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Marc Patton

Read Write Think: Bio Cube - 67 views

www.readwritethink.org/...bio_cube

LanguageArts

shared by Marc Patton on 18 May 10 - Cached
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  • Laura Miller on 18 May 10
     
    Bio-Cube is an interactive tool that invites students to develop an outline of a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read or to gather details to write their own autobiographies or biographies.
  • Marc Patton on 30 Mar 11
     
    A summary activity to help organize thoughts before writing a Biography
Vivian Worley

7 Online Creative Writing Apps to Make Writing Enjoyable for Students - 106 views

globaldigitalcitizen.org/-online-writing-tools-students

shared by Vivian Worley on 02 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • Vivian Worley on 04 Dec 16
     
    Writer's block-sometimes it feels like less of a block and more of an insurmountable wall. Inspiration can seem to be a million miles away, with no hope of being reached. Thanks to the scores of online creative writing apps we can access today, it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: 365 Things to Make you go hmmmm - 4 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...ings-to-make-you-go-hmmmm.html

learning writing thinking warm up discussion

shared by Michael Sheehan on 07 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 07 Feb 13
     
    Great tool for writing prompts, class discussion, or just to get students thinking.
danthomander

SAS® Writing Navigator - 56 views

www.sascurriculumpathways.com/...start.html

shared by danthomander on 21 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • danthomander on 21 Oct 14
     
    This page is amazing - what a great free tool to help students to write research papers
Debbie Prunty

Welcome to Teaching That Makes Sense! - 3 views

www.ttms.org

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shared by Debbie Prunty on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Debbie Prunty on 28 Aug 09
     
    Teaching That Makes Sense offers tools, training, and technology support for K-12 schools in reading, writing, math, test preparation, and assessment.
Paula Haapanen

Mr Daley - 102 views

www.mrdaley.com/wordpress

learning language grammar writing reading

shared by Paula Haapanen on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Paula Haapanen on 27 Apr 11
     
    Lots of explanations and tools to help you with reading and writing. I particularly like the 'essay organizer' that you can find under the 'Quick links' heading
Martin Burrett

CreateSpace: Self Publishing and Free Distribution for Books, CD, DVD - 47 views

www.createspace.com

English literacy writing publishing

shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Jun 11
     
    Bring the power of the Amazon book store to your children's stories. Use this great online publishing tool to show off your children's writing and even produce paper copied. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
tapiatanova

A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of High... - 98 views

chronicle.com/...129609

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shared by tapiatanova on 08 Nov 11 - No Cached
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  • Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."
    • trisha_poole
      trisha_poole on 08 Nov 11
       
      Very important - social pedagogies for authentic tasks - a key for integrating SNTs in the classroom.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      Agreed, for connectivism see also www.connectivism.ca
  • External audiences certainly motivate students to do their best work. But students can also serve as their own authentic audience when asked to create meaningful work to share with one another.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      The last sentence is especially important in institutional contexts where the staff voices their distrust against "open scholarship" (Weller 2011), web 2.0 and/or open education. Where "privacy" is deemed the most important thing in dealing with new technologies, advocates of an external audience have to be prepared for certain questions.
    • tapiatanova
      tapiatanova on 03 Jan 14
       
      yes! nothing but barriers! However, it is unclear if the worries about pravacy are in regards to students or is it instructors who fear teaching in the open. everyone cites FERPA and protection of student identities, but I have yet to hear any student refusing to work in the open...
  • Students most likely won't find this difficult. After all, you're asking them to surf the Web and tag pages they like. That's something they do via Facebook every day. By having them share course-related content with their peers in the class, however, you'll tap into their desires to be part of your course's learning community. And you might be surprised by the resources they find and share.
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  • back-channel conversations
  • While keynote speakers and session leaders are speaking, audience members are sharing highlights, asking questions, and conversing with colleagues on Twitter
    • trisha_poole
      trisha_poole on 08 Nov 11
       
