Writing has been reinvented. Here are some ways it has, by the author of the book, Reinventing Writing, Vicki Davis. Use cloud tools like Google Docs, Office 365, Diigo, Evernote, One Note and other tools with your classroom to write collaboratively. Collaborative Writing is different from other forms of writing. The classroom pedagogy is different.
Simple Steps to Blended Learning #ucet15Vicki Davis
As students move to online spaces, here are some of the simple steps of managing a blended learning classroom that I"ve learned through the #inflip method of teaching that I've been using for more than 2 years. I hope these suggestions for blending, flipping, and presenting online help you take your student online and blend your classroom.
Reinventing Writing April 2015 Edition #ucet15Vicki Davis
Writing has been reinvented in 9 power ways. Learn how this has happened and how it can impact your classroom. Every teacher should be familiar with how to integrate electronic writing in their classroom. Make it simple... reinvent writing. Shared at #ucet15 in Utah in April 2015. Evernote, One Note, Dropbox, wikis, blogs, Twitter, Diigo, One Drive and so much more!
GLOBAL COLLABORATION IN EDUCATION: 7 1/2 Steps to Flatten Your ClassroomVicki Davis
You can connect your classroom globally. Learn how from a teacher who has been doing it for 9 years. This is the update to the material shared in Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds and shared at #UCET15 Tech Elevated Conference in Utah.
Reinventing Writing shared at KDCTTL Conference June 2014Vicki Davis
Writing has changed but many classrooms have not changed their instruction. Learn the 9 types of cloud tools that have changed everything about writing including electronic notetaking, electronic notecards, ebooks and epaper, cloud processing, brainstorming tools, infographics and more. Based upon the book by the same name, Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis - this book is for every teacher teaching writing in the 21st century. It is designed to be practical and approachable for every teacher.
8 Steps to Global Collaboration for Every ClassroomVicki Davis
Based upon the popular "7 Steps to Flattening Your Classroom" - this presentation is an upgraded, updated version of the best practices in global collaboration from Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher and creator of more than 30 global projects. Learn the mistakes, how to get started and what to do. Presented at GAETC November 3, 2016
There are so many ways to use Education Technology in the classroom. Here are 50+ ways that the Cool Cat Teacher, Vicki Davis, uses in her classroom. Technology can make any classroom better if you know the right tools to use. This presentation given at #UCET15 in Utah April 2015 has lots of tools to choose.
Learn the best practices for adapting blended learning to your classroom. It isn't elearning it isn't really face to face - it is both. You can do this.
Technology Driven Differentiated InstructionVicki Davis
How to integrate technology into the classroom so you can reach every student. This presentation covers selecting your tool kit, and the mindset of identifying pain points and solutions as you're working with students who are struggling to overcome obstacles and learn.
Simple Steps to Blended Learning #ucet15Vicki Davis
As students move to online spaces, here are some of the simple steps of managing a blended learning classroom that I"ve learned through the #inflip method of teaching that I've been using for more than 2 years. I hope these suggestions for blending, flipping, and presenting online help you take your student online and blend your classroom.
Reinventing Writing April 2015 Edition #ucet15Vicki Davis
Writing has been reinvented in 9 power ways. Learn how this has happened and how it can impact your classroom. Every teacher should be familiar with how to integrate electronic writing in their classroom. Make it simple... reinvent writing. Shared at #ucet15 in Utah in April 2015. Evernote, One Note, Dropbox, wikis, blogs, Twitter, Diigo, One Drive and so much more!
GLOBAL COLLABORATION IN EDUCATION: 7 1/2 Steps to Flatten Your ClassroomVicki Davis
You can connect your classroom globally. Learn how from a teacher who has been doing it for 9 years. This is the update to the material shared in Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds and shared at #UCET15 Tech Elevated Conference in Utah.
Reinventing Writing shared at KDCTTL Conference June 2014Vicki Davis
Writing has changed but many classrooms have not changed their instruction. Learn the 9 types of cloud tools that have changed everything about writing including electronic notetaking, electronic notecards, ebooks and epaper, cloud processing, brainstorming tools, infographics and more. Based upon the book by the same name, Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis - this book is for every teacher teaching writing in the 21st century. It is designed to be practical and approachable for every teacher.
