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Jim Lerman
from Social Media Content Curation
June 9, 2013 7:51 PM
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Excerpted from review article on TechCrunch:
"This week the teacher-turned-entrepreneur Adam Below officially launched eduClipper, a platform that allows teachers and students to explore, share and contribute to a library of educational content. In both function and design, it’s essentially a Pinterest for education, with one notable difference: Because eduClipper is built exclusively for teachers and students, unlike Pinterest, you probably won’t find it blocked by your local school.
Educators and students can explore thousands of pieces of educational content, find lesson plans, resources and videos and search for the most popular content by subject or interest.
With eduClipper, users can share individual eduClips (or pieces of content) or eduClipboards (collections of content) with colleagues or students while cross-posting or embedding that content on other social platforms or sending them through email.
EduClips are created through the site’s bookmarklet (a Chrome extension), so once it’s installed in their browsers, teachers and students can grab any content they find on the web, Google Drive, Google Apps and more, and add them to their collection, i.e. their eduClipboards. Once grabbed, the site automatically grabs the source link, too, so that it’s easy to get back to the original content and easy to give proper citation.
Teachers and students can share these clipboards so that their classmates and colleagues can collaborate on assignments or in-class activities, create groups to share these resources with and align the content that’s clipped and shared to Common Core Standards. That’s the big advantage of eduClipper over Pinterest, that content can easily be organized and annotated for each class or subject by way of these learning collections. It also has the benefit of being created by a teacher who has spent the last five years searching for and curating the web’s best educational content..."
Read full review article by TechCrunch here:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/educlipper-launches-its-pinterest-for-education-to-bring-better-crowdsourced-curation-sharing-to-the-classroom/
Try out eduClipper: https://www.educlipper.net
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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Jim Lerman
from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 9, 2013 6:26 PM
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The following is a guest post by Catlin Tucker, one of SimpleK12's presenters. Click here to watch Catlin's Webinars inside the Teacher Lear
Via Deb Gardner, Susan Golab
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Jim Lerman
from Video Game Design for Schools
June 8, 2013 2:02 AM
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By Jason Sellers
"After analyzing several essays containing descriptive imagery and composing a short piece of writing about a favorite location in San Francisco, students honed their descriptive writing skills by creating text-based interactive fiction games using PlayFic.com and the Inform 7 programming language. Without the benefit of modern graphics, students had to rely on vivid sensory imagery in order to create engaging game-play environments."
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from Video Game Design for Schools
June 8, 2013 1:43 AM
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 5, 2013 4:15 PM
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By Pernille Ripp Summary by SmartBrief on EdTech "Blogging has become an important part of instruction in Pernille Ripp's fifth-grade classroom -- connecting students with the outside world and offering authentic learning opportunities. For teachers looking to start student blogs, Ripp suggests in this blog post that, among other things, they consider why they are interested in blogging, select a platform, get necessary permissions, address safety, and consider the differences between blogging and writing"
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Jim Lerman
from Developing Writers
June 3, 2013 12:18 AM
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By Stacey L Kikendal Abstract
"For the past two years, I have been experimenting with using graphic novels (specifically V for Vendetta) in my 200-level expository writing course at the University of New Mexico. The course is an extension of freshman English in that it emphasizes critical thinking and writing, but it has a central theme chosen by the instructor, in my case ‘Heroes of the People.’ Throughout the semester, I use a variety of different texts, from novels to movies to television to scholarly articles. We conclude with V for Vendetta, because it is a good way to combine the variety of skills the students have learned in considering different genres and media in addition to the blurred line V straddles between hero and villain. We analyze V for Vendetta as if it were any other literary text from our class; we find themes, analyze characters, and examine the contextual elements (history, setting, etc). In addition, of course, we explore the ways images are being used to complement or oppose the written text. In this essay, I discuss the various ways I use the graphic novel in my course and my students’ reactions, which are usually overwhelmingly positive. Moreover, I explore the ways in which we as college instructors can develop courses that include uncommon literary texts to still achieve our teaching goals of improving students’ reading comprehension, analytical thinking, and writing skills."
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from Developing Writers
June 3, 2013 12:10 AM
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This white paper reports initial findings from a Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center study entitled Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students. These initial findings are drawn from a survey of students enrolled in writing classes at a sample of US postsecondary institutions.
