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Jim Lerman
November 6, 2013 2:30 PM
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by Dana Huff
"Before my site went kaput thanks to my former host, I had all of these handouts organized on a page entitled “Lesson Plans.” I decided not to be misleading. They aren’t lesson plans, but they are handouts I have created for assignments. They are organized by the grade level in which I teach them. Most handouts are available in two formats—Rich Text Format (RTF) or Portable Document Format (PDF)."
Jim Lerman's insight A great collection of "handouts created for assignments", intended for secondary English teachers.
Via Todd Finley
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November 6, 2013 1:44 PM
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Jim Lerman's insight:
Be sure to check the green Downloads section on the left of lthe start page. It contains numerous resources for teaching writing including:
The Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide Prompted Writing Welcome to Writer's Workshop What Is Good Writing? You Want Me to Teach Writing Now, Too? Assessing Writers, Assessing Writers K-12 Student Writing Samples An Introduction to the Writing Process
via Todd Finley
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November 6, 2013 1:33 PM
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by Todd Finley
"I spent a couple days throwing keywords into OER (open education resources are digital materials freely available through open licenses) search engines to assess the quality of secondary and higher education writing curricula.
"About 10% of the lessons and/or courses met my criteria, which meant the writing courses and lessons had to: - Be free, permanent and public
- Support the writing process and involve students in the application of multiple literacies: reading, writing, speaking listening and visualizing
- Be take-and-bake, with activities intuitive and/or simple enough to teach next period
- Encourage student inquiry, autonomy and high expectations
- Prompt me to wonder, "Why didn't I think of that?"
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from Into the Driver's Seat
November 4, 2013 2:48 PM
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by Caitlin Tucker
"Last Thursday, my students engaged in a Listen Edition Blast. I love public radio and was super excited to try it out. “Blasts” are Twitter-like engagements limited to 140 characters. They invite students to participate in a larger conversation with other StudySync students to discuss real world issues or topics.
"I selected an public radio Listen Edition titled “Creep. Crawly. Dinner?” This Blast presented the question, “What do you think of insects as the next food craze?” which I thought would be a light hearted complement to our Lord of the Flies unit.
"My students began their Blast assignment, and my room erupted in the sound of crickets. I had 32 students with a hodgepodge of devices listening to a public radio clip about eating insects. Their eyes lit up when they heard the sounds and their noses wrinkled as they imagined dining on creepy crawly insects! It was fun to just observe their reactions. They respond instantly to media!"
Jim Lerman's insight: Tucker comes up with so many creative ideas. It must be great to be a student in her classes.
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from TeachingEnglish
November 3, 2013 5:30 PM
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When I was working at IH Newcastle, I taught the same group for 20 hours a week, four hours a day, divided into two two-hour lessons. That's quite a lot of time with the same group, and yet I somet...
Via TeachingEnglish
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from :: The 4th Era ::
November 3, 2013 5:27 PM
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Google Scholar, like Google Books, is one of the research tools that high school students often overlook. Searching on Google Scholar is not like searching on Google.com or searching in any other public search engine.
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from Technology in K-12 Education
November 3, 2013 5:06 PM
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"Being creative means setting free your imaginative powers to experiment with new worlds and experiences. The art of comic creation is one of the best representation of creativity at work.
Via seilts
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from Into the Driver's Seat
November 2, 2013 4:15 PM
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“ You've written and designed your ebook - now to share it with the world. Daniel Kemp of Red Jumper Studio walks you through the process from start to finish.”
Via Jon Samuelson, Jenny Smith, Jim Lerman
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from Ebook and Publishing
October 31, 2013 8:40 PM
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Random House Children's Books has acquired Figment, an online writing community for teens founded by Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear in 2010 that has attracted more than 300,000 users.
Via Marianela Camacho Alfaro
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Jim Lerman
October 31, 2013 8:34 PM
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from Digital Presentations in Education
October 31, 2013 8:10 PM
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Perspective is a platform for exploring, creating, and sharing audiovisual stories. Today's storytelling involves a mishmash of apps, websites, blog tools, and technologies. Perspective simplifies all this by combining the essential elements of storytelling into a single iPad App.
Via Baiba Svenca
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Jim Lerman
October 29, 2013 9:01 AM
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by Emily Short
"This is one of several design articles about the new interactive narrative platform Versu, which Richard Evans and I have been building with a team at Linden Lab.
"The first several stories implemented for Versu are written for a generally Regency-period sensibility, influenced heavily by Jane Austen, and less-heavily by several of her contemporary authors, as well as more recent writers such as Georgette Heyer and Patrick O’Brian. We did not pull quotes from the more recent authors whose work is still in copyright, but we were aware of some of the tropes that those authors have brought into reader consciousness."
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Jim Lerman
October 28, 2013 6:43 PM
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There's plenty of hand-wringing over how technology is affecting communication, but an illuminating article by Clive Thompson argues that technology may be doing more to increase literacy and encourage reading since the rise of the novel.
