Creating a listening and reading exercise using Microsoft Word

Digital Storytelling in plain english

Learning with Apture

Visually the internet can be confusing, you can be reading a page on a particular topic and if you click on a link in that topic you are usually taken to another page and so on. After a while you have several pages open and as a result it is easy to get sidetracked or confused. Apture is a piece of software which allows you to explore a topic without leaving the page you are on.

When you click on a link a small window pops up with search results from google, videos or images related to the word you have selected, you can then explore the topic further without having to open a number of new pages.

To use Apture all you have to do is highlight any word on the web page and a ‘Learn more’ tab will appear click on this tab and the small window will appear.

Here’s an example from our Student Writing blog using the story about Florence Nightingale as an example:

Some Apture tips:

The Apture extension can be downloaded here