A short list of tools for creating blog posts that don’t rely on text.
The final product generated through these tools can be embedded into blog posts.
Infogr.am is an online tool for creating interactive charts, graphs, and infographics.
ThingLink is a free tool for creating interactive images. To create an interactive image upload an image from your computer to your ThingLink account. After uploading the image you can add pins to the image. Each pin that you add to your image can include a video clip, a link to another site, a SoundCloud recording, a block of text, or another image.
YouTube - You could have students use the YouTube mobile apps on their Android or iOS devices to record short videos to use in their blog posts.
SoundCloud is a great tool for creating short audio recordings.
The final product generated through these tools can be embedded into blog posts.
Infogr.am is an online tool for creating interactive charts, graphs, and infographics.
ThingLink is a free tool for creating interactive images. To create an interactive image upload an image from your computer to your ThingLink account. After uploading the image you can add pins to the image. Each pin that you add to your image can include a video clip, a link to another site, a SoundCloud recording, a block of text, or another image.
YouTube - You could have students use the YouTube mobile apps on their Android or iOS devices to record short videos to use in their blog posts.
SoundCloud is a great tool for creating short audio recordings.
Types of Texts
Classifications according to the particular purposes texts are designed to achieve. These purposes influence the characteristic features the texts employ. In general, texts can be classified as belonging to one of three types (imaginative, informative or persuasive), although it is acknowledged that these distinctions are neither static nor watertight and particular texts can belong to more than one category.
Imaginative texts –
texts that represent ideas, feelings and mental images in words or visual images. An imaginative text might use metaphor to translate ideas and feelings into a form that can be communicated effectively to an audience. Imaginative texts also make new connections between established ideas or widely recognised experiences in order to create new ideas and images. Imaginative texts are characterised by originality, freshness and insight. These texts include novels, traditional tales, poetry, stories, plays, fiction for young adults and children, including picture books and multimodal texts such as film. |
Informative texts –
texts whose primary purpose is to provide information through explanation, description, argument, analysis, ordering and presentation of evidence and procedures. These texts include reports, explanations and descriptions of natural phenomena, recounts of events, instructions and directions, rules and laws, news bulletins and articles, websites and text analyses. They include texts which are valued for their informative content, as a store of knowledge and for their value as part of everyday life. |
Persuasive texts –
texts whose primary purpose is to put forward a point of view and persuade a reader, viewer or listener. They form a significant part of modern communication in both print and digital environments. Persuasive texts seek to convince the responder of the strength of an argument or point of view through information, judicious use of evidence, construction of argument, critical analysis and the use of rhetorical, figurative and emotive language. They include student essays, debates, arguments, discussions, polemics, advertising, propaganda, influential essays and articles. Persuasive texts may be written, spoken, visual or multimodal. |
from the Board of Studies Glossary http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/english/english-k10/glossary/#taxonomies