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During a Q&A after a reading at Duke, Jonathan Safran Foer described his writing process as “more an act of collecting than one of genesis; something created from nothing.” How did I remember that quote? I didn’t, initially, but I did take notes on my iPhone throughout the evening and then emailed them straight to Evernote. When I started writing this post, I ran a search in Evernote for “writing” and “collecting” and bam!—I had my opener! Via jheil65, michel verstrepen 
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Jim Lerman's insight:
By Bryan A. Garner
"The classic example posits the obvious difference between a photograph of Lord Snowdon and a photograph of Lord Snowdon’s. We know who’s in the first picture, but we can’t be sure about the second. In this example, the meaning turns on whether the possessive or nonpossessive form appears. The writer’s choice is straightforward, depending on the intended meaning.
"But which is correct in this construction: a friend of John or a friend of John’s? Although the practice is sometimes erroneously stigmatized, using a possessive with of has long been considered acceptable. You can say either The car belongs to a friend of Brent or The car belongs to a friend of Brent’s. Of course, it’s also possible to avoid the double possessive by rewording the phrase {the car belongs to Brent’s friend}."
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By Jonathan Kastner
"...Starting a project can seem overwhelming – and we delay for so long that it makes the job less fun and less rewarding. This can be called many things (blowing it off, messing around, taking a nap, puttering), but at its core, we're talking about procrastination....
"But fear not. By identifying and confronting some common dysfunctional thoughts that perpetuate procrastination, we can change the way we respond. The following suggestions are adapted from Dr. David Burns’ The Feeling Good Handbook."
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By Laura Brown
"I don’t understand writers who have a lack of ideas. To me it seems there is an endless stream and the real problem is keeping tack of the ideas, organizing and finding storage for all the notes, magazine clippings, and so on. I have even begun to use my digital camera as a quick note taking tool. So my hard drive is just as cluttered. I’m considering a hand-held scanner, just dash out the note and then scan it in for later. This would give me a back up plan for the bits of paper notes.
"How do I get ideas? Such a short and simple question when the answer is massive.
"Here are some of the ways and places I get ideas:"
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By Julie Lindsay
"As part of our wonderful Flat Classroom project, Miss Williams and Mrs. Danner’s 3rd graders at Tappan Zee Elementary School in New York are using Edmodo to communicate with other students around the world. We wanted to make sure that when we read other people posts, we are writing back to them with quality comments. To find out more about writing quality comments, I decided to go to my own PLN – we all can learn from each other, right? I found a great video from Mrs. Yollis’s class in California which gave us some ideas about writing quality comments. Some of the tips we learned were:" Via Julie Lindsay
Jim Lerman's insight:
While developed for giving feedback by students on other students' blog posts, this is actually a great model for giving feedback on performance in a great many settings, by all kinds of people - not just students.
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"Ulysses III is a brand-new writers' environment from the Soulmen -- the fine folks that brought you Daedalus Touch for iPad.
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By Kati Lapi
"Getting younger students to tell stories can promote a variety of different language arts skills in a way that is a lot more fun than doing grammar drills. From learning the parts of speech and sentence and paragraph structure to vocabulary, there is a lot of hidden teaching material in storytelling, which interactive storytelling apps can enhance. Since we all know that kids LOVE to tell stories (check out this blog post by a teacher who had to limit how many stories each student could tell per day), there is a lot of potential in this activity. Bringing in digital tools can make the process even more robust. Check out the web tools and apps that we’ve explored below for a few options that might be useful in your classroom."
Jonathan Jarc's curator insight,
April 11, 2013 10:39 AM
And this holds true for struggling readers below grade level...
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This year, I admitted a hard truth to myself. I wasn't having my students write enough. In an attempt to follow Kelly Gallagher’s advice that students should write more than we can assess, I decided Via Gust MEES, Jim Lerman
Gust MEES's curator insight,
April 9, 2013 3:33 PM
Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/practice/ - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/what-you-should-know-about-blogging/ - http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/ideas-for-valuable-homework-practice/ - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/how-to-prepare-for-giving-a-good-course/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/is-your-professional-development-up-to-date/
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30 tiny tips on how to make more effective content for your eLearning content and courses. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Tom Perran, juandoming, Shanika Journey
Helena Capela's curator insight,
March 27, 2013 6:19 AM
Dicas para a produção de conteúdos e-learning para quem não é especialista.
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QuotesCover.com turns any ordinary saving texts into a beautiful typography art picture for use on Facebook, Google Plus, E-Cards, Wallpapers, and Prints. Our applications simply this process. You can get a beautiful design in only a couple of clicks.
Via Shanika Journey, Jim Lerman
Shanika Journey's curator insight,
April 3, 2013 10:09 AM
This is a verynice tool to use for all the picture quotes you see on places like Facebook and Pinterest.
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The #1 place for free Microsoft word newspaper templates for kids, students that are printable and blank. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, BookChook, Sarah McElrath
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TeresaSiluar's curator insight,
April 27, 2014 11:28 AM
Uso de mapas mentales en la curación de contenidos.
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Stuck on what to write about for your company blog or website? Check out these content-creating tips from Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. Via Baiba Svenca, Ken Peterson
's comment April 7, 2013 10:58 AM
Going to make my blog more interesting!