      An effective use of Twitter that can be translated to classrooms.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      All classrooms?
    • John Dorn
      John Dorn on 09 Nov 11
       
      classrooms where students are motivated to learn. Will this work in a HS classroom where kids just view their phones as a means to check up on people? Maybe if they can see "cool" class could be if they were responsible for the freedoms that would be needed to use twitter or other similar sites.
  • Ask your students to create accounts on Twitter or some other back-channel tool and share ideas that occur to them in your course. You might give them specific assignments, as does the University of Connecticut's Margaret Rubega, who asks students in her ornithology class to tweet about birds they see. During a face-to-face class session, you could have students discuss their reading in small groups and share observations on the back channel. Or you could simply ask them to post a single question about the week's reading they would like to discuss.
  • A back channel provides students a way to stay connected to the course and their fellow students. Students are often able to integrate back channels into their daily lives, checking for and sending updates on their smartphones, for instance. That helps the class become more of a community and gives students another way to learn from each other.
  • Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient—they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning.
  • Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community.
  • Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.
  • The papers they wrote for my course weren't just academic exercises; they were authentic expressions of learning, open to the world as part of their "digital footprints."
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      Yes, but what is the relation between such writing and ("proper"?) academic writing?
  • Collaborative documents need not be text-based works. Sarah C. Stiles, a sociologist at Georgetown, has had her students create collaborative timelines showing the activities of characters in a text, using a presentation tool called Prezi.com. I used that tool to have my cryptography students create a map of the debate over security and privacy. They worked in small groups to brainstorm arguments, and contributed those arguments to a shared debate map synchronously during class.
  • Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
  • John Dorn on 09 Nov 11
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
  • tapiatanova on 03 Jan 14
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
A Gardner

TitanPad - 95 views

titanpad.com

web2.0 collaboration writing titanpad tools tool website iPad

shared by A Gardner on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Mary-Ann Updike on 28 Apr 10
     
    Like EtherPad; no registration required
  • Mary-Ann Updike on 28 Apr 10
     
    A super simple to use on-line tool for collaborative writing
  • jodi tompkins on 28 Apr 10
     
    Lets people work on a document simultaneously.
Wayne Holly

Quick Rubric - Free, Fast, and Easy to Use! :) - 72 views

www.quickrubric.com

rubrics assessment tools

shared by Wayne Holly on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 20 Sep 15
     
    Quick Rubric is a free tool for writing, editing, and printing rubrics.On Quick Rubric you can create a rubric that is tailored to your points/ scoring system, the quantity of descriptors that you need, and utilizes the exact language that you specify. You can save as many rubrics as you like in your free Quick Rubric account. You can copy and modify rubrics your account so that you don't always have to start from scratch when creating a new assignment rubric.
Nigel Coutts

Collaborative Learning with Google Docs - The Learner's Way - 72 views

thelearnersway.net/...tive-learning-with-google-docs

collaborative learning google docs education technology tools

shared by Nigel Coutts on 29 May 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 29 May 16
     
    Something is missing from my classroom lately and I am quite happy to have seen it disappear. It is the traditional line at the teacher's desk formed by students awaiting feedback on a recently completed piece of writing. What has replaced this is our use of Google Docs and Slides as a tool for the collaborative development of ideas from initial thinking and strategising through to final editing and refinement. It has introduced a new workflow to the class that both streamlines the process of providing feedback, allows for greater detail and transforms the process into one that is richly collaborative.
Mary Beth Messner

18 Free Screencasting tools to Create Video Tutorials - 142 views

www.1stwebdesigner.com/...ncasting-tools-video-tutorials

Screen Capture Screenr Videos Aviscreen CamStudio Copernicus Goview ISU Jing Krut Freescreencast Screentoaster Screen castle Screen jelly Screencast o matic Oripa Utipu UltraVNC Webinaria

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 11 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Screencasting  is a better and great way to showcase a procedure, to teach,demonstrate a service or to create video tutorials without having to write a content or an article. Screencasting tools are available both as desktop applications (Free and commercial) and web-based services. The good news is that there are a growing number of screencasting tools that are completely free to use; some do not even require a registration to let you get started.
andy0206

Prezi - Ideas matter. - 42 views

prezi.com

presentation tools presentations prezi

shared by andy0206 on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
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    • Kalin Wilburn
      Kalin Wilburn on 19 May 11
       
      Prezi is a zooming presentation creator. It is easy to use and offers you a 21st century presentation that doesn't even compare to PowerPoint. Your presentations can have a professional appearance without having to switch between slides or add transitional effects to each individual detail. Prezi provides you a canvas to be creative on so don't be afraid to think outside the box -- explore other Prezis to get ideas (they will blow you away).
    • Emily D
      Emily D on 08 Jul 11
       
      My middle school students learn to use Prezi easily. It helps teach them literacy skills, organization, critical thinking, and all other skills related to writing an essay or story.
    • amyearmstrong
      amyearmstrong on 21 Oct 11
       
      I am working with the math teacher and his students are creating a math story using Prezi. They love the program and seem to be enjoying the project so far.
    • Christian Cailleaux
      Christian Cailleaux on 12 Oct 13
       
      Dommage qu'il ne soit pas encore traduit en français ! Attention de ne pas rendre malade le lecteur ;=)
    • fredbernard
      fredbernard on 30 Jan 14
       
