Zingers! 7 ways to catch your students attention.

Zingers! 7 ways to catch your students attention.Anita BradyLaura DavisAscension Catholic SchoolInteractive Connections 2012Opening PrayerLord God, as we look forward to this time together, we ask you to send us the light of your Holy Spirit to open our minds and guide our hearts. By the power of your grace, may our actions today help strengthen the commitment of ourschool and parishcommunities to your Sons Gospel, that they might always honor the needs of all whom you have called us to serve, and lead them to You. We make this prayer to you in Jesus name.

Amen

Zingers!Fun Printable ActivitiesEye-Catching ArtSocial NetworkingAnimated Essential QuestionsTeacher Tube VideosTalking AvatarsAccessible Digital PresentationsFun Printable ActivitiesDiscoveryeducation.com

Eye Catching ArtFree Art Workhttp://www.biblical-art.com/Search by subject, word, and artist

11Free Art Workhttp://www.biblical-art.com/Search by subject, word, and artist

12Wiki Commons Art/Mediahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_art

Wikimedia Commons is amedia file repositorymaking available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.

Sorted by categories. This is the category for Religious Art you can see the subcategories listed.

13Wiki Commons Art/Mediahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_art

Wiki Commons Art/Mediahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_art

Web Gallery of Arthttp://www.wga.hu/index1.html

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Animated Essential QuestionsQuizlethttp://quizlet.com/

This is an easy, fast way to create flashcards. You can use it several ways. If you have a projector, you can use it in the classroom as an introduction, or review. If you dont, you can create a set as a study guide and the students can use it to study at home. Once you create the flashcards, you can choose to play games with the set or just use them as flash cards. Its free to use, and there is a paid version, which is $14.95 a year. 24

Fill in a descriptive title. The optional info, Subjects, helps people to find the set of flashcards, so you might want to fill that in as well. 2. You can choose to make the set of cards private, only available to those who you specifically share it with, or with those who have the password, or everyone. 3. You can use these buttons to add pictures and also to import questions. Importing is pretty easy, if you have the questions already created. 4. Choose a language, if you need to create flashcards in Spanish, the appropriate letters/characters appear.5. Enter the first question. You can type, or cut and paste it in. The answer goes just to the right of the question. 6. Theres room for 5 questions, but you can add more by pressing the TAB key. 25

After you have created your questions, you can practice or study with them, or you can play games.

You can see the information Ive entered on the left side of the screen. 27TeacherTube - VideosTeacher Tubewww.teachertube.comFree Membership Will skip Ads

Talking AvatarsVoki

Accessible Digital PresentationsPrezi http://prezi.com

Free version, but sign up for the Educational version. Its free, but with more options.It is a presentation software, as easy to use as Power Point, but much more exciting. You can pan and zoom around. Basically, you add several things to your canvas and instead of going from slide to slide, you move around and zoom in and out to show the individual items or the big picture. You can add text, pictures, videos and save them to use off line or log in from anywhere to use them online. Students could make them to show mastery of a subject, too.39Questions?Contact InformationLaura Davis ldavis@ascensioncatholicsch.orgAnita Brady abrady@ascensioncatholicsch.orghttp://resources-education-technology.wikispaces.com