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, writing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Back in July I Silvia Tolisano’s blog Langwiches led me to Mixbook. After reading the FAQs I signed up for an account, gave the site a brief workout, tagged it in my Delicious account, and didn’t revisit the tool until today. It’s not that I didn’t agree with Silvia’s recommendation and review of the site [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in 21st century classroom, change, literacy, writing on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been thinking about David Warlick’s blog “A Question of Authority”and his listener’s reaction to the idea of handing over to students the role of creating content for learning and the perceived lack of authority that may come from the student authorship. I wondered if maybe she was less worried about the authority, or accuracy, of [...]