      " On est en même temps sur le tableau ?! " S'exclamèrent les élèves à qui j'ai présenté l'application il'y a deux ans. Plus que l'aspect visuel flateur, la dimension collaborative synchrone en fait un véritable outil social à la sauce Web2.0
  • Adrienne Michetti on 10 Mar 09
     
    Use this tool to make presentations "beyond the slide"
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  • Leslie Roy on 15 Nov 09
     
    Prezi is the zooming presentation editor
  • Bob Kachurek on 23 May 10
     
    Create astonishing presentations live and on the web
  • Anne-Mette Krejberg on 24 Apr 11
     
    Free tool
  • Weronika Gorska on 26 Apr 11
     
    Fantastic tool
  • andy0206 on 09 Dec 12
     
    Präsentationssoftware
anonymous

Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning - 52 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

networking social DistrictAdministration

shared by anonymous on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • Online social networking includes much more than Facebook and Twitter. It is any online use of technology to connect people, enable them to collaborate with each other, and form virtual communities, says the Young Adult Library Services Association
  • Among students surveyed in a National School Boards Association study, 96 percent of those with online access reported using social networking, and half said they use it to discuss schoolwork. Despite this prevalence in everyday life, schools have been hesitant to adopt social networking as an education tool. A 2010 study into principals’ attitudes found that “schools are one of the last holdouts,” with many banning the most popular social networking sites for students and sometimes for staff.
  • Survey research confirms, however, that interest in harnessing social networking for educational purposes is high. As reported in School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies and Realities in 2010, a national survey of 1,200 principals, teachers and librarians found that most agreed that social networking sites can help educators share information and resources, create professional learning communities and improve schoolwide communications with students and staff. Those who had used social networks were more positive about potential benefits than those who had not. In an online discussion with 12 of the principals surveyed, most said, “social networking and online collaboration tools would make a substantive change in students’ educational experience.” They said these tools could improve student motivation and engagement, help students develop a more social/collaborative view of learning and create a connection to real-life learning.
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  • Most national, state and local policies have not yet addressed social networking specifically; by default, it often falls under existing acceptable use policies (AUPs). While AUPs usually provide clear language on obscenities, profanity and objectionable activities, they also leave out gray areas that could open students to harmful activities while excluding them from certain benefits of social networking. Likewise, boilerplate policies that ban specific applications, such as Twitter, may miss other potential threats while also limiting the ability of students to collaborate across schools, districts, states or countries. The challenge for districts is to write policies that address potentially harmful interactions without eliminating the technology’s beneficial uses.
Mrs. Lail2

NextUp. Your Meeting. On Schedule. - 80 views

www.nextup.info

Educaction organization schedule

shared by Mrs. Lail2 on 26 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Jul 11
     
    This tool is designed to keep meetings running on time - which I am all for, but it can be used in the classroom in many different ways, such as structuring a lesson or doing a 'speed writing' session. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
  • Mrs. Lail2 on 03 Aug 11
     
    This webpage allows you to schedule meetings, classes, etc, and then functions as a timer, letting you know when it is time to move on to the next topic or activity. Might be a helpful or fun tool for educators!
Ed Webb

Bad News : CJR - 30 views

www.cjr.org/...bad_news.php

news tools howard_rheingold rheingold journalism facts factcheck bullshit

shared by Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism.
  • the News Hunt is a way of getting young journalists to critically examine the work of professionals. For Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker about the online world and the man credited with coining the phrase “virtual community,” it’s all about teaching them “crap detection.”
  • last year Rheingold wrote an important essay about the topic for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site
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  • What’s at stake is no less than the quality of the information available in our society, and our collective ability to evaluate its accuracy and value. “Are we going to have a world filled with people who pass along urban legends and hoaxes?” Rheingold said, “or are people going to educate themselves about these tools [for crap detection] so we will have collective intelligence instead of misinformation, spam, urban legends, and hoaxes?”
  • I previously called fact-checking “one of the great American pastimes of the Internet age.” But, as Rheingold noted, the opposite is also true: the manufacture and promotion of bullshit is endemic. One couldn’t exist without the other. That makes Rheingold’s essay, his recent experiment with NewsTrust, and his wiki of online critical-thinking tools” essential reading for journalists. (He’s also writing a book about this topic.)
  • I believe if we want kids to succeed online, the biggest danger is not porn or predators—the biggest danger is them not being able to distinguish truth from carefully manufactured misinformation or bullshit
  • Ed Webb on 15 Mar 10
     
    As relevant to general education as to journalism training
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