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Quill is a free service that puts a new spin on the old writing worksheets that most of us used in middle school. The service offers more than just the writing practice activities, but that is its core feature. There are three activity categories within Quill. Those activities are Quill Proofreader, Quill Grammar, and Quill Writer. 
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Random writing and journaling prompts, inspiration, and story starters for writers, bloggers, and visual artists. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Pilar Pamblanco
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Description by Jennifer Gonzalez "One key to improving student writing is to have students write more often. But paperwork is hard to manage, you are limited in how much feedback you can provide, and students often have trouble thinking of ideas. Write About solves these problems, providing students with an online space to write on high-interest topics and get feedback from their peers.
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"The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced Writing Project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. "These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications (a link to the full article accompanies each idea below)." Jim Lerman's insight: This is a fantastic free resource!.It's basically a complete how-to guide to organize a year-long course in writing, which leaves a great deal up to the individual creativity of the instructor. Wonderful tool. Via Charles Fischer
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The Need for 21st Century Skills
Jim Lerman's insight: An interesting take on 21st Century Skills from Australia. Similarities to and differences from the U.S. version are interesting.
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"...you don't need any of the following apps and tools. But if you're a busy writer, or one who would like to become busy and efficient, many of these will, in fact, become indispensable. Especially if you enjoy things like eating and electricity and you are not supported by a trust fund."
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Looking back on his days in front of a high school classroom, the acclaimed writer shares his views on grammar and explains why discovering great literature is like losing one's virginity.
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Wistia is a great video hosting tool that I've written about in the past. Besides using it to host videos, I've used it to convert video file formats. Via John Evans, Jim Lerman
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This post contains a random collection of 70 sentence stems you can use in your academic writing.
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Getting started is difficult for all writers, not just for the students in our classrooms. (In fact, this is my third attempt at this post) In a student-centered writing classroom, the mantra, “teach the writer, not the writing” is commonplace. When a teacher identifies what the student is on the cusp of grasping as a writer and differentiates instruction based on need, the focus remains on the writer and not the writing. This moves ALL students forward.
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“Looking for the next great book to sink your teeth into? Look no further. Below are over 100 links to websites that provide free e-books on a huge variety of topics.” Via Ana Cristina Pratas, NikolaosKourakos
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No matter which way you slice it, students are more engaged when the "real world" is the focus of their learning. Getting kids to write for an authentic audience is one of the best ways to make this connection. Via Dean J. Fusto
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We introduce several new templates each week but this template especially awesome. Take a look at this free Instructional Design Storyboard Template. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY, Jim Lerman
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Amara is home to an award winning subtitle editor that makes it easy to caption and translate video. Amara also hosts volunteer localization & accessibility communities, and offers professional tools and services for subtitles.
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"Can elementary-school children show off their best writing on a computer? The research arm of the U.S. Department of Education was curious to learn just that. In 2012 it handed out laptop computers to more than 10,000 fourth-graders and asked them to complete two 30-minute writing assignments. "Initial results from the study were positive: most of the young students were able complete the writing assignments and use the editing tools. Soon after, states began rolling out new Common Core-aligned tests that included online writing components. Last year, more than half of U.S. states gave computer-based writing tests to children as young as third-graders. Some wrote their paragraphs with a pencil and paper; the majority used a computer. "But a new, deeper analysis of the 2012 writing pilot, released to the public in December 2015, found more complicated results. It compared the computer-written essays with a pencil-and-paper test given to fourth graders two years earlier, in 2010. High-performing students did substantially better on the computer than with pencil and paper. But the opposite was true for average and low-performing students. They crafted better sentences using pencil and paper than they did using the computer. Low-income and black and Hispanic students tended to be in this latter category."
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44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work Via Charles Fischer, Jim Lerman
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"For the past two years that I have been teaching American Literature, I have integrated This American Life into my students’ learning. I have previously used episodes, particularly “Act V,” which tells the story of Prison Performing Arts and Shakespeare in prison. It remains my favorite episode of This American Life to this day.
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The man who wrote The Remains of the Day in the pitch-perfect voice of an English butler is himself very polite. After greeting me at the door of his home in London’s Golders Green, he immediately offered to make me tea, though to judge from his lack of assurance over the choice in his cupboard he is not a regular four P.M. Assam drinker. When I arrived for our second visit, the tea things were already laid out in the informal den. He patiently began recounting the details of his life, always with an amused tolerance for his younger self, especially the guitar-playing hippie who wrote his college essays using disembodied phrases separated by full stops. “This was encouraged by professors,” he recalled. “Apart from one very conservative lecturer from Africa. But he was very polite. He would say, Mr. Ishiguro, there is a problem about your style. If you reproduced this on the examination, I would have to give you a less-than-satisfactory grade.”
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I have been using one of the writing ideas I learned at Kenyon last summer with my juniors. Watching my students write last week prompted me to tweet this comment: Jim Lerman's insight: Wonderful piece by Huff, containing a few excellent and well-described suggestions for writing activities.
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"In their attempts to establish a 1:1 program for the year 6 class, St Oliver Plunket has recently held a series of workshops in order to develop their students skills before they were officially given management of their very own devices. Via John Evans
Raquel Oliveira's curator insight,
July 2, 2014 7:34 PM
um big quadro de aplicativos utilizados para apoiar aprendizagem no seculo XXI... 
Wendy Zaruba's curator insight,
February 9, 2016 4:24 PM
Here are two great visual lists of iPad apps for Teachers and Students.
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What issues do you care most about? What topics do you find yourself discussing most passionately, whether online, at the dinner table, in the classroom or with your friends? Via Deb Gardner
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Now I’d like to share the best articles on writing through all categories you can find on Writepls, published in 2015.
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“ It has been a while since my last blogpost. Last month, I had the great honor of writing four guest posts on the topic of mLearning for ASTD. Furthermore, I have been studying hard to complete my postgraduate studies, which made me step aside from some other projects for a while. Having said that, last week I came…” Via Ariana Amorim, NikolaosKourakos
FPPT's curator insight,
December 29, 2015 2:01 PM
Great tools for storyboarding, I'd combine many of these with mind maps in PowerPoint.
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How do you make sense of what you see when you look at an image, especially if that image comes with no caption, headline, links or other clues about its origins? What can constructing meaning from an image teach you?
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