Whether you're looking for a place to scribble ideas or organize plotlines, these apps have got you covered. Via CGagliolo 
One of the speakers there was Nick Bilborough who did a workshop on teaching writing. I was very ... As mentioned in a previous blog, I myself enjoy writing but teaching it is a totally different matter. Reflective Writing Helps Teachers To Self-Evaluate. Teachers learn from the beginning that proper planning, keeping a cool head, and reflection all lead to success for students. Teaching classes instruct new teachers on how ... "Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language ...)" Via Dennis Richards 
A community of writers to interact with other writers, and most importantly readers,... Via Laura Brown 
Tips for improving writing skills by using word games and writing exercises, provided by a retired writing and literature teacher. Via Laura Brown Night Zookeeper has set a challenge, children across the world embarked upon a mission to write 100 words about their own magical animal. Here are three magical stories. Enjoy. Via Lee Webster 
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.
JOHN IRVING Via Gregg Morris 
Writers' Jubilee inspires young creators to write, draw, performOneida DispatchBy Michael Yeoman MORRISVILLE — Their inspirations to date have been Dr. 
Best Blogs of the Week in #WriteTips, #Writing and #Amwriting. Posted on April 26, 2012 | Leave a comment. Here are some posts you may have missed this week in my Twitter feed. Bookmark this page so you can read them at your leisure. 
USA TODAYCommon Core standards driving wedge in education circlesUSA TODAYBy Greg Toppo, USA TODAY By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Teacher David Riesenfeld has been piloting Common Core standards in his 10th-grade world history class in New York City. We need a book for folks who've never had any training in teaching writing to help them teach writing. ... If there were a book on teaching writing for folks who are suddenly teaching writing in college, what would it look like? |
Isn’t storytelling an overhyped branding word? Actually, no. Storytelling can be a very important branding tool, if you know how to use it to your advantage. Storytelling is not an overhyped branding word, but a means of focusing your communication around a central theme and creating consistent brand messages. Furthermore, narrative has been argued to be a very natural occurrence in the human brain, as a natural way of making sense of the world and our experiences, and storing and understanding memories. Things are easier to understand in story form, which makes storytelling a useful tool to explain complicated business concepts/ideas, brand values, etc to your stakeholders. Via Kathy Hansen Because I'm not sure how able to teach I'll be from one day to the next, I whipped up a couple handouts on how to write what my sisters and I call “The Magic Expando Essay”. The Magic Expando Essay is just what it sounds ... 
If you don’t have time to implement this idea this year, it might be one to tuck away for September. Get some hints for using poetry journals in your classroom at The Inspired Apple. 
Features an interview with Donald Graves about what he believes are the most effective methods for teaching writing. 
Should Mamas Let Their Babies Grow up to Study Writing? Setting the Record ...Huffington Post (blog)Here, we let readers in on what really happens inside our creative writing programs and classrooms. 
At The Fledgling Fund, we believe that storytelling through film can be a powerful tool to engage audiences. A film, and the story it tells, can create a greater awareness of complex problems, and just as importantly it can highlight possible solutions. It connects viewers to its characters and can inspire those viewers to become involved in, or reconnected with, social change efforts. We begin to understand how an issue plays out in the lives of individuals, families and communities. When these films and stories are coupled with a strategy or campaign that provides clear opportunities for audiences to get involved, we see results. Via Gregg Morris 
Lightning Bug is THE writing companion for young authors. Helping you to write a story from beginning to THE END. Get help finding a story idea, developing the idea and then completing the story. Teacher resources, writing resources, and a section to "find out what sort of writer you are!" are also available. Via Beth Dichter 
Learning outcomes specify the intended endpoint of a period of engagement in specified learning activities. They are written in the future tense and should clearly indicate the nature and/or level of learning required to achieve them successfully. They should be achievable and assessible and use language that learners (and other teachers) can easily understand. They relate to explicit statements of achievement and always contain verbs. Objectives should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timebound. Via Dennis T OConnor 
Why does James Patterson care about our kids' reading habits? 
When I teach freshman writing, my first job is to destroy my students' illusions. TV shows and films give them the dangerous idea that great authors just wait to get inspired, and then genius pours out of their pens in an unstoppable flood. The reality is different. Via Laura Brown 
3 iOS Items For WritersThe Mac ObserverOne might think that because I write this and other columns and reviews, along with dashing out notes, emails, text messages, and other word based media that permeates our modern society that I would be tired... 
Champaign/Urbana News-GazetteWriter brings love of words to studentsChampaign/Urbana News-GazetteEdison Elementary School students don lamb ears to act out a story written by children's books author Alice B. |
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