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Jim Lerman
from Learning in Virtual Worlds
February 5, 2017 4:37 PM
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Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-electronic literary and artistic traditions. Formerly a culture of immersive ideals—getting lost in a good book, for example—we are becoming, Ryan claims, a culture more concerned with interactivity. Approaching the idea of virtual reality as a metaphor for total art, Narrative as Virtual Reality applies the concepts of immersion and interactivity to develop a phenomenology of reading.
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Jim Lerman
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
February 2, 2017 11:51 PM
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WriteReader is a great multimedia writing tool for elementary school students and their teachers. On WriteReader students can creat
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 2, 2017 11:28 PM
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Audiobooks are a great way to help nurture kids love for reading and develop their reading skills. Audiobooks can also help with other skills including writing, communication, and sequential thinking. In today’s post we are providing you with an updated list of some great places where you find and access tons of free(and pro) audiobooks to use with your kids and students. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback.
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Jim Lerman
from Educational Technology
January 30, 2017 12:27 AM
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Knowing that coding is an important skill for students to learn, I knew I had to come up with ways to teach coding skills. However, I knew nothing about coding, so I needed to learn a few basics. With my new found knowledge, I came up with so many fun ideas for integrating coding into my literacy lessons. Which is why I am so happy I get to share one of the first ever coding lessons I incorporated into the literacy curriculum AND it is just in time for the Mentor Text Lessons to Warm Up Your Winter Link-Up using the book Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
January 28, 2017 11:59 AM
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Procrastination improves creativity
Art is never finished, only abandoned.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Everything left undone is always still very much on your mind most of the time. You get to think about it more often than tasks you have completed. This encourages you to think about new ways to improve or do it better. Adrienne Branson of Canva says:
“Unfinished work is hard for your mind to let go of — in a good way. Your mind keeps churning, considering other options, creative solutions to the problem. Ever had a project that you just couldn’t stop talking, thinking, or dreaming about? This is how you make that happen.” "The procrastination thought process works best for people who are working on innovative projects and need creative ideas for solve pending problems. You probably won’t benefit from procrastination if you have to deliver on tasks at the office and have strict deadlines to meet. "Innovators and creative professionals use procrastination to their benefit more often than everyone else. Leonardo Da Vinci was a famous procrastinator. He finished the Mona Lisa in 1517 despite having started it in 1503."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 26, 2017 2:51 AM
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Make Fewer Mistakes
"Professional proofreaders recommend reading out loud as the best way to catch mistakes. Like a personal proofreader, Voice Dream Writer reads out loud using text-to-speech, so that awkward sentences, grammatical errors and typos can be easily spotted. Also, it can read words and sentences as they’re typed or voice dictated so that errors can be corrected right away.
Use the Right Words
"Writer helps finding the right words through phonetic search and meaning search. For example, search for “inuf” phonetically, and you will find “enough”, and search for “Fast Africa Cat” by meaning and you will find “Cheetah.” Word Finder also shows the dictionary definition of a word without having to select anything or open another program.
Organize Better
"Writer automatically keeps an outline of headings, paragraphs and sentences. The Outline helps writers better structure their writing with an always-on overview. Also, it is fast to go anywhere in a long document without endless scrolling. Organizing a document is as easy as dragging and dropping: no more selecting, cutting and pasting large blocks of text." Jim Lerman's insight: This app comes very highly recommended by numerous sources. I think it is definitely worth a look. Also, it is not free, it costs about $10 by itself, or it may be bundled with Voice Dream Reader and a Voice Pack (of different reading voices) for about $20. I do not normally include Scoops about products with a purchase price; however, based on the many glowing reviews and 4.5 star rating on Amazon, it would seem to be well worth the price if its functionality appeals to you. I don't yet own a copy, but am thinking seriously about it. I have no connection to this company. Only available for iOS devices thru the Apple app store. via @Kathleen McClaskey
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Jim Lerman
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
January 26, 2017 12:37 AM
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Slick Write is a free tool that helps you analyze your writing or that of others. To use Slick Write you can write new text in th
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Effective PR efforts, including the focus on brand journalism, has pushed communicators to sharpen their storytelling skills. Here's how far we've come.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 23, 2017 11:30 PM
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 20, 2017 9:56 PM
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Jim Lerman
January 20, 2017 2:40 PM
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"These free writing prompts will help you get over writer's block and start writing your book today.
My name is Bryan Collins, and I'm an author and writing coach from Ireland." Free registration required -JL
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Jim Lerman
January 20, 2017 8:30 AM
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The Sundance Film Festival starts today, and you don’t want to miss what has top movie experts buzzing. The Super Bowl is coming up, and you want to find the best sports writers on Medium for analysis from all sides. Tag pages already show you trending stories about any topic on Medium, but not the writers shaping those trends. Today, we’re launching a new feature to spotlight the most popular voices on any topic — top writers in tags.
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Jim Lerman
February 5, 2017 4:38 PM
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Writing fiction? Don’t get bogged down by book research! Check out these tools.
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Jim Lerman
February 4, 2017 1:16 PM
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"...in 2016, with sophisticated computing power, natural language processing, and reams of digitized text, it’s possible to map the narrative patterns in a huge corpus of literature. It’s also possible to ask a computer to identify the shapes of stories for you.
