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How to Teach Writing - Ideas and Resources - 13 views

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Cathy Oxley on 23 Jul 14

Creative writing syllabus with lesson plans: fiction.

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A Passionate, Unapologetic Plea for Creative Writing in Schools - Rebecca Wallace-Segal... - 7 views

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Creative Commons - Gym Junkie Librarian - 28 views

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Cathy Oxley on 23 Sep 13

How to write the attribution for CC images.

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PicLits.com - Create a PicLit - 1 views

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shared by Vivian Harris on 17 Jan 09 - Cached

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This is an interesting site for getting students to create and write in response to a visual stimulus picture.

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Vivian Harris on 04 Sep 11

creative writing based on choice of inspirational photos

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Spring Hill Young Writers Group - Collaborative Writing - 5 views

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A collaborative, immersive writing workshop for Year 7 and 8 students.

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MSM Writer's Club Stimulus | Mugworts - 1 views

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Cathy Oxley on 28 May 15

Creative fantasy writing site based on HP.

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creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers - 9 views

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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views

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The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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connects the information people and the story people
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May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
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It offers constant problems and perplexities
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strong role in domesticating
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Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
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Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
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Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
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even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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  I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
  
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change is our only certainty
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argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
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Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
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Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
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Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
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also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
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available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
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librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
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readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
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core values of librarianship are access and service
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always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
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Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
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Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
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Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
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nformation person and a story person
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Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
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beth gourley on 15 Apr 08

©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS

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30 Sci Fi Writing Prompts - 11 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 12 Jan 15 - No Cached

Cathy Oxley on 12 Jan 15

This list has a Creative Commons licence, so can be used and shared.

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Moving at the Speed of Creativity - Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Sk... - 14 views

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Novlet - Collaborative non linear story writing - 24 views

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Jason Epstein on 15 Apr 10

This was highlighted in Tech & Learning Magazine. I see this as a potentially powerful tool for writing and collaboration.

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Words Toolkit - LiveBinder - 32 views

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Convey ideas clearly and fully, and use logic, creativity and imagination in a powerful way with well-chosen words.

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Adventures in Fantasy: Lessons and Activities in Narrative and Descriptive ... - John G... - 4 views

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Parkwriting characters conflict writing creative Short stories

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Adventures in Fantasy offers an exciting approach to

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Magic, Mystery and Mayhem at Belle Vue Primary School | Tim Rylands - 6 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 14 Apr 15 - No Cached

Cathy Oxley on 14 Apr 15

'Magic, Mystery and Mayhem' based around the computer game Myst 3.

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The Games-Rich Classroom: Epic Results with Citadel (planning included!) - 6 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 15 Apr 15 - No Cached

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Tim Ryland's unit on King Arthur using the Epic Citadel app,

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Word Tamer - 37 views

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Characters for an Epic Tale - Poster - 15 views

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