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Jim Lerman
May 7, 2012 6:41 PM
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By Anna Smith "It has been a while since Joel Malley provided the following video in preparation for a congressional briefing on digital literacies. However, after a couple of months of conference attendance, I think the video is still needed, relevant and effective in providing a picture of the changing nature of writing in the digital age, and the pedagogical changes that must follow. What I appreciate most about this video is the way it clearly demonstrates a “both/and” mentality toward print and digital tools, text types and processes."
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from Into the Driver's Seat
May 7, 2012 9:39 AM
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"We keep playing with different options to get text into our iPads to take notes, keep track of tasks and share our creative work. Earlier this week we covered a new solution to better manage our meeting notes with, MeetingMaker. Today we learned that the folks that brought us TextKraft now has released 1a Easy Writer. While TextKraft is an advanced tool with word suggestions and look ups as you type, 1a Easy Writer is more for the quick note taker and editing smaller documents on the go. 1a Easy Writer is showing in the iTunes store for no charge right now, not sure how long that deal will last. "1a Easy Writer has a quick access bar above the iPad’s keyboard to cut down on the need to drill through one keyboard to another for features and often used typographical characters:"
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from Into the Driver's Seat
May 7, 2012 9:28 AM
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By Kelda Richards "Attached to the end of this post is a PDF of a Keynote presentation to accompany a hands-on workshop I have run twice now on using the iPad to create learning content for pupils along the ‘flipped classroom’ model."
Via John Evans, Amy Todd, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
May 5, 2012 8:41 PM
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Full recording of 90-minute Webinar presented by Lea Anne Daughrity. Numerous links added by participants at bottom of homepage. LiveBinder of reading and viewing selections provided by the presenter, also on the homepage. This is a comprehensive presentation of ideas and techniques by a skilled practitioner. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
May 4, 2012 5:37 PM
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By Katrina Schwartz Summary by SmartBrief on EdTech "A new website allows students to store and share photos of school projects online. The site, DIY.org, allows students -- who are identified only by an animal character and nickname -- to upload a digital portfolio, which can be viewed by friends and relatives, who can comment on the work by giving it one of four stickers: Awesome, Beautiful, Favorite and Genius."
The Bio Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas.
Via Heiko Idensen
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Jim Lerman
April 29, 2012 1:28 AM
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From the website: "The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques.
"Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help—which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials. "These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below)."
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Jim Lerman
April 29, 2012 1:12 AM
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Extensive explanation and support for Writing in a Digital Environment. Mostly for secondary and college levels. _JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 29, 2012 12:17 AM
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 28, 2012 9:35 AM
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"Google understands the importance of finding the right information at the right time. We create tools to let you find the information you need, of the kind you need, when you need it. In most cases, a simple search works really well. But for more specialized questions, a bit of instruction in how to search improves all searcher--from middle school students to trained professionals--and lets you discover and use more, higher quality sources than ever before.
"Check out our 9 lesson plans for teaching search, and bring Google to your classroom!
"We also have master lesson presentations for each of the classes offered by our team."
This is Google's main website for search education. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 28, 2012 9:30 AM
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By Tasha Bergson-Michelson "Based on how Google ranks search results, typing in a question will be more likely to bring back pages with a question for a title. In many of our everyday searches this is an easy way to find question and answer sites when we want them, but Q&A sites are not necessarily authoritativesources for school work. So I have students write down their questions and teach them how to mark them up to create queries, the first step being to identify the significant words. "Explaining how to distinguish the important words has sometimes proven challenging with younger students. Recently, however, fellow Googler AJ Kimbembe observed that the mark-up process reminded him of rebuses. You might remember these puzzles from childhood, where select words in a narrative are replaced with pictures. We started playing with the idea, and realized this could be a great lesson for students in identifying the best search terms."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 28, 2012 9:29 AM
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A 45-minute video tutorial on how to search EBSCOhost, perhaps the largest and most frequently used online subscription database. The website includes a link to handouts that accompany the video. EBSCO is recommended by my university library as one of the best sources to search for education resources. Material has been prepared y the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries. -JL
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Jim Lerman
April 27, 2012 12:24 AM
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By Joe Bunting "This week, we’ve heard from some great interviewers—bloggers and journalists who have interviewed presidents (like G.H.W. Bush), celebrities (like Sting and Kevin Bacon), and niche celebrities (like Seth Godin and Steven Pressfield). If you’ve been following along, you now know: Interviews are a powerful promotional toolYou should never stake someone out for an interviewHowever, chasing busy interviewees into elevators and cabs is coolDumb questions make for great interviewsWhen interviewing liars, meet them in person (polar bears, too)"
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Jim Lerman
from Teaching Digital Writing
May 7, 2012 6:37 PM
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An English teacher describes her experiences teaching a large-scale, book-club wiki project she designed for her students.
