Posts Tagged ‘ writing ’

0I’ve been in love with handwritten fonts since I was a kid, and I love the ‘personal touch’ of sketching on a page.  Aside from using graphics tablets, I’ve been looking for more ways to bring tactile experiences to digital expression.   Some of my colleagues introduced me to fontcapture, and all of my...
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0Hyperlinked writing or notebook writing — which one do students spend more time on? Photo by Sancho Papa. Cross posted on Watch Your Bobber. It was just a side comment in Wesley Fryer’s Wordpress Saves Lives podcast earlier this week, “Hyperlinked writing is the most powerful writing.” But I’ve been riveted by this idea since I heard...
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0I have had a few conversations the past couple of days on what is the thinking on typing skills and teaching typing to students. Most schools that I know of do not have a typing curriculum like we would have a writing curriculum. If you do….that is fantastic and I’d love to see it,...
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0 Cross posted on Always Learning One of my favorite projects of the year is beginning soon! The 1001 Flat World Tales project was initiated by Clay Burell in Korea over three years ago and has been going strong ever since. I first started working on this project at the middle school level, but this will be...
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0Cross-posted at Always Learning When I arrived at ISB last year, one of the first major projects I started with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers was student blogging (um, and did I mention that we started blogging at the same time as participating in Chris Craft’s Life ‘Round Here digital storytelling project?). I...
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1I love the fact that more and more Core teachers are encouraging online student writing.  As an ESL teacher it allows me to ‘catch’ a lot more of my students’ academic writing, especially when I employ tools such as RSS aggregators and Netvibes.  However, the ability to comment below what students have written doesn’t...
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