The digital age often gets a bad press but the findings of this report demonstrate that social networking sites and blogs are linked to young people’s more positive attitudes to writing
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Maggie Verster
Mark Twain - Complete works of Mark Twain, Biography, Quotes - 1 views
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"This site contains *almost all* of Mark Twain's works.articles, FAQ, Study Guides, Essays, etc "
Better User Experience With Storytelling -4 my english teachers- enjoyed this one - 4 views
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A great article for english language teachers
A visual reader of text- Amazing!!! - 9 views
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"A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning."
Great fun: Internet Anagram Server - 4 views
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Great fun.
Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels - 8 views
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"A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."
Writing lesson plans for teachers from the Expo Writing Resource Center - 4 views
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Sharpen your learners writing skills
Essay Planning Tool! - 12 views
Learn to Read with phonics - 5 views
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Free public service to motivate children to read with phonics.
Sharing Learning - online conference on Communities of practice - 3 views
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"From November 5th to 8th, 2009, there will be an open-knowledge event, Social Networking, organized by AVEALMEC and ARCALL, two LatinAmerican associations, one based in Venezuela and the other one in Argentina, interested in promoting the use of ICT in the language classroom. It will be completely online and free, and its aim is to encourage practioners to reflect the role of communities of practice as social networks in ELT."
Lovely writing resource site - 4 views
Listen to poems read by the poets themselves - 7 views
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Story Creator - A cute cartoonish tool for creating stories with pictures - 0 views
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I can imagine that little-lies and older little-lies (like me) could really have fun with this tool for creating stories
ESL Tools for Better Writing in English as a Second Language - 1 views
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ESL Tools for Better Writing in English as a Second Language
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Lots of great tools and installations to help you to spellcheck etc....
How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer - 0 views
Make Beliefs Comix For Educators - 0 views
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This is just the coolest cartoon creator site: Great for digital storytelling or icebreakers.....
Inside Google Books: Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books - 0 views
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Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.
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Maggie Verster
I am an educational technologist and support teachers in ICT integration in South Africa. I also facilitate teacher professional development training, write m and e-learning material and oversee a few online PD teachers communities. Passionate about learning and sharing.