Scriveners' Trappings
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Aids and resources for creators and teachers of writing, interactive fiction, digital stories, and transmedia
Curated by
Jim Lerman
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This Traits-Common Core State Standards (CCSS) crosswalk provides a side-by-side comparison between the content of the 6+1 Traits and the first three CCSS writing standards for grades 11–12, as well as for all six Language standards for the same grade span, where appropriate.
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Mesa Public Schools uses the 6+1 Writing Traits Model to guide the instruction and evaluation of writing. Mesa Public Schools has selected a 6-point rubric to use for assessing writing in accordance with the 6+1 Writing Traits Model. MPS rubrics are available in a student-friendly format with simplified langauge and alternative terms for use in with students in the classroom.
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Articles and excerpts based on Reflect and Write: 270 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing by Elizabeth Guy and Hank Kellner. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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By Samantha Morra Summary by SmartBrief on EdTech
"Veteran educator Samantha Morra of EdTechTeacher in this blog post offers an eight-step process and links to online resources for teachers and students crafting a digital storytelling project. Her process involves multiple planning phases, including two pre-writing steps, a story-board process and strategies for seeking feedback on the finished product. "Digital stories create a bridge across content areas and provide opportunities for students to break free from print literacies to add deeper dimension to their work," she writes."
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By Andrew Gumbel
"One of the enduring qualities of The Great Gatsby, just released in yet another filmed adaptation over the weekend, is that it’s a perfect book to read as a teenager, which is when most people first come to it. The idea of reinventing yourself as a suave, charming, deeply mysterious man of fabulous wealth for the sole purpose of recapturing your lost love is nothing if not a wonderful adolescent dream. Gatsby dreams up his “Platonic conception of himself” when he is 17 and already senses that the adult world is filled with crushing disappointments.
"I’m not sure I really grasped that idea, or indeed any of the other reasons why Gatsby continues to resonate so deeply, when I first read the book at school in Britain more than 30 years ago. It was my first encounter with a substantial work of American literature, and my initial reaction was mostly surprise at the familiarity of Fitzgerald’s descriptions of class stratification, snobbery, and social pretense."
Jim Lerman's insight:
I'm grateful for this article because I really wondered why the movie gets made over and over with each new generation. I guess I do need to read the book once again, since my last time was my first, also in high school.
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by Julie Dirksen
"So this session is about pulling some of the specific strategies that fiction writers use to into learning scenarios. There are a lot of other interesting ways to explore storytelling in terms of meta-structures, psychology and cultural constructs. This isn’t that presentation (though I’ll probably do that one too, one of these days).
"This presentation is focused on specific strategies for making learning stories more interesting."
Jim Lerman's insight:
Lots of people talk about how important it is to tell a story when trying to inform, entertain, persuade, or teach someone something; but they usually don't tell you how to do that. Or, if they try to tell you, they don't do it very well.
Dirksen is not one of those people. She explains very well and this slide deck is a terrific distillation of a great deal of wise information. This is really good!
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Randy Astle: "Transmedia by definition requires producers to work in more than one medium; the fun, most of the time, is in devising ways to carry a narrative (or narrative world) across different platforms" ... Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Deborah Arnold
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
March 5, 2013 2:16 AM
Interesting - Click the headline for the full story.
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By Rex Brynen
"A few months back we mentioned Inklewriter here on the blog, a “ free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories.” This term I had a chance to try it out for class assignments, specifically as an alternative option for the group research paper assignment in my POLI 450 (Peacebuilding) course at McGill University. Usually this paper takes the form of a “best practices” analysis of a common peacebuilding challenges, such as dealing with the demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, or donor coordination. For those who decided to go the Inklewriter route, they were told to develop an interactive story or adventure that would serve to illustrate best practices, explore particular sets of operational challenges, or otherwise illuminate the material we had covered in class in an educational way. Because of the experimental nature of the assignment, they were asked to submit both a development diary documenting the design process, as well as the Inklewriter project itself. They were also given a two-week extension."
Jim Lerman's insight:
A fascinating case study on the use of a new tool (to me!) for writing interactive stories...in this case for a course in Peacebuilding. What a tremendously rich resource this is.
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"Tech Tip: Cool Tools for Enhancing Your Blog PostsSue Waters shares a variety of tools for embedding polls, presentations, quizzes, and videos into blog posts. Included are step-by-step instructions for adding embed codes. "
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From the website
"We are slightly obsessed with feedback here at 121writing. Why? Because feedback converts curiosity into learning. Feedback is the fundamental process of converting the desire to learn into learning itself. Yet, despite this importance, few people are aware they traverse the feedback loop every time they learn something.
"When exercising or playing a sport, we don't have to think about breathing. But if we do - deliberately inhaling or exhaling in coordination with the forces we're attempting to exert - we attain better performance.
"Right now, most of us aren't thinking about feedback when we learn something. Learning is certainly still possible without this awareness - but we could learn so much more so much faster if we paid attention to this process and asked ourselves how to optimize it.
"Feedback is the unsung hero of progress in learning, and we wish to make it very explicit.
"We believe the greatest need for this type of conscious feedback is in writing. Writing is an enigma. It is structurally complex, its content is infinite, and our egos are wrapped up in it.
