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Dennis OConnor

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning - 19 views

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Writing collaboration future literacy 21cif

shared by Dennis OConnor on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “I think the definition of writing is shifting,” Boardman said. “I don’t think writing happens with just words anymore.”
  • In his classes, Boardman teaches students how to express their ideas and how to tell stories —and he encourages them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively. He is part of a vanguard of educators, technologists, intellectuals and writers who are reimagining the very meaning of writing and reading.
  • The keys to understanding this new perspective on writing and reading lie in notions of collaboration and being social. More specifically, it’s believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea.
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  • “We find when writing moves online, the connections between ideas and people are much more apparent than they are in the context of a printed book,”
  • transmedia work
  • The MIT Media Lab tagged collaboration as one of the key literacies of the 21st century, and it’s now so much a part of the digital learning conversation as to be nearly rote. In his new book, “Where Good Ideas Come From,” Stephen Johnson argues that ideas get better the more they’re exposed to outside influences.
  • Laura Flemming is an elementary school library media specialist in River Edge, N.J. About three years ago, she came across a hybrid book—half digital, half traditional—called “Skeleton Creek” by Patrick Carmen. “The 6th graders were running down to library class, banging down the door to get in, which you don’t often see,” Flemming said.
  • It is not only the act of writing that is changing. It’s reading, too. Stein points to a 10-year-old he met in London recently. The boy reads for a bit, goes to Google when he wants to learn more about a particular topic, chats online with his friend who are reading the same book, and then goes back to reading.
  • “We tell our kids we want them to know what it’s like to walk in the shoes of the main character,” Flemming said. “I’ve had more than one child tell me that before they read ‘Inanimate Alice,’ they didn’t know what that felt like.”
  • Stein says it’s better to take advantage of new technologies to push the culture in the direction you want it to go. Stein is fully aware of the political and cultural implications of his vision of the future of reading and writing, which shifts the emphasis away from the individual and onto the community. It’s asking people to understand that authored works are part of a larger flow of ideas and information.
Cathy Oxley

Google Lit Trips! - 11 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 13 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 13 Nov 09
     
    This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took plleace...
Colette Cassinelli

Ginny's European Tour - Google Maps - 7 views

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ya yalit google maps reading promotion books

shared by Colette Cassinelli on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Colette Cassinelli on 21 Jul 11
     
    Places from YA novel: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Donna Baumbach

Library Mashups : Links - 0 views

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 03 Dec 09
     
    links for book Library Mashups by chapter. See also delicious.com/librarymashups n Library Mashups, Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world walk readers through definitions, summaries, and practical uses of mashups in libraries. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content.
Donna Baumbach

Free Technology for Teachers: LoudLit - Listen to Books and Read Along - 0 views

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 29 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 29 Dec 09
     
    "LoudLit.org is a good place to find free audio recordings of famous works of literature. Many websites do this, but what makes LoudLit unique and useful for teachers is the option of reading the text online while listening to the reading of the text."
Donna Bills

Who's Awake in Springtime? « Picture Book of the Day - 5 views

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springtime wishlist picturebooks books reading promotion

shared by Donna Bills on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Donna Bills on 31 Mar 10
     
    Who's Awake in Springtime? by Phillis Gershator and Mim Green (Authors) and Emilie Chollat (Illustrator), a small child asks the question… Who's asleep? and one by one, the animals answer… Not I.
Katy Vance

Bookshare Launches New eBook Tools for Kids with Print Disabilities - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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ebook disabilities access reading special ed

shared by Katy Vance on 09 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The Bookshare Web Reader is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE 9.0 and above. It allows readers to adjust font size, colors and display format, and takes advantage of Google Chrome’s features to allow students to read books multi-modally, with word-by-word highlighting and text-to-speech.
Carla Shinn

Free Technology for Teachers: LibrAdventures - A Map of Writers and Their Stories - 30 views

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books reading cool tools film

shared by Carla Shinn on 28 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 28 Aug 14
     
    LibrAdventures is a neat use of Google Maps that displays the place and the events that influenced famous authors and their works. LibrAdventures also includes some artists and film directors. You can explore LibrAdventures by selecting a name, a location, or an event from the drop-down menus at the top of the LibrAdventures homepage.
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