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Twitter following?? How do you do it?

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Windows Movie Maker and iMovie...

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint

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NCTE: Focus on the work of Teaching the New Writing

I am off to Philly next week for a variety of events — including the National Writing Project Annual Meeting, a day-long conference called Digital Is that is the product of a partnership between NWP and the MacArthur Foundation, and the annual meeting of the National Conference of Teachers of English. I’ll try to write [...]

The Game: 30Poems 30Days

(Poet’s note:  I used to live for Sundays in football season, just to watch the New York Giants. There were good years. There were bad years. And at night, I would dream in football plays — usually the botched ones. Thankfully, I have grown out of that phase. But I still love the Giants and [...]

Composing: A visual poem

Take a word. Toss it into this Williams Words generator. Out comes a visual poem. Of sorts. Here is mine, using the word “composing” as the generator text. I am even going to say, this is one of my 30Poems 30Days poems, as a way to honor the non-traditional poet. Peace (in the visual), Kevin addthis_url [...]

A must-read: The Digital Writing Workshop

I’ll start out by saying that the author of this fantastic new book — The Digital Writing Workshop — is Troy Hicks, a friend of mine through the National Writing Project and one of the chapter authors in my own book, Teaching the New Writing. So, this is not a completely unbiased recommendation to go [...]

Day 11: 30Poems 30Days

(Poet’s Note: I have three boys. My mom passed away as the second one was nearing birth, so she knew our first, knew of the second but never of the third. I wonder what she would have thought about them and think about how she would have loved to be with them. A poem of [...]
 

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Meghan Connelly replied to Kevin H.'s discussion 'Ning for Students'
Those that are concerned about safety - try SEEDebate.org. Free, closed, moderated, no student email required. You can use it however you want. Less bells and whistes than Ning - so far...we're working on adding more social features. Send me a me...
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Kevin H. replied to Faith Shabat's discussion 'Twitter following?? How do you do it?'
What I have found is that building a Twitter PLC (whatever) takes time and patience. It's a slow process, not a quick one, and as you follow folks, they see if you are worth following. So, make sure you have a website (if you have one) linked in y...
November 6
Kevin H. replied to William's discussion 'Windows Movie Maker and iMovie...'
I use the freeware (with webcam) for stopmotion: http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html Kevin
November 6
Kevin H. replied to Shane Clay's discussion 'Using Microsoft Powerpoint'
I have my sixth graders use PP to create digital picture books around a curricular theme (last year was cellular mitosis). They use a familiar platform but in a way that allows them to be creative/. Kevin
November 1
Kevin H. replied to Mendy Gannon's discussion 'Comic Creator'
I use the closed ToonDoon Spaces site and my students love it. http://www.toondoospaces.com/ It's not free, though, so that may be a problem. Here are some other resources that might help: * This is a great slideshow about using comics in the cl...
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I am a writer, teacher, and musician with an interest in technology as an avenue of composition.
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This is part of a larger experiment with other teachers to create a Collaborative ABC Movie using Web 2.0 tools and features. For one of my letters -- Z --- I wrote a poem and used images from a site called MapMyWord, and then put them together as this movie. (more info about the project can be found at http://techstories.edublogs.org/)

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Teaching the New Writing: podcast series on Teachers Teaching Teachers

The third and final installment of podcasts about the book I co-edited and wrote a chapter for (called Teaching the New Writing) is up at Teachers Teaching Teachers. The… Continue

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 4:13am —

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Twitter This! -- my Twitter song

I wrote this as my students were writing their own songs. I also wanted to experiment to see how far the song might travel along various networks, so feel free to pass the link along through your networks.
Kevin


Listen to the song: http://www.box.net/shared/5848z0cba8



Twitter This

I get up in the morning and I twitter all my dreams
140 characters is just enough for me
Then, each moment of the day bec… Continue

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 6:25am —

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Exploring Audience on Teachers Teaching Teachers


You are invited to join teachers across the globe for a special interactive Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT) webcast, titled "Teaching the New Writing: Exploring the Collaborative Nature of Writing and Technology in the Classroom," sponsored by the National Writin… Continue

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 5:35am —

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Teaching the New Writing: on Teachers Teaching Teachers



Teaching the New Writing

On Wednesday night (9 p.m. eastern time), I will be guest-hosting this week’s edition of Teachers Teaching Teachers as we continue to explore the book I co-edited — Teaching t… Continue

Posted on June 16, 2009 at 5:27am —

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Day in a Sentence/Voicethread

This is a feature that I run regularly at my blog that asks folks to boil down their week or a day in their week into a single reflective sentence. This week, we are using Voicethread. I invite you to join us:… Continue

Posted on June 4, 2009 at 2:21am — 2 Comments

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At 6:21am on July 29, 2009, Joel Josephson said…
Hi Kevin

This is a repeat of the comment I left on your Blog.

I am involved in a European Union funded education project looking at how to use digital comics in schools http://www.educomics.org

I am looking for websites and forums that focus on the use of digital comics in education, any suggestions would be very welcome.

I have a good list of websites that have comic tools, this is mainly about using the comics within the school.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Joel
At 11:07am on June 17, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Kevin,

With your interest in Technology and Writing, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.

At 7:05pm on January 31, 2009, Jack said…
Hi Kevin. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
At 5:28am on January 27, 2009, Patrica Mari said…
Hi Kevin:

I know your offer to track down a library 2.0 site is months old, but I'd still take you up on it if you are willing. Pati
At 4:40am on October 19, 2008, Rebecca Pilver said…
Thanks Kevin
I have used Edublogs. Why do you wish you started in Edublogs?

Speaking of ECSU, you may be interested in our Nutmeg project. We have collaborated with a class at the university. As part of their course work, they had to use Web2.0 tools to create book hooks and response to literature activities for our wikis. Here is an example of a book hook (scroll down to see the voki) http://nutmeg2009.sblc.wikispaces.net/MVP created by one of the students. It was a reading course, not technology. The professor is trying to integrate technology into her courses.
At 4:00am on October 19, 2008, Rebecca Pilver said…
Hi Kevin
I love your Youth Radio blog. I am interested in setting up a Word press blog. Can you tell me what you are using and how you got started? Also, are you happy with Word press. How do you manage the podcasts? Are you paying for a space to store them?
thanks
Rebecca
At 6:44pm on May 17, 2008, Sue T. said…
I need to be connected. I'm really glad I did this today.
At 11:00am on May 17, 2008, Ana S. said…
Yes, thank you for your presentation. Hope you can see a game soon. There is alwyas tomorrow....
At 10:15am on January 25, 2008, Lynn Marentette said…
Kevin,

I play an electronic MIDI keyboard for fun, and I like to compose music. I'm still going through everyone's blogs and trying to keep the details straight! Music technology is one of my hobbies.
At 2:51pm on January 13, 2008, Bobby said…
Thanks for the nice comment about the songs. You seem like a very interesting fellow and I hope to share some thoughts with you.

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