"Our mission is to demystify writing, and our vision is to give the world's leaners access to personalized, high quality feedback.
"We would love for you to join us. -The 121writing team"
via Chris Smith's Shambles site
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Direct narrative is when you have the reader experience a scene through a character. Doing what they do, feeling what they feel.
Indirect narrative is when the reader is told what just happened without getting a blow by blow report.
In most cases you’re going to write in direct narrative as much as possible. It’s more immediate and engaging, and makes it easier for the reader to connect with the character. First person narrative in particular is mainly written in this mode.
But there are times when you don’t want to live through every second of a story. Knowing when it is beneficial to the story to live through every moment, and when it’s just padding things out unnecessarily isn’t always obvious. Fortunately there’s a rule of thumb that can help make it clear which way to go. Via mooderino
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Ken Morrison's curator insight,
April 22, 2013 8:42 AM
Many students begin news articles with who, what, where, when.....boring. Help the reader know why they should care. Respect the audience by creating meaning and giving insight.
Ken Morrison's comment,
April 23, 2013 7:18 PM
HI Ivon Thanks for the rescoop and tweet. You have some great sites going on Scoop.it! You may also like some of these resources on my primary scoop.it site: http://www.scoop.it/t/new-media-technology?tag=English+Teachers
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According to today’s infographic, writing can serve as a calming, meditative tool. Stream of conscious writing exercises, in particular, have been identified as helpful stress coping methods. Keeping a journal, for example, or trying out free-writing exercises, can drastically reduce your levels of stress.
Cathy Ternent Dyer's curator insight,
August 7, 2013 10:22 PM
Great information! Thanks to Elvira for telling me about it. :) 
Chris Shern's curator insight,
February 1, 2015 5:39 AM
The power of putting pen to paper helps to make sense of a world increasingly filled with noise.
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Joe Pereira's curator insight,
May 24, 2013 9:53 AM
A long, but hopefully informative post giving an overview of how DGBL is being used in language learning - and specifically detailing the results of study on using IF, as chronicled in the recently published "Cases on Digital Game-based Learning: Methods, Models and Strategies".
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Dean J. Fusto's comment,
September 7, 2013 7:49 AM
Helpful primer on curation and its particular skill set. Thanks for the scoop.
Dean J. Fusto's curator insight,
September 7, 2013 7:50 AM
A very helpful primer on content curation. 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
September 22, 2013 5:49 PM
Stacia Johnson and Melissa Marsh have recorded a 10-minute video introducing to Content Curation for their EDCI515 graduate course at the University of Victoria.
Topics covered: Defining CurationWhat skills neededWhat tools can help
good summary recomendet to anyone interested in content-curation and its aplications in learning
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by Ann Michaelson
"After eight years of teaching in a technology driven high school and after attending workshops, seminars and conferences worldwide, I thought it was about time I challenged both my students and myself.
"I wanted to see if it was possible to find a project that could engage every student in my 9th grade class of English learners and learn if they all could work together as a team. Most of all, I wanted to see if they could produce an end product that would be authentic and involve collaboration with educators and students globally.
"I believe they and I succeeded! The evidence: Our publication of the 200-plus page collaborative book Connected Learners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom.As our press release says, this interactive eBook is a unique compendium of stories, advice and how-to articles designed to help high school teachers and their students around the globe shift from classrooms that are isolated and teacher-centered to digitally rich environments where learning is student-driven and constantly connected to the global internet."
RichardBulpittSchool 's curator insight,
May 24, 2013 1:06 AM
Wow an e-book written by students about motivation and engagement.
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From
gf2045
Date: 15–16 June 2013 Venue: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Preliminary Congress Program
The second international Global Future 2045 congress will take place on 15-16 June 2013 at the Lincoln Center in New York, and will be focused on discussion of a new evolutionary strategy for humanity aimed at overcoming the 21st century’s civilization challenges. The strategy is based on carrying out two revolutions: spiritual and sci-tech. We believe this is the only way to overcome existing crises.
At the congress, a vision will be presented for the spiritual transformation of humanity, and new technologies will be demonstrated which are likely to form the basis of the sci-tech revolution. The congress will also showcase our Avatar science mega-project, aimed at accelerating the creation of technologies enabling a gradual transition from our biological bodies to an increasingly advanced artificial carrier of the human self.
Jim Lerman's curator insight,
May 17, 2013 8:21 AM
This is shaping up to be a great event for future-oriented thinkers. Ray Kurzweil is one of the featured speakers. I'll be there!
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by Neil Perkin
"Multi-chapter, multimedia, highly immersive digital features from publishers seem to be becoming quite the thing. The latest is the rather lovely ESPNGrantland story of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which follows on from their similar feature on The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis. Then there was the beautiful Pitchfork cover story on Natasha Khan which wonderfully integrated text, imagery and audio."
Jim Lerman's insight:
Very interesting piece on multi-media publishing.
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Description by Karen Fraker "Tech Tip: How to Verify Your Blog on Pinterest Jen Elliott gives directions on how to drive more traffic to your blog by verifying it on Pinterest."
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A very resource-rich slide deck by the wonderful Shelly Terrell.