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Tools, Texts, and Technologies
When developing your portfolio, you will probably be asked to create something new with what you have learned or written throughout the course. This creation may be in the form of a genre remix or remediation, or it may be an original interpretation. Regardless of the activity, it's always a good move to approach the activity in an interesting and complex way.
Please read through the two lists below for some helpful ideas and websites to spark your creativity!
Creative Approaches
FOUND Poetry
Graphic Essays
Voiceovers and Screencasts
Create a New Recipe
Photo Essays
Children’s Books
Spoken Word Poetry
Virtual or Physical Scrapbook
Short Documentary or Video
Create a Magazine or Tabloid Cover or Layout/Spread
Rewrite a TV Show Theme Song
Develop an Instagram Feed
Blackout Poetry
Create an Advertisement
Stop Action Mini-Movie (Lego?)
Create a Music Video
Write and/or Perform a Song
Develop a Script
Use Kaizen and Annotate an Image
Build a Textbook Page
Record an auto-ethnography of your writing process
Website
Possibilities
Thinglink—make images interactive
Piktochart—to create infographics
Screencastomatic—for screencasts
Powtoon--create animated videos
Podbean—for podcasts
Buzzfeed--create your own community post
Jing—for voiceovers
Meme generator—can also put text on your own images
Awwapp—whiteboard app
Poster My Wall—create an online poster
Prezi—for an online presentation
Toondoo—to create a simple cartoon
Animoto—to create a video
Emaze—3D and interactive presentation software (one walks you through a museum)
Padlet—create interactive lists
Story Jumper--Children's Book Creator
Super Hero Squad--Marvel Comic Creator
Storify--locate all web information about a certain topic in one space
DraftBack--make a video record of all the changes that you make in your typed drafts
Pixton--create your own animated comics
***The Possibilities are Endless—these are only a few suggestions—Be CREATIVE with your Thinking!!!