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from Feed the Writer
June 2, 2013 11:49 PM
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writing and use the power of the digital medium to create multimodal, interactive texts. Please add more examples in the comments, I want to keep collecting
Via BookChook, Sarah McElrath
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:35 PM
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PicLits.com is a creative writing and e-learning site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. It is a forum for creative writing, social interaction, and can also be used as a teaching tool.
Via Kathleen Cercone, Susan Golab
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:28 PM
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Is traditional reading and writing enough to be considered literate in the 21st century? Check out this slideshow from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano which asks us to "rethink our notion of critical literacy." She also suggests that we "develop authentic learning and assessment opportunities {as we} upgrade and amplify our curriculum."
Via Beth Dichter, Susan Golab
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:22 PM
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Margaret Bigger knows a tale when she hears one. For 29 years, she has been recording either her own stories, her family’s or other people’s tales of war, prohibition, weddings, funerals and church-going, self-publishing and editing collections of stories, or writing books of her own. A good listener and writer and a mentor-like editor, Bigger has written or edited 24 books in her 73 years. But it is her book “Recalling Your Memories on Paper, Tape or Videotape,” published in 1996 and now in its second printing, that launched her career as a teacher about saving memories and creating memoirs. Across a tray of hot tea, the Southern author recently talked from her Foxcroft East home about teaching others. “Actually, I was teaching the class over and over again and thought it would be good to write a book and use some of my students’ experiences to make it much more interesting,” she said. “So I sort of backed into the book from teaching.” Bigger has taught the memory-writing course since 1989 at Central Piedmont Community College, Queens University of Charlotte, the Shepherd’s Center in Charlotte, at retirement centers in three states and as an annual fundraiser for the Charlotte Writers’ Club.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/12/3777487/author-teaches-writing-down-memories.html#storylink=cpy
Via Charles Tiayon, Susan Golab
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 1, 2013 3:39 PM
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By Ozge Karaoglu "There are hundreds of web tools and apps that are available for digital storytelling. Picture A Story is one them and this tool can be added to your favorites list. This is a tool to create your own digital stories by adding different elements and recording your voice over it. "First, you start by choosing your genre from adventure, fairy tales, comedy, horror, western .., then choose your background, drag and drop your characters on the scene, add as many props as you like. You can also play with their sizes. When you are done with this, you writer your story and then record your voice by clicking on “record story” button. Here, you need to allow the tool to use the computer’s microphone. If you are happy with your story, now you are ready to share it via mail"
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 1, 2013 3:32 PM
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By Ozge Karaoglu "There are many web tools around that you can create online newsletters and share them with others. Tackk is one of them. "It is pretty easy to use. After signing up, choose a theme, then use the editor widget to change the fonts, colours, backgrounds, add features such as contacts, items for sale, maps or a comment button. When you are done, just share your Tackk with others using a link or any social media platforms. "By clicking on the theme, add pictures, text, lists, buttons, embed videos, songs or pictures from the web. You can also create your own buttons and link them anywhere. You can place the buttons wherever you like."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
June 9, 2013 7:49 PM
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Excerpt from review article by VentureBeat:
"Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically created a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Or the graphic novel version of your text-based anything.
Amazon Studios released Storyteller today to allow writers and filmmakers to quickly, easily — and cheaply — storyboard their scripts.
Roy Price, Amazon’s director of Studios said: “Storyteller provides a digital backlot, acting troupe, prop department, and assistant editor — everything you need to bring your story to life.”
You start by uploading a script to Amazon Studios — or by playing with one that’s already there. Then simply page through the script paragraph by paragraph. Storyteller will try to match up characters, props, and background with the words in each chunk of text, and it does a surprisingly good job.
But if you don’t like what Storyteller gives, you can choose from its library, or even upload your own custom background or characters. Currently, the software has a library of thousands of props, characters, and backgrounds..."
Read full review article: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/07/amazon-launches-storyteller-to-turn-scripts-into-storyboards-automagically/
Learn more and try out Storyteller: http://studios.amazon.com/storyteller
Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Jim Lerman
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from The Funnily Enough
June 8, 2013 2:09 AM
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There are stories where you start in the middle of things and keep going. In the case of thrillers and books that are part of a series the reader doesn’t really need an explanation of what’s going on, they’ll work it out on the fly. In most cases, though, readers prefer to get an idea of characters and setting before things really take off. The inciting incident that propels the main character into adventure may not occur for several chapters. When you’re trying to establish the world so the reader has an idea of who they’re going to be following for the next few hundred pages the approach is often to show ordinary life, important relationships, interests and activities. And this can be quite dull.