8 Steps to Global Collaboration for Every ClassroomVicki Davis
Based upon the popular "7 Steps to Flattening Your Classroom" - this presentation is an upgraded, updated version of the best practices in global collaboration from Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher and creator of more than 30 global projects. Learn the mistakes, how to get started and what to do. Presented at GAETC November 3, 2016
There are so many ways to use Education Technology in the classroom. Here are 50+ ways that the Cool Cat Teacher, Vicki Davis, uses in her classroom. Technology can make any classroom better if you know the right tools to use. This presentation given at #UCET15 in Utah April 2015 has lots of tools to choose.
Learn the best practices for adapting blended learning to your classroom. It isn't elearning it isn't really face to face - it is both. You can do this.
Technology Driven Differentiated InstructionVicki Davis
How to integrate technology into the classroom so you can reach every student. This presentation covers selecting your tool kit, and the mindset of identifying pain points and solutions as you're working with students who are struggling to overcome obstacles and learn.
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom with Technology (TICL)Vicki Davis
Well, it is closer to 163 if you look at the resources I put on the handout that goes with this session. Here are lots of education technology web sites and tools to use as options for your classroom toolkit.
7 1/2 steps to Flatten Your Classroom at Miami DeviceVicki Davis
How can you connect your classroom globally? How can you connect? Here are my slides with updated steps for Flattening Your Classroom. You can connect globally. Prepare kids for life by helping them connect with the world. It is part of a great education. You can do this, teacher!
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom With Technology v 4.0Vicki Davis
Get the latest ideas for how to improve your classroom with technology. This grab-bag of ideas will be accented by practical real world examples shared by classroom teacher Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher.
Differentiating Instruction with Technology v. 6.0 at GAETCVicki Davis
How do you differentiate instruction with technology? Here are the tips and tricks for building a toolkit and creating an environment where every student can learn through differentiating instruction.
You can differentiate and connect with students. We must learn how to connect. Differentiation in the classroom is important and you can do it with technology. We must teach to all students and help them learn in the way that they can remember and retain what we're teaching. Education technology must have a purpose.
Reinventing Writing: 9 Ways Writing Has Been Reinvented and How to Use Them i...Vicki Davis
This revised presentation based on the book Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis helps teachers and educators understand the fundamental changes in writing and how to use them in the classroom. You can improve writing by connecting students, but there are also new things you must add to your curriculum. Created for the Literacy Promise conference in Salt Lake City Utah, March 2016
50+ Ways to Use Education Technology in the ClassroomVicki Davis
Here are more than 50 ways to use education technology in the classroom. Updated and specially created for Miami Device 2015 with lots of new edtech tools, ideas, and practical tips for teachers of all kinds. We can use edtech to make the classroom a better place if we know how.
Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction: March 2016Vicki Davis
In this updated version of the popular Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction, Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher shares the pain points of teachers and how differentiated instruction can help them reach every child. With practical examples of how to solve problems, this presentation helps teachers understand not only what to do but how to do it in an everyday classroom setting.
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom with TechnologyVicki Davis
Tons of my favorite tools and tips for using those tools in the classroom. Newly updated for the Josten's Rennassance Conference in Orlando . You can do so many things with technology - start with what you want to do and move from there.
You can connect and blend your classroom in powerful ways. Learn tips and tricks for the flipped classroom and in flip. Learn how to set up and present in online classrooms. Learn how to structure your online learning portals.
Online writing using wikis, google docs, infographics, blogs, and more is easy. See the 9 ways writing has been reinvented with the collaborative writing cloud nine tools from my book Reinventing Writing. Dropbox, One Note, Evernote, One Drive and so many other cloud tools should be ones that you use with your students and in your school.Twenty-first century learning is so important and nothing is more relevant than how writing has been reinvented.
