Teaching with Fairy Tales
Channel: Classroom20LIVE
Date: 2018-02-10

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Once Upon a Time: Teaching with Fairy Tales" with special guest presenter, Shelly Sanchez Terrell.
February 10, 2018

We are thrilled to welcome back Shelly Sanchez Terrell, one of our favorite presenters and faithful supporter of Classroom 2.0 LIVE as our special guest presenter this week! Shelly will be inspiring us with her fantastic ideas and resources for using fairy tales in the classroom.

Webinar description:
Fairy tales are an important part of childhood. Fairy tales excite learners of all ages with the magical elements, mythical creatures, and happily-ever-afters. Fairy tales can be used to inspire various writing activities, introduce students to other cultures, analyze patterns, reflect on universal themes and motifs, and learn about the way people lived in the past. In this presentation, Shelly Sanchez Terrell will share with you the rich history behind fairy tales, lesson ideas, and web tools and apps to have fun with fairy tale characters and plots. These activities are for learners of all ages.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell is an international speaker, elearning and digital learning specialist and the author of Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching, and Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones and BYOT. She has trained teachers and taught learners in over 20 countries as an invited guest expert by organizations, like UNESCO Bangkok, the Venezuelan-US Embassy, Cultura Inglesa of Brazil, the British Council in Tel Aviv, IATEFL Slovenia, EduTECH Australia, and HUPE Croatia. She has been recognized by the ELTon Awards, The New York Times, NPR, and Microsoft’s Heroes for Education as a leader in the movement of teacher-driven professional development as the founder and organizer of various online conferences, Twitter chats, MOOCs, and webinars. Recently, she was named Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women, awarded a Bammy Award as a founder of #Edchat, and named as one of the 10 Most Influential People in EdTech by Tech & Learning. Her latest project is the creation of Edspeakers to enrich the field of education with passionate voices (spoken and written) from those of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

Shelly has an Honors BA in English with a Minor in Communication and a specialization in Electronic Media from UTSA, a Masters in Curriculum Instruction ESL from the University of Phoenix, and a CELTA from CELT Athens. Her greatest joy is being the mother of Savannah Duncan-Sanchez and Rosco the pug.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shellterrell 
Website: http://www.shellyterrell.com/