Next Friday, October 21 is a school staff development day-no school for kids. Due to a cancelation of a presenter, a school is in need of a workshop on writing in a K-5 elementary school. After spending some time talking with the principal, the objectives above are what I heard. Now I need to build [...]
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Calling for Ideas/Suggestions- please
October 14, 2011 · 1 Comment · literacy, writing
Tags: writing
I get talker’s block, too…….but i get writer’s block too…. and i can make blunders…
October 6, 2011 · 3 Comments · writing
Seth Godin in his blog post Talker’s Block states: “No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.” Seth [...]
Tags: blunders·public·Seth Godin·writing
Learning! Part 3
September 22, 2010 · No Comments · 21st Century, learning, literacy
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius Read Part 2 Bud Hunt writes “that writing, or at least composition, remains about the closest thing to learning in a bottle that I’ve found so far.” Writing to learn is such a powerful tool for learning! Writing [...]
Teaching Non-Fiction Writing- Where’s the Mentor Text?
March 31, 2010 · 1 Comment · 21st century classroom, collaboration, connective writing, multimedia in the classroom, reading, reflecting, writing
It has been said to me by many teachers that teaching non-fiction writing is the hardest thing they have to teach. From hearing those statement has really pushed my thinking about why I find non-fiction writing so enjoyable to teach. I have learned that it is only through the act of writing that we can [...]
Tags: digital storytelling·ipadio·mentor text·nonfiction reading·nonfiction writing·reading·Voicethread·writing·writing workkshop
Digital Storytelling
March 14, 2010 · No Comments · digital storytelling, writing
Friday night and most of the day Saturday (March 12 and 13), the course I am teaching (The Digital Writing Workshop) met to unsuccessfully put together a podcast using Audacity and to write a digital story. Friday night’s workshop we had planned to learn Audcacity but we were not able to download Audacity from the [...]
Tags: digital storytelling·digital writing workshop·photostory 3·writing·youtube
Writing in public for everyone to read
January 19, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blogging
The last two day I have been working on two different blog posts. I started writing a blog post that I am calling “Advice to a New Blogger”( the title is subject to change) and I have reflection on teaching with primary source documents in social studies. They are both not complete and I am [...]
World of Blogging
January 17, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, change, writing
mrsa-englishteacher welcomes her new class with high expectations for blogging in her English classroom. She writes “This week, despite headaches, frustrations, and a genuine lack of time to prepare for a new semester, I did not deviate from my plan to implement real world uses for technology in my classroom.” She chooses blogging and welcomed [...]
Awesome Beginnings…
January 12, 2010 · No Comments · collaboration, connective writing, New Writing Pedagogy, reflecting
I ran across Wallwishers that allows user to post sticky notes to a wall. What a great reading and writing strategy in a digital classroom! I am using this in the graduate course I am teaching. I think it is pretty cool. I thought I would share…
A Story Challenge——
January 6, 2010 · 4 Comments · writing
I challenge my readers to write in 200 words or less a story real or fiction- a saga- with a beginning, middle or end. Here Begins the Story: Hitler expands his ego. Bombs dropping; smell of death; blood; heart ache; worry about surviving; thoughts of home; marching across Germany; Paris. The love of his life [...]
On writing comments
January 26, 2010 · 6 Comments · Blogging
Importance of leaving a comment: This is where my words and my action doesn’t always match what I do. Philisa Boykin left this comment to Writing in public for everyone to read I wrote the other day: “I feel a lot better knowing that I’m not the only one having difficulty getting started with following [...]
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