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One of many spelling, vocabulary, and writing resources on the Vocabulary and Spelling City site, this page explains, "Asking a child to write about something that matters to him [sic] right now is a powerful motivator. This is where writing prompts come in. Writing prompts are simply ideas or subjects offered as a foundation for students to build a writing assignment on" (¶3, 2011.07.25). It includes tips for preparing writing prompts as well as examples for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Thanks to Cara Whitehead (Learning with Computers) for pointing out this site.

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in list: Writing, Vocabulary Development

Weighs drill-n-kill against creative engagement and problem solving with computers. Thanks to Claudia for point this out.

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in list: Educational Technology

This thought-provoking slide show defines communities of practice (CoPs), compares F2F and online CoPs, includes a quotation that seems to misconstrue cooperation as collaboration (slide 12), and provides illustrations of online CoPs in various venues.

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in list: Online Collaboration

Alan Levine's wikified workshop activities and resources for personal, exploratory, and collective tagging of sites and photos

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in list: Information Literacy

Nik Peachey previews ReadTheWords.com (beta) online text-to-speech converter, prior to suggesting ways for EAL learners to use it for help "with their listening, reading and pronunciation" (¶2)

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"...[C]ompelling students to publish content into institutional repositories and course management systems is tantamount to forced sharecropping. We need to do better by our students than to guide them toward embracing sharecropping as the preferred expression of digital identity" (Update, [n.d.].)

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in list: Information Literacy

"Wiki Etiquette for Students - How to act on a wiki" (2008.07.15) provides advice and suggests additional resources regarding personal safety, truthfulness, permission to post, acknowledgements, accuracy, and other issues related to online activities and collective editing.

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A site-based questionnaire generates printable and revisitable multiple intelligence profiles based on Gardner's eight intellingences. Site also allows compilation of group or class results, if you get reference code numbers keyed to individual responses.

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