This document provides many strategies, tips, and technology tools for bringing textbooks to life and making textbook content more engaging for students. It suggests deconstructing textbooks into their key elements like exercises, assessments, examples, vocabulary and visuals. It also recommends sketchnoting, using social bookmarking tools to curate content, creating graphic organizers, games, infographics, timelines, comics, and digital stories. Additionally, it lists ideas for virtual field trips, audio projects, video projects, and augmented reality tools to enhance textbook learning. All of the tips and technologies are aimed at helping students better understand and interact with textbook material.

1. Bring Your Textbook to Life!
Strategies, Tips, & Tech Tools ShellyTerrell.com/Textbook2Life

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Reading furnishes the mind
only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that
makes what we read ours.
- John Locke
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3. Your textbook is one
of many tools!
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4. Deconstruct the textbook!
Exercises
Assessment
Examples
Table of Contents
Vocabulary
Visuals
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Sketchnote it!
TeacherRebootCamp.com/Notetaking

6. Bit.ly/sylsketchnote

7. • List the chapter titles on the board
• Under each title students write down whatever they know about the topic

8. Linoit.com
Padlet.com & iPad App

9. Google
Drive

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Social bookmarking & curation
Diigo
Storify
Pearltrees Scoop.It
Flipboard
Pinterest
Livebinders
Educlipper
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11. Educlipper.net & iPad App

12. Hypothes.is

13. Genius.com

14. Tellagami.com
PrimaryAccess.org
YakIt for Kids iOS app
Retell it
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15. ShellyTerrell.com/brainstorm
Graphic Organizers

16. Creately.com

17. Bit.ly/RWTCube
ReadWriteThink.org

18. Popplet.com

19. TinyTap.It
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Games Scratch.mit.edu
GetKahoot.com
MineCraftEdu.com

20. Infogr.am
Canva
Visme Smore
Data Visualization
Piktochart
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Genial.ly

21. Timerime
Hstry
Dipity
Timelines
Timetoast
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Tiki-TokiTimeglider

22. Timetoast.com

23. ComicsHeads
Comic Creators
Toondoo PixtonFriendstrip
MakebeliefsComix
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24. Pride & Prejudice by Raquel León Jimenez, Pixton.com
Idea: Transform a piece of literature

25. Virtual Fieldtrips
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Google Cardboard
Google Earth Google Cultural Trips
Google Lit Trips
World Wonders Project

26. Interviews
News sound bytes
Radio shows
Audio Projects
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Audioboom
iPadio
Soundation
GarageBand
Audacity
Soundcloud
Podomatic

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IDEAS
Animation
Commercial
News report
Documentary
Chapter Trailer
Claymation
Class movie
Machinima
Silent film
TOOLS & APPS
Magisto iMovie
Puppet Pals Powtoons
TouchCast Wideo
Plotagon Instagram
Screen-o-matic Splice
Shadow Puppet
Video Projects

28. QuiverVision.com
Augmented Reality
Engagetheirminds.wordpress.com
Aurasma
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29. @ShellTerrell
Facebook.com/ShellyTerrell
Gum.co/learn2go
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