Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.
Brain simulates actions in stories as a person reads: study
What scientists discovered was that parts of the brain associated with certain activities described in the story would light up as the person read those sections.
This study suggests that readers do mental simulation when they comprehend a story,"
Listen to audio stories ranging from Rapunzel to The Night Before Christmas. Each story has the accompanying text.
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In this forum, seven experts discuss the questions, Why do bestselling young adult novels seem darker in theme now than in past years? What’s behind this dystopian trend, and why is there so much demand for it?
Connecting “The Giver” to Other Dystopian Literature
New York Times discussion of why young adults read dystopian stories such as "The Giver." The Author talks about the book and a panel of 8 experts discuss dystopian literature. Exercises are provided that students can use when studying such stories and novels.
Looking for a conference with a difference? What story do you have to tell? The #motm13 Unconference is built around stories for the purpose of making strong connections with other passionate educators who are integrating ICT with pedagogy.
what are the things that interactive eBooks do especially well?
Simultaneously highlighting text with recorded audio, creating thoughtful tap-on support for both words in the text and elements in illustrations, and providing options to support different reading abilities are all wonderful ways to foster emergent reading skills.
One of the most intriguing opportunities in eBooks is the ability to show different characters’ points of view
When you think about it, this is something that’s incredibly hard to do in any other format.
Making the reader an active part of the story experience is where story and game can really combine in interesting ways
hearing your name spoken by the pigeon in Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App give the user an agency and a presence in the story that’s engaging in a totally different way than reading a book aloud or watching a movie on a movie screen.
Interacting with the story in an active way, a way that is immediate, visible, and makes an impact is exactly the sort of agency that is unique to an interactive experience.
Climate Commons is a map-based interactive platform that contains layers of news and information on climate change in the US. It is designed to provide academics, policymakers, journalists, and the general public with the latest data and stories on the causes and impacts of, and responses to climate change across the country. The map combines the most recently available data on climate change indicators, such as temperature, precipitation, and emissions, with the latest, geo-tagged stories on climate change in the United States.
Sherry Hegstrom, on her blog "Emerging Technologies in Education" asks the question: What makes for a digital story? She brings up some great questions for us to consider and there are some comments that engage the discussion. Check it out!
What three element of color does Brett list as influential to her new book's illustrations?
When the book is about half completed, we (my editor, art director, and
designer, Margaret, Cecilia and Marikka) start thinking about the jacket design,
probably the most important image in the book. That is when some of the colors
that tell the story can be used, and they will add to personality of the
book.
As a child, the part of the Cinderella story I liked best was the transformation
of the mice, pumpkin and rat to coach, footman and coachman.
Thank you everyone for entering the contest on my website, for a school visit. I
will never forget the wonderful people in Windsor, Newfoundland where I visited
last spring. Next time I go, I would like to drive and go on the ferry, so I can
stop and see things, and go out whale and bird watching. There is one Moose for
every 4 people in Newfoundland, so I would hope to see a Moose as well. Windsor
is not a large town, so don’t get discouraged about the contest if your
community is not large. The website tabulates how many “likes” they have put on
the Facebook page.
Now that I’m back in my art studio, I am hard at work on CINDERS which I need to
complete by just after Christmas. I took special time with the jacket, a very
important element in the book, because it asks the viewer to open the book and
read it.
Thank you to everyone who attended my booksignings. I hope many of you had fun
drawing Mossy along with me. If you weren’t able to go to a booksigning, you can
see the How To Draw demonstration on a video on my website.
Truthfully, a chicken is hard to paint and to capture its beauty.
Since I begin work on the story in January, December is the time I’m tying
things together – in this case my “chicken” Cinderella story.
Normally, a children’s picture book has 32 pages, but in this one instance the
printer will configure the dimension of the pages so they will open up from a
folded position so I will have twice as much space to draw the dancing chickens.
Next time you are in a bookstore you can see the work of some of the world’s
most talented book designers on the jackets of the books. The size and shape of
the letters are important, as well as where they are placed on the jacket, and
the color too
What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades
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Forget the widely unloved redesign. Facebook has committed a greater offense. According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University
Imagine a different kind of writing assignment: have your students use digress.it to co-author their own critical edition of an essay or story, inside that essay or story.
This paper focuses on storytelling as a research tool for social sciences, especially for cultural anthropology. After a short review of the main methodological tools traditionally used in ethnography, with particular regard to observation and interview, we focus on collecting and crafting stories (ethnotelling) as suitable tools for conveying the relational nature of fieldwork. Drawing on the works of Orr, Chipchase, Marradi and Adwan/Bar-on, we show how stories â collected, mediated or made up â are valuable tools for representing experiences and identities. As a result, we suggest a different approach to user-experience design, based on the creation of "thick" environments enabling a whole range of possibilities, where users can imagine or live their own user-generated experiences.
The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has just published Let's Read Them a Story! The Parent Factor in Education.
The document is worth looking at in its own right both as educators and as parents.
I have one quibble with it - which you may read about in my blog-post. Thanks!
A good way to summarize a story or create a story using photos. (ex. summary of the end of a unit, each child pick out one thing to say about what they learned, build off each other.
For nearly twenty years, the Center has been supporting people in sharing meaningful stories from their lives. Our unique workshops assist participants in producing short, first-person narratives that can be presented in a variety of traditional and social media formats. We provide non-threatening production environments in which the process of creation is valued as much as the stories created.