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10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing

10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing | Technology Advances | Scoop.it

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"Both high-tech innovations for learning and the inability of many American schoolchildren to write well have been major talking points in educational circles for quite some time, but oddly enough, one may offer a solution to helping remedy the other. There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone. Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures."


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...And see Digital Writing Matters, a National Writing Project publication by

Dr. Troy Hicks, Co-Director of Central Michigan University-based Chippewa Writing Project, Mt. Pleasant, MI....

Ivo Nový's curator insight, December 11, 2012 10:10 AM

There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone.

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Pics4Learning | Free photos for education

Pics4Learning | Free photos for education | Technology Advances | Scoop.it
Thousands of copyright free and copyright friendly images and photos for teachers and students.

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Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, April 11, 2:07 PM

Add this to your collection of copryight friendly photo sources. 

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phrase.it - Add Speech Bubbles To Photos Within Seconds

phrase.it - Add Speech Bubbles To Photos Within Seconds | Technology Advances | Scoop.it
phrase.it is a free online image editor which lets you add cartoon style speech and thought bubbles to your images. It's extremely easy to use and you will have great looking results within minutes.

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John Dalziel's curator insight, March 9, 10:51 AM

Do you want to enhance an image by adding a speech bubble to it? If you answered yes and you want to complete the process in the most convenient way possible, then you should check out Phrase It.
Phrase It is a free to use website that lets its users conveniently add speech bubbles to digital images. Just visit the home page of the site and upload an image. Alternatively users can upload an image from their Facebook account or, if they are checking the site out from their smart device, they can upload images from their phone or tablet.

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ImageQuiz

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This is a new service that allows users to create quizzes based on any images that they own or 'find online'. When people take quizzes on ImageQuiz they answer the questions by clicking on the part of the picture that answers each question.


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John Dalziel's curator insight, February 24, 11:14 AM

ImageQuiz could be a good tool for practitioners to use to create quizzes in which learners need to be able to visually identify specific items.

Krešimir TOMAS's curator insight, February 25, 4:01 PM

Dobra ideja....

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Webpage & WebCam Screenshot

Webpage & WebCam Screenshot | Technology Advances | Scoop.it

A Fast & Simple solution to Save screenshots of any webpage. 


Webpage & Webcam Screenshot is a free to use browser extension for Google Chrome.

 

This browser extension lets practitioners and/or learners take screenshots of the webpages they visit.

 

They can capture screenshots of only the visible webpage area or the entire webpage.

 

Users have the option to save the screenshots in either PNG or JPG file formats.

 

The extension lets users modify the text on the webpage too; the text fields are detected and made editable before users take the screenshot.


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Panoramio - Photos of the World

Panoramio...is a lesser known tool from Google and an extremely engaging tool for the educational world.- allows users to view photographs of various sites around the world.- displays photographs on a virtual map of the world, creating an interactive and awe-inspiring excursion through various parts of the world.-pictures are both beautiful and educational  Learners can use this tool to.. interact with parts of the world and cultures they might never experience on their own.

- consider projects on ancient architecture, history, environmental science, and much more just by using Panoramio to explore the world. Notice that there aren't many photos of friends and family posing in front of places, or photos of interesting surfaces--Panoramio's all about seeing the world.


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2 Ways To Turn Text Into Beautiful Images

2 Ways To Turn Text Into Beautiful Images | Technology Advances | Scoop.it
Although I don’t actually own an active Instagram account, I love taking and sharing photos. When I finally get a phone that can run Instagram and other such apps, be sure I’ll be enjoying what this platform has to offer.

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Baiba Svenca's curator insight, March 20, 12:48 PM

Tweegram and Textgram (for iOS and Android) will help you transform your text into an image. Both apps are free to download.

A great way to vary image design for your presentations.

3D Writing Services's curator insight, March 22, 11:25 AM

Options (these for our smartphones) can make the world go 'round - just a bit prettier.

Katherine Page Burdick's curator insight, April 2, 11:15 AM

This is a great app to help students visualize vocabulary words or idioms!

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FotoSketcher - Turn photos into art

FotoSketcher - Turn photos into art | Technology Advances | Scoop.it

FotoSketcher is a 100% free program for Windows which converts your digital photos into art automatically and in just a few mouse clicks. Over 20 different styles are available from pencil sketches to watercolor or oil paintings, pen & ink drawings and cartoons.

You can also improve your original photos with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc…) and add simple or realistic frames and text.


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Baiba Svenca's comment, February 26, 10:20 AM
Linda, it's only for Windows, no version for Mac.
Linda Alexander's comment, February 26, 10:36 AM
Okay, thanks, Baiba. That solves the mystery of why I couldn't get it to work. Too bad!
Marga Roig's curator insight, February 27, 12:41 AM

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Drag and drop embed image in Moodle

work in progress on an option to drag and drop media onto a course page and create a label so they are embedded. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-34...

Via Gisele Brugger, Rui Guimarães Lima
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Pictogram tool - create fun images, stickers

This web tool will create fun image with pictogram and text that you can customize.

 

Pictotool is a tool for creating images by combining pictograms and text.

 

Once the images have been created, they can be downloaded and used for personal and/or commercial use.


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