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Not only creates a name, but a fake address, phone number, and other identity elements. Intended for authors, generating test data, or generating a fake id for filling out online forms.

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Pick a gender and generate a first and last name. You can tag the names. Useful for creating characters for scenarios

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Use a conversational, engaging writing style for e-learning, not dull, jargon-filled language

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Young people write more than they used to, and they don't just write when it's required. The study also found that spelling errors aren't as much of a problem as they were 20 years ago, now that spell check software is easily accessible.

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Great example of why I get so frustrated when I hear people complaining about how terrible it is that students copy and paste content. I'd like to see the teachers and professors stop using uncited content themselves first; I see a lot more problems with people with graduate degrees. This lecturer on effective writing plagiarized content for handouts while simultaneously admonishing students to not plagiarize.

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Case study of blogs used with fifth graders to improve writing skills. In both classes reviewed, blogs improved "both rich content and author's craft" but not grammar and spelling.

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Study on collaborative blogging with third graders that resulted in improved attitudes towards writing, improved quality of writing, and a number of unintended benefits

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Tips for writing for multimedia, including specifics for writing audio scripts and software tutorials

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David Warlick shares stories of authentic assignments and how they motivate learners. Writing & creating for an authentic audience is different from creating content just for a teacher.

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Report from the National Council of Teachers of English with a call to action to teach writing appropriately for the 21st century. Writing now often happens outside school in social spaces where people learn informally through their peers. Includes an overview of how writing has been viewed historically and how that has affected how we teach writing.

"Writing has never been accorded the cultural respect or the support that reading has enjoyed, in part because through reading, society could control its citizens, whereas through writing, citizens might exercise their
own control."

"Writing has historically and inextricably been linked to testing."

"In much of this new composing, we are writing to share, yes; to encourage dialogue, perhaps; but mostly, I think, to participate."

"First, we have moved beyond a pyramid-like, sequential model of literacy development in which print literacy comes first and digital literacy comes second and networked literacy practices, if they come at all, come third and last."

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A 6th grade teacher talks about the advantage of threaded blog comments for building a writing community. This encourages much more of students talking to each other and makes it easier to follow blog conversations.

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Have boring content you want to make more interesting and memorable? What about putting it in poetry form? This is a creative use of poetry to create memorable summaries of copyright law. If intellectual property law can be made simpler to understand and remember, can't your content too?

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A concise post pulling a bit of research where the lesson with the fewest words resulted in the most learning. Nice argument for keeping your e-learning short, although look at the original to see what they were actually studying in context (scientific processes with cause and effect, using visuals as well as text to explain).

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How to write scripts to be read aloud, primarily when providing scripts for professional voice talent. A little dated (talking about faxing scripts), but some good things to remember if someone else will read your script

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Suggestions for writing how people talk and creating audio scripts that don't sound stiff and are clear

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Thoughts on blogging as reflective practice for learning, with benefits in both the activity of writing and the social connections

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Wendy Wickham's liveblogged notes from Clark Quinn's presentation on Deeper Instructional Design. Lots of ideas in this post--create models that actually help people understand the content and recognize patterns, pay attention to motivation and emotion, give learners the least they need to get them to do what's needed, create learner-centered objectives instead of designer-centered objectives, use stories and active practice.

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Andrew Sullivan on the value of blogging and how blogging differs from traditional print journalism.

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The 5 mistakes outlined in this article are
1. "Ineffective contextualization" (not thinking about the best way to use blogs, usually self-reflection)
2. "Unclear Learning Outcomes"
3. "Misuse of the environment" (treating blogs like wikis or discussion forums)
4. "Illusive grading practices" (lacking clear rubrics)
5. "Inadequate time allocation" (both for students to write and instructors to grade and give feedback)

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Summary of a book by a professor of linguistics that examines and debunks the complaints about text messaging reducing literacy. Good collection of misconceptions about txtng with counterarguments and research.

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