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Jeff Hudson

Writing help - 135 views

www.apeword.com

English writing resources tools thesaurus

shared by Jeff Hudson on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • Jeff Hudson on 21 May 11
     
    Paste paragraphs and the website uses thesaurus to bring multiple choices for adjectives. Great for seeing options without looking up separate words.
Tanya Hudson

Storybird - Create and share beautifully illustrated digital stories! - 91 views

storybird.com

edtech library digital storytelling content creation ELA_writing primary uppergrades tools

shared by Tanya Hudson on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Bob Martin on 28 Jan 10
     
    Collaboarative Digital Storytelling
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  • Deborah Thonus on 11 Feb 10
     
    This site is wonderful for younger students and older ELLs. Using exquisite art graphics from an extensive library of images children create online storybooks. The fanciful and beautiful graphics inspire the creator to write a story. The program then publishes the online book with a default "private" setting. This site appears to be carefully monitored and supervised. Excellent for ELA.
  • Deborah Thonus on 11 Feb 10
     
    This site is wonderful for younger students and older ELLs. Using exquisite art graphics from an extensive library of images children create online storybooks. The fanciful and beautiful graphics inspire the creator to write a story. The program then publishes the online book with a default "private" setting. This site appears to be carefully monitored and supervised. Excellent for ELA.
  • Beth Panitz on 25 Jan 11
     
    Choose an artist, then create a story by selecting artwork. 
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Jul 11
     
    Story Bird widely used story book maker website. It has great templates picture bank. It's ease to use and the results look wonderful. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
  • Marc Patton on 19 Jul 12
     
    Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
  • Tanya Hudson on 12 Nov 12
     
    Combine your words with high-quality artwork from talented illustrators around the world.
Martin Burrett

Grammar and Spell Checker for Better English Communication - Ginger Software - 71 views

www.gingersoftware.com

grammar spelling writing

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Dec 12 - Cached
  • Michelle Kassorla on 17 Dec 12
     
    Free Grammar and Spell Checker Everywhere. Effortless. Seamless. It just works.
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Apr 13
     
    This is an intelligent spelling and grammar checker which sits in the background in Office and your browser until you need it. It constantly looks for examples of your sentence on the internet and decides whether it is correct and gives alternatives. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
elsjekool

Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg - 35 views

www.bloomberg.com/...2015-paul-ford-what-is-code

shared by elsjekool on 14 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • There are keynote speakers—often the people who created the technology at hand or crafted a given language. There are the regular speakers, often paid not at all or in airfare, who present some idea or technique or approach. Then there are the panels, where a group of people are lined up in a row and forced into some semblance of interaction while the audience checks its e-mail.
  • Fewer than a fifth of undergraduate degrees in computer science awarded in 2012 went to women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology
  • The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers
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  • The true measure of a language isn’t how it uses semicolons; it’s the standard library of each language. A language is software for making software. The standard library is a set of premade software that you can reuse and reapply.
  • A coder needs to be able to quickly examine and identify which giant, complex library is the one that’s the most recently and actively updated and the best match for his or her current needs. A coder needs to be a good listener.
  • Code isn’t just obscure commands in a file. It requires you to have a map in your head, to know where the good libraries, the best documentation, and the most helpful message boards are located. If you don’t know where those things are, you will spend all of your time searching, instead of building cool new things.
  • Some tools are better for certain jobs.
  • C is a simple language, simple like a shotgun that can blow off your foot. It allows you to manage every last part of a computer—the memory, files, a hard drive—which is great if you’re meticulous and dangerous if you’re sloppy
  • Object-oriented programming is, at its essence, a filing system for code.
  • Where C tried to make it easier to do computer things, Smalltalk tried to make it easier to do human things.
  • Style and usage matter; sometimes programmers recommend Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style—that’s right, the one about the English language. Its focus on efficient usage resonates with programmers. The idiom of a language is part of its communal identity.
  • Coding is a culture of blurters.
  • Programmers carve out a sliver of cognitive territory for themselves and go to conferences, and yet they know their position is vulnerable.
  • Programmers are often angry because they’re often scared.
  • Programming is a task that rewards intense focus and can be done with a small group or even in isolation.
  • For a truly gifted programmer, writing code is a side effect of thought
  • As a class, programmers are easily bored, love novelty, and are obsessed with various forms of productivity enhancement.
  • “Most programming languages are partly a way of expressing things in terms of other things and partly a basic set of given things.”
  • Of course, while we were trying to build a bookstore, we actually built the death of bookstores—that seems to happen a lot in the business. You set out to do something cool and end up destroying lots of things that came before.
  • Siri Anderson on 14 Jun 15
     
    A lengthy but worthy read for all non-programmers on code.
  • elsjekool on 15 Jun 15
     
    Explains code
Amy Burns

Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 85 views

rewordify.com/index.php

Reading literacy Vocabulary tools English ESL writing ell

shared by Amy Burns on 26 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Michele Brown on 26 Aug 13
     
    Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
Steve Ransom

Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide - 67 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...andwriting-instr_n_842069.html

cursive handwriting debate

shared by Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • she'd rather "move on" and focus class time on other topics.
  • choosing to teach cursive is not about aesthetics or preference, but about giving children the mental tools needed read English.
  • hreaded letter strokes help guide students' eyes left-to-right and definitively correlates reading with writing:
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  • "I absolutely get that we're moving in a world that's technology-based," she says. "But I'm of the old school that believes you can't forget where you came from to get where you're going. There could be a day the computer crashes."
  • Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11
     
    "Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide"
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