John Spencer (@spencerideas) threw down a digital Thanksgiving glove: What are ten FREE things you are thankful for?
Writing idea: what are ten FREE things you are thankful for? #Thanksgiving #engchat #writingprompt https://t.co/97sRidRJJG
— John Spencer (@spencerideas) November 26, 2015
Here are my initial ten thoughts, with the first one contributed by my wife, Shelly:
- Seesaw is a great free platform for sharing classroom media and learning with students, parents and student mentors.
- Tweet Nest is a great free PHP program for creating a searchable archive of tweets, which can function as a “information trap.” (Mine is installed at twitter.wesfryer.com)
- EdCamps are wonderful, free opportunities for educators to share ideas and collaborate.
- Flipboard is a powerful and free digital magazine, which converts Twitter lists into a visually browsable, media-rich newspaper.
- Flickr is a flexible and free platform for finding and sharing digital photos.
- Opinion is a terrific, free iOS app for creating, editing and sharing digital radio shows (podcasts) on the go. (Shelly has a great classroom podcast powered with Opinion!)
- YouTube is a free, device agnostic platform for sharing an unlimited quantity of high definition videos with a global audience.
- The YouVersion Bible is a free mobile app including lots of a bible translations in many languages.
- WordPress is a free, open source website content management and digital publishing platform which powers over 30 different websites I maintain.
- YouTube Capture is a free iOS app which significantly streamlines the workflow of editing and publishing video collages to YouTube.
10 non-digital things I am thankful for:
- Love of our family
- Friends
- Jesus Christ
- My new job
- Telecommunications technologies which let us stay in touch better than ever
- Audiobooks (ok that is actually digital…)
- Smiles
- Prayer
- Our church family
- My wife
Now it’s YOUR turn!
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Love your list, BOTH!!