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Writing Sparks was created by the award winning developers of nightzookeeper.com. Watch this short video to find out how Night Zookeeper can automatically assess your student’s writing and raise attainment in your classroom. Via Nik Peachey, Ana Cristina Pratas, Jim Lerman 
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If you’re looking to get your name out there or widen your network, guest posting is a wonderful option. To give you a jump start, we’ve compiled one of the most comprehensive, high-quality lists available on the web. These 50 blogs all accept guest posts and pay $50 for posts.
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ALLi partner member Reedsy offers a great free tool to help you format ebooks and print books - Ricardo Fayet explains how it works and to use it
Via Marianela Camacho Alfaro, Lynnette Van Dyke
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The creative impulse is driven not by personal or professional history, but uninhibited curiosity: the capacity to play around without judgment.
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The following 4 tips took me 3 years of writing to collect, but will only take you 2 minutes to learn. Your writing will be better forever.
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Do you create copy for social media posts? Discover 16 tools to help social media marketers write, edit and proof their content.
Via Mike Nach
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August 13, 2017 9:37 AM
Whether you work on your own or with a team, there are tools that make it more likely your social media posts will publish without errors and with correct word counts.
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Screencasting is the capture all of the action on a computer screen while you are narrating. Screencasts can be made with many tools and are often used to create a tutorial or showcase student content mastery. This page provides links to information, ideas, rubrics, and tools for the creation of screencasts by both teachers and students.
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Schrock is one of the net's great education thought leaders. This is her all-purpose guide to screencasting. Great source of knowledge and ideas.
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Sansar empowers individuals, communities, schools, studios, corporations, brands and others to easily create, share and ultimately sell immersive 3D social experiences for consumers to enjoy on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows PCs, according to the company Linden Labs, which also created Second Life. Via Nik Peachey, Jim Lerman
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
August 9, 2017 6:55 AM
This could be a really exciting step forward for VR in education. Love that these enviroments are shared.
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Stoics and psychologists agree. Most of your negative feelings are caused by irrational or inaccurate thoughts. You do not need positive thinking to feel good. You just need a more accurate one. Via Jim Lerman
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These awesome idea-generating websites can assist you in coming up with ideas for any purpose. Keep them handy, bookmark them, and visit them whenever you need to spark an idea. Via Jim Lerman
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"Belt Publishing is a small publishing company based in Cleveland, Ohio that is dedicated to telling stories about the American Rust Belt, a term used to describe a number of cities in northeastern and midwestern states that have been impacted by industrialization and deindustrialization. Belt Magazine, the company's online magazine, features essays, investigative journalism, creative nonfiction, and more about Rust Belt cities. As of this write-up, recently published articles include an investigation of the impact of oil pipelines on the Great Lakes, an article about recent revitalization efforts and changes in Gary, Indiana, and a personal essay by Detroit-raised writer Amy Kenyon about letters that she penned as a child to Jackie Kennedy and Ray Bradbury. Visitors may also browse archived articles by category under the Belt Magazine tab."
via The Scout Report
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By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
http://www.readbrightly.com/books-to-help-kids-understand-the-fight-for-racial-equality/ Via Roxana Marachi, PhD, Jim Lerman
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"When I compose a first draft I just let everything I feel and think spill out raw and chaotically on the page. I let it be a mess. I trust my instincts. I just let my ideas and feelings flow until I run out of words. It’s fine for an early draft to be a disaster area. I don’t censor myself. When I have this raw copy, I can then decide if this idea is worth pung more effort into. If so, then with the second draft, I clean up spelling and grammar. I add anything I forgot to include in the first draft and take out whatever isn’t working. Then the real fun begins with the third draft. (Despite its importance, art should always be a form of play.) That’s where I work on what I know are my creative weaknesses." Via Penelope, Lynnette Van Dyke
Penelope's curator insight,
August 10, 2017 9:38 PM
I love this piece. It absolutely sings and goes straight to the heart of a writer. If you are a creative, you should feel inspired and thankful for the opportunity to create beautiful art with your words.
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
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The creative impulse is driven not by personal or professional history, but uninhibited curiosity: the capacity to play around without judgment.
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Storyboard That has been the PERFECT creating tool to support the type of writing my kindergartners are currently focusing on. Basically, the web tool allows kids to click and drag scenes, characters, props, and more onto a storyboard. The kids can customize their characters to resemble themselves or however they’d like! Storyboard That can be used to create graphic organizers, recreate a scene in history, demonstrate a science experiment, put a visual to vocabulary, whatever you can come up with! Recently, my kids have been working on sequence writing and including transition words at the beginning of sentences. One day we discussed some essential steps in the “getting ready for school” process and their assignment was to create a storyboard of how they get ready for school. After they finished, they put their storyboards into a collaborative slides. Here they are!
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I think a good way to differentiate the lesson would be to have similar articles and questions tailored to the Lexile level of the students---or, even just giving each student a different set of articles with similar questions. The process and product would be somewhat differentiated, but still ultimately reach the same goals.
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Data visualizations that don't communicate a larger story don't succeed. Here's how to balance your data, design, and messaging.
Via Mike Nach, Jim Lerman
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Can't think of the right word? Here you'll find subjects divided by parts of speech so that you can simply browse words to describe products, colors, sex, birthday greetings, card messages, and so much more. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Mike Nach, Jim Lerman
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"It's a great resource to help demonstrate the value of listening and the importance of storytelling and interviewing skills."
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Starting today, parents and teachers all over the world can download Toontastic 3D, a playful storytelling app for kids to draw, animate and narrate their own 3D cartoons. Via Nik Peachey, JunoPark
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
July 11, 2017 1:26 AM
A great free app for getting students to create 3D stories.
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"...a public beta of Book Creator for Chrome was officially launched this summer at the ISTE 2017 conference in San Antonio, Texas. Book Creator already has apps for iOS, Android and Windows devices, but this new update means your students can have full access to Red Jumper’s creative storytelling platform on the web with a Mac, PC or Chromebook. Sounds interesting, right? Well, here’s what you need to know."
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"Launched in April 2017, the Whole Story is a citizen historian project dedicated to making the accomplishments and contributions of women a visible part of public history. As the team behind the Whole Story points out, statues around the world honor "a staggering amount of men, but very few women." This free mobile application (available for both Android and iOS devices), invites "artists, coders, historians, and everybody else" to create virtual statues that celebrate influential women throughout history wherever a statue of a famous man currently exists. These virtual statues of historical women are then placed on an interactive map. When visitors are physically at the same location as one of these virtual statues, they will be able to view the new statue via augmented reality on their phone or personal device. For example, visitors at Mount Rushmore will be able to view a statue honoring Sacagawea, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and Florence Nightingale via the Whole Story app." Via Jim Lerman
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"What are the 100 most influential photographs? To answer this question, Time magazine reached out to historians, curators, and photo editors and conducted interviews with photographers, subjects of famous photographs, and others to assemble this collection of photographs taken between 1826 (when the first known photograph was taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce) and 2015. Each selected photograph is accompanied by a short essay. These photographs, which can be browsed chronologically, vary widely. Some are poignant, while others are whimsical. Visitors, especially educators and parents, should be aware that some of these photographs depict violence and human suffering and may be disturbing. There is also a series of short documentary films, Behind the Photographs, that provide additional context to some of these famous images."
via The Scout Project
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Writing prompts and visual literacy exercises! Via Jim Lerman
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A great tool to prompt and help students structure writing. Ideal for younger learners.