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Jim Lerman
November 6, 2013 2:22 PM
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by Traci Gardner
The Lists of Ten are writing assignments, classroom activities, and teaching strategies for middle, secondary, and college teachers. In addition to classroom-ready assignments and activities, you'll find teaching tips, pedagogical guidelines, administrative pointers "
Jim Lerman's insight:
A wonderful compilation of 51 lists of 10 items each on topics sure to be of interest to any teacher of writing from middle grades through college. Updated occasionally.
Via Todd Finley
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Jim Lerman
November 6, 2013 1:38 PM
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"This unit includes reading and writing activities that are geared to developing the use of memory, observation and the senses. The aim is to develop your perceptual abilities, honing your capacity to see detail in the world. You will be encouraged to start seeing the familiar in a new way and to make good use of your own personal history.
"This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course Creative writing (A215)."
Jim Lerman's insight:
Selected by Todd Finley as the best Open Education Resource on teaching writing.
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November 4, 2013 3:03 PM
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by Miguel Guhlin
Wondering about speech to text iPad apps? That's a bit different than text to speech or OCR to speech solutions previously featured in this blog.
For now, these are the options I've seen that are focused on speech to text:
- Dragon Dictation (Free) - "Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages"
- Voice Texting Pro (Free) - "...Speak into the microphone and convert your speech into text. Then directly send your message to e-mail, sms, Twitter or Facebook. You can also send it to your clipboard (copy) and paste the dictated text in any other application."
- Speech Notes (Free) - "Speech Notes is a note taking app that can convert speech with the help of internet connection. Just tap on mic button and once done hit again to start converting voice to text."
- Voice Assistant ($1.99) - "Voice Assistant Translates Your Voice into Text and Sends It to Virtually Any Other iPhone/iPad App" via LifeHacker
Jim Lerman's insight:
I think this is just such a powerful technology. I'm constantly amazed at how few people use it. I wrote most of my last book using speech-to text-software. It is such a timesaver!
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Jim Lerman
November 3, 2013 7:44 PM
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Quite a wonderful list. I don't know if these really are Pixar's rules, but I've seen them in several places, so they probably are. These rules sell the movies.
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Jim Lerman
November 3, 2013 5:29 PM
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Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language metaphors, definitions, worksheets, lists, lessons, and games.
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from Sheila's Edtech
November 3, 2013 5:07 PM
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Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards.
Via Nik Peachey, Sheila Fredericks
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from Technologies in ELT
November 2, 2013 4:17 PM
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When you want to make your writing more powerful, cut out words you don't need--such as the 10 included in this post
Via Evelyn Izquierdo
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from Into the Driver's Seat
October 31, 2013 11:48 PM
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by Richard Byrne
"Book Creator allows anyone to create their own books using images, text, videos, free-hand drawings, handwriting, and audio recordings. You can arrange your book in three different formats; portrait, square, or landscape. Each page in your book can include pictures and videos from your iPad’s camera roll and or from your iTunes library. In addition to the pictures and videos you can include as much as text as you can fit on each page. In fact, if you just want to have text on a page you can do that. If you would like to narrate your book you can tap the record button to add your voice to each page of your book. Every page in your book can have a custom color scheme."
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from Books Direct
October 31, 2013 8:38 PM
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"National Novel Writing Month (akaNaNoWriMo) is just around the corner and wordsmiths everywhere are in preparation for a productive month of writing. Over the last several years I've discovered several writing apps that have proved helpful with several aspects of the writing process, whether it's organizing initial ideas, outlining a draft, or getting down to business of finalizing a story..."
Via Lynda Dickson
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a challenge to write an entire novel in the month of November. Here are some tips to get your students involved.
Via Lynnette Van Dyke
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from Writing Rightly
October 31, 2013 1:02 AM
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"He Said, She Said: Dialog Tags and Using Them Effectively." by D.M. Johnson -------------------
Penelope Silver's insight: Dialogue can trip up even the most seasoned of writers. You can read about it all day long, but until you're actually writing and needing to use dialogue tags (or speech tags), you'll probably skip over this stuff. Think of these tags as signposts, pointing to who is actually doing the talking. Each tag contains at least one noun or pronoun. (said, asked, whispered, remarked). Susannah said the clerk asked she said and took off her coat he said, looking sad As I am writing my current novel, I sail merrily along, adding in some dialogue tags with ease, and getting myself mired in the mud at others. Do I use he said or she said? Where does that comma go? Should I use a more expressive tag? One thing to keep in mind: the "he/she said," or "he/she asked" will disappear in the reader's mind, while adding in an expressive tag will make it stick out like a sore thumb. Read on if you, too, need a college lesson in drumming up the proper speech tag. ***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"*** Link to the original article:http://www.scribophile.com/academy/he-said-she-said-dialog-tags-and-using-them-effectively
Via Penelope
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Jim Lerman
October 29, 2013 8:57 AM
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by Emily Short
"Recent discussions got me thinking about some rather substantial games that rarely get mentioned, and that I suspect a lot of people may not have played. Here are a few I liked but rarely hear people talk about."
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