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A writing tool with sets of pictures by different artists that students can organize to create prompts for their writing. Stories can be saved to student accounts, and shared with, and commented on by their classmates

Cursive writing has been all but eliminated from the classroom. Good thing or bad? Well... according to this piece in the Economist... not so good.

Quotation from email sent by the company Layouts give your page more structure, if and when you need it. In a Stream, all posts are arranged one below the other in chronological order. Here are some cool ways of using Streams: Writing long form text, like a blog. Group discussions, where order is important. Presentations.

I know you folks have used (Walwisher) Padlet. I thought you might be interested in the new features. Avi

Richard Byrne describes how to use this free online collaborative whiteboard tool, Stoodle. Stoodle provides users multiple "pages" to write on and the option to import files from a wide variety of sources including Dropbox, Google Drive, and Evernote. Students can work collaboratively on a file and chat about is in real time using the chat box and microphone features.

SpaceEngine is realistic virtual Universe in your computer. You can travel from star to star and from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planets, moons and asteroids and explore alien landscapes, you can change the speed of time flow and observe celestial phenomena. This resource would work great during a space unit to stimulate creativity, and create a magical atmosphere. It could be used for creative writing inspiration as well as math (distance in space).

An article by Rick Wormeli at the University of Victoria that speaks to how to effectively manage rewrites and redos in the classroom. An interesting read.

I first saw this article a few years? ago and we used it to create a redo policy/guideline for our high school. It is a good article to share and really got me thinking about redos and re-writes. It got me promoting this allot more as a result reading this. The whole idea is to get students to learn and if redoing helps, well why not. the flip side is it has created more work for me by having to create another test if that is involved because I do not give the same one. Of course I have to re-mark it. All good as long as the student is putting more time into learning.