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Karen Chichester

Maps & Earth - Getting Googley - 0 views

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    Joe Wood's (@ucdjoe) Google Maps and Earth resource page.
Karen Chichester

Anatomy of A Tweet- Must See Guide for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Lea... - 4 views

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    Explains what each part of a Tweet is. Very helpful for newbies to Twitter.
Karen Chichester

2 Beautiful Templates to Create Classroom Newspapers using Google Docs ~ Educational Te... - 1 views

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    More ways to use Google Docs creatively in your class.
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

"Point, Quote, Connect" | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - 0 views

  • PQC” (Point, Quote, Connect or Comment).
  • 1) Make a point 2) Quote from the text supporting your point 3) Make a connection to your personal experience, another text, or some other knowledge
  • similar acronym I learned from Kelly — “ABC.” It stands for: 1) Answer the Question 2) Back up your answer with evidence or facts. 3) Comment from a more personal opinion or perspective
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    Nice strategy to help students learn to support their positions using quotes or evidence.
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 Drive for Teachers with 'How-to' video links | syded - 0 views

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    How to use Google Drive for teachers with Video links. Nice overview.
Karen Chichester

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

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

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education - 0 views

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    Make your lessons more dynamic by creating your own flash and smartboard  games or other cool activites. All tools are FREE. Tools included: QR code generator, Fake Facebook and Twitter pages, 
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    Shari Hales's favorite site.
Karen Chichester

BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos - 0 views

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    Free with ads. Great online tool for playing with images. You can make all sorts of thinks from posters to nametags. There is a color palette generator and a way to make trading cards.
Karen Chichester

TED-Ed | Lesson worth sharing - 0 views

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

Gone Google Story Builder - 0 views

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

ICT Tools and Resources for Schools, Teachers and Educators - Mind Map - 0 views

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    An interactive mindmap
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
Karen Chichester

teachers-copyright.jpg (1320×1912) - 0 views

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    Copyright poster form Edudemic
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