To Do: Writting Territories:
How to:
Go to Google.com--> log into your account--> go to google docs.-->start a new entry...
to start writing territories have students make a list of things that they write everyday or have written in the past, the next list will be things they want to write or want to learn how to write, then things they write about, next things they are curious in ( about their classroom), and lastly things they will never want or will write about.
This is a great way to get a feel for what your students know how to write want to write and the genres that they are and are not intrested in.
To get notifications from blog to e-mail:
View Blog-- Design--Settings--comments--comments notifications to e-mail.
Nicenet.org
Our new disscusion space. This seems a lot more convinient and easier than the ning. It seems a lot simpler and less complex. It will be nicer to just hear what the class has to say and then be able to refer to the nig when we need to bring it into our own disscusion.
Smilebox:
A scarp booking web tool that allows you to make scrapbooks, greeting cards, nameplate, banners, etc. This is free for teachers and 14.99 a month for everyone else. This a really handy tool for teachers but is a costly investment for others. It is a great way to show case your students and the work they are doing and it is a great way to send your love and thanks to many friends. You can burn, e-mail, post, or print your creations as long as you have the premium pack. You can only e-mail if you have the free trial.
Wordel:
wordel.com put a phrase or pharagraph of information. You can scamble up the words, exclude words, see repetative words. Wordle.com
Wikispace:
A place to share with a class or and you can add spaces and pages to edit and post. The popele you are following or who are in your group can see what you edited, wrote and are working on.
Collabrative word processing:
free online program.www.zoho.com, sign on using google account.share documents with partners. They can become a Co-owner.You will be able to write on the same page as your partner at the same time once you are co-owners. You are able to chat and work on the same page.You can leave comments. Has features just like word. Can upload already written documents. Teachers can evaluate progress, and give feedback.
Twitter:
like FB, it has new feed
a tweet is like your status, people can respond
good for following authors and celebs
authors spill some sentences for upcoming books
students could follow an author of their choice
tweet thesis of paper in 140 or fewer characters
talk about their book very quickly
haiku or short poetry
poetry chains
helps get over writers block
Podcasting:
1. record 2. save as MP3 file 3. Upload MP3 to a podcast host suchs as podbean.com (very little space)
notihng to do with Ipod
personal on demand broadcast
to put on Itunes
support
submit podcast
How to submit a podcast
submit a podcast
type in the URL
could record a class
pretty much have to pay for anything longer than 20 secs
Meebo
social networking site that puts many different networking sites together in one
chat rooms: send friends URL and password -safe because you need the password
can add people from AIM and Facebook and they all show up on one buddy list
the media factor doesn't really work. if it did, then everyone you invite could see the pictures -you can select an option in which only the creator can add media
Why use it?
easy to connect with students
post links during discussion
instant messaging interaction
video/audio chat
Photo Voice
photovoice.org
collections of pictures submitted by people in marginalized areas (all over the world)
non profitable
not something you could submit to, more like an applicaiton
pictures from HIV positive, blind, mentally disabled people, etc.
if you're reading a novel and if it has to deal with any of the galleries on there you can open them up for the students to show them themes in the book
some have captions telling of the persons life and why they took that picture
helps to incorporate arts into the classroom
have students go on and find a picture that relates to the themes in the novels or emotions the characters feel/ or they feel in reading the book
how do we capture emotions in other ways than writing?
Tagexedo.com
Just like worddle.
you can copy and paste form another website and put the words into a picture form.
Allows you to exclude words, highlight, use punctuation, use color..etc.
You can save and send you creation.
FireFox Add-ons:
Scribefire:you can post onto your blog form any web site. add videos, poems, etc. edit and publish post from any page.
Zotero:use for citations. MLA, APA..etc.
