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?


 

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


Hope you find these tips useful,

App smashing more Study Guides for students

Is it time to revise for examinations?
How can we make study guides more visually appealing?
These are some examples of app smashed VISUAL STUDY GUIDES I've prepared for my students:

1. Popplet + Quizlet + Educanon + Google Docs + Grammar video Class + Thinglink




2. Vizualize + Educreations + Edmodo + Imagechef + Quizlet + Thinglink




3. Word Collage + Quizlet + Audioboo + Thinglink




4. Comics Head + Quizlet + Thinglink
 


5. Strip Generator + Quizlet + Slideshare + Lino.it + Classtools.net
 


6. PicCollage + quizlet + Google Drive

Enriching Study Guides with Thinglink

How can I make Study Guides more visually appealing?

Many times I feel my students don't really know how to organize themselves to study. I often hear them say they only studied by reading the lessons in the book.

These are different ways I've tried to help students get ready for their English exams:

1. A Study Guide with links to resources shared in our EDMODO GROUP

2. I've created a wordcloud with topics and used THINGLINK to add online resources.

3. I've used the app VISUALIZE to create a visual poster and added links by using THINGLINK

Revising for tests with Thinglink

I love tools which are a surprise to me. Thinglink is one of these tools. When I first saw it, I imagined just a few ways to use it in class. However, the more time goes by, teachers have been doing amazing things with the tool.

An example is the one brought below created by Daniela Tomatis, an EFL teacher in Italy who I admire a lot, and her students.

Her blog: http://themachinegoeson.blogspot.com.br/

They've created a REVISION BOARD adding links to audio recordings, videos and online exercises to a drawing.

I asked Daniela a bit more about it:

She says,

"The drawing was made by a very creative girl, Clara (Daniela Becchio's daughter) !
We gave her some instructions, basically that we wanted something like a bookcase.
Then, we linked the different parts of the picture to a digital source.

We wanted to give students:

- a complete digital version of the curriculum.
- a possibility to revise for the exam autonomously ( that's why we provided both the written and the oral version of the stories, for example)
- suggestions on how to practice grammar and vocabulary.- examples of student-created content ( "my grammar book""personal coursebook")
- a possibility to check their material, in case they missed some lessons during the school year.

Our aim was also to help them with pronunciation, to support parents and also to facilitate success for dyslexic students."

LISTLY + THINGLINK

Do you like making lists? Well, it's a way to curate your content and share with other people.

This post is aimed to focus on two webtools which I've fallen in love with:
LISTLY and THINGLINK

LISTLY is a site used for making lists of websites and videos. It's said to be a social experience as you can collaborate with others in building lists, besides commenting and voting. The lists you create or contribute to are not only shareable but also embeddable, like the list I've added at the bottom of this post.
http://list.ly/#

THINGLINK  allows you to tag images linking it to other websites, sound files, videos or even texts.
http://www.thinglink.com/


My inspiration for this post came with a pinterest post which shared a list curated by Lisa Johnson entitled "Thinglink EDU examples" which I've embedded below.

Thinglink EDU Examples

View more lists from Lisa Johnson

As LISTLY is a collaborative tool, I believe it would be perfect for classroom usage where the whole class can contribute in collecting content about a specific topic.