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Motivate students to revise their writing through self-publishing fiction, creating podcasts and YouTube videos, writing blogs, corresponding with others, and anything else for an authentic audience. 
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Student blogging provides opportunities for sharing, reflection, and ownership. With ELLs, blogs can provide deeper engagement and a public forum to demonstrate their developing skills.
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Computers may dominate our lives, but mastery of penmanship brings us important cognitive benefits, research suggests
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In the social media universe, blogging is potentially the most powerful tool. Time and again, blogging is proving its worth in education and training, with countless learners discovering that sharing their ideas, sharing content and discussion ideas worldwide has a whole range of benefits. Blogging requires a particular set of literacies to ensure that its potential is realised. One of the new digital literacies bloggers need is the ability to encapsulate ideas succinctly and in a form that is accessible and engaging. Another literacy is the ability to be able to devise posts that draw an audience and provoke responses. One of the most powerful aspects of blogging is its social dimension which includes open discussion. Still another is the skill of managing those responses and replying in a way that promotes further discussion and sustains the discourse.
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When you engage your English-language learners through the power, fun, and sharing of narrative, the formal elements of language acquisition will follow more easily.
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The key to writing the perfect descriptive essay is creating a vivid image in your reader's mind using the five senses. Here are some steps to help you create a descriptive essay Pick a topic. Descriptive essays generally focus on a...
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It's no question that the notion of literacy has transcended beyond the written word to include the combination of visuals and words. Writing skills has also evolved into the art of combining the written word with visuals such as images and videos. Our students themselves are disengaged from the writing and are more tuned in to the “Visual Word”.
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Kim Hoffman Kanof: "You know the feeling--that “gotta-get-this-grading-done” robotic trance. The blinding feeling of grading close to 180 essays. The guilt of balancing meaningful feedback without taking three weeks to do it.I have graded essays for years. I have tried all the tricks to get through my stacks of essays.
Google scripts and add-ons to Google Drive drastically changed my approach to giving writing feedback. ..."
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Padlet is a great platform for bookmarking and sharing digital content. Since its launch a few years ago, Padlet (formerly Wallwisher) has undergone several great updates that make it an ideal tool to use with students in class. Before we see some of the ways to use this platform with students, let us have a look at some of its features .
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A webinar with D. Petrie on developing writing skills (http://teflgeek.net)
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Blogging should not be an add-on, not an isolated project, but should be seen as PEDAGOGY. Ann Davis shared a definition of Pedagogy beyond a simple "method of teaching" (unfortunately I was not a...
Sherri Wilson's curator insight,
June 9, 2014 9:27 AM
Love this definition of pedagogy. Makes total sense! 
Mónica Silakowicz's curator insight,
June 9, 2014 9:58 AM
Pedagogía: "Las estrategias, técnicas y enfoques que los profesores pueden utilizar para facilitar el aprendizaje." 
Tina Jameson's curator insight,
June 19, 2014 7:53 PM
If you are looking at 'blogging' as a possible classroom tool / strategy to use with students - then this infographic and accompanying 'blog' advice could be useful.
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Everybody Writes provided teachers with innovative ideas and practical resources (available on this site) to help them run projects to get children in primary and secondary schools excited about writing.
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During revision, students should work closely together, share often, discuss models, add details, delete the unnecessary, and rearrange for clarity and effect.
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In "what does your handwriting say about you" we learned that the way we write can reveal great deal about our personalities. The today's post introduces you to another equally important infographic but this time to the importance of handwriting for enhancing learning. The visual features some really interesting facts about the impact of handwriting on our cognition. It also provides some useful tips to help students improve their handwriting.
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This infographic explains how writing helps your memory, how your brain reacts when it hears a story, why clichés are forgettable and more. Via Jeff Domansky, Ivon Prefontaine, PhD, Vineta Erzen
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January 4, 2015 6:05 PM
You activate many areas of your brain when you tell a story. There are so many areas in education where students can use stories to remember details of information needed for writing exam answers. Stories are visual, can be auditory; you can introduce smells and engage with whatever you are writing about.
The whole brain becomes stimulated with a person's own record of the information. How can you forget? Go to www.hotmoodle.com for story writing information.
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Guest blogger Ali Parrish, educator and ed tech consultant, provides three strategies, low-tech and high-tech, for breaking through students' brain freeze when faced with the dilemma of what to write.
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How you choose to utilize student blogs is up to you. Nevertheless, choosing to integrate blogging into your classroom to support existing curriculum is fundamental to a new millenium approach to education.
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The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying close attention to the details by using all of your five senses. Teaching students to write more descriptively will improve their writing by making it more interesting and engaging to read.
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November 13, 2014 7:47 AM
Writing with the reader or the purpose in mind can be more motivating for reluctant writers, as well as more challenging and meaningful for the majority. RAFT strategy supports descriptive writing by encouraging students to think through the writer's Role, the Audience, the Format, and the Topic. .
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Guest blogger Shira Loewenstein, asked by her students whether spelling counts, comes back with a fascinating question of her own: why is the continuum of learning broken down into a handful of unrelated subjects?
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Students work with authors and editors to develop writing skills. Favorite authors give tips and tricks for biography, descriptive writing, folktales, mystery, myths, journalism, poetry, speech writing, and book reviews. After going through the step by step process, kids can then publish their work online.
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Providing timely and effective feedback on student work is a critical component to any classroom. As students increasingly operate and create in a digital environment, emerging tools provide unique new opportunities for teachers to provide feedback on both written work and video projects. Feedback on Written Work With the increased adoption of Google Apps …
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Writing is probably the most difficult area for learners to improve on by themselves. Writing demands an audience and if you have no-one to tell you how successful your efforts are - or not - then...
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