You can differentiate instruction and reach every child by building a technology framework of tools that can be used to reach all of them. Personalize learning and level up! You can do it!
There are so many awesome tools for schools. In this power-packed set of slides, I share some of the best tools in schools today. If you want to see lots of options for education technology, here is where you'll start. Presented at Kirby SD in Illinois in January 2016.
How social media has impacted society. One educator's strategy for social media sharing and why everyone should consider social media as part of helping the organizations they love.
7 (1/2) Steps to Flatten Your ClassroomVicki Davis
You can connect your classroom to the world with the 7 1/2 steps to flatten your classroom. Based upon Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - this presentation will help you connect and level up your classroom.
12 Traits of Tech Elevated Educators #ucet15Vicki Davis
There are 12 habits that can help you improve your classroom, your use of technology and life. Let's delve into those habits as we discussed at #ucet15 in Utah in April 2015.
Technology Driven Differentiation - Jostens 2014Vicki Davis
You can differentiate your classroom with technology. Learn to build a framework and toolset that will help you use multisensory learning and differentiate to reach every single learner.
Do you want to collaborate with other classrooms? Do you need to meet standards that require you to have audience and global connections with your students? This presentation includes updated information shared in Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds to help you do just that. Presented at AdvancED Wyoming in March 2014 by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
In this tutorial, we will share an overview of the ePals Global Community and outline why you will find it a valuable teaching tool for you and your classroom
2014 reinventing-writing at #reinvent14 Reinventing the ClassroomVicki Davis
Writing teachers and people who write need to understand the 9 ways writing has been reinvented. These slides give an overview of the 9 ways writing is reinvented and touch on some of the community and safety aspects as well. Based upon "Reinventing Writing" June 2014 by Vicki Davis. This presentation is available online at Reinventing the Classroom 2014 online.
I've embedded the video near the beginning, just forward past it if you don't want to watch the video.
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom with Technology (TICL)Vicki Davis
Well, it is closer to 163 if you look at the resources I put on the handout that goes with this session. Here are lots of education technology web sites and tools to use as options for your classroom toolkit.
7 1/2 steps to Flatten Your Classroom at Miami DeviceVicki Davis
How can you connect your classroom globally? How can you connect? Here are my slides with updated steps for Flattening Your Classroom. You can connect globally. Prepare kids for life by helping them connect with the world. It is part of a great education. You can do this, teacher!
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom With Technology v 4.0Vicki Davis
Get the latest ideas for how to improve your classroom with technology. This grab-bag of ideas will be accented by practical real world examples shared by classroom teacher Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher.
Differentiating Instruction with Technology v. 6.0 at GAETCVicki Davis
How do you differentiate instruction with technology? Here are the tips and tricks for building a toolkit and creating an environment where every student can learn through differentiating instruction.
You can differentiate and connect with students. We must learn how to connect. Differentiation in the classroom is important and you can do it with technology. We must teach to all students and help them learn in the way that they can remember and retain what we're teaching. Education technology must have a purpose.
Reinventing Writing: 9 Ways Writing Has Been Reinvented and How to Use Them i...Vicki Davis
This revised presentation based on the book Reinventing Writing by Vicki Davis helps teachers and educators understand the fundamental changes in writing and how to use them in the classroom. You can improve writing by connecting students, but there are also new things you must add to your curriculum. Created for the Literacy Promise conference in Salt Lake City Utah, March 2016
50+ Ways to Use Education Technology in the ClassroomVicki Davis
Here are more than 50 ways to use education technology in the classroom. Updated and specially created for Miami Device 2015 with lots of new edtech tools, ideas, and practical tips for teachers of all kinds. We can use edtech to make the classroom a better place if we know how.
Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction: March 2016Vicki Davis
In this updated version of the popular Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction, Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher shares the pain points of teachers and how differentiated instruction can help them reach every child. With practical examples of how to solve problems, this presentation helps teachers understand not only what to do but how to do it in an everyday classroom setting.
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom with TechnologyVicki Davis
Tons of my favorite tools and tips for using those tools in the classroom. Newly updated for the Josten's Rennassance Conference in Orlando . You can do so many things with technology - start with what you want to do and move from there.
