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Think Link – Feedback Please!

With the kind help and feedback of Kristian Still (@KristianStill | Blog) and his students (Molly, Grace, Shawn and others), I have been working on a new resource.

The resource is called ‘Think Link’ and the idea is that students arrange hexagons in order to uncover links between (depending on your subject) words, numbers, characters, themes, artists, philosophies, historical events, people, chemicals – well, whatever you like!

As with all of the resources I create, I have tried to make it easy for teachers to create their own activities to suit their own subject and the age/ability range of their students.

You can also save activities to use again in the future or to share with colleagues.

Moreover, as you can colour-code and add notes to each hexagon, saved activities can also be shared with students as an interactive revision guide to a subject or topic.

I hope to add the resource to the app very soon and would appreciate any feedback that you have – you can contact me using the contact form on this site.

I have added some screenshots from the resource beneath this post – click the thumbnail to view the full image.

Thanks again to Kristian and his students – you can read some of their feedback here: Student Feedback – their ideas and encouragement were really helpful in the creation of this resource.

Thank you, David.

Click here to use the ‘Think Link’ resource.

Flip Cards – A ‘Work in Progress’ Resource

Since adding the ‘Card Board’ resource to the app, I have had lots of emails from teachers asking if I would update the resource to allow them to type on both sides of each card.

This is a great idea – but rather than changing the ‘Card Board’ resource, I thought it might be nice to create a brand-new resource for this purpose.

So, I have been working on a resource which – at the moment – is called ‘Flip Cards’.

The video below shows my progress so far.

Any feedback or ideas at this early stage would be very much appreciated.

Thanks as ever to everybody who takes the time to contact me with feedback – and thanks also to the people who mention my efforts on their sites, blogs or on social media.

The app has been downloaded 7,656 times in the last month alone – and so thanks to everybody for spreading the word and for sharing my work with colleagues,

David.

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New Resource (Sort of…)

If you have been reading the blog recently, you will know that I am currently working on a resource for English teachers called ‘Page Turner’.

You can find out more about this resource HERE.

One of the key features of the resource is that it will select pages at random for each group. The selector I made turned out quite nice – and so I thought it might be an idea to make it available as a resource in its own right. And so…

There are already selectors on the app, but another one will give a bit of variety.

It is also the first ‘button-less’ resource I have ever made:

• Double-click anywhere on the selector to load a list (which you can create using the ‘List Editor’)
• A single-click anywhere on the selector bar will make a random selection
• Clicking outside of the selector bar will change the colour-scheme

The video below will hopefully give a quick overview of how everything works.

I might also tweak this resource further to create a very simple ‘random number generator’ – is this something that could possibly be useful?

As ever, all feedback appreciated.

It would be great to finish the ‘Page Turner’ resource too – if any English teachers have any ideas for activities that they would like to add to the resource then please contact me.

Thanks,

David | Contact Me

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