============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #38** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 3381 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= **Special Announcements** TeAch-nology.com is Proud to Offer Its First Edition of the Motivator CDs! Our first edition represents six of our most popular Motivator CDs! Each motivator segment can be used to develop a variety of themes for introducing critical topics in teaching with technology. These are original MacroMedia Flash productions designed to motivate and inspire teachers to reflect on topics that are current and that most teachers are concerned about. 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By: Kim L., High School Language Arts: Hackensack, NJ "Creating Photo Essays" "Photo essays are a special type of writing; they tell stories with a group of photographs that are connected to a theme. One activity using photo essays as a type of writing includes having students pick a topic (in any content area) that they would like to "write" about. Tell them that they have to collect photographs or pictures that represent the topic. Once they have their collections and you gave them a chance to discuss the relevance of the photos to the topic, ask them to arrange the photos in such a way (sequentially, etc.) that tell a story or relay the message related to the topic they chose. Students love to express their thoughts about topics using this medium. If you have technology to complete this activity, you can have students cut and paste their story using photos or images that they find on the Internet. 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