Storyboard That is a cutting edge Web 2.0 tool for rapidly creating amazing storyboards, no art skills needed. Great for business meetings and in the classroom for students to express their creativity.
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April 8, 3:58 PM
Encouraging writing through storytelling. Everyone has a story! Delete the scoop?
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Are you planning to use iPad in your teaching this year ? Are you still looking for resources to help you with the implementation of this mobile device in your classroom? I know those first steps can sometimes be extremely hard particulalry in regard to a piece of technology that is still relatively new in education. You might also have problems convincing your school staff about the importance of iPad in yur teaching. You need to have solid ground to stand on and to do this you need to have recourse to the different educational resources you can put your hands on. Fortunately this modest blog can provide you with a head start into the world of' ' iPadology '. Via Andrea Zeitz Delete the scoop?
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By Darren Walker
"The tools on this page make use of traditional book elements (text and photos) to create electronic books. In many cases the books can also be printed if desired but having them published online gives them an immediate audience." Via Petra Pollum, Pippa Davies @PippaDavies , Jim Lerman 
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January 28, 2:20 PM
This is a wonderful collection of writing tools (and multimedia tools for writing) as well as for publishing. Don't be deceived by the seeming elementary-level look of these tools. Many of them are quite sophisticated and can by used by and for writers/readers of all ages. Do spend time going through Walker's entire wiki; this is clearly a labor of love from an accomplished educator. Delete the scoop?
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By Deborah Miller Fox
"One of the ongoing challenges for my composition students is the task of narrowing a broad, generalized topic into a more particular, focused topic for a short research essay. To help them develop this skill, I now prescribe a broad topic for everyone to use in the first research essay. Over several class sessions, we work collaboratively to explore the general topic, identify more particular subtopics, and develop research strategies to investigate these subtopics as possible subject matter.
"This semester I required all of the students to write about our city, Anderson, Indiana. In addition to all of the other “process” assignments I use to teach my students inquiry, research strategies and drafting techniques, I recently added an art project to the mix. The assignment was simple: create a poster that gives a “face” to the city of Anderson. I told the students to be creative in their design and to represent visually the key discoveries they’ve made about their specialized topics. I also encouraged them to suggest the focus and purpose for their essay through the content or design of the poster. I promised to give each student 30 seconds to offer comments about his or her poster to the class...."
"The posters students created in response to the assignment were impressive—not in their artistic design but in their clarity. Nearly every student was able to articulate an appropriately narrow focus AND a specific purpose for the essay project. Making the poster seemed to help them identify the key ideas or categories of information they would include in the paper."
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By Larry Ferlazzo Summary by The Accomplished Teacher
"Educators share their advice in Larry Ferlazzo's blog post for helping students become better writers. Aimee Buckner, a consultant and author, suggests starting a writing workshop, giving students time each day to write and showing students how to eliminate unnecessary words in their writing. Writer and teacher Carolyn Coman suggests that teachers focus on their own writing and help students make connections to their writing, while Tanya Baker, director of National Programs for the National Writing Project, agrees that teachers need to write, write, write" Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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"NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, has launched an original video series called “Writers Speak to Kids,” featuring interviews with popular and award-winning children’s book authors. Answering questions from NBC News correspondent Jenna Bush Hager, the authors share their writing process and experiences, helping students learn more about the craft and techniques of creative writing." Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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By Jennifer Funk
"Jan Worth-Nelson has specific and detailed workshop guidelines for her creative writing class: “begin by responding to what you think the essay is about;” “see if you can find a way to describe the ‘voice’ of the essay;” “when you say you like something, try to continue your commentary with something that suggests why you like it.”
"For years, though, despite telling her students exactly what to do, Nelson often felt the workshops fell short of her expectations.
"So when she and a few colleagues at the University of Michigan-Flint began researching the effect of clickers on student learning, she took the opportunity to reinforce workshop procedures.
"If their hypothesis proved true — that students would better retain information they learned using clickers — the quality of the writing workshops would improve." Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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A free, 8-part online workshoop series from Annenberg Learner. Topics include: Creating a Community of WRiter Making Writing Meaningful Teaching Poetry Teaching Persuasive Writing Teaching Multigenre Writing Responding to Writing: Teacher to Student Responding to Writing: Peer to peer Teaching the Power of Revision
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25 tutorial videos to help learn how to use iBooks.
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The official source for information about Google Scholar...
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Explore the power of words, make your writing richer and more meaningful...
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This page contains a list of prompts for writing classes/activities for when you need a bit of inspiration for a writing idea. I will try to update it regularly with new ideas, so keep checking bac... Via TeachingEnglish, Jim Lerman 
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April 20, 4:29 PM
Great ideas to combat writers' block and motivate yourself to start writing instead of daydreaming about it! Delete the scoop?
