Bridges News — Symbols

Best Halloween Costume Certificate 0

In time for Halloween here's a pdf of a Best Costume Certificate free for download.  The certificate was created from a template that's in Widgit Online .  You can try Widgit Online for free for 21 days and check out all the other certificates you can create in French or in English and now in over 80 other languages too.

Recette de graines de citrouille rôties symbolisé 0

Créer des ressources pour votre salle de classe avec Widgit Online - version bilingue. Pour notre ressource symbolisé gratuite pour le début de l'a...

Symbolized Oh Canada in Widgit Online 0

As with symbolizing, In Flanders Fields, Oh Canada's abstract language created some interesting challenges and conversations around the office when we set out to symbolize it in Widgit Online.

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Specifically "native," "command" and "guard," made us think.

"Native" generates a symbol of a first nations person (see the slideshow below for the images mentioned here). However, in the context of "our home and native land," that's not really the meaning that fits. The two words "native land" here mean something like "motherland" or "fatherland"or "birthplace." Using the symbols for parent or birth made the meaning too literal and a distraction from the concept trying to be communicated.

In Flanders Fields – Symbolized! Tips, tricks and discoveries for using symbols for teaching a poem 1

To mark Remembrance Day we’re sharing a symbolized version of the classic poem “In Flanders Fields” by Canadian John McCrae with symbolized vocabulary cards, all created with the new Widgit Online. Widgit Online is the new cloud based symbol material maker for Windows, Chrome, Mac and shares to all of the above and iPads and other tablets too.