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Online classes typically require more written communication and interaction than oral participation. Via EDTECH@UTRGV 
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Learn How To Use Visual Storytelling For Your Brand or Content Marketing Strategy, by Following These 10 Simple Rules
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Welcome to the THIRD annual Top Writing Blogs Awards on Positive Writer.
Penelope's curator insight,
February 9, 2016 8:31 PM
Bookmark these best-of-the-best blogs. There are some amazing posts that can give your writing a boost for 2016.
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
Link to the original article: http://positivewriter.com/top-50-writing-blogs-for-2016/
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Most of the material on this site is directed at all teachers. I look for and put together resources that would appeal to any teacher who teaches any subject. That practice will continue for as long as I keep this up. But over the next year or so, I plan to also share more of what I know about teaching students to write. Although I know many of the people who visit here are not strictly English language arts teachers, my hope is that these posts will provide tons of value to those who are, and to those who teach all subjects, including writing.
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Jim Lerman's insight: First draft of the 2016 ISTE tech standards for students, ready for feedback. At first glance these look very well articulated, comprehensive, and challenging. As of this writing, the feedback period is still open and readers are invited to comment.
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Jim Lerman's insight: This interesting article explains how many companies are using the affordances provided by Meerkat and Periscope on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram in order to win customer attention. The techniques themselves are interesting and creative educators will surely find ways to harness this delivery system in service to their students.
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You know how sometimes you start reading an article, but you quickly find yourself skimming the rest? Or you start reading and stop at the second sentence? Or you read the whole thing and end up feeling empty and betrayed, like something was missing?
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Scrivener for Mac OS X and Windows is an Award-winning writing software for novelists, scriptwriters, academics or anyone working on long texts requiring research and structure, or taming the chaotic process of writing. If you are looking for the best Book Writing Software, take us for a free 30 day trial period. Finish your ebooks, short stories, novels and other writing projects today quickly with Scrivener.
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Creating flipped video lessons is one of the topics that I frequently receive questions about in my email inbox. I've started putting together some videos about how to use various tools for creating and sharing flipped video lessons. In the videos embedded below I demonstrate how use EduCanon, VideoNotes, EDpuzzle, Versal, and Otus to create and distribute flipped video lessons.
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The biggest responsibility of any teacher is to equip students with the tools that they can use in everyday life. via Antonia Christina Pratas
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"No matter what you want to accomplish in 2016, we’re sure you’ll find quality inspiration and resources. "We’ve broken this year’s list into seven categories: Blogging, entrepreneurship, creativity and craft, freelancing, marketing, publishing, and writing communities. All sites are listed in alphabetical order within their categories, and the numbers are for easy tracking (not ranking)." Via Ruth Long , Shannon Bolithoe , Penelope
A. G. Moye's curator insight,
January 26, 2016 3:06 PM
Anything to help get your career rolling in writing.
Penelope's curator insight,
January 27, 2016 1:56 PM
Great resource for writers--beginners and pros alike!
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
Link to the original article: http://thewritelife.com/100-best-websites-writers-2016/
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"In the first of a three-part series, author Jonathan Gottschall discusses the science of storytelling—not just escapism, stories have real power to hold human attention and shape our thinking." Via Shannon Bolithoe
Penelope's curator insight,
January 28, 2016 2:40 PM
Coke gets it! They are master storytellers as well as syrupy drink makers. Take a peek at a Coke commercial and ask yourself, "What makes this work so well?" Then take the lessons and transfer them to your own stories.
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
Link to the original article: http://www.fastcocreate.com/3020044/the-science-of-storytelling-how-narrative-cuts-through-distraction
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"The great writer's gift to a reader is to make him a better writer."
“Stories,” Neil Gaiman asserted in his wonderful lecture on what makes stories last, “are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” But what is the natural selection of these organisms — what makes the ones that endure fit for survival? What, in other words, makes a great story? Via Mary Daniels Brown
Paul Deemer's curator insight,
January 24, 2016 4:58 AM
Fantastic article exploring the unique qualities of storytelling. 
Mike Donahue's curator insight,
January 24, 2016 11:21 AM
This contains some great insights from Bruner and others that can help anyone approach their storytelling challenges in more effective ways. |
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Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good, and makes the reader feel something. Via Jeff Domansky
Penelope's curator insight,
February 10, 2016 12:57 PM
Thirty one different ways to improve our writing should give us at least one or two new options that we can pull out to get started, get moving, and get finished!