Via Karen LaBonte
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
May 7, 2012 9:29 AM
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By Aiden Levy "Some people have asked me “how do I integrate the iPad into my English classes?” I respond by providing some iPad related tasks that link and work well with the text types taught in Australian primary schools." Levy speaks about these ideas being useful for primary grades. Of course they are, but many of the apps and ideas are equally at home in upper grades as well. Some very clever thoughts here. -JL
Via John Evans, Amy Todd, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
May 6, 2012 8:03 PM
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By Richard Byrne "Earlier this morning on Twitter William Blackledge asked me for some advice about starting a blog. It's hard to make all my advice fit into 140 characters so I compiled this list of blog posts about blogging that I've written in the past. Hence the title All of My Blogging Advice in One Place. "What I've Learned from 5,000 Blog Posts
11 Things You Should Know About Blogging
So You Want to Reuse a Blog Post?
So Your Content Got Stolen, Now What?
How Do You Keep Up With All of This?
About Accepting Advertising as an Ed Tech Blogger (or as a blogger in general) "From Sue Waters, What You Want to Know About Blogging."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
May 4, 2012 5:47 PM
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By Richard Byrne "Last year I shared an animated video of Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree. Yesterday, through an Open Culture post, I discovered eight more short animated versions of Shel Silverstein's works. The videos can be found on the Shel Silverstein Books channel on YouTube. I've embedded Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too! below."
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
May 2, 2012 2:25 PM
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By Tamar Lewin "In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities. "But Harvard and M.I.T. are not the only elite universities planning to offer a wide array of massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as they are known. This month, Stanford, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan announced their partnership with a new for-profit company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital. "Meanwhile, Sebastian Thrun, the Stanford professor who made headlines last fall when 160,000 students signed up for his Artificial Intelligence course, has attracted more than 200,000 students to the six courses offered at his new company, Udacity."
Via Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
April 30, 2012 10:10 PM
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By Amy Erin Borovoy Summary by ASCD SmartBrief "The power of poetry to excite some students about reading, writing and literacy is highlighted in this collection of videos compiled by digital media curator Amy Erin Borovoy. The videos include the story of one elementary-school teacher who holds weekly open mic sessions in the classroom as well as a step-by-step guide from a writing teacher on establishing a poetry slam at school."
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Jim Lerman
April 29, 2012 1:24 AM
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By Jacqui Murray "Here’s a quick list of websites I use to teach 3rd graders how to write:"
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 29, 2012 12:05 AM
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Author identified only as Glenn W. "Publishing student projects online in visually stimulating formats is now easier than ever. There are tons of tools available that you and your kids can use to get stuff out there. "The following web 2.0 tools are some of my favorites for showcasing student projects. The list includes two different kinds of sites. The first type requires that kids create work using a desktop tool such as Word, Keynote or Pages and then the site converts that work into online content. The second lets kids doing the actual creating online."
Via Yael Even-Levy, PhD (Second Life: JoelleYalin), Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 28, 2012 9:30 AM
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Studying and researching online is becoming an ever more important element of our digital skill set. I spend a lot of time reading online and skimming through numerous articles from journals and blogs, so I'm always keen to find useful tools which can assist me or my students in this and make the process more efficient. One tool which I have just discovered and which I hope will help with this process is Cruxbot.
Via Nik Peachey, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 28, 2012 9:30 AM
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JSTOR is one of the larger online databases for academics. This 6-minute video provides several ways to search for articles and other items in JSTOR, including Advanced Search. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
April 27, 2012 6:24 PM
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"Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet. "The city's Department of Records officially announced the debut of the photo database. "Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings." GREAT SOURCE OF WRITING PROMPTS -JL
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