Posted in education, literacy, mashup, publishing, technology, writing on Mar 8th, 2009 No Comments »
With the emergence of Web 2.0 tools and a greater presence of computers at all grade levels balancing tactile and digital experiences in the classroom has become a even bigger challenge. Now “cut and paste,” creativity, and visual literacy have dual skill sets, application, and roles in student learning. How, as teachers, do we provide [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, mashup, publishing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Thanks to Amy Mayer, a guest blogger for Free Technology for Teachers, for recommending Glogster, an online poster creation tool. Not only did I register for an account for me, I could request up to 200 student logins. In my humble opinion this feature alone make Glogster one of the most brilliant of all Web [...]
Posted in 21st century classroom, Professional Development, Web 2.0, comic, literacy, publishing, writing on Jul 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
Miguel Guhlin over at his Thinkfinity Texas blog recently shared some great lessons at the ReadWriteThink site to guide teachers in using the graphic novel genre to help students develop their writing and literacy skills. If you have been looking for a way to bring comics and graphic novels into your ELA instruction ReadWriteThink [...]
Posted in environment, margins, publishing on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
My last post encouraged teachers to help students to free their writings from the confines of the printer and to find outlets to publish their work digitally. The payoff for learning is that student’s writing experience is enriched through peer interaction. But the student’s aren’t the only ones that benefits by this shift in [...]
Posted in blogging, publishing, writing on Jan 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
A couple of days ago the gurus over at SegaTech posted “Change the World…Change the Margins.” They ask their readers to help them figure out why, with access to Web 2.0 tools for blogging, collaborating through wikis, and creating websites without using complicated authoring software, (and I’ll through in networked schools and email), the [...]
