Tag: writing
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mLearning – Evernote as a Trigger for Writing
In the Binational Center I work for writing is taken seriously. There is a program for all levels. For the Teens and Intermediate courses, students work on paragraphs, but when they get to the Advanced level, the requirement is more demanding. Learners are exposed to different kinds of genres and are supposed to hand in…
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Giving an iTwist to Feedback on Student Writing
Centuries ago (or at least, this is how I feel!), I used to give feedback on students’ writing by sending a recorded message to my students to personalize learning and encourage them to take process writing seriously. It worked. Students loved to get a personal, customized note from their teacher. Nowadays, this writing feedback experience…
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Storytelling – Five Card Story
This week, in our Digitools EVO session, we’re exploring writing. To be more specific, creative writing. Jane Petring carefully prepared wonderful tasks for that. She used many interesting writing platforms that we had collected. They are all fantastic ones, but I’d like to highlight one in special created by Alan Levine, the Five Card story.…
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Posterous – Blogging with Style
http://narede.posterous.com I’ve been using Posterous for a while, and if you are considering blogging as an option to keep your thoughts, ideas, resources, comments, audio and video files in one place, Posterous might be what you’re looking for. Its main advantage is its user-friendliness. It is so simple to start using it that the whole…
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Cool Writing Tool of the Week – OhLife
http://ohlife.com Do you want a simple tool to invite your students to write more and keep a journal? It can be a journal about their learning experience, or their daily lives. OhLife! sends them a reminder everyday and they simply have to reply to the message by mail to have their thoughts neatly posted. If…
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Get Inspired – Exploring Writing in the Classroom
Today, fewer words, more action. As my head starts spinning around our next Electronic Village Online Session 2011, free online sessions for educators all over the globe, I thought it would be a great idea to start sharing great resources available in what we want to explore in January – Digital Storytelling. So, here’s my…