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Michele Brown

Pixton | World's Best Way to Make & Share Comics - 70 views

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comics cartoon

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  • Unleash your creativity! Fun, quick and easy to use.
    Tell your story your way.

  • Unleash your creativity! Fun, quick and easy to use
  • Create real comic layouts. Edit the shape and position of each comic panel. Express yourself. Unlimited range of expression. Move your characters into any pose. Style your words. Give text and speech bubbles personality in any language. Add your own images. Upload photos and personalize with your own art. Make your own art. Group objects to create original characters, props and backgrounds. Show your personality. Design characters of any age — people and other animals. Fast and easy. Kickstart your creativity with presets, shortcuts and templates. Make 'em laugh! Share instantly with friends, family, classmates and colleagues.  
  • adria kempner on 21 Jul 10
     
    Comic strip generator. Requires login
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Aug 11
     
    Pixton is a widely used comic strip maker. The personal account is free. So many options and the click and drag editing is really easy to use. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
  • Michele Brown on 20 Aug 13
     
    Create comics
Debra Spear

Graphing Worksheets | Four Quadrant Graphing Characters Worksheets - 68 views

www.math-aids.com/...drant_Graphing_Characters.html

graphing resources math

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  • Debra Spear on 16 May 13
     
    4 quadrant graphing cartoon characters - free resource -
  • Debra Spear on 16 May 13
     
    4 quadrant graphing cartoon characters - free resource -
Jennie Snyder

Are You a Character-Based Leader? - Forbes - 76 views

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leadership leader

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  • Jennie Snyder on 14 Jan 13
     
    5 key traits of character-based leadership. 
Martin Burrett

Why avoiding in-school politics isn't always the best policy - UKEdChat.com - 17 views

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staff teachers education

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  • Martin Burrett on 20 Nov 16
     
    "Schools are inherently full of different characters. With a mix of personalities, students and staff can often clash with each other, using different strategies to gain the upper hand, or simply to avoid conflict and live a quiet life. Yet, there are those characters who can be sneaky, back-stabbing, manipulative or darn right confrontational. It's these people who know how to play politics to win friends, influence and possibly to gain the upper hand in climbing the next step on the career ladder."
BalancEd Tech

Paul Tough - Slate Magazine - Can Schools Teach Character? - 41 views

www.slate.com/...r_of_privacy_interviewed_.html

Gir Zest CharacterEd Perseverance

shared by BalancEd Tech on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • BalancEd Tech on 13 Sep 12
     
    Grit & Zest Can Schools Teach Character?
Martin Burrett

Cubeecraft - Papercraft - 131 views

www.cubeecraft.com

paper craft art design origami

shared by Martin Burrett on 29 Dec 11 - Cached
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  • Martin Burrett on 29 Dec 11
     
    A superb site for finding, printing and making cubic paper characters. Make well known characters from TV, cartoons, movies and lots more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design
Mary Blow

Suggest a character - 7 views

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character characterization web 2.0

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  • Mary Blow on 22 Feb 12
     
    "Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. All interesting suggestions considered. Include descriptive passages if you can. Read more on the project at The Atlantic. "
Melissa Thom

The Millions : Ask the Writing Teacher: Story Arc(s) - 46 views

www.themillions.com/...riting-teacher-story-arcs.html

shared by Melissa Thom on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached
    • Melissa Thom
      Melissa Thom on 17 Nov 13
       
      Plot has many definitions depending on the context.
  • arc is the structure on which plot hangs
  • Change should occur, but not necessarily within a character.
    • Melissa Thom
      Melissa Thom on 17 Nov 13
       
      This is interesting.  I think that in many cases what makes a good story IS the changing and evolution of a character. There is usually a very different feel at the end of the story as compared to the beginning of the story for me.
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  •  ”The greatest story arcs are layered, and conflict us emotionally. I call this falling forward, or using creative destruction as a way to create emotion.”
  • hinking about your character’s arc, you might consider your reader’s. What do you want your reader to feel at the beginning of your story? How about at the end? What needs to occur, what information needs to be supplied, in order to make your reader feel such-and-such?
  • What if a character doesn’t change, but the reader’s perception of that character does? (I think, in fact, this is what Oryx and Crake does, and does well.)
Don Doehla

Weaving SEL Skills Into Book Talks | Edutopia - 21 views

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skills edutopia book talks literacy social-emotional learning resources tools

shared by Don Doehla on 08 May 15 - No Cached
  • Don Doehla on 08 May 15
     
    Regardless of what social and emotional learning (SEL), character development, or any other related program you might use in your school, two things are true: They have a problem-solving component, and generalization is greatly enhanced when what is being taught as SEL/character is also integrated into the rest of the school day. Because of the importance of language arts skills, reading activities provide an ideal way to build students' problem-solving skills by applying them to deepen their insights into the written materials.
Ed Webb

