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Use technology to create a tactile story. Involve students in tactile experiences that help them explore stories, relationships, and patterns. How can we make the virtual world more tangible? What types of "tangible souvenirs" might be possible?

Many online tools can be used for creating projects and communications. Generator tools help users create interesting products with little effort.

Elementary

For each of the following activities, students build, save the image, and insert into a word processor. Then, write a story, create a problem to solve, or create directions. Design activities that ask one child to work from the creation of another student.

• Build a House. Write about who lives in the house.
• Build a Car. Write about a trip in the car.
• Color, Draw, and Paint
• Make a Christmas Tree. Write a story about a lonely Christmas tree.
• Make an Easter Egg. Design an egg for someone special. Write about who gets the special egg.
• Make a Face. Create two characters. Save each. Write a conversation.
• Make a Gingerbread House. Describe what it would be like to live in a Gingerbread house.
• Make a Pizza. Write the directions for making the pizza. Or, figure out the cost of making the pizza.
• Make a Pumpkin. Write a story about a pumpkin that comes alive.
• Make a Robot. Create a robot. Describe the elements and design to a classmate. Figure out the cost of making the robot.
• Make a Snowman. Create a snowman based on a description from a card. Can you match the snowman to the card?

Middle/High School

• Redkid - Sign Generators
• Fake Newspaper. Create a fake newspaper for your story.
• Packland. Create cool looking comic backpacks to include in storytelling.
• Trading Cards
• Warning Label Generator
• HugeBigLabs - create lots of fun visual images with photos like magazine covers and movie posters.
• Movie Clapper Board Generator - Creates a movie clapper image.
• Newspaper Generator - Creates a newspaper front page.
• Shelter-Ecards - Create a video newspaper e-card.
• Imaging
  • Use FotoFlexer to post your game points.
• Image Generators
  • HugeBigLabs - create lots of fun visual images with photos like magazine covers and movie posters.
  • Movie Clapper Board Generator - Creates a movie clapper image.
  • Newspaper Generator - Creates a newspaper front page.
  • Redkid - Sign Generators
  • TiltShift - Turns a photo into what looks like a miniature world.
• ClassTools
  • Fakebook
  • Status Updates
    

• Chopper Builder
• Fake iText
• Fake receipt generator
• Randomly Generated Identity
• Typo-Generators - creates text from photos

ReadWriteThink Generators

ReadWriteThink Generators

• Book Cover Creator
• CD Cover Creator
• Comic Creator
• Cube Creator
• Letter Generator
• Persuasion Map
• Acrostic Poems, Shape Poem
• Postcard Creator

Calculators

• Playing Card Shuffler
• Coin Flipper
• Dice Roller
• Spinner
• List Randomizer
• Currency Conversion
• Inflation Conversion
• Income Calculator
• Interest Calculator
• Money Counter
• Monthly Payment Calculator
• Payroll
• Phone Bill Calculator
• Savings Estimator
• Sales Tax Calculator
• ip Calculator
• Online Stopwatch
• Earth's Orbit
• Sun Clock
• World Time Zone

Converters

• General Tools- Google Search Features and Soople.
  • All Measures - contains categories, forumulas and no ads.
  • Convert Me
  • Online Calculators
  • Online Conversion
  • Math is Fun - contains a converter as well as a slider

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