Can upload ISBN numbers to get book information, allows you to copy and paste the information right into text box to create a citation which saves right into a word document.
http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=84fkcb4ht1c
Voice Thread:
Sing up-->create sideshows, movies and send them to friends by inviting them. Can comment on each film, upload pictures-->different users can upload their account and make comments on it. Can link it back to your facebook-->you do not have to have a voicethread to see the video. Right on the website there is a link for ways to use in the classroom.
Animoto
Upload pictures. Takes videos. You have to put music in. Takes power point to another level. Allows you to change speed of the pictures. Can choose how the slides transition to each other. Can put text in. No click to advance slide, Just speeds. Can e-mail it to friends, created and stored in animoto. Submit projects of books, using images to represent how you feel and what the book is saying. Not so much a teacher tool but more of a student tool for students to express themselves.
Digital Story Telling
Digital narrative. Resit a book report, personal tales, historical events.etc. Use are book talks. Mixture of text, audio, visual. Some programs do not work for all computers. Many different programs with in the site, audacity, adobe audition, paintshop pro, fire works, adobe, itunes, windows media player, etc. Free, need a validation code. Organize your ideas in images, music-->similar to readers music. Can use animation drawings and put them to life.
Doodle
scheduling website, great for meetings with groups for a presentation, make a title for the even, a description
pick the dates and times,send your invitations. you can hide the results so only you can see, you can make it so only you can comment or edit
.after everyone submits you can see the times that you can all meet together.
Adding sound to Powerpoint 11/8
*prepare you slides
-set up the right amount of textual information
-include visuals to help carry your message
*prepare your sound files (they must be stored on the same device as your presentaiton)
-download if you use a digital recorder
-record directly if your computer allows you to do so
-insert --> sound and music --> from file or record sound (goes right into the slide)
www.mfwp101.com/freemusic.htm
Diigo
Annotate, Archive, Organize you can have students create their own anthology of literature,for teachers it is free.
why? collaborative research and writing.
invite others, various groups, public, private.
how?post and organize and comment on photos
students can collaborative research and collect data and comment on any data collected
create their own textbook
can post to blogs
upload photos, save URLS, save into to a "read later" location
toolbar- highlight, sticky notes etc.
Poetry Archive
Make an account, make a list of poems that you want to come back to.
Under "for teachers" tab- there is a tab that you can listen to the poem by the writer or the character form the poem giving the poem a voice and a new look. very useful for students.
Poetry 180- a poem a day for American high schools. He wants students or teachers to read allowed a poem a day for when they are in school. He just wants the poetry to be heard in school. There is a list of poems to read. All of the poems are relatable to students lives.
Flicker
Can sign in with google account, can upload pictures or videos. You can share them with people who have an account. you can comment on the pictures. Go under explore tab and see other pictures that people have posted, or popular topics. You can pick someone else picture and click favorite and make a photo stream. You can go to places and look at pictures form there (Scotland). You can make calenders or collages of your pictures. Is completely free. Kajer had their students find a picture that represents their characters in their books and post it on there to better understand their character. Ask students to do a photo essay.
SmugMug & Classic School Text
You can do a 14 day free trial. you can sell your photos on here. You can design your own page..
Technology and oral tradition
oral tradition: stories that are passed down through generations and are recited orally.
Advantages:
Allow writer speaker to become the performer.
Allows the performer to use voice inflections to high light important parts.
Allows for creative freedom
Allows for the performer and listener to become a party of the story.
What does orally telling teach us:
Proper grammar use
Exposition, sequence of events, and development of a story or its characters
How to give a speech
Organization
Class activity:
Write a rough draft, practice reading the story to a peer and add corrections or emphasis marking, record story using video or audio recorder, Listen to the story as a class. Have another student recite the original story in his or her own way.
Wridea:
Online idea management service.
Scratch pad where other people can comment on. you can delete peoples comments, color coat comments. There is a search bar, within each pad you can search for keywords. You can send ideas from your e-mail or just write on the page. Works like twitter, they can follow your ideas if they have your e-mail.You can choose who comments. students can keep lists of task based on categories. take notes, brainstorm for projects. Teachers can use it for brainstorming. Can be used for personal for paper topic, homework list, notebook, lesson plans.
