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Donna Hebert

International Reading Association : Awards : Paul A. Witty Outstanding Literature Award - 0 views

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  • Donna Hebert on 21 Jun 08
     
    Writing contests for all levels.
J Black

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:The World at Our Fingertips - 0 views

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  • Teaching students to contribute and collaborate online in ways that are both safe and appropriate requires instruction and modeling, not simply crossing our fingers and hoping for the best when they go home and do it on their own.
  • "Now more than ever, students need teachers who can help them sort through choices, apply technology well, and tell their stories clearly and with humanity."
  • Among our authors' guidelines for promoting the skills crucial to using social media well: Value reading and writing more than ever; Blend digital, art, oral, and written literacies; and Teach students to search, evaluate, summarize, interpret, and think and write clearly.
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  • As a result, the way we communicate, read, write, listen, persuade, learn from others, and accomplish community actions is changing. Or, as someone said when we were planning this issue of Educational Leadership, "Literacy—it's not just learning to read a book anymore."
Michael Wacker

Inquiry-based Lessons Scoring Guide - 1 views

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  • KWL Research Guide Research the following aspects of inquiry-based lessons. Use the information obtained to write the descriptors for a scoring guide designed to assess an inquiry-based lesson.
  • Michael Wacker on 04 Nov 09
     
    Research the following aspects of inquiry-based lessons. Use the information obtained to write the descriptors for a scoring guide designed to assess an inquiry-based lesson.
Gia DeSelm

10 Digital Writing Opportunities You Probably Know and 10 You Probably Don't | edte.ch - 0 views

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  • Gia DeSelm on 28 Nov 09
     
    Similar IdeasSealife Action TextUsing Endless Ocean (Wii) in the Classroom - Making a Class Aquarium for Descriptive WritingUsing Myst 3...
Amanda Smith

2nd Grade Math Practice Test - 0 views

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  • Amanda Smith on 17 Jun 10
     
    This 2nd Grade Math practice test covers some of the basic skills taught and mastered in second grade, including addition and subtraction, counting to 100, identifying and writing names of numbers, basic multiplication and division, place value and telling time.
J Black

PostRank - 0 views

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  • J Black on 17 Jan 09
     
    PostRank™ PostRank is a scoring system developed by AideRSS to rank any kind of online content, such as RSS feed items, blog posts, articles, or news stories. PostRank is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be. Examples of engagement include writing a blog post in response to someone else, bookmarking an article, leaving a comment on a blog, or clicking a link to read a news item. **scroll down to see how this system of ranking works
J Black

BuildingYourOwnPLN.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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  • J Black on 17 Jan 09
     
    Creating these "Personal Learning Networks" (PLN), as they are called, is a skill set for the 21st Century, a literacy grounded in reading and writing and editing and rooted in the best of constructivist learning theory. In essence, when we create our own
J Black

Blogging with 4th Graders | BlogWalker - 0 views

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  • J Black on 17 Jan 09
     
    look this over for Jan. 15th presenation-- some good new stuff here I haven't seen - W Fryer's vid focuses on hyperlinked writing -- take a look at downloading and using
Michael Wacker

ContentWriting - TIPS - 1 views

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  • Michael Wacker on 10 Dec 09
     
    Tip #1: Your assignment should match your course goals/objectives. Don't "do" writing just to say you've done it. Make sure it's going to help you with your bigger objectives in the course. Tip #2: You don't need to be an expert yourself. No one expects you to be a grammarian. (In fact, plenty of English teachers are stumped by our language at times.) If you need an expert, see tip #6, but really, just concentrate on what you need from the paper. Give kids guidelines for the format, but don't make it your primary focus.
Amanda Smith

Good Essay Topics - 0 views

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  • Amanda Smith on 21 May 10
     
    As a writer, choosing a great topic is one of the most important thing that you can do. It serves as the framework for the rest of the assignment. It is important to spend time choosing wisely, as essay topics can make or break your overall grade on the paper
J Black