The Ed Techie: Who are the reality instructors now? - 0 views

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techie opinion higher-ed martin weller

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • People from the commercial sector who believe they have some truth to reveal to the misguided people in higher education see themselves very much in the role of what Saul Bellow terms 'Reality Instructors.' The reality instructor is referenced in the marvellous Herzog, ("Moses was irresistible to a man like Simkin who loved to pity and to poke fun at the same time. He was a Reality-Instructor. Many such. I bring them out") but the character is a constant theme in Bellow's novels. It is usually manifest in a male, street-wise character who delights in teaching the main, intellectual character some truths about the 'real world'. But it's worth pointing out that the main character is aware of this, enjoys it, and that these truths are rarely as valuable and as robust as the reality-instructor believes.
  • Instead of universities being told how to operate in a tough financial climate, maybe businesses should be coming to them and asking 'you have managed to maintain a viable business and role in society for hundreds of years. You have adapted without completing ruining your entire system, and, ahem, throwing the world into a deep crisis. How do you do it?'
  • Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09
     
    Beautifully put.
Martin Burrett

Bitstrips Comic Designer - 12 views

www.bitstrips.com/comic

comics cartoon animation comic English digital story telling avatar

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 May 12
     
    Make you own cartoon comic strip with this easy to use, click a drag resource. Just choose your scenes, charachers and add speech bubbles to create useful teaching resources for teachers and a wonderful to communicate ideas for students. If you can't find the character you are looking for, you can design your own using the character designing tool.
Martin Burrett

CopyPasteCharacter.com - 13 views

www.copypastecharacter.com

tools font symbol characters text

shared by Martin Burrett on 29 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Melissa Ebeling on 29 Jul 11
     
    Copy and paste characters into any document you would like!  No need to remember special short cut keys!  
  • Martin Burrett on 10 Aug 11
     
    I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had to scroll through the symbols window looking for the divide and degree sign to make maths activities (probably should learn the ALT code!), but not any more. This site has a selection of useful symbols and characters all on one page. A single click copies the symbol to your clipboard for fast pasting. Hold ALT to copy mulitple symbols. You will ♥ it! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Otaku Avatar Maker : Free Avatar Generater! - 100 views

www.moeruavatar.com/index_en.shtml

avatar generator cartoon

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Aug 11
     
    An avatar creator. Student can make a cartoon character of themselves or of a character in their writing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
Deedra Kaake

Character Counts - 62 views

charactercounts.org

prosocial skills character

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  • Deedra Kaake on 22 Aug 11
     
    Classroom and professional resources tied to Oct 16-22 observance of Character Counts Week.
Carol Ansel

The Daring Librarian: Wikipedia is not wicked! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 70 views

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wikipedia washintonpost daringlibrarian encyclopedia research

shared by Carol Ansel on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Teaching Wikipedia in 5 Easy Steps: *Use it as background information *Use it for technology terms *Use it for current pop cultural literacy *Use it for the Keywords *Use it for the REFERENCES at the bottom of the page!
  • 4 ways to use Wikipedia (hint: never cite it) Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia 20 Little Known Ways to Use Wikipedia Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica Schiff, Stacy. “Know it all: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?” The New Yorker, February 26, 2006 And: Yes students, there’s a world beyond Wikipedia **Several years ago, Nature magazine did a comparison of material available on Wikipedia and Brittanica and concluded that Brittanica was somewhat, but not overwhelmingly, more accurate than Wikipedia. Brittanica lodged a complaint, and here, you can see what it complained about as well as Nature’s response. Nature compared articles from both organizations on various topics and sent them to experts to review. Per article, the averages were: 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia. -0- Follow The Answer Sheet every day by bookmarking http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet. And for admissions advice, college news and links to campus papers, please check out our Higher Education page. Bookmark it! var entrycat = ' ' By Valerie Strauss  |  05:00 AM ET, 09/07/2011 .connect_widget .connect_widget_text .connect_widget_connected_text a {display:block;} #center {overflow:visible;} /*.override-width iframe {width:274px !important;}*/ Tumblr Reddit Stumbleupon Digg Delicious LinkedIn http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html#_=1315504289567&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Fanswer-sheet%2Fpost%2F
  • Carol Ansel on 08 Sep 11
     
    Excellent perspective on "The 'W' Word" - use it wisely for what it is - high school and college kids shouldn't be citing any general knowledge encyclopedias for serious research - but that doesn't mean there aren't some excellent uses for it.
Tony Baldasaro

Weblogg-ed » "What Did You Create Today?" - 1 views

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weblogg blog willrichardson

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 22 Aug 09 - Cached
  • What did you make today that was meaningful? What did you learn about the world? Who are you working with? What surprised you? What did your teachers make with you? What did you teach others? What unanswered questions are you struggling with? How did you change the world in some small (or big) way? What’s something your teachers learned today? What did you share with the world? What do you want to know more about? What did you love about today? What made you laugh?
  • Tony Baldasaro on 22 Aug 09
     