Cool tool: Idea Rain.. lets all your topics rain down and you can connect your ideas together. www.wridea.com
Meta fiction
Meta- about,
meta fiction- fictional writing which self conscious, introspective, auto-representational. Refers to its self as fiction..a story within a story. (ex. white noise, the things they carried, ragtime,)
Hamlet, A midsummer nights dream-- A story within a story.
to identify-- inter textual references, inclusion of aspects of literary theory criticism,
directly addressing the reader-sign of meta fiction
most important part-reality as a "highly suspect concept"
Found poems
Start with a passage, select specific words, arrange them how you want=found poem.
*YOU CAN NOT ADD YOUR OWN WORDS*
In the classroom: intro to poetry, component in readers theater, intro to a book talk, exercise to help with close reading, intro to a discussion about the power of words, and transition from studying novels to studying poetry.
Example:
The Problem
Unavoidable time
think
take away your ability to plot
all the varied and wonderful things you might do
time better spent
with the monster.
The problem.
Publishing Students Work
Builds confidence if published correctly, important that students are interested, promotes positive interest toward lit. Seeing other people do it will motivate them.
Creates a community of students that want to talk about reading and writing. Can only promote positive use of language...
where to publish:
Blogs.
Kidsscribe-focuses on bi-lingual kids, middle school kids. Poems from students all over the world. All different attached links too offer to kids.
Kidscom-idea seekers. gives ideas for students to write about--a situation, character traits.mostly for middle school
Youngwritter-international magazine, home study programs to improve skills, competitions, published b y teachers and students. any age.
Zuzu-subscribe, can get a hard copy mostly for middle school. can submit art work, writing, photo.
Kidwriters-Age 13-16 poetry, writting.
Writesoucre- best one, offers idea's broken up by grades to write off of. offers information on MLA & APA style, gives student models. can publish your own work.
Bullying.org-all stories revolve around bullying, can read share and games to play. Meant to lift spirits.
Teamlit- more for teenagers, book reviews, writers workshop, internet saftey, netikit( what to do and not to do on the internet) teen discussion, ,cool links,- homeowrk help-math, history, helps with more than just english.
Teachers Tap- a site for teachers who want to help get their studnets work published. more links for students to publish, tech. tools.
Print Publishing:
Jack and jill
Stone soup
Writing general
Alphabet Soup
Google Books
Sign into Google because there are more perks if you do sign in.
Two ways you can access GB
Click More then books OR
Everything is in categories.
Not all books are not in Google books.
Browse subjects
Many search engines pop up. Click the one that is relevant to you..
there is an about this book tab.
there is a word cloud about the book, bibliographic info and the about the author.
Easy way for students to read about the book and there are ways for them to buy online or find in a lib. close to them.
All the lib that have the book close to them will show up
Go to my lib. it is an application through Google books. You have your own personal book shelves. You can add books that you plan on reading. and want to read.
Can share your book shelf with someone, teacher students.
Promethean Planet
Website where teachers come together and talk about lessons.
There is different flip charts, study games, lesson plans you can upload your own for other people to see also.
You can use for teaching a concept, instructions, study games, quizzes.
Scribbler
A place to draw, collaborate with as many people as you want. you can chat, draw, upload pictures.
Inappropriate web
Ways face book can help you instead of hurt you.
Mashable
Constantly changing, in the media, online, video games.
section called social good- post are about how technology is being used for good.
used best by the teachers, to find useful links to stay involved with what is going on with what is going on in society today (technology related)
Thinkquest
Have a literature circle online. You can not explore it because you need to have an administrator apply for it. Demo tour.
Science fiction/ Science Fantasy
fantasy is the impossible made probable. science fiction is the improbable made possible. -Rod Serling.
Arthur C. Clark.