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage - 1 views

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  • New media demand new literacies. Because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, widely distributed new media tools, being literate now means being able to read and write a number of new media forms, including sound, graphics, and moving images in addition to text.
  • New media coalesce into a collage. Being literate also means being able to integrate emerging new media forms into a single narrative or "media collage," such as a Web page, blog, or digital story.
  • New media are largely participatory, social media. Digital literacy requires that students have command of the media collage within the context of a social Web, often referred to as Web 2.0. The social Web provides venues for individual and collaborative narrative construction and publication through blogs and such services as MySpace, Google Docs, and YouTube. As student participation goes public, the pressure to produce high-quality work increases.
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  • Historically, new media first appear to the vast majority of us in read-only form because they are controlled by a relatively few technicians, developers, and distributors who can understand or afford them. The rest of us only evolve into writers once the new media tools become easy to use, affordable, and widely available, whether these tools are cheap pencils and paper or inexpensive digital tools and shareware.
  • Thus, a new dimension of literacy is now in play—namely, the ability to adapt to new media forms and fit them into the overall media collage quickly and effectively.
  • n the mid 1960s, Marshall McLuhan explained that conventional literacy caused us to trade an ear for an eye, and in so doing, trade the social context of the oral tradition for the private point of view of reading and writing. To him, television was the first step in our "retribalization," providing a common social experience that could serve as the basis for dialogue in the global village.2  However, television told someone else's story, not ours. It was not until Web 2.0 that we had the tools to come full circle and produce and consume social narrative in equal measure. Much of the emerging nature of literacy is a result of inexpensive, widely available, flexible Web 2.0 tools that enable anyone, regardless of technical skill, to play some part in reinventing literacy.
  • What is new is that the tools of literacy, as well as their effects, are now a topic of literacy itself.
  • Students need to be media literate to understand how media technique influences perception and thinking. They also need to understand larger social issues that are inextricably linked to digital citizenship, such as security, environmental degradation, digital equity, and living in a multicultural, networked world. We want our students to use technology not only effectively and creatively, but also wisely, to be concerned with not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why.
  • The fluent will lead, the literate will follow, and the rest will get left behind.
  • They need to be the guide on the side rather than the technician magician.
J Black

YouTube - Information R/evolution - 0 views

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information revolution evolution web2.0 ksudigg ksu digital ethnography

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  • J Black on 14 Aug 09
     
    Below Information copied from Youtube (written by MWesch) This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming w... This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively. High Quality WMV download: http://www.mediafire.com/?atyamxuyn2p Quicktime: http://www.mediafire.com/?6hqygitsy0v If you are interested in this topic, check out Clay Shirky's work, especially: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontolo... Also check out David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.... This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything.
Michael Wacker

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer / digitalstorytelling - 0 views

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  • Michael Wacker on 01 Nov 09
     
    # Celebrate Oklahoma Voices - Empowering learners to become digital witnesses # Cell Phone Digital Storytelling # Continuum of Digital Storytelling Options # Copyright, Fair Use, Intellectual Property & Podcasting # Digital Music Creation: Engage, Inspire, Have Fun! # Digital Storytelling: Listen deeply. Tell stories. Engage students! # Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring: Get started with minimal resources! # Digital Storytelling With Minimal Clicks: Improving Reading and Writing Skills # Geo-StoryChasing: Mobile digital storytelling # Podcasting: Communicate safely with a global audience! # Podcasting2: Intermediate/Advanced Topics in Podcasting # Storychasing: Empowering Students as Digital Witnesses # VoiceThread: Powerful digital storytelling with a minimum of clicks!
  • Michael Wacker on 01 Nov 09
     
    Wes Fryer Collection of Resources
Venizz Smith

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Falcon Emergency

Getting Started with Chrome extension - Diigo help - 0 views

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Diigo Chrome

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  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
  • Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation. Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear. The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
  • Sticky Note Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.
J Black

Books Are Becoming Fringe Media - GigaOM - 1 views

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  • Whether published in ink or pixels, books are facing tough competition from updates, posts, and a blizzard of free, brief and ephemeral writings that distract eyeballs from the task of digesting 300 pages of text.
  • Book publishers may be hoping the iPad and other tablets will solve this problem, but I think such devices are only going to make things worse.
  • It’s a refuge from the distractions of the web, a quiet garden walled off from the web except to download a book.
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  • since the advent of the web reading has increased drastically and publishers are publishing more titles than ever. Merely looking at last year’s stats is poor reporting- last year the economy was in a deep recession and people weren’t buying. However, library use was up sharply. I don’t believe there is a future for printed volumes. It makes no sense economically. However, I do believe there is a book-like format that will survive because all the media you describe do not deliver long format information, including stories, well. Books are an immersion experience, not a skimming experience.
  • J Black on 07 Jul 10
     
    "But notably, according to an informal survey of Kindle devotees, 59 percent of people who buy the e-readers are over 55. Meanwhile, as a NEA study pointed out two years ago, people under 25 were already doing most of their reading on the web, with only 7 minutes a day devoted to books."
J Black

The Winnie the Pooh Guide to Blogging - Copyblogger - 0 views

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  • glucose-low grumpiness
  • Tug on their sleeve. Tap on their shoulder. Pull on their hand. Whisper in their ear.
  • If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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  • People really do have fluff in their ears, so work on conveying your message more effectively in your comment section or write up a new post to clarify the concept.
  • The bigger picture was more important than the little hitches along the way.
  • Obstacles cropped up constantly, but that didn’t bother Pooh either. He expected adversity to happen. When it did, Pooh seemed almost pleased, as if he were greeting an old friend come to visit.
  • You’ve come this far, and you can do it again, so there’s no point in getting stressed out until your seams split. Make a new plan and get on with it.
  • J Black on 19 Feb 09
     
    Given that the happiness and feelings of his friends are Pooh's chief concern (other than hunny, that is), he'd likely build a strong community as a blogger. Here are six social media lessons we can all learn from the lovable bear who's stuffed with fluff.
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