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A Better Pencil
In this electronic age, new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Baron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Baron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another. - Inside Higher Ed
Watching the evolution of the “Origin of Species”
The idea that we can actually see change over time in a person’s thinking is fascinating. Darwin scholars are of course familiar with this story, but here we can view it directly, both on a macro-level as it animates, or word-by-word as we examine pieces of the text more closely.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
Techno-Rhetoric Cafe
Grab a drink and explore the ways that technology, teaching, and rhetoric can live harmoniously
http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/07/hylighter-web-based-annotation-manager.html
"If you looking for a good collaborative way to review your documents, try HyLighter collaboration platform. You can think about it as a mini GoogleDocs that focuses on the discussions and reviews from the people you share it with."
Designing Rubrics for Assessing Higher Order Thinking
"After describing some content-free critical thinking tests as a result of the Delphi project, this article describes holistic and analytical rubrics developed by various practitioners, ending with examples that provide useful feedback on student thinking without using rubrics."
Writing in the Cloud—online documents
"Question: What is the advantage of using a service such as Google Docs? I already have a word processor on my computer, so why would I choose to use an online word processor?" (Techlearning)
Four Web 2.0 Collaborative-Writing Tools
"Collaborative writing is useful for projects, for peer-editing, and for many other writing tasks limited only by teacher/student imagination. Web-based collaborative writing tools may be used by teachers to provide feedback on student assignments, to make suggestions and comments on a projects and highlighting required changes to a member of the project."
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Forget Word: 13 Online Word Processors
We’ve lined up a mixture of 13 paid and free word processing alternatives for you to give a try, and hopefully find one that meets your needs.
Smultron
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X
Kennedy, Kristen (2003) Writing with Web Logs
How do educators take advantage of the Web's publishing tools with limited time and resources and in keeping with the standards?
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