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Jim Lerman
February 12, 2012 2:07 AM
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Because attention is so easy to gather on Twitter, and because your follower count can climb with the speed of a soaring stock, you might find yourself falling into the too typical trap of thinking Twitter’s purpose is to gather as much attention as possible. It’s not. Attention is great, but it’s only the end result of getting what you’re really after – quality relationships. The more you establish quality relationships, the more easily you’ll be able to leverage them for your own benefit, whether you’re trying to build your brand or broaden your influence. People in your day-to-day life are happy to help you because you have an existing relationship. The same holds true online.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
February 7, 2012 9:24 AM
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This is great in terms of understanding social media and also as a jump off point for similar writing excrcises. What can you think of?
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Jim Lerman
February 6, 2012 6:33 PM
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Be a part of the network and join the global community! Through International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) and an Internet connection, students and teachers from over 130 countries can transcend linguistic, national, political, religious, and social borders to collaborate on meaningful educational projects in hopes of making a difference in the health and welfare of people and our planet. -From AASL
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Jim Lerman
February 6, 2012 6:26 PM
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then let this site provide the picture to inspire your words. Choose a picture from the gallery, and add text. Word choices are available or use your own. There is also an introduction to writing poetry using this tool. -From AASL
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 2:00 PM
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ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. ZooBurst books 'live' online and can be experienced using nothing more than a web browser running the Adobe Flash plug-in. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. Once constructed, books can be inspected from any angle from within a 3D space, and rotating around a book is as easy as dragging and dropping a mouse. In addition, authors can choose to make items "clickable," allowing readers to learn more about individual characters within a story. Each character can have its own 'chat bubble' that pops up when that character is clicked. In addition, authors can also record their own voices using the ZooBurst audio recorder to have their characters really 'speak' when clicked!
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:51 PM
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Enables children to write stories online with a Powerpoint-like format. Teachers can sign up their whole class easily and the site provides each child with a code to sign in.
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:38 PM
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A good English site from the BBC that helps young learners plan and write stories.
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:23 PM
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If you have a class blog, you may want to add an extra dimension by blogging collaboratively with three other classes from across the world. Up to four classes may blog simultaneously.
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Jim Lerman
February 2, 2012 3:59 PM
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Here’s one way to become a better writer. Listen to the advice of writers who earn their daily bread with their pens. During the past week, lists of writing commandments by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard (above) and William Safire have buzzed around Twitter. (Find our Twitter stream here.) So we decided to collect them and add tips from a few other veterans — namely, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Neil Gaiman. Here we go:
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Jim Lerman
February 2, 2012 2:31 PM
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Reading is critical to students' success in and out of school. One potential means for improving students' reading is writing. In this meta-analysis of true and quasi-experiments, Graham and Herbert present evidence that writing about material read improves students' comprehension of it; that teaching students how to write improves their reading comprehension, reading fluency, and word reading; and that increasing how much students write enhances their reading comprehension. These findings provide empirical support for long-standing beliefs about the power of writing to facilitate reading.
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Jim Lerman
February 1, 2012 12:05 AM
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Online interactive tools from Tom March to support students in finding a topic for a written piece, creating a good thesis statement, generating an outline, or developing a causeo and effect essay. -JL
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 31, 2012 11:58 PM
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From the website: Information, Communications, and Technology (ICT) Curriculum blends Big6 Skills with ISTE-NETS for a seamless approach for information-technology literacy. Authors Michael Eisenberg, Doug Johnson, and Bob Berkowitz blend baseline information literacy contexts from Big6 Skills (Eisenberg & Berkowitz, 1988) with technology standards developed by International Society for Technology in Education’s National Educational Technology Standards for Students (ISTE NETS-S, 2007). The result is a guideline for relevant technology skills all K-12 students could reasonably be expected to demonstrate before they graduate. Originally known as a research methodology, the Big 6 has newly emerged as a single curriculum combining technology and information literacy. -JL
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Jim Lerman
January 30, 2012 10:45 PM
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Since Matt Richtel published “Blogs vs. Term Papers” in the New York Times on January 20, much has been written on the value or lack of value of assigning term papers. Unfortunately, Richtel confuses the issue by setting up a false dichotomy. His either/or fallacy forces a debate concerning whether or not blogs are better than term papers. Instead, we should be discussing if the goals of a particular class might be better met by assigning blogs (or some other research based project) instead of a term paper.
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Jim Lerman
February 12, 2012 12:08 AM
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Stephen Downes is one of the most prolific and compelling writers and thinkers on technology and education today. In this piece, he reflects upon (or rather describes) his approach to essay writing. -JL
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Jim Lerman
February 22, 2012 5:56 PM
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Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers is an eight-part professional development workshop designed to help teachers learn effective practices and strategies to use with middle school students in writing instruction. Through classroom footage of excellent teachers modeling successful strategies and interviews with teachers, students, and nationally recognized experts about the writing process, workshop participants will learn ways to create a positive and productive writing environment for young adolescents.
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Jim Lerman
February 6, 2012 6:29 PM
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So what's a 25 word story -- and more importantly, why would you want your kids to write them? Well, a 25 word story is exactly what it sounds like: A 25 word story. It's a writing style that I first discovered by following Kevin Hogdson -- a really remarkable sixth grade language arts teacher -- in Twitter.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
February 6, 2012 6:18 PM
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This is great in terms of understanding social media and also as a jump off point for similar writing excrcises. What can you think of?
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:55 PM
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The story starter provides more than one billion different story starters. The Story Starter randomly generates 1,862,718,000 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun. The starter generates a sentence from which to build a story. Also featured is a Story Starter for Kids.
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:45 PM
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A cleverly designed site that writers from approximately 7-11 years old work with to create or embellish mostly "scary" stories. Lots of writing prompts and instruction on the elements of storytelling. -JL
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2012 1:26 PM
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ThumbScribes is a platform for creating collaborative content. Co+Create haiku, poems, short stories, flash fiction, novellas, exquisite corpse and songs. Sign-up now to start co+creating. This is a great site for encouraging writers to create stories, poems and songs collaboratively. The site limits how much a user can write and can invite friends or the public to continue and edit a piece of writing.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 4, 2012 1:21 PM
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Daily articles on grammar, spelling, misused words, punctuation, fiction writing, freelance writing and more! Many ideas for quick writing exercises for class.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 2, 2012 3:47 PM
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The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators begin building rich digital learning experiences for students in districts across the country. The playbook offers information about determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and community broadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary device considerations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that have engaged in successful transitions to digital learning.
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Jim Lerman
February 1, 2012 12:10 AM
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A humorous look at the emails of famous characters from the movies, history, fiction and more. This is a creative and motivating way to get students to learn more about famous people from then and now. Check out Leonardo DaVinci in Artists and Musicians. -JL
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Jim Lerman
February 1, 2012 12:01 AM
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Educator-founded AcademicMerit provides a suite of online tools to help teachers and students align with the Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing for grades 6-12 by seamlessly linking professional development, assessment and instruction.
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Jim Lerman
January 31, 2012 12:13 AM
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LJ Rich investigates the possibilities of multimedia story-telling by getting dressed up for a starring role in a multimedia project.
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