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
Link to the original article: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/improving-writing-skills-tools 
Luke Padilla's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 1:47 PM
31 tools you can use to improve your writing. Several new to you I'm sure.
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See our list of universities that offer free online writing courses. Learn about what courses are available and what topics they cover to find the course that's right for you.
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Fluency Tutor for Google by Texthelp allows you to hear your students read. Newsela allows students to read current news articles at different Lexile levels. Using them together allows students to record and share their reading of news articles with you.
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"There are unlimited ways to use artifacts and photos to encourage writing. You can start by providing the item yourself or allowing students to bring in their own. Here’s a list of ideas to get you going: 2. Have students make an initial list of descriptive words connected to their artifact. Then ask students to go item by item on their list to create a more descriptive word or phrase. For instance, a student who brings in a fuzzy brown teddy bear might start with a list similar to the one on the left, but progress to a list similar to the one on the right:
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"Let’s start by stating this: Not every visual story has to be interactive! Say it again: Your visual story does not have to be interactive to be effective! "Your story, however, must be engaging. If your users barely look at it, or get bored with it, then what was the point of creating a visual story in the first place? You might as well have left it out entirely. "An engaging story doesn’t have to be complex or elaborate. In some cases, you can tell a cohesive story with just one image."
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One of the things I miss about living in a city with a subway system is the myriad thoughtful design elements that go into managing a perpetual flow of tourists and commuters. New York’s subway map presents us with an iconic tangle of interlocking tributaries resembling diagrams of a circulatory system. The NYC system’s ingeniously simple graphic presentation of lettered and numbered trains, encircled in their corresponding colors, can be read by most anyone with a rudimentary grasp on the English alphabet—from a new language learner to a small child. The Washington, DC subway system, though a much more prosaic affair overall, whisks riders through impressively cavernous, catacomb-like stations, with brutalist tile and concrete honeycombs that seem to go on forever. The squiggly lines of its color-coded map likewise promise ease of use and legibility.
And then there are the hours of reading time granted by a subway commute, a leisure I’ve relinquished now that I rely on car and bike. So you can imagine my envious delight in learning about Brazil’s Ticket Books, which are exactly what they sound like—books that work as subway tickets, designed with the minimalist care that major transit systems do so well. And what’s more, they’re free: “To celebrate World Book Day last April 23rd,” writes “future-forward online resource” PSFK, “[Brazillian publisher] L&PM gave away 10,000 books for free at subway stations across São Paulo. Each book came with ten free trips.” Riders could then recharge them and use the books again or pass them on to others to encourage more reading, an important public service given that Brazilians only read two books per year on average.
Click headline to read more, access hot links and watch video clip-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Sara Rosett's curator insight,
February 5, 2016 9:49 AM
Sara's thoughts: Love this idea! #Multi-tasking. It's a book and a ticket! #tw
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Here are 365 Creative Writing Prompts to help inspire you to write every single day! Use them for journaling, story starters, poetry, and more! Via Shannon Bolithoe
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The psychological origins of waiting (... and waiting, and waiting) to work. Via Penelope, Jim Lerman
Chris Simon's curator insight,
February 4, 2016 4:01 AM
Non, vous n'êtes pas le seul à procrastiner ! ;-)
Sara Rosett's curator insight,
February 4, 2016 11:15 AM
Sara's thoughts: really interesting article on mindset and how it impacts work. #tw 
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
February 5, 2016 8:15 AM
"Forced into a challenge we're not prepared for, we often engage 'self-handicapping': deliberately doing things that set us up for failure." By Megan McArdle
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Weebly for Education offers a good platform for creating a classroom blog. One of the perks of Weebly for Education is that you can create and manage your students' accounts from one central dashboard. Weebly for Education also offers all of the great templates and content management tools that has made Weebly one of the most popular tools on the web for creating blogs and websites.
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If you’re a freelance writer, the task of finding quality, well-paying gigs can be a daunting one. Where do you even start? How you can guarantee the jobs you’re looking at are legit instead of scams?
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"Take a look back at the stories about stories published on Co.Create in 2013, including pearls of wisdom from Ricky Gervais, Margaret Atwood, a former Pixar artist, and" 7 more. Jim Lerman's insight: A very good collection of thoughts and advice from 10 successful writers.
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"Stimulation prepping via images lights up the specific neuronal network focused on your particular writing project and fuels imagination and creativity." Via Shannon Bolithoe
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