Sway Your Way into the Future Bonnye 7th Grade ELAR Sulphur Springs Middle School bit.ly/SwayforEducation Lisa Darlin Technologist Sulphur Springs Middle School

What is Sway?  Sway is a one page website.  When published it can be shared with any device anywhere in the world.

How do I access Sway? Log in to your 365 account.

Wait, isn't this ? Yes. But 365 has many apps, and is just one of them!

Creating a Sway Click on "Create New"

Adding a title with an image: Give your Sway a title Click where it says "Drag image here." Notice the search window that slides open. This happens when you click "insert," too. Search your topic here for online suggestions. Insert button also opens search bar for internet content. Click here to open search function. Add Sway title here.

Adding new Slides (content) Click the "+" to add content. Decide what kind of content you would like to add here.

Picture Display Options: Drag and drop slide tiles onto each other to group them together. Create a stack or grid of grouped slides. Change "automatic" to "stack" to see a stack of images to flip through instead of a grid. Stacks look like this. Click on images and they flip like a stack. Grids look like this.

Remix! Click "Remix" to see other layouts and designs for your presentation. If you don't like it remixed, click the "undo" arrow next to it.

Sharing a Sway Click "Share" Copy the URL to , write on the board, tweet, etc. Click here to share. Choose "Anyone with link" to make it viewable by anyone you share the URL with.

Examples of ways to use Sway Units of study:  The Alamo  The Revolutionary War  Art Display  Musical Compilation  Video Compilation  Book Study  Author Study  Science pictures with definitions, links, videos  Science fair project  PBL  Research report

More ideas for Sway  Presentations – Teachers and students can use Sway as a presentation tool for learning  eTextbooks – create your own eTextbook with links, information, videos, images and questions. You can then direct students to different website, using Sway as the base learning pathway  Picture Books – get students to create a storybook using Sway  Experiment and Research Reports – use sway to show research, experiment videos and results. You could even make your next science report using Sway.  Artwork or Multimedia Portfolio – Use Sway as a product portfolio to show a number of your own creations. Spend some time to explain what your project was, and why you created it

Even more ideas for Sway  Dictionary – Sway would make an awesome picture dictionary for English as Another Language or Language Other Than English students. Set groups the task to create dictionaries complete with audio tracks (uploaded to sound cloud)  Book and Film Reviews – This multimodal tool makes a wonderful platform for students to create literacy focused tasks such as reviews and analysis pieces  Professional Learning Resource – Create a Sway for professional learning by bringing together links, help, examples and advice for teacher colleagues with which you are working  Flipped Learning content delivery – use Sway to deliver your unit of study. Bring all the content together and allow students to view it at home in one space. Share the link, and you’re done  School Showcases – Bring the best of your school together, simply choose images, text and video then embed your Sway on the front page of your school website. What a cool new way to share your school’s success.   From star-of-your-2015-classroom/

Examples  Examples of best practices:  State Flags  Project Recap for the class  Field trip study guide  Research report Red Panda  Maya Angelou