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Developing Writers
Infogr.am is a super-simple tool for data visualization - creation of interactive infographics and charts... Via blogbrevity 
This new 3D game experience allows players to create extensive, story-driven MMO experiences by simply putting bricks together on one screen. Still in the development stages it is worthwhile watching... Via Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 
Many people dream of being clever wordsmiths. Masters of fizzy, quotable dialogue. Creators of plots that are full of cool twists and nutty-but-brilliant ideas. 
The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser memorably asserted, and Harvard sociobiologist E. O. Wilson recently pointed to the similarity between innovators in art and science, both of whom he called “dreamers and storytellers.” Stories aren’t merely essential to how we understand the world — they are how we understand the world. Via Andrea Zeitz, Karen LaBonte 
Cowbird – A Different Kind of Social Network
"It’s the role of the artist to remind us of those parts of ourselves we’ve forgotten, and in the digital space, there’s no one better qualified than Jonathan Harris. He "creates projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other." With Cowbird, he offers us a new kind of social network – one that’s better than most others at connecting people in a meaningful way, around personal stories and poems (fictional and non), each accompanied by a stunning, supersized image that float-scrolls as you move the cursor across it. Cowbird also allows people build collections of their own and other people’s stories by theme.
The effect is powerfully intimate, like reading someone else’s diary without the sense of ickiness that would entail. Spending 10 minutes on the site in the middle of a busy work day has an effect similar to that of taking a walk in the park; it allows the mind to unravel a bit, to transcend obsessive patterns of thought.
This is not just artsy metaphysics. Our best neuroscience suggests that we need this kind of cognitive relief from the relentless pace of the modern world. That without it, we're unable to do the kind of fluid, creative thinking our lives and professions demand.
Cowbird isn’t likely – or designed – to replace the dominant social networks, but at a time when Facebook's dominance of social networking seems almost unchallenged, when it's easy to think that this is the only possible way to live online, Cowbird is a keen reminder of the limitations of these tools, and of our own complexity." 
"We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, but they are complex only on the sentence level — not because the ideas they present are complex, not because they are symbolic, allusive or ambiguous. These are literary qualities, and they are more or less absent from testing materials....
[W]e should abandon altogether the multiple-choice tests, which are in vogue not because they are an effective tool for judging teachers or students but because they are an efficient means of producing data. Instead, we should move toward extensive written exams, in which students could grapple with literary passages and books they have read in class, along with assessments of students’ reports and projects from throughout the year. This kind of system would be less objective and probably more time-consuming for administrators, but it would also free teachers from endless test preparation and let students focus on real learning. ...We may succeed in raising test scores by relying on these methods, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them." The writer's guide was developed through the Australia Council's Story of the Future project to explore the craft and business of writing in the digital era. It includes case studies from Australia's rising generation of poets, novelists, screenwriters, games writers and producers who are embracing new media and contains audio and video content from seminars and workshops, as well as extensive references to resouces in Australia and beyond. Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in IMAGINE are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer. 
This manifesto for visual culture from Rencontres d’Arles is a fine addition to these 5 manifestos for the creative life. 
New social media site!Write part of a story in 1000 char or less & let your friends continue it http://t.co/jjB2bC4I #blogging #bloggers... "This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web. We argue that the metaphors of ‘place’ and ‘tool’ most appropriately represent the use of technology in contemporary society, especially given the advent of social media. The Visitors and Residents continuum accounts for people behaving in different ways when using technology, depending on their motivation and context, without categorising them according to age or background. A wider and more accurate representation of online behaviour is therefore established." 
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Story Starters Ideas for Revising Using Writer's Notebooks |
The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity“My sense is that Atavist is exploiting the need we all have to tell stories in multimedia, but until recently there wasn’t the authoring tools and the bandwidth and tablet platform to actually realize it,” Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, told me in an e-mail. 
"In a 1987 paper, Robert Brooke argued that instructors needed to pay attention to the ways that students didn't pay attention, like passing notes in class or whispering conversations. Building on the work of Erving Goffman, Brooke argued that these behaviors represented a writing "underlife" that was a means for students "to show that their identities are different from or more complex than the identities assigned them" in the classroom or school as a whole (p. 230). Fast forward to now. In a recent paper, Derek Mueller argues that the underlife needs to be reexamined, as mobile technologies have transformed classroom spaces and presented teachers with new ways of thinking about the positive learning outcomes that can be produced through students' "digital underlife." 
Both students and faculty are passing around links to EssayTyper, a website that opens with the simple prompt: “”Oh no! It’s finals week and I have to finish my [blank] essay immediately.” At first, it looks like an actual paper mill, perhaps a stop for desperate students to finish that last essay. Instead, it’s a “magic” word processor that pulls information straight out of Wikipedia and into a pseudo processor as the user presses any keys at all. The result can be entertaining, as with the below “essay” on writing.... 
See others' spins on memes and create your own. Written? Kitten is an online writing tool where writers (and anyone else for that matter) can punch in text into a blank box. For every 100 words you enter, you'll be rewarded with a picture of a cute kitten. 
People ask me how I got to be a writer and I tell them I can’t remember. That’s not entirely true. The how part is a little foggy but I remember the why, and I believe the how and the why might be connected. In high school, I loved writing wild, disconnected passages in my notebook, pleasuring in the freedom of expression without the burden of too much thinking or the nasty exactitude of passing or failing grades. I did most of my writing in study hall, in the school library, enjoying the solitude and the musty smell of old volumes, secretly pleased at the sense of order and permanence they represented. Writing in my notebook was an effortless pursuit, and I thrilled as the words came flying off my pen like sweat off a wild pony. 
"A new book explains humans like to spin yarns—and why we're so likely to stretch the truth when we do. We like stories because, as Gotschall puts it, we are "addicted to meaning"—and meaning is not always the same as the truth." 
"It seems so demeaning to art to tell our children that writing and reading are about testing genres and that text can be understood by listing the literary components of a specific genre (even when the list is erroneous)." 
The memorials for poet Adrienne Rich, who died Tuesday, include plenty of references to her political activism and eventful personal life. Amid this, Critic David Orr pauses to reflect on one poem — a testament to her perseverance and her art. 
TED Talks Combining dry wit with artistic depth, Billy Collins shares a project in which several of his poems were turned into delightful animated films in a collaboration with Sundance Channel. 
"We have some wonderful examples of how the distributed features of networked writing can lead to impressive results, like Commentpress, a WordPress theme that allows easy comment and feedback on specific sections of longer texts. What we need is to standardize the use of tools like Commentpress for students, tools that go beyond the basics of web writing and more directly facilitate the movement from tentative, early-stage writing to the more mature writing typical of both traditional genres like the essay, but also web genres like blogs. Wikis facilitate this type of writing, but they take away too much control from individual authors. While I'm sure many innovative instructors have begun to develop and adopt activities that support this type of learning, it will only be when this practice of teaching becomes widespread that people will stop thinking that early-stage writing is faulty, but rather see it for what it is: one step in the writing (and learning) process." 
Student achievement scores take off with the implementation of tech-supported writing initiatives that cross curriculum lines. |
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