Troy Hicks-a leader in the teaching of digital writing-collaborates with seven National writing Project teacher-consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students' digital writing.
Turnitin is revolutionizing the experience of writing to learn. Turnitin's formative feedback and originality checking services promote critical thinking, ensure academic integrity and help students improve their writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time.
Description for this website: Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry | Fiction | Bag of Tricks. ESOL student level: These activities scale well to beginner through advanced level proficiency and can be used with all ages. For more activities: Return to PIZZAZ!
While the word "literacy" alone generally refers to reading and writing skills, when you tack on the word "digital" before it, the term encompasses much, much more. Sure, reading and writing are still very much at the heart of digital literacy.
"StudySync is a powerful digital literacy curriculum designed to advance reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills, with optional print support for districts in transition"
If you want to encourage critical thinking, try out elevate! Elevate allows you to play in different series of games, records your answers and responses, and then picks the next game for you based on your results! Some games focus on reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary!
Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync.
Useful collaboration note taking tools and ability to save articles and clippings from Internet for critically analyzing sources.
Short Description:
Evernote is an IOS/Android compatible app that promotes collaboration as well as productivity. It allows for its users to take notes in various unique formats, ranging from text, sketching, photos, journaling, graphs, audio, video and my personal favorite: sticky notes that you can actually write on!
These notes automatically can sync to every device the user is logged into, and can be shared for real time collaboration within a classroom - perfect for group projects and note sharing. And if a student forgot to write something down, they can take a picture of the board and have the photo scanned into their notes on the app.
Examples for Uses:
Project collaboration
Teacher note sharing amongst all student devices
Real time in class collaboration on documents and slides
Readings can be instantly shared and annotated via App
Students can pick note taking format that best suits their learning needs
I used to use evernote and then moved away from it. It has come a long way and I may want to go back to using it again. Thanks for bringing my attention back to this.
Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.
Every day, into the classroom to do the work, live the questions, join the conversation, guided by what my kids need to succeed now and later, by what and how they need to learn, to think, to create so they can make a living--and a life.
