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Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Revising Short Texts and Syntax on IWB - 3 views

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    WordMagnets is a simple tool that allows you to paste text into a field and then click a couple of times to change the text into word tiles a little like fridge magnets that you can drag and rearrange.
Stephen Davis

EWU | Inserting Voice Comments in Microsoft Word 2003 - 7 views

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    This is very helpful! Imagine, recording a message to students instead of making paper bleed with red ink!
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    This is very helpful! Imagine, recording a message to students instead of making paper bleed with red ink!
Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
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      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
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    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Dana Huff

Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views

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    The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
Dana Huff

The Word Exchange: Anglo Saxon Poems in Translation / Poems Out Loud - 6 views

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    Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.
Meredith Stewart

Word Girll - 9 views

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    Vocabulary Games
Nik Peachey

SubZin.com (BETA) - Movie Quotes Search Engine - 3 views

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    Find words and phrases in film scripts.
Susan Payne

Word Generation - Developing Academic Language - 9 views

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    Effective techniques for engaging students in discussion and teaching them strategies to use independently.
Caroline Bachmann

Apture - - 18 views

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    Application that allows you to learn more about anything you highlight on a website without having to leave the page; make the internet an even greater resource for students!
Caroline Bachmann

Abiator's Worksheets Vault - 8 views

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    English Skills Worksheets for Grades 5-8
Dennis OConnor

6-Traits Resources: Barry Lane's YouTube Channel! - 17 views

  • This is a terrific mini lesson from Barry Lane. He shows (not tells) how to explode a moment into a full page of rich writing. The visuals in this video will catch any student's attention.
Dennis OConnor

oneword.com - 21 views

  • simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it. click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place. don’t think. just write.
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    Looks like a fun way to spark journal writing.  Fit's Natalie Goldberg's great advice about first draft writing: Just keep your hand moving!
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