Tackk? 

If so, please use the comment area to share your project with us.