You can connect and blend your classroom in powerful ways. Learn tips and tricks for the flipped classroom and in flip. Learn how to set up and present in online classrooms. Learn how to structure your online learning portals.
Online writing using wikis, google docs, infographics, blogs, and more is easy. See the 9 ways writing has been reinvented with the collaborative writing cloud nine tools from my book Reinventing Writing. Dropbox, One Note, Evernote, One Drive and so many other cloud tools should be ones that you use with your students and in your school.Twenty-first century learning is so important and nothing is more relevant than how writing has been reinvented.
You can differentiate instruction and reach every child by building a technology framework of tools that can be used to reach all of them. Personalize learning and level up! You can do it!
There are so many awesome tools for schools. In this power-packed set of slides, I share some of the best tools in schools today. If you want to see lots of options for education technology, here is where you'll start. Presented at Kirby SD in Illinois in January 2016.
How social media has impacted society. One educator's strategy for social media sharing and why everyone should consider social media as part of helping the organizations they love.
7 (1/2) Steps to Flatten Your ClassroomVicki Davis
You can connect your classroom to the world with the 7 1/2 steps to flatten your classroom. Based upon Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds - this presentation will help you connect and level up your classroom.
12 Traits of Tech Elevated Educators #ucet15Vicki Davis
There are 12 habits that can help you improve your classroom, your use of technology and life. Let's delve into those habits as we discussed at #ucet15 in Utah in April 2015.
Technology Driven Differentiation - Jostens 2014Vicki Davis
You can differentiate your classroom with technology. Learn to build a framework and toolset that will help you use multisensory learning and differentiate to reach every single learner.
Do you want to collaborate with other classrooms? Do you need to meet standards that require you to have audience and global connections with your students? This presentation includes updated information shared in Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds to help you do just that. Presented at AdvancED Wyoming in March 2014 by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
In this tutorial, we will share an overview of the ePals Global Community and outline why you will find it a valuable teaching tool for you and your classroom
2014 reinventing-writing at #reinvent14 Reinventing the ClassroomVicki Davis
Writing teachers and people who write need to understand the 9 ways writing has been reinvented. These slides give an overview of the 9 ways writing is reinvented and touch on some of the community and safety aspects as well. Based upon "Reinventing Writing" June 2014 by Vicki Davis. This presentation is available online at Reinventing the Classroom 2014 online.
I've embedded the video near the beginning, just forward past it if you don't want to watch the video.
TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING WITH THE IPADMadden-a
In 2015, Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages’ EIC Department (English for International Communication) introduced iPads into the curriculum. iPads were distributed to over 100 EFL teachers and over 1800 students. Embracing technology-enhanced learning has led to many benefits.
50+ of my favorite education technology toolsVicki Davis
As you work to pick tools for your classroom, here are 50+ of my favorite tools for the classroom. This includes many that you can use for reinventing writing (my new book) but also ideas for every time of classroom.
Building Online Learning Communities Using Web 2.0 TechnologiesDr. Mariam Abdelmalak
In this presentation, I describe how I use Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the development of a community of learners among graduate distant students and how students responded to the use of Web 2.0 tools and to what extent these tools assisted in developing a community of learners. Twitter, Skype, Google Documents, Blog, and Wiki were intentionally used in order to build online learning communities among students. An anonymous survey was used. The students indicated that using Google Documents, Twitter, Wiki, and blog gave them a sense of a learning community while using Skype did not give them a sense of a learning community. Google Documents and Wiki had the most impact on students’ sense of a learning community in the course.
Digital Reading Strategies
A Faculty Learning Community Presentation
Dawn Hawley, Librarian/eLearning; Judi Wise, Faculty;
Traci Taylor, Librarian; and Stoo Sepp, Director of eLearning
Bellingham Technical College
This will share best practices in using wikis and relate to Common Core standards as teachers learn essential skills. Note that some of this session is an online demo, but bullet points of what is shared is included in the presentation.