"That’s what a group of researchers, from the University of Vermont and the University of Adelaide, set out to do. They collected computer-generated story arcs for nearly 2,000 works of fiction, classifying each into one of six core types of narratives (based on what happens to the protagonist):"
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Jim Lerman
February 2, 2017 11:41 PM
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101 articles previously published by the National Writing Project, selected for their excellence and practicality. All articles are briefly described and links connect to the full-length pieces themselves. A real treasure chest. -J.L.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
February 2, 2017 2:45 PM
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Stop avoiding dashes in your writing just because you don’t know how to type them outside of word processors. Learn the proper keyboard shortcuts and you can type these essential parts of the English language in basic text editors, browsers and anywhere else you may need them.
The en dash (–) is my favorite piece of punctuation–it’s perfect for inserting points, like this one–but I’ve been neglecting it in my writing for a couple of years, for a really dumb reason.
What’s my dumb reason? I’ve stopped using Word and Open/Libre Office. I know their shortcut for an em dash–type two dashes between two words and they will transform once you type a space after the second word.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 29, 2017 11:12 AM
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I have long believed that E.B. White’s abiding wisdom on children’s books — “Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.” — is equally true of science books. The question of what makes a great book of any kind is, of course, a slippery one, but I recently endeavored to synthesize my intuitive system for assessing science books that write up to the reader in a taxonomy of explanation, elucidation, and enchantment.
Gathered here are exceptional books that accomplish at least two of the three, assembled in the spirit of my annual best-of reading lists, which I continue to consider Old Year’s resolutions in reverse — not a list of priorities for the year ahead, but a reflection on the reading most worth prioritizing in the year being left behind.
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Jim Lerman
January 26, 2017 3:04 AM
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"Read Your Way.
Pause, rewind, change speed.
Change font, size, spacing, color for optimal readability.
Highlight and take notes.
Speed-read. Finger Read.
Set a sleep timer. Or put on your headphones, lock the screen and go for a walk.
Any Content. Anywhere.
Read just about anything that contains text.
Load from just about anywhere.
Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box
Pocket, Instapaper and Evernote
Bookshare
Gutenberg
Any Website
Local files on your device" Jim Lerman's insight: This app comes very highly recommended by numerous sources. I think it is definitely worth a look. Also, it is not free, it costs about $10 by itself, or it may be bundled with Voice Dream Writer and a Voice Pack (of different reading voices) for about $20. I do not normally include Scoops about products with a purchase price; however, based on the many glowing reviews and 4.5 star rating on Amazon, it would seem to be well worth the price if its functionality appeals to you. I don't yet own a copy, but am thinking seriously about it. I have no connection to this company. This product is available for both iOS and Android devices, although the manufacturer says the Android version has less functionality.
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Jim Lerman
from Education 2.0 & 3.0
January 26, 2017 12:38 AM
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Apple released the first iPad in April, 2010. It didn’t take long for the device to be adopted as the “technology of choice” by thousands of educational institutions across the US
Via Sam Gliksman, Yashy Tohsaku
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Jim Lerman
January 25, 2017 1:28 PM
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Students should be getting practice early and often.
One thing that I’m working very hard to change is the baseline premise that writing is a high-stakes thing. That writing is always going to be a technical paper that is multiple pages long and has an end of unit, term, or semester setting. And that teachers should be looking for perfect grammar, good formatting, and a lot of technical information. Taking that approach to writing and reviewing doesn't help students get the practice they need.
That mindset discourages students from saying, "I can just practice writing. I can throw some ideas down. I can come up with a new idea. I have opinions and putting together a first draft of those opinions is a good start. Because then, I can go back and work on it from there." These are all things that are foreign in a lot of classrooms.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 23, 2017 11:32 PM
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Rescooped by
Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 20, 2017 10:14 PM
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Want to Publish Your Materials Online but you hesitate for fear of exploitation? Check how to Publish Your Materials Online securely.
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Rescooped by
Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 20, 2017 9:48 PM
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Wordcounter is a word count and a character count tool. Simply place your cursor into the box and begin typing. Word counter will automatically count the number of words and characters as you type. You can also copy and paste a document you have already written into the box below and it will display the word count and character numbers for that piece of writing." Description by The Scout Report "Word Counter is a free tool that allows users to quickly analyze a piece of text. Initially created in 2009 as a simple word count tool, the team behind Word Counter has since added a number of features that will be of interest to writers and instructors alike. Today, Word Counter measures not only the number of words in a text, but also measures sentence length, keyword density, estimated reading level, and estimated reading time. Users can find out this information by simply pasting any amount of text into a text box. Word Counter is a useful tool for writers looking to avoid repetition or for instructors interested in the reading level of a specific text. (Of course, no estimated reading level assessment is perfect. The team behind Word Counter includes an explanation of how reading level and reading time are calculated, so users can use this tool in an informed way.)"
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Jim Lerman
January 20, 2017 8:33 AM
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description by SmartBrief " K-12 schools are a prime target for hackers and ransomware, but they don't have to be, experts say. These experts share three steps that districts can take to stay ahead of ransomware
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