If Darcy and Elizabeth Could Tweet:
Making Technology Accessible to the
Reluctant Middle-School English
Teacher
by Shannon Griffiths
Technology and the English Teacher
QR Codes
VAASL Website
i-nigma
http://www.i-nigma.com/CreateBarcodes.html
Introducing Characters
Character List
Conflict
Message
a struggle between opposing forces. A conflict is
external when it pits a character against
something or someone outside himself or
herself. A conflict is internal when the opposing
forces are two drives, impulses, or parts of a
single character.
“Fiction Glossary." Norton, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.
Talk to me!
QR Voice
http://qrvoice.net/
QR Voice Example (Capsize)
Capsize
Hello!
Cheerio! Kon’nichiwa
Hola!
Privet!
Ciao! Guten Tag!
Kumusta! Kia ora!
Bonjour! Ni hao!
Hallo! Aloha!
Voki
http://www.voki.com/
Creating a Voki
Poetry Creation and Recitation
Public Domain Pictures (cocoparisienne). (2014, March 4). Autumn Fall Foliage Golden Autumn Leaves [digital image]. Retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/autumn-fall-foliage-golden-autumn-279408/.
Frost, Robert. “Nothing Gold Can Stay." Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert DiYanni. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 684. Print.
Novel/Chapter Summary
Public Domain Pictures (khfalk). (2014, Jan. 17). English Garden Dartmoor Park Manor House [digital image]. Retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/english-garden-dartmoor-park-246880/.
“Pride and Prejudice." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 27 July 2014.
Voki for Speech Class
Public Domain Pictures (Mike Brice). (2014, May 28). Obama Barack Obama President Man President Obama [digital image]. Retrieved from http://pixabay.com/en/obama-barack-obama-president-man-356133/.
Voki Character Study
"Scenes from Pride and Prejudice" by C.E. Brock - http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppbrokil.html#thumbn. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scenes_from_Pride_and_Prejudice.png#mediaviewer/File:Scenes_from_Pride_and_Prejudice.png
Image Editing
Big Huge Labs
Image Chef
Image Chef
http://www.imagechef.com/
Big Huge Labs
http://bighugelabs.com/
Auditions
Can anybody outdo Kiera Knightley
and Matthew Macfadyen?
Beckinsale and Bloom?
"KateBeckinsale2011Comic-Con(truercolor)"byGeraldGeronimo-UploadedtoFlickrasKateBeckinsale.Licensed
underCreativeCommonsAttribution-ShareAlike2.0viaWikimediaCommons-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Beckinsale_2011_Comic-
Con_(truer_color).jpg#mediaviewer/File:Kate_Beckinsale_2011_Comic-Con_(truer_color).jpg
"OrlandoBloomatVeniceFestival"byHengistDecius-Dsc_2268.LicensedunderCreativeCommonsAttribution2.0
viaWikimediaCommons-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orlando_Bloom_at_Venice_Festival.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Orlando_Bloom_a
t_Venice_Festival.jpg
Enhancing Images
Express Yourself
Big Huge Labs. Digital image. http://bighugelabs.com/. Big Huge Labs, n.d. Web. <http://bighugelabs.com/>.
Austen, Jane, and Donald J. Gray. "34." Pride and Prejudice: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. N. pag. Print.
Studying Setting
Big Huge Labs. Digital image. http://bighugelabs.com/. Big Huge Labs, n.d. Web. <http://bighugelabs.com/>.
Infographics
Making Informtion Visually Appealing
Infogram
http://infogr.am/
Piktochart
http://piktochart.com/
Visual.ly
http://visual.ly/
Theme
“Pride and Prejudice.” LitVisuals. Wordpress. Web. 2 Aug. 2014.
Character
McMahon,Tom.“CharacterMapofJaneAusten'sPrideandPrejudice.”TomMcMahon:
TheStrategyofBingo.TheExcitementofChess.Web.1Aug.2014
Use Your Imagination
sdiaz101. “Which Pride and Prejudice Character Are You?” Library Journal. Tumblr). Web. 1 Aug. 2014.
Infographic Project
Thank You!

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