National Writing Project--Awesome Digital Writing Resources

If you haven't yet visited the National Writing Project's website, make a point of doing so. It's an awesome site with lots of great ideas and resources. You just have to love a serious website like this that has a tab on the homepage named "Provocations."

K-1 Students using Jing and Blogs!

This video motivated me! These K-1 students screen capture using Jing and post to a classroom blog. I love how the students repeat the steps to the teacher. I want to try this with my K students!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOfwDgPjSc&feature=mfu_in_order

Way-new Collaboration

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, California. Duration: 19:30.)

Do you know about Book?

Book is a revolutionary product: Bio Optical Organized Knowledge device... Find out about its amazing advantages!

This video is not only relevant to our discussions, but it is sure to make you smile! It is in Spanish with English subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhcPX1wVp38

Original vs Authentic

The Internet is wonderful...look at all the information...who will know this was copied?
This article presents an interesting perspective on the ease and ethics of Copy and Paste. There is a dilemma in understanding the difference between original work and authentic work.

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I thought this series from the NY Times was relevant to our studies:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/teaching-with-infographics-places-to-start/

Always Learning Blog

I have been following this blog for about a year now. Kim Cofino is an educational technology facilitator for international schools and she really has a lot of great resources and ideas!

Enjoy!