Sparks

See these Adobe Spark pages:
Applications for Education - Bloque 1
Applications, page 2 - Bloque 2
or this one:
In English, please...
We're just foolin' around, is all.

Make your own cartoons with Dvolver

Russell Stannard takes you through the steps at Teacher Training Videos.
Here are: Weirdo by Valeria,
The Mean Alien by Consuelo,
In the Night by Cecilia,
Players or Not by Quinyi,
Friends...? by Daniela, and
The Frightened Cowboy by Iván

Everybody's Changing

"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."
Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Listen to Dan Gilbert in his TED Talk: The psychology of your future self.
Also, think about Information Literacy and the ability to conduct effective Internet research.

• You must understand what you need to find.
• Choose effective search terms, and
• Evaluate the results and refine your search if necessary

Wikipedia in its article on Information Literacy states: The United States National Forum on Information Literacy defines information literacy as " ... the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand."
Other definitions incorporate aspects of "skepticism, judgement, free thinking, questioning, and understanding..." or incorporate competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and actively in that society.
A number of efforts have been made to better define the concept and its relationship to other skills and forms of literacy.
Although other educational goals, including traditional literacy, computer literacy, library skills, and critical thinking skills, are related to information literacy and important foundations for its development, information literacy itself is emerging as a distinct skill set and a necessary key to one's social and economic well-being in an increasingly complex information society.
Remember, you are never going to learn all you need to know in your external life inside a classroom, any classroom. But what you get from school is guidance in where to start looking for information and people to help you in developing skills of your own, to start you on your way to becoming a lifelong learner who always knows where to look.

Here's a little song to get you going:

Individual and Social Identity

Follow this link: Social Identity Theory to an article by Saul McLeod and use the information you find to help you create a digital narrative on the topic. Follow this link: Digital Storytelling to help you discover what that is and how to go about making them up.
I suggest you begin by using PowerPoint, but you are free to use whichever application or software you feel comfortable with.
Remember, for our purposes you need at least six slides including a title card with your name and the name of your narrative. And do your best so this work can become part of your portfolio.

Ekphrasis - What Is It?

Breughel painted his version of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, which is known as Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Much later, the poet William Carlos Williams interpreted Breughel's painting in his own words. Can you do something similar? Blog your own ekphrasis. Use lots of adjectives throughout, and be careful of the Order of Adjectives.

How Many Words?

Play the seven-letter word game at LearnEnglish.

Classical Comparative Lit Quiz

Play the game on Sporcle. It looks better there.