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Jim Lerman
from Tools for Teachers & Learners
December 4, 2016 7:31 PM
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Here are 6 great reasons to begin exploring digital storytelling in your classroom along with some suggestions for tools to get you started.
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Jim Lerman
from Tools for Teachers & Learners
December 3, 2016 12:41 AM
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Here are 6 great reasons to begin exploring digital storytelling in your classroom along with some suggestions for tools to get you started.
Via Nik Peachey
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
December 2, 2016 1:39 PM
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This is a brilliant, multi-sensory way to teach the construction of sentences. Click image or headline to go to Facebook video. -JL
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Jim Lerman
November 28, 2016 11:32 PM
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When it comes to enhancing students writing skills, technology can play a decisive role. In his celebrated work “The Digital Writing Workshop’, author Troy Hicks explains in details how you can integrate technology in your writing instruction to help students become good writers. One key concept in this discussion is viewing writing as a process instead of an end product. Process here insinuates a state of unfinishedness because writing is always a task in the making. Students are continuously engaged in a never-ending process of discovery and sense making through the use of language. In this regard, the writing process is comprised of several phases or stages each of which has a specific role in creating and enhancing students writing skills. Going beyond the problematic of nomenclature, we will stick here with the conventional classification of the writing process as espoused by many scholars including Donal Murray, Donal Graves, Lucy Calkins and many more. This process is composed of four main stages: pre-writing, writing, revising, and publishing. The purpose of today’s post is to provide you with a number of tools and apps to help your students' writing needs in each of these stages.
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Jim Lerman
November 25, 2016 3:53 PM
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If you think data—in education, or any field—is cut and dry, think again. Working with data in the classroom, especially, can be either exhausting or exhilarating—depending on your fitness level. Data can be big, but also quite small. It’s often quantitative, but is increasingly qualitative. It’s predictive, but not always inclusive. It’s private, but not always protected. But one thing’s for certain: data has enormous power to impact teaching and learning.
It’s also here to stay. Which is why we put together this muscle-building guide about data and education. If these kinds of discussions push you outside of your comfort zone, rest assured you’ll find inspiration and actionable advice from the classroom. One teacher set up an online store to teach his students how to work with data. Another uses playlists to break her students’ data into trackable skills and goals. A seasoned educator shares why he now thinks of grading as a scavenger hunt. And a former therapist describes his school’s efforts to assess assess social emotional growth.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
November 24, 2016 11:05 AM
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The Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA) Initiative in Oakland, California includes more than 100 teachers who are grappling with how to productively engage their students in today’s civic and political world. EDDA is a partnership between Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), Mills College, and the National Writing Project (NWP). EDDA aims to expand the opportunity structure in OUSD high schools and to develop students’ commitments and capacities for meaningful civic action in the 21st century.
EDDA recently launched a series of videos with the Teaching Channel that captures how teachers in the Initiative are leveraging web 2.0 tools and best practices in civic education to provide students with civic learning opportunities that will prepare and motivate them to work for positive change in their communities. Two EDDA teachers–Matt Colley and Chela Delgado–invited us into their classrooms to capture this work in action and share it with others. Both teachers worked with students, as part of a broader unit on deeply analyzing a civic and political issue, identifying ways to take action in response to an issue, and reflecting on how their action steps may have an impact on the community and others.
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Jim Lerman
November 22, 2016 11:12 PM
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Commendation by Larry Ferlazzo "Write The World lets teachers set-up virtual classrooms for free where they can monitor student writing progress and, if they wish, let classmates use it for a peer review process. They can be private or public groups. In addition, the site has writing contests, provides prompts, and encourages students to view each other’s work from around the world."
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Rightly
November 22, 2016 1:47 AM
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Getting to the Core of Character Motivation is a guest post by Becca Puglisi detailing inner and outer motivation of characters in fiction
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Rightly
November 22, 2016 1:45 AM
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Here are 25 writing prompts to jumpstart your writing muscles.
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Jim Lerman
from Feed the Writer
November 22, 2016 1:42 AM
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Librarian Abbe Klebanoff shares tips and suggestions for organizing a teen poetry slam event during National Poetry Month and beyond.
