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Patrick Higgins

Zero-Thumb Game: How to Tame Texting | Edutopia - 0 views

  • guiding exercises in text translation: pulling up a MySpace page or a lingo-drenched school paper and asking students to translate the writing into standard English. Or they ask students to translate passages from classic literature into texting speak to demonstrate their comprehension of the writing and to create a form of multilingual focus, similar to how learning a foreign language tends to enhance a student's understanding of his or her native tongue.
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      This is a great example of how to take a typical assignment and give it an atypical outcome.
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    Another good reason to address the texting issue.
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    Check out how this teacher is viewing the use of text message lingo in her classroom. Very forward-thinking stuff here.
Patrick Higgins

All Things Marked » HOWTO: Send free text messages through email - 0 views

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    Good to know in a pinch.
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    how to send text messages via email.
Patrick Higgins

Mobile - 0 views

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    This is cool
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    Using cell phones in class but some students don't have unlimited texting? No problem. Google simulator allows them to use the SMS feature to do simple queries and research.
Patrick Higgins

ChaCha. Good Answer. - 0 views

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    How cool is this? Text your question to ChaCha and they reply with an answer in minutes. Similar to goog411, but has a better name.
Patrick Higgins

Flickr: The Great quotes about Learning and Change Pool - 0 views

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    Outstanding images with text to motivate and challenge us.
Patrick Higgins

SMS Text News » Archives » Mobile web users to reach 1.7 billion - 0 views

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    Thanks to Ewan McIntosh for this link. Great stats available for phone penetration worldwide.
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    mobile phones again. What does this data mean?
Patrick Higgins

Messaging Shakespeare | Classroom Examples | Focus on Effectiveness - 0 views

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    How to bring Cellular technology to Stratford-on-Avon. This is a wonderful example of a teacher leveraging technology that is essential to the lives of students to further their understanding of a traditionally challenging subject.
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    Texting Shakespeare. Check out this use of the cell phone.
Patrick Higgins

The Committed Sardine - blog - 1 views

  • Phonological awareness – a child's ability to detect and use patterns of sound in speech – is one of the early signs of successful development of reading and writing skills. Researchers said the ability to contract, clip and manipulate words for texting relies on good phonological awareness, and that doing so can help develop literacy.
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    Hmmm.  How would this go over with our peers?
Patrick Higgins

preloader3 - 0 views

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    This is from the BBC. I wish the interface used some of the white space to display the text from the article.
Erica Hartman

WordSift - Visualize Text - 0 views

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    like wordle but better
Patrick Higgins

the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages - 0 views

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    Highlighting tool that is shareable.
Patrick Higgins

TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text - 0 views

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    Totally ripping off John Becker's latest post for ideas here, but imagine using tag clouds to show meaning in public speeches this election season.
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    There is some value in this one. See me and I'll explain.
Patrick Higgins

Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day - Culture - Lifehacker - 1 views

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    "Americans Consume 34GB of Content a Day"
Patrick Higgins

The Fischbowl: I Read (?) The News Today, Oh Boy - 0 views

  • Note that this is additive - no one is suggesting that words don't matter, that what we traditionally think of as "writing" is no longer important, but that the very nature of composition is more complex now, and that our instruction, our pedagogy, our learning spaces need to reflect that.
Patrick Higgins

The New Writing Pedagogy - 0 views

  • Moving to a new pedagogy is not easy for many district administrators, however, as the Web as a writing space is still primarily an unknown, scary place to put students. But as research is showing, students are flocking to online networks in droves, and they are doing a great deal of writing there already, some of it creative and thoughtful and inspiring, but much of it outside the traditional expectations of “good writing” that classrooms require
  • That change is spelled out clearly by the National Council of Teachers of English, which last year published “new literacies” for readers and writers in the 21st century. Among those literacies are the ability to “build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally,” to “design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes,” and to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.” Very little of that kind of work is possible to achieve without expanding the way we think about writing instruction in the context of online social tools.
  • “Using online writing tools will allow students to write whenever and wherever they feel inspired, and to be able to speak to an audience that is larger and more important to them than the traditional classroom,” Childers says. “There is a reason why we should constantly be looking for ways to incorporate more innovative writing opportunities into our curriculum.”
Patrick Higgins

Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

  • “Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide,” said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. “There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content.”
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    "Online collaboration is becoming more and more central to the way in which knowledge is created and assembled worldwide," said computer scientist Luca de Alfaro, who runs the UCSC Wiki Lab and led the WikiTrust project. "There are more and more services that simply cannot exist without some notion of user reputation and trust in the content."
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