Hello Literacy Lovers!

I am looking out my window at the beautiful snow falling here, and for whatever reason, it inspired me to blog! Rather than blog about the snow, however, I wanted to share a short animated presentation that I created using one of my favorite new digital tools- Powtoon! Those of you who know me (which I'm pretty sure is all of you) know that I love nothing more than a good old fashioned gorgeous, colorful literacy chart! However, I am finally coming to terms with the fact that I cannot avoid digital literacy any longer, as this is where education is headed... so I am jumping on board and trying to learn/utilize digital literacy tools as much as I can.

I saw a presentation using Powtoon at a recent school board meeting and loved it so I decided to explore this tool for myself. It can be used in so many different ways to support literacy work in the classroom and is a tool that students can learn how to use themselves to enhance their digital literacy skills and to create animated presentations, movies etc. 

Here is the link to the first Powtoon that I created as part of a staff development session on Writing Conferences. Enjoy! After watching, please comment below on your favorite digital literacy tools and/or on how you foresee using Powtoon in your classroom to support liteacy instruction.

Writing Conferences Powtoon