    In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They'll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I'm not sure they're totally at peace with these changes, but as I keep telling them, it's the kind of stuff that builds character. (I keep regaling them with school switching stories of my own, the most challenging being when my mom moved us out to New Jersey from Chicago when I was beginning 6th grade and three days before school started I was wading barefoot in a creek, stepped on a broken bottle, and ended up with 10 stitches in the bottom of my foot and a pair of crutches for the first week of classes. Talk about character building.) Wendy and I have been trying to prepare them for this shift as best we can, and while I know it's a bit scary for them, I'm really hopeful the change will be good for them on a lot of different levels.
Sharin Tebo

5 Reasons Why Reading Conferences Matter - Especially in High School English | Three Te... - 57 views

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SDW reading conferences literacy high school sdwwl conferring 21daysSDW

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  • Reading Conferences
  • Every child needs one-on-one conversations with an adult as often as possible.
  • One way to show our adolescent students that we care is to talk with them. And face-to-face conversations about books and reading is a pretty safe way to do so, not to mention that we model authentic conversations about reading when we do.
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  • The more we grow in empathy, the better relationship we’ll have with our friends, our families and all other people we associate with — at least the idealist in me will cling to that hope as I continue to talk to students about books and reading.
  • circles about engagement.
  • Try questions like: How’s it going? (Thanks, Carl Anderson) Why did you choose this book? Do you know anyone else who has read this book? What’d she think? How’d you find the time to read this week? What’s standing in the way of your reading time?
  • Try questions like: What character reminds you of yourself or someone you know? What part of the story is the most similar/different to your life? Why do you think the author makes that happen in the book? What does he want us to learn about life? How does this story/character/conflict/event make you think about life differently?
  • when I take the time to talk to each student individually, and reinforce the skill in a quick chat, the application of that skill some how seeps into their brains much deeper.
  • Try questions like: Tell me about _____ that we learned in class today. How does that relate to your book/character? Remember when we learned _____, tell me how/where you see that in your book. Think about when we practiced ___, where does the author do that in your book? You’ve improved with ___, how could you use that skill for _______?
  • We must provide opportunities for our students to grow into confident and competent readers and writers in order to handle the rigor and complexity of post high school education and beyond. We must remember to focus on literacy not on the literature
  • We must validate our readers, ask questions that spark confidence, avoid questions that demean or make the student defensive, and at the same time challenge our readers into more complex texts.
  • Try questions like: On a scale of 1 to 10 how complex is this book for you? Why? What do you do when the reading gets difficult? Of all the books you’ve read this year, which was the most challenging? Why? How’s it going finding vocabulary for your personal dictionary? Tell me how you are keeping track of the parallel storyline?
  • I ask students about their confidence levels in our little chats, and they tell me they know they have grown as a readers. This is the best kind of reward.
  • Try questions like: How has your confidence grown as you’ve read this year? What do you think is the one thing we’ve done in class that’s helped you improve so much as a reader? How will the habits you’ve created in class help you in the reading you’ll have to do in college? Why do you think you’ve grown so much as a reader the past few weeks? What’s different for you now in the way you learn than how you learned before? Describe for me the characteristics you have that make you a reader.
  • What kinds of questions work for you in your reading conferences?
sha towers

History in 140 Characters: Asking Educators to Use Twitter - Naomi Coquillon - Technolo... - 51 views

www.theatlantic.com/...237767

twitter teaching class creative uses

shared by sha towers on 28 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • When I discuss Twitter in workshops, responses range from "I just don't have time for that -- it's enough to keep up with email and Facebook" to "you just can't have a conversation on Twitter." And I understand. I wasn't always so fond of Twitter. I wondered how I would ever say anything useful in 140 characters
  • Verizon Thinkfinity, "Why Use Twitter? Tell Us Your Tips"
  • to provide our followers with the latest news about our resources or great material from other institutions, as well as being a way to get in touch with us.
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  • What I've come to love as I use Twitter, and the value I share with these teachers, is being exposed to more thought-provoking articles than I ever had before, and learning of new resources just as soon as they become available.
  • Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Twitter"
  • "Help a Fellow Teacher Get on Twitter,"
  • sha towers on 28 Apr 11
     
    ideas and links to other resources for creatively using twitter in the classroom
Martin Burrett

The Story of HanZi - 1 of 2 - 21 views

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Chinese Mandarin characters

shared by Martin Burrett on 20 May 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 20 May 12
     
    First of two great YouTube Playlists with over 200 explanations of how Chinese characters have evolved over time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Mandarin+%26+Chinese+culture
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