A_G_Storm's curator insight,
April 7, 2013 8:13 PM
It look interesting, but could use some more information. |
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Organized by my good friend Lucie deLaBruere
BECOME A MAKER OF MOBILE MEDIA CREATE MEDIA ON YOUR IPAD OR FOR YOUR IPAD JULY 15-19, 2013
Become a Maker of Mobile Media Create Media on Your iPad or for Your iPadJuly 15 - 19, 2013 Mobile devices are changing the way we consume interactive media providing us with increasingly rich resources for teaching and learning. This summer, why not learn to create your own rich and interactive mobile media for teaching and learning while enjoying beautiful Burlington, Vermont. Making mobile media will not only enhance your own teacher created resources, but it will also provide you with the skills and confidence to guide your students through the process of learning by making movies, music, podcast, ebooks, and mobile games. At Mobile Media Maker Camp, you won't just walk away with an APP List - you will roll up your sleeve and use your iPad to
MAKE Books - not just read them
MAKE Music - not just listen to it
MAKE Videoes - not just watch them
MAKE Games - not just play them
MAKE Art - not just appreciate it
Mobke Media Maker Camp ;will also feature sessions that use a combination of tablets and computers to
MAKE an eBook using iBooks Author
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Write.app is a distraction-free writing app with publishing/blogging capabilities. Create free notebooks anywhere for anything.
Description from Internet Scout Project
"Writing on a computer with access to the Internet (and other matters) can be distracting. WriteApp helps offering a less distracting, browser-based environment to get your writing done. Visitors can use the application to compose short notes or long-form pieces with excellent formatting options. They can write out thoughts in an email and have them set in a variety of formats and settings. This version is compatible with all operating systems"
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Just list it says. Numerous prompts that should take willing writers on a productive journey.
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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. Via Baiba Svenca, Julie Lindsay
Carol Thomson's curator insight,
July 12, 2013 5:51 AM
struggled to use in school (internet issues) but seems a good way to go.
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"The students begin by choosing a picture for the front of their postcard, in which they can use the camera from their iPad or iTouch to take pictures (field trips, playground, around the school, geometrical shapes, science experiments, etc..) or they can use the beautiful images within the the app.
Jim Lerman's insight:
Nice little app for creating highly visual cards with original writing on the back. Could be used for flip cards but that is only the beginning. The opportunityu to create outstandinga visuals takes this app in a much more creative direction, as a memory aid and as an illustration of the writing on the other side. These could make excellent story starters too.
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Description by EdSurge
"BOOMWRITER is a crowd-sourced storytelling tool that allows students to collaborate on large writing projects. Teachers can select a "story start" or create their own and then sit back as each student creates the next chapter of the story. There are no limits to what new characters or plot twists that students can add--only the pressure that they'll be evaluated (anonymously) by their peers. After all chapters have been read by the class, each student can cast a vote for his or her favorite chapter (excluding their own). The process repeats itself until the teacher determines it's time for a conclusion. (But why not a real-life, never-ending story?) Completed works can be read online or printed and bound (at additional cost) as keepsakes and takeways for students."
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By Katie Lapi
"For anyone who has ever had to write a paper, you know that getting the ideas down when they come to you is important. And for those of us who are (ahem) procrastinators (*looks away innocently*) getting the ideas down and the writing done when you’re inspired is key. For those of us who were educated in the dark ages before smartphones and tablets, if you wanted to write on the go you were pretty much out of luck. Now, there are a host of options for organizing your writing and writing on the go with different apps and web tools. Take a look at some of the various writing apps for students below:"
Jonathan Jarc's curator insight,
April 11, 2013 10:38 AM
I am among the procratinators, which makes it dubious when teaching students how to stay focused and on task with writing. A list worth eyeballing.
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"When I’m immersed in fantasy, a trance envelopes me. There’s something about great fantasy storytelling that trumps all other genres in drawing me into the world and story.
Call me crazy, but I think I’m onto something here. And that something is the recipe for the domination of the imagination. Much like The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I think epic storytelling has a certain formula that can produce a killer product." Via Shanika Journey
Shanika Journey's curator insight,
March 23, 2013 1:01 PM
Awesome article of what makes memorable parts of great storytelling. Very useful any business, any craft.
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n “Storytelling in Web Design,” I explained the three most basic aspects of storytelling — character, setting, and action — and offered ways to begin including storytelling in web design using basic design elements. In this article, I will examine ten sites that use storytelling and list the character, setting, and action found in each story. Via Shanika Journey
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[Picture is of James Thurber]
By Maria Popova
"The kind of literary voyeurism that concerns itself with why great writers write and how, exactly, they go about ithas long held especial mesmerism to aspiring authors and voracious readers alike.
"In 1953, a trio of literary enthusiasts founded The Paris Review. Spearheaded by George Plimpton, who edited the magazine from its founding to his death in 2003, it forever changed the face of literary journalism with its singular brand of incredibly in-depth, borderline existential conversations with beloved authors on the art and craft of writing. Five years later, they published the finest of those interviews — featuring such literary luminaries as William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, and James Thurber — in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (public library). Though The Paris Review has since released all of the archival interviews online, as well as in an irresistible boxed set, what makes this particular volume noteworthy is the lengthy introductory essay by the great Malcolm Cowley, who edited the anthology."
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Guest host this week is Benjamin Gleason (@BWGleason). The title of this #literacies chat comes from the article "Twitteracy: A New Literacy Practice" which Christine Greenhow (@chrisgreenhow) and ... Via Cynthia Garrety
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Joann McRell's curator insight,
April 7, 2013 11:35 PM
Great ideas to consider for Common Core instruction |
A nice personal account of how one professor uses Evernote. . .
A very useful tool that syncs notes, images and tags across multiple platforms (phone, tablet, desktop, etc).