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Karen Chichester

30 Ideas for Teaching Writing - National Writing Project - 0 views

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    Great list of writing ideas from the NWP
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Digital Is | Digital Is ... - 0 views

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    The NWP Digital Is website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing, the teaching and learning of writing, along with provocations that push us to think in new ways about culture and education in the digital age.
Karen Chichester

Arguing for the Sake of Argument: Logic in Student Writing | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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    Nice piece about teaching argument writing from NWP's Digital Is... website.
Karen Chichester

Learning Connected Learning | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

  • Connected Learning emerged from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, of which the National Writing Project is a key member. Initially released in March 2012, the principles have now been more fully described in a newly released report, Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
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    Digital Is collection about Connected Learning. Find out what Connected Learning is. Part of Make Summer.
Karen Chichester

Michigan Portfolios - 0 views

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    Beta of new site. It will change greatly over time. Part of the NWP of MIchigan. 
Karen Chichester

Digital Writing and the Common Core | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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    Digital Is Resource for Digital Writing and the Common Core
Karen Chichester

The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension - 0 views

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     National Writing Project
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nwp walkabout - we're reporting from the field - 0 views

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    Takes all different types of multimedia. Anyone can post reports about what they are doing.
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NWP iAnthology - Teachers connecting through writing and learning - 0 views

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    Ongoing eAnthology for all National Writing Project sites.
Karen Chichester

McREL Blog: The Devastating Power of Zero - 1 views

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    How giving a grade of zero equals loss of hope. Nice argument piece about this hot grading topic.
Karen Chichester

Lois Lowry Quotes on Writing - 0 views

  • Reading is the best way to learn to write well. Read as much as you can. Think about what you read: how the author made it interesting, or funny, or suspenseful. And write as much as you can, too.
  • Keep a journal.
  • he important thing is what you absorb from your surroundings. To be a keen observer….to see and ponder and weigh….to hear the cadence of speech and notice the shrugs and gestures and the way the eyebrows lift or the lip curls…to perceive human relationships and how they work (or don’t)….all of that is what makes a writer.
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  • My personal opinion is that you should not worry about ‘being published’. You should enjoy writing, and writing more and more, so that you become better at
  • There isn’t anything magical. It’s a lot of hard work, a lot of fun, and a lot of waiting for the words.
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    Seven  quotes from Lois Lowry about writing.
Karen Chichester

Create a Text Message Exchange Between Fictional Characters - 0 views

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    Richard Byrne's post about a tool to create text messages between characters. (classtools.net)
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Gone Google Story Builder - 0 views

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    Build your own Google Docs story. Almost like writing with dead authors.
Karen Chichester

Open Letter to Educators: (Re)Defining Digital Learning Day | Digital Writing, Digital ... - 0 views

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    Troy Hick's response to Digital learning Day. Well thought out
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Screencast-O-Matic - 0 views

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    Free online screen casting program. Up to 15 minutes recording time with free edition. Unlimited time with Pro account ($15 per year)
Karen Chichester

How social media improved writing - FT.com - 0 views

  • Day by day, prose is becoming blessedly more like speech. Social media, blogs and emails have hugely improved the way we write.
  • Before the internet, only professional writers wrote
  • Email kicked off an unprecedented expansion in writing.
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  • We’re now in the most literate age in history.
  • Clare Wood, development psychologist at Coventry University
  • Her own study of primary schoolchildren suggested that texting improved their reading ability.
  • Texters, after all, are constantly practising reading and spelling. Sure, children tend not to punctuate text messages. But most of them grasp that this genre has different rules from, say, school exams.
  • George Orwell in 1944 lamented the divide between wordy, stilted written English, and much livelier speech. “Spoken English is full of slang,” he wrote, “it is abbreviated wherever possible, and people of all social classes treat its grammar and syntax in a slovenly way.” His ideal was writing that sounded like speech. We’re getting there at last.
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    From the Financial Times. Discusses how the use of email and social media changed and (in the author's opinion) improved the way we write.
Karen Chichester

Google Lit Trips: Reading About Reading | Scoop.it - 1 views

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    Great Literaure Resource Site from the creator of Google Lit Trips
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TED-Ed | Lesson worth sharing - 0 views

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    Animated, short lessons from all subject areas. Lots of good stuff here.
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