How to Connect Your Classroom in World Class WaysVicki Davis
We must redefine how we teach online. Don't just have a low-engagement online classroom that just duplicates how you teach face to face. Redefine it and level it up. If you have to learn online, do it in a world class way!
5 Ways to Help Teachers Progress in Their Use of TechnologyVicki Davis
Teachers can and will improve under the right conditions. In this presentation, I share the techniques I've learned to help promote and encourage change throughout your school.
How do we influencer our students in positive ways in the 21st century? Here are the slides accompanying the keynote presentation given at Woodward Academy at STLinATL in July 2018 about this topic.
Writing Tools that Help Kids Write BetterVicki Davis
Vicki Davis, author of Reinventing Writing, shares how to teach writing and the tools that make a difference. Note that some of these slides have stories that go with them, so it may not make as much sense as in person, but the links are here to peruse. I gave the link for the nearpod files in our session today.
Differentiating Instruction with TechnologyVicki Davis
How do we reach every child with technology? How do we select the tools and build a framework so that we can reach every child. Here are the slides with the differentiating instruction with technology presented in Akron in June 2018
50+ Ways to Use Technology in the ClassroomVicki Davis
Some of the favorite tips and tricks of Cool Cat Teacher. Get ideas for slides and ideas for your classroom. And remember, pick your big three - the next three things you're going to learn. And innovate like a turtle - pick 15 minutes once or twice a week to learn and try something new. You can do it!
5 Ways to Help Your Students Be Future ReadyVicki Davis
The slides for the presentation 5 Ways to help your students be future ready shared with Akron City Schools in June 2018. Many of the stories are not included in the slides - just contact Vicki Davis https://www.akronschools.com/3T for more information
Educators need to relate to and reach their students. In this fast presentation, Vicki Davis shares with educators at EduTech17 in Dubai about some of the essential things they need to do to reach and educate the modern student. Additionally, students served on a panel to talk about the things they are doing in their modern STEAM classroom.
5 Ways to Find Your Voice, Share Your Passion, and Build a Platform - NNSTOY17Vicki Davis
We all have a social media voice. Learn how to use yours for good. The National State Teachers of the Year will be learning and talking about how to have social media success.
Mega edtech tool Share - Vicki Davis #iste17Vicki Davis
This presentation covers blended learning tips and then my mega tool share with the hottest tools in my classroom and in classrooms around the world as shared on my 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. This was created for ISTE 2017. Enjoy!
9 Key P's for Proactive Knowledge - Digital Citizenship in 2016Vicki Davis
Digital citizenship for the modern age is often best taught with students researching and learning about the nine aspects of digital citizenship. Presented at GAETC by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
Writing Tools to Make Teaching Student Writing SimpleVicki Davis
An overview of the simple tools and techniques to help teach writing to students. From every phase of the writing process to ways to inspire and excited kids about writing, Vicki Davis, from the Cool Cat Teacher Blog has created a resource to help teachers.
Mindsets and Classroom Management for Making and Inventing in Every ClassroomVicki Davis
Constructivist methods empower making and creativity, but how do you manage your classroom? How do you engage learners? How can you create a culture of innovation? Experts in this movement will share practical answers and advice to these questions and more. Easily manage your makerspace, genius hour, or passion projects.
SKETCHNOTING IN EDUCATION: THE BEST PRACTICES, BENEFITS AND HOW-TO’S OF SKETC...Vicki Davis
Sketchnoting and visual notetaking can improve learning and also create a powerful way to capture educational experiences. Learn about the four forms of sketchnoting and the methods used by some of the most-shared sketchnote artists in education today. We’ll talk tools and how sketchnoting benefits learning and communicating.
Blended Learning Classrooms: Pedagogies, Skills and Tools for TeachingVicki Davis
Effective schools are now comprised of bricks (the face-to-face classroom) and clicks (the online classroom). How do you blend the two? How do you easily manage teaching, workflow and troubleshooting? How do students and teachers interact? Join leaders in the field to discuss emerging best practices. Presented at ISTE 2016.
