Group items tagged voice - Southern Maine Writing Project

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- thebda on 10 Mar 13
  
  I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.</div>
  
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By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
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Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations
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In each of these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while standing in that exact spot
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The stories we record range from personal recollections to more "historic" stories, or sometimes both
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always are told from a personal point of view
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The stories are as personal as the relationship people have with the spaces
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The physical experience of hearing a story in its actual setting — of hearing the walls talk — brings uncommon knowledge to common space
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