Mini-Blog

** Modern Foreign Languages Storybirds **
 * MiniBlog [[image:sb_badge_i_heart_storybird.jpg link="@http://www.storybird.com"]]**.
 * **Saturday 26th February 2011 **
 * No-one could accuse me of over-blogging . . . ** ||
 * Here are a couple of Storybird bits and bobs I have posted elsewhere on the internet.

 THEN, Jamie Forrest, a French immersion teacher from Saskatchewan, added her fabulous story “//Petit Pingouin et les états de la matière//” (Read it here ) . Then I knew it could definitely be done.  Jamie kindly explained how:  · Choose your first image from the tags in Section B, of the Create page (for example ‘exercise’). · Click on the option ‘Start a Storybird with the images marked exercise’) · Write your first page, using one of the images on offer · When you want to add a new idea, type your key word onto your page in ENGLISH (e.g. ‘dance’) · A whole load of new images will swim into view and add to your choice of pictures and you can delete your English tag prompt and write whatever you like · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Every time you want a further choice of pictures, just type in a new English-language key word.
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">First of all, a Slideshare presentation called Storybird for Linguists which I prepared for a Show and Tell last year: ||
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 * * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I have also blogged about a hack for embedding Storybirds back in November 2010. To read it, click here. ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Sunday 28th February 2010**
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Welcome to a new stream of visitors ** ||
 * <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">It doesn't take a lot to excite me and I really was very excited to learn that this collection of Storybirds was mentioned in the BBC Active Languages Newsletter (No. 92). This is sent to around 7,500 Languages Teachers bi-monthly. The news led me to investigate this part of the BBC website and join their <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Language Teachers' Community Language Teachers' Community - I'm looking forward to becoming involved in discussions and finding new information, resources and ideas. If you came here via the BBC, welcome! If you haven't joined the BBC's <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Language Teachers' Community, why not check it out - we are all looking for new ideas, aren't we? ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Saturday 20th February 2010**
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using multiple artists' work to illustrate your story-telling ** ||
 * <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I don’t know if you noticed, but when I’ve read the contributions to this wiki, I’ve suspected that some people knew how to use artwork from more than one illustrator in their stories. I couldn’t work it out and was too shy to ask.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">**<span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">FUN ! ** || <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**We're being talked about!** || <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Write a story for a friend** ||
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 * <span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Saturday 20th February 2010**
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Full-page layouts and multiple picture sizes ** ||
 * <span style="color: #23b3b3; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Storybird are working all the time on adding new features. The latest? Full-page layouts and multiple size options for artwork. They've started with selected artists' work and will add more in the future. Read Mark Ury's story to get the whole picture ... ||
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 * **<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wednesday 10th February 2010 **
 * <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Thanks to Lisa Stevens (@lisibo to her Twitter friends) for the great mention of this wiki on the Birmingham Grid for learning: BGfl . She's added it into her great list of news, links and resources for Languages teachers. I recommend you take a look for some fabulous ideas, tools and sheer inspiration. ||
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Sunday 7th February 2010**
 * <span style="color: #23b3b3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Have you ever thought of writing a Storybird as a gift for a friend? After our new French exchange friends returned to France at the end of this week, I wrote this story as a token of our new friendship and to help the French students add to their colloquial vocabulary. ||
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