Blended e-Learning Resources to support Writing
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The document discusses resources for supporting 21st century writing skills, including Etherpad for collaborative writing, track changes for editing documents, and Natural Reader for converting text to speech. It questions how writing may change for future generations as they interact less with pen and paper, books, and dictionaries. Suggestions are provided for making writing purposeful, collaborative, and allowing students to build on ideas and receive feedback through digital tools and online apps.
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- 1. Blended e-Learning Resources to Support Writing www.tetoitupu.org
- 2. Featuring… • 21st Century Writing • Etherpad • Using track changes • Natural Reader and the Speak function • Onlines tools and apps • Takeaways www.tetoitupu.org
- 3. What were the main stimuli during your preschool development years? How does this affect brain development? www.tetoitupu.org
- 4. And what of today’s kids . . . ? www.tetoitupu.org
- 5. Aside from school work and homework, how often do most kids of this generation write pen to paper? In their future, will they interact with books in hardcopy form? What are the chances they will ever use a dictionary as we did? www.tetoitupu.org
- 6. 21st Century Writing • Will our kids need to learn to write? • Whose future are we preparing them for? • What might there future look like? • How do we prepare them to adequately and confidently live in a world when we have no idea what that will look like? • Skills and processes are transferable. www.tetoitupu.org
- 11. • Clearly purposeful to me • For an audience • That gets feedback, reaction and a result from the reader • Where I experience success • Where I can take responsibility but get the support I need to get better • Where I can see and measure my own progress www.tetoitupu.org
- 13. What is o.k? • Collaborative writing • Borrowing ideas from others • Editing writing on a computer • Spell check • Grammar check, thesaurus • Getting inspiration, motivation & ideas from pictures or illustrations • Digitising stuff • Publishing work www.tetoitupu.org
- 14. •Many students have had years of working on their own, faced with paper and pen, and lacking in motivation and ideas. It’s time for a change. •Bouncing ideas around •Opportunity to “borrow” some ideas in order to get started •Richer vocabulary •Greater engagement •Part of a great piece of writing •Audience and interaction www.tetoitupu.org
- 15. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ www.tetoitupu.org
- 16. On satrday i played leeg aganst papanui. We wippd them 43 to 28. I got 2 trys and tommy got player of the day coz he did sum mean as takels and stoped 2 trys! After the game my coach steve said it was the best game we eva played. Mum was real proud of me and she took me too macdonals for lunch. Wen i grow up i want to play for the Tigers like Benji Marshall. He is mean as. www.tetoitupu.org
- 18. Apps & Online tools for Writing • E-books for reading and writing • My Story • Little Story Maker • Apple iBooks Author • Skitch • Inkflow • Popplet • Storybird • Little Bird Tales www.tetoitupu.org
- 19. http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/Community-discussions/ICTs-in-English www.tetoitupu.org
- 20. http://elearningbop.wikispaces.com/Literacy+Progressions www.tetoitupu.org
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- Experiential Audial Make your own pictures
- What is writing really about?
- What is writing really about?
- Writing with the pencil or pen is still important but should not be the total diet. Balance and a range of ways.
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