The digital age often gets a bad press but the findings of this report demonstrate that social networking sites and blogs are linked to young people’s more positive attitudes to writing
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Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels - 20 views
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"A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."
Cool It - 19 views
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Climate Change resource
Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers. - 4 views
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Could be used with projector and/or embedded in PowerPoint lesson
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Really good for visual organisers for students to use as a guide to their writing
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6-Traits Resources: Modeling Writing with 6-Traits + Podcast Sharing - 27 views
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I love to get email from graduates of my online 6-traits class. I get a glimpse of their classrooms and the fun and excitement of teaching writing with the six traits. Here's news from Karen's 5th grade class!
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I've done 3 traits so far this term and have never received such overall great writing from a class. The three or four that really shine have become 17 and 18. I am truly impressed with the improvement and excitement about their writing (and honestly - I'd put a lot of energy into my writing program BEFORE 6 Traits!).
UDL Book Builder - 16 views
Storybird - Collaborative storytelling - 0 views
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Very nice tool for collaborative writing. Lots of great examples. Take the tour to see how easy it is to use.
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Love it! Thanks for sharing :)
The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com - 0 views
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Write an article and the program will generate an image that appears to be from a printed newspaper. Might help motivate kids to write.
Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web - 0 views
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Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
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Don't like to sign up for stuff? No worries! You don't need an account to use Twiddla
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You've got work to do. We'll stay out of your way.
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Twiddla is a free no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too! -
Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly. -
Twiddla is a free, no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Voice and Text chat too!
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 0 views
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An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
Collaboration Projects | How I Spent My Summer Vacation - 0 views
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The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st.
National Novel Writing Month - 0 views
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials - 0 views
Writing Tool Belt 2.0 | David S. Bill IV - 0 views
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writing to participate\n\nWriting has never been more important but we must recognize this cultural shift. Educators must develop a new tool belt that supports the interaction and connectivity that our students now thrive upon. Our students text, comment, and tweet. Our job is to use the tools that they are familiar with to create an environment that develops the literacy skills Yancy mentions while building upon our students' communal interactions via social media.
Tweets from the beyond: John Quincy Adams Twittering - 0 views
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Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts
from John Quincy Adams' line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track
Adams' voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years
after Adams' journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the
first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on
Twitter.
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Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts from John Quincy Adams' line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track Adams' voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years after Adams' journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on Twitter.
K-2 Writing Interactives - UEN - 0 views
Electronic Literature - 0 views
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This is a beta-launch. I would like to work directly with some high school/college classes to refine the exercises. Please contact me at deenalarsen AT yahoo.com.
Thanks.
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Electronic literature uses links, images, sound, navigation, as well as text to convey meaning. Electronic literature is ergodic, and thus it is up to the reader to piece together the materials as the reader goes through the work. Elit 101explains how these elements work to convey meaning and provides examples and exercises for each element.