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Jim Lerman
from Video Game Design for Schools
June 8, 2013 1:54 AM
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By Jeff Vance "Multimedia Fusion 2 is a highly powerful and visual (and free!) tool that can give students very quick results. Within minutes of picking up the tool and a minimal amount of instruction, students are well on their way to seeing results of their efforts. The programming logic for a game in a visual tool like Multimedia Fusion is done with the mouse by creating events and directing what actions happen when the event is true. Multimedia Fusion is a true object oriented programming system. "Educators that have introduced video game design and development into the classroom have noticed some very interesting benefits to the students. Students who were not interested in computer programming before have suddenly become interested in using computers to create video games. Since video game design incorporate math, logic, creative writing, and computer programming among other skills, thus the student ends up learning a lot of diverse subject matter."
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from :: The 4th Era ::
June 7, 2013 12:36 PM
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Maker Faire showcases the amazing work of all kinds and ages of makers—anyone who is embracing the do-it-yourself (or do-it-together) spirit and wants to share their accomplishments with an appreciative audience When: September 21 & 22, 201Where: New York Hall of Science
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 3, 2013 11:57 PM
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The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in language learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn.
Via Nik Peachey, Jim Lerman
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from Developing Writers
June 3, 2013 12:13 AM
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With hundreds of creative writing blogs out there, these are a good place to start for writers looking for some advice or inspiration.
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Jim Lerman
from Writing Activities for Kids
June 2, 2013 11:53 PM
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:37 PM
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It seems like new online services for collaborative writing are emerging all the time. After a series of postings about the powerful collaborative capabilities of the GitHub platform, used for writing code by programmers around the world, I suggested that this opens up the possibility for radical new ways to engage in academic scholarship and explore ways of forking the academy. For this to even stand a chance though, we need writing platforms that work better for our needs than the steep learning curve and some of the other limitations of Github. I offered my own list of suggestionsabout what that kind of platform might look like and in the next few weeks I’ll take a closer look at some of new options out there to consider. I begin with Draft, a new writing platform created by the extremely talented Nathan Kontny. Draft is designed for drafting and collaborative writing of text. It is not a blogging platform or a live editing environment like Google Docs, and the documents created within Draft are not designed to have their final home there. As it functions now, you write, collaborate, edit, and then export or directly publish the documents to your cloud hosting service such as Dropbox, Evernote, or Google Drive, to a social platform such as Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, and Twitter or, if you use the Chrome or Firefox additions, directly back into a text box in another browser tab. Get a quick overview of its features here.
Via Charles Tiayon, Susan Golab
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:29 PM
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An interesting discussion on ways to make writing an authentic experience for your students. Ideas include writing for the school newsletter, publishing ebooks, writing ne ws reports, creating textbooks for ohter grades levels and much more. Check it out for ideas and add your thoughts to the comment section.
Via Beth Dichter, Susan Golab
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Jim Lerman
from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:27 PM
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This collaboratively written article provides some great ideas for leveraging today's mobile technologies to help students enhance those vital writing
Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Susan Golab
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from Teaching and Assessing Writing
June 2, 2013 7:20 PM
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June 1, 2013 3:35 PM
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By Ozge Karakoglu "Secret messages have been used since the ancient times. Today, I would like to introduce you a new web tool that you can create secret codes.
"Mozaiq is a new web tool that you can hide messages in a plain site inside of pictures that you can, then safely share. And, none will be able to read or share the message without the secret code and knowing the way how to do it.
"What you do is pretty simple. Go to the website, write your message and choose a picture that you want the message to hide. If you don’t have, the website finds a picture for you. Add a password, but this is optional. To retrieve the hidden message, you should go to the decryption page. Be sure to share the decryption page with your intended recipient separately from the message."
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Great tool!
EduClipper: para hacer curaduría de contenidos educativos.
Zo te zien een prachtige manier om op een Pinterest-achtige manier online info en content te verzamelen voor in de klas. Iedere leerling kan er aan bijdragen en notities toevoegen via een bookmark app in Chrome. De originele link / vindplaats wordt tegelijk opgeslagen. Nice.