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Malcolm Campbell

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 3 views

  • The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.
    • Lacy Manship
       
      So... right... texts and Texts are so mixed up in our lives now in a way that is more social than writing has ever been before. Like I wrote texts, facebook statues, emails so much more often than we wrote postcards and letters and passed notes before.
    • Lucy Arnold
       
      I can't think of a Facebook status report right now. Will you write one for me and I'll plagiarize it?
    • Lacy Manship
       
      I think you just wrote it. Copy and paste
  • An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
    • Malcolm Campbell
       
      There's actually something called the "post-literate age" - can't remember who coined the phrase.
Steve Fulton

Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet - 0 views

  • Here you’ll find quite simply the most interactive and sophisticated version of Romeo and Juliet ever created: use it as a study guide and teaching tool. Read the play, read its English source texts, read critical materials on the play, explore Shakespeare's vocabulary, and experience a full range of multi-media associated with the play.
Steve Fulton

BlogBooker - Blog Book - 1 views

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    What is this ? BlogBooker produces a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog's entries and comments. Archives can be generated from any blog running on WordPress, LiveJournal (and derivatives) or Blogger. The whole process takes about 3-4 minutes, depending on the size of your blog.
Erika Summers

Hitler Takes Control over Austria - 3 views

    • Erika Summers
       
      Hitler Taking Control over Austria. Note the imagry of the Eagle and the wreath
Steve Fulton

Using Technology with Writing - 3 views

  • When writing a first draft, complete sentences must be formulated
  • Traditionally, most composition teachers have encouraged their students to create some form of pre-writing or outline before writing one word nonetheless, there are always students who can write a structured paper, spontaneously. Whether students make a traditional outline or write spontaneously, they will be organizing the ideas for the paper.
  • Word Processing enables students to write freely with the confidence that they will be able to make changes at a later date easily and quickly.
Sally Summey

Technology helps boost students' writing skills | Top News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

  • Students’ writing skills were in the spotlight in early April, as a new report suggested that an increasing number of U.S. students understand the basics of writing. And one of several possible reasons for this trend could be the growing use of writing software tools among educators.
Lucy Arnold

Literacy Through Technology: The Power of Digital Storytelling - National Writing Project - 0 views

  • igital storytelling has changed Butterfield’s classroom. “Students quickly become invested in their classmates’ stories. The sense of collaboration enhances the writing community. Revision is given true purpose a
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    Impact of digital storytelling
Steve Fulton

Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year - 5 views

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    Awesome, Steve -- for this and for the top YouTube Videos! I've just dug myself out from under a lot of administrative work and am compiling some of the fine material we received via Summer Institute. This includes a Word document listing all the websites you gave, plus others folks shared plus what I pick up from Facebook friends/teachers who shoot links around. Peace out, mc
Steve Fulton

Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 4 views

  • Earlier this week I published a list of 11 Techy Things for Teachers To Try This Year. As promised at the end of that post, I have created a free how-to guide for the things I listed.
Steve Fulton

Teaching and technology ~ presentations and resources for educators - 0 views

  • During the last six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to these documents as 'cheat sheets'
Steve Fulton

Teaching with Technology in the Middle: Diigo for Digital Writing Reflection - 2 views

  • They've used it to keep track of information they find on the web, to share information with our class group, and
  • because of their proficiency with it that when an idea came to me today 5 minutes before the start of class of a new purpose for which I could have my students use Diigo
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    My most recent post about how I had my students use Diigo to assess thinking and learning in their blog writing.
Steve Fulton

Digital Mentor Text #5: "Changing Education Paradigms" - Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - 1 views

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    Digital Mentor Text blog series, this one focusing on the common craft and RSA type videos that overlay a narrative on video/drawing
Steve Fulton

PowToon : Create Animated Presentations Online - 4 views

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    a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawings of people and objects that you can arrange on blank canvas. After adding your narration to the arrangement you can publish your video.
Diana Martinez

Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents - 0 views

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    100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives of US History from 1776 to 1965
Erika Summers

Rejecting Information that Threatens Beliefs - 1 views

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    Article on the rejection of climate change. Read comments for further discussion.
Steve Fulton

Audioboo - 0 views

  • Audioboo. Because sound is social. We are a mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and upload audio for your friends, family or the rest of the world to hear.
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