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A multimedia storytelling and sharing community that let people from different age and background to easily tell stories and share topics with photo, video, voice, music and words. Via Baiba Svenca, Shanika Journey, Jim Lerman 
Baiba Svenca's curator insight,
February 18, 7:25 AM
Free and easy tool for creating multimedia stories and presentations, and sharing them with anyone. Upload your photos, add audio, video or text and publish the story. You can sign up with your Facebook account or your email.
Educators have an option to pay a membership fee ($4.99 /mo. or $50 /yr.) to create 50 student accounts which are protected from the public. Before you decide on this step, there is a 30-day free trial. This looks like an awesome student storytelling platform. 
Shanika Journey's curator insight,
February 19, 12:26 AM
Very interesting and a very simple tool for those who just want to tell stories, alone or with a group, by quickly adding pictures, video, and voiceover to narrate through the presentation. Looks like a pretty new site and it has both free and paid accounts. 
Jeannette Jackson's curator insight,
February 19, 7:02 PM
Has great possibilities: would need to check out the educator costs Delete the scoop?
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January 23, 1:01 PM
The seven things our brains look for in a story--and it isn't all about the writing. Delete the scoop?
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365 things to make you go Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Renee Maufroid, William Machado, Gust MEES, Jim Lerman 
Sandra Carswell's curator insight,
February 3, 11:22 PM
writing prompts? discussion starters? debates or research? 
Tui Needham, Career Development Specialist's comment,
April 20, 9:01 PM
Like this a lot, some goodies when running workshops and you want get people thinking.
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By Larry Ferlazzo
Three leading writing educators respond to the question: What advice can you give to help teachers be more effective in helping students become better writers? Respondees include Mary Tedrow, Doug Fisher, and Nancy Frey. -JL
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A wonderful post quoting 13 great writers on their daily routines. Great research by Maria Popova to pull this all together. Wonderful photos too (as evidenced by a young Maya Angelou, above). Just a warm and rich reading experience. -JL Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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By Alison Fromme, Jennifer Cutraro and Katherine Schulten Summary by Accomplished Teacher
"Lessons in English and science can go hand in hand through the genre of "lab lit," offer the writers of this blog post. In one suggested exercise, students would discuss recent science topics and determine how they might be used as the basis for a novel or movie. In another exercise, students examine the novel "Frankenstein," which is cited in an accompanying article as probably one of the earliest examples of "lab lit," and the authors also suggest studying scientists' blogs." Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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From the website
"There's no perfect formula for crafting a novel. In fact, some of the best tales that withstand the tests of time are the ones that break the rules and invent a new narrative. The simplest of ideas can blow up into 100,000 words of masterfully crafted storytelling with proper development. While the words are the most important part of any novel, what is a craftsperson without his or her tools? We've collected eight apps that will help you turn aspirations into novelizations. These come just in time to join the scribbling scribes participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), so grab them and embrace your craving to compose some prose." Via Jon Samuelson, Jim Lerman 
Katherine Conner's curator insight,
March 29, 1:39 PM
Everyone, without exception, requires a tool to complete the task that they were employed to do. Often, when writing, people may not know where to begin. They may not have any idea as to how to organize their thoughts. The applications suggested by AJ Dellinger on Mac Life seem like an excellent way to structure not only the key points within your story, but also helps you structure your time in order to incorporate those key points. The application "Novel in 30" allows the user to set a word count target, and a deadline goal. It also allows you to sync the document between itunes and allows the use of Dropbox for easy access. "Writers App" helps structure all ideas dealing with plot, character, and setting. "MindNode"allows the user to create a literal map of their thoughts, and therefore allowing the user to re-create or continue their previous thought process at a later time. Other applications discussed in this article assist with research, brainstorming, timing, and even publication! I think these applications will prove to be powerful tools not only for aspiring novelists, but also authors who are veterans of the writing and publication processes. Each story that a person decides to tell is individual, so each journey to bring that story to an audience is just as individual. Delete the scoop?
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By Katherine Schulten
#NaNoWriMo
"We also want to highlight another idea for student writing today, with a guest post from a teacher named Jennifer Ansbach who, for the last seven years, has had her students participate in November’s National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, as the cool kids call it), which provides teachers with resources to teach novel writing in the classroom through its Young Writers Program.
"We were interested in this idea after we read a piece this summer in The Times’s Room for Debate blog that asked, “Can School Performance Be Measured Fairly?”
"One of the nine experts who weighed in included a high school student, Julia Fox, who wrote about her NaNoWriMo experience, contrasting writing a novel with preparing for standardized tests:" Via Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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Use Storyboard before the writing process...
Storybird is also wonderful for creating student writing portfolios and documenting/ assessing student writing samples.