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If You Build It, They Will Read: NECC 2009
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My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
ets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, save it online or print it out in the Library.
iLearn Technology » Scholastic Story Starters (k-6)
fun site for students in kindergarten through sixth grade to use each day as a quick writing activity. Students type in their name and select a grade to begin. Students are taken to a special Story Starter machine that generates writing ideas for newspaper articles, letters, notebooks, or postcards. They can get a new idea by keeping some elements of the idea and spinning again to change elements. The site also features Scholastic’s Word Wizard which always floats on the webpage. Students can type in a word or double click any word on the webpage and get a definition of the word.
Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: Summarizing What's Important with a "How To" Video
Explaining "how to" requires students to research a subject, evaluate what's important, and create a guide for someone else to follow. It gives them an opportunity to write for an authentic audience and purpose and use skills that rank very high on Bloom's taxonomy.
Create a Web-based outline and share it easily with LooseStitch « Demo Girl
lets you easily create outlines and share them or allow others to work on the outlines with you. You don’t really have to sign up — just create an outline name and provide your email address and LooseStitch will give you the URL for your outline.
Help Students to Become Better Writers
LearningExpress, LLC, has just released a powerful tool to help educators win the battle toward teaching effective writing in the classroom. The Writing Teacher, at http://www.thewritingteacher.org, is a blog forum for educators to share ideas and expertise about helping students become better writers. The Writing Teacher includes writing input, content, and feedback - all encouraging participation by those who teach writing every day
Junior High School Shares Basics of Mathcasting : April 2009 : THE Journal
"After the teachers teach hands-on lessons," Brown said, "the students then write a script of what they just learned. This is a great way to reinforce non-fiction writing across the curriculum. The students work in groups and decide how they want to present the material back to the audience in a way to communicate the concept they just learned. Then the students must either draw pictures or take photos that represent their concepts."
The Oldies Come to Animoto's Music Library
Applications for Education
Here is an idea for using Animoto in an English/ Literature course. To get students excited about studying and or writing poetry have them select a poem, record an audio track of the poem being read, then use that audio track as part of an Animoto poetry video. Alternatively, you may try simply having students select music and images that they feel captures the tone and message of a poem.
Another way to use Animoto is to have students collect images of the community they live in and put them into an Animoto show. Students should selec
Teaching a lesson using diigo - part 2 « Andywhiteway’s Blog
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Students were to look at three different websites, each containing a different poem by W.H. Auden. On each site they would be required to highlight and explain a different piece of information from the poem. They would then be required to synthesise the three seperate explanations they had given about the poems into a conclusion on the overall message contained in Auden’s poetry, which they would post on the forum on our diigo group’s homepage.
iLearn Technology » Story Top
Comic strips are an outstanding way to get your reluctant writers writing (especially boys!) The comic format usually isn’t as daunting as a blank piece of paper. With just a little guidance, your students will be writing and creating comic strips in n
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