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Jim Lerman
November 20, 2016 8:47 PM
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A step by step tutorial on how to set up your own self-hosted WordPress author website in less than 30 minutes. Plus tips on professional themes and setting up
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Jim Lerman
November 20, 2016 1:02 AM
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To WWF, what’s important is to get their message passed to the public, and to arise the public awareness of the importance of protecting the nature. That’s why they rely heavily on advertisement. What we have collected here are some of the most powerful and eye-catching ads of WWF. They are all creative and well executed, and the message is clear. What it takes a make a great ads? Maybe you can learn something from the ads below.
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2016 7:27 PM
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I used to assign a “Letter to the Teacher” at the beginning of every year to get a snapshot of how a student writes while simultaneously learning background information. Being completely honest, this assignment is also an easy way to get the first few back-to-school days started when a 90-minute class period feels like 900 minutes, because everyone is typically on their best behavior and not talking much. Although I enjoy reading the letters, the assignment doesn’t lend itself to revising and is written only for a specific, one-person audience.
I know building relationships with students is important and a way to get to know them is through their writing, so I did some research to see what other teachers were trying. I came across the “This I Believe” site and immediately liked the concept better than an introduction letter for a teacher.
Break that writer's block! Here are 7 great online creative writing apps to inspire creativity for writing and other creative projects for any student.
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Jim Lerman
November 29, 2016 6:08 PM
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Happy to welcome high-performance coach and author Nina Amir to the blog today. She’s got some great techniques for you to try if you ever hit a brainstorming wall, so please read on! Plot. S…
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
November 26, 2016 7:20 PM
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To be a good writer one must constantly work on his skills. However, it is not bad news. Considering the abundance of technologies that can help you make it a fun and entertaining activity, you will have no problems advancing your skills as a writer.
Even if you are not really good with technologies, we will show a list of things you will master in no time. So, do not hesitate to try them all out both when teaching writing and when learning yourself.
Ten incredible technological solutions to help you teach and learn writing
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Jim Lerman
November 25, 2016 3:49 PM
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“I never started from ideas but always from character.” – Ivan Turgenev “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” – Joss Whedon “You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist i
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
November 24, 2016 10:58 AM
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In our interactive session for “Makerspace in the Library: What it means for your Classroom,” we really let our participants drive the learning.
We started out with an introduction for each expert presenter (here is our slidedeck with presenter info and resources we referred to during the session.) Then the rest of the learning was hashed out through lively table discussions.
Other Workshop Leaders:
Buffy Hamilton, Title I Writing teacher, former librarian; Atlanta, GA
Zach Duensing, Nashville Public Library
Valerie Jopeck, Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
K-Fai Steele, Program Associate, National Writing Project Jim Lerman's Insight: Quite a substantial and informative recap of what must have been a lively discussion.
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Rightly
November 22, 2016 1:47 AM
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Ever wonder why your writing lacks the impact of your writing heroes? Find out the simple secret they don't want you to know.
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Rightly
November 22, 2016 1:46 AM
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In 2011, then Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats, tweeted 22 rules of storytelling. Artist Dino Ignacio then turned them into image macros.
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Rightly
November 22, 2016 1:44 AM
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There's more to Microsoft Word than changing fonts and adding columns.
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Jim Lerman
from Feed the Writer
November 22, 2016 1:40 AM
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Publishing student writing does not mean posting their assignment on a blog. Learn how to publish student writing and showcase it to the world to read.
Via Sarah McElrath
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Jim Lerman
November 20, 2016 8:47 PM
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A selection of online journaling tools that you can use to take your journaling practice digital.
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Jim Lerman
November 20, 2016 1:05 AM
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The Common Core English Language Arts Standards for Writing focus on building college and career readiness by having students demonstrate the ability to write in a variety of formats. As educators, we need to facilitate authentic experiences for students to practice and take risks during the writing process.
With that in mind, we’re going to discuss several valuable digital tools to help teachers create a more engaging and dynamic writing classroom for students to meet the rigorous demands of the Common Core.
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