Category: New Media
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Clearing Up Copyright Confusion Session
Copyright Confusion Session Kristin Hokanson with Renee Hobbs Exercising fair use demands an expanded conception of literacy that includes mass media, popular culture, and communication skills Copyright confusion — the end has arrived with the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use Overview video on fair use Purpose of copyright: to promote creativity, innovation, and…
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NCTE Webinar on Tuesday (12-2-08)
Shameless self-promotion alert: My friend and RCWP colleague, Dawn Reed and I are facilitating an NCTE Webinar, Re-Seeing the Writing Process with Blogging and Podcasting, on Tuesday, December 2nd at 5:00 PM EST. Thanks to all who have sent kind words my way about the webinar. It promises to be a learning experience for Dawn…
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CEE Podcast: Examining Writing in a Time of Change
The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century. Examining Writing in a Time of Change:…
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Visual Literacy Tool – PictLits
Recently, I was contacted by Carrie Lightner from PicLits.com. She said: I came across your blog and I thought you might be interested in our new web site, www.PicLits.com. It is a fun and new site that can be a great online teaching tool for educators. It helps get students interested in writing and serves…
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Smile Teacher, You’re on YouTube!
An RCWP colleague and friend, Heather Lewis, posted this message to the RCWP listserv last week: http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0810/youtube.html I found this article interesting. Part of me is like: I shouldn’t do anything in my class I wouldn’t want broadcast. But then part of me is like: Hey, they’re taking things out of context and slanting the…
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Announcing TimeRime.com
Announcing TimeRime.com A note from Jermaine Lievendag of TimeRime.com We have launched a website called www.timerime.com. TimeRime.com is a website that allows visitors to view, create and compare timelines. These timelines can be illustrated with pictures, text, YouTube movies and MP3. On our website, you will find timelines about music, movies, history, politics, art et…
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MakeBeliefsComix.com Online Educational Comics Launches WRITER PROMPTS to Help ESL, Literacy Students Write, Read and Tell Stories
A note from Bill Zimmerman at MakeBeliefsComix, a site I have written about before: MakeBeliefsComix.com has launched a new WRITER PROMPTS feature that regularly offers educators new ideas to spark students’ imaginations and encourage them to write more. The new writing tool is a direct result of the overwhelming positive user response to our free…
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Rough Draft Thinking for a Hybrid Professional Development Experience
Well, we have a hybrid professional development experience coming up on September 24th for the Project WRITE teachers. In trying to meet a number of constraints and opportunities, I have set up a wiki page for the evening’s activities. Here is some of my thinking about why and how this is set up this way,…
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NOVA Videos Available for Free Use
Today, I got an email from Karinna from WGBH in Boston — this sounds like an incredible resource! Just in time for the new school year, the critically-acclaimed season of NOVA scienceNOW is now available for free download directly from its Web site. Wrapping up its third season this summer, this magazine-style science series from…
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Alan November’s Keynote: Putting Responsibility Back in Children’s Hands
Alan November, November Learning Notes taken from November’s talk at the St. Clair RESA Symposium on 21st Century Learning August 13, 2008 Port Huron High School Marco Torres and his students’ video Invite students to step up and be teachers themselves My talk is not about technology — it is about new roles for the…