Category: Digital Writing Tools
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Typo Generator
Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…
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Blogs for Learning
Thanks to the team at MSU’s Blogs for Learning for featuring my blog under their “User Submitted Blogs” list. This looks like it can become a great resource based on what they have described here: What is Blogs for Learning? Welcome to Blogs for Learning, an online resource about instructional blogging. The site provides students…
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Re: Does Wikipedia hurt scholarship?
So, the wiki debate continues. In the latest issue of AFT’s American Teacher, the pro and con discussion of the month is about Wikipedia. Here, in very stark terms, are what I consider to be very traditional views about the academic research process (Anderson) juxtaposed with a more reasonable interpretation of research, collaboration, and the…
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Some Props for Wikis from the NEA
Aram alerted me to this article from the NEA which gives a pretty fair shake to wikis and Wikipedia. Here is a particularly compelling quote: But with wiki technology, students can go beyond simply reading sites to helping write them as well, fulfilling the Web’s promise of becoming a fully interactive medium. According to Frey,…
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Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
Most of you know about the Wired wiki story, I am sure, so this post is really for me to save this for posterity. And, perhaps one of the sessions that I am co-facilitating at NWP this November. Wired News: The Wiki That Edited Me
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Re: Episode 11 on its way!
Hi Chris, I just wanted to touch base with you about your Teach with Tech podcast. I have been listening for a few months and I appreciate how you discuss new technologies and contextualize them in K-12 and higher ed applications. Just a quick comment on your Opera segment from last month. I have been…
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What’s the Matter with Wikis?
Wikis as a collaborative and social writing tool – and not just a way for students to cheat by calling something “original” material or for someone to create truth through “wikiality” – are starting to come into the news. But, I don’t think it is enough. For instance: Recently, Columbia University has begun to embrace…
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Learning to Write by Blogging with Purpose
As we think about the types of writing we ask students to do in school, and whether or not they feel it is for a real audience and purpose, can it even come close to this? Nick Barnowski is in multitask mode. His fingers dance around a keyboard, keeping up his end of the bargain…