9 Key P’s for Proactive Knowledge (Digital Citizenship)Vicki Davis
You can keep students safe. This simple system of teaching digital citizenship is based on the 9 Key P's for proactive Knowledge from my (Vicki Davis') book Reinventing Writing. In this presentation, I give you an overview of the 9 Key P's and a system for teaching digital citizenship to students of all ages. A Workshop I did at TICAL in Iowa in June 2016
50+ Ways to Improve Your Classroom with TechnologyVicki Davis
Well, it is closer to 163 if you look at the resources I put on the handout that goes with this session. Here are lots of education technology web sites and tools to use as options for your classroom toolkit.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
1. Reinventing Writing:
How Transliteracy and EdTech Tools Create Successful
Student Writing Communities
Vicki A. Davis
Teacher, IT Director
@coolcatteacher
www.coolcatteacher.com
Author, Reinventing Writing (June 2014)
Author, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds
Host, Every Classroom Matters (itunes)
2014 BAMMY Award – Best Education Talk Show Host
Coolcatteacher.com/literacypromise
2. The Collaborative Writing Cloud 9
Wikis
Collaborative
Writing Apps
Blogs
Social
Bookmarking
Graphic
Organizers
Collaborative
Notebooks
ePaper
Cartooning
Cloud
Syncing
ReinventingWriting
@coolcatteacher
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
3. Poll: Who are you?
A.Teacher
B.Librarian
C.Curriculum
D.Principal
E.Other administrator
4. 1. 9 Ways Writing Has Been Reinvented
• Practical things students need to know
• Examples from classrooms
• Recommendations for each
2. 9 Key P’s for Digital Citizens
3. 20 Questions
ReinventingWriting –Vicki Davis
http://writinginthecloud.wikispaces.com
I’mVicki Davis @coolcatteacher
What’s your handle?
5. 1. Specific Steps Building Writing Communities
(Chapter 13)
2. A lot of how-to’s (please use the chat to share
links)
3. To dive deeply into the 9 Key P’s for Safety &
Success (Chapter 12)
4. To dive deeply into the 20 questions (Chapter 2)
We won’t have time for –Vicki Davis
http://writinginthecloud.wikispaces.com
I’mVicki Davis @coolcatteacher
What’s your handle?
6. John Seely Brown,Visiting Scholar, University of
Southern California
“…you can’t just drop new
innovations into a classroom
and hope that the instructor
will invent effective ways to
use them.To fully utilize a
new teaching technology, you
often need to invent new
teaching practices as well.” Gamifi-ed Project:
An Intergenerational Learning Community
http://gamifi-ed.wikispaces.com
Westwood Students (9th graders) &
Masters Students from University of Alaska Southeast &
Gamifi-ed MOOC
ReinventingWriting
@coolcatteacher
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
8. Fosters community (Elbow 373)
Helps see problems from multiple viewpoints (Howard 10)
Co-authoring impacts the writing of individual authors (Aghbar)
Improves Learning Experiences (wolf 2010)
“Ideal model for constructing, reorganizing and acquiring new
information” (Janssen et all 2010)
Global collaboration is essential in today’s workplace (Friedman)
Shorten time required to solve pressing world problems (Tapscott)
Benefits of CollaborativeWriting
(Why we need writing communities)
Hong Kong 2011
Students edit wiki with virtual partners
ReinventingWriting
@coolcatteacher
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
10. A LOCATION ON THE INTERNET
WHERE FILES ARE STORED
What is the Cloud?
Reinventing Writing
@coolcatteacher
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
11. Teacher Question:
But I see a lot of videos, pictures,
and infographics along with writing
on the web, is this part of writing
literacy now?
12. STUDENTS MUST BE TRANSLITERATE
“Transliterate: The ability to read, write,
and interact across a range of platforms,
tools and media from signing and orality
through handwriting, print, TV, radio and
film to digital networks.”
Transliteracy Research Group
15. •Can each student have a distinct
username?
•Does the website track profile data on
the students?
•Can you set it up without an email
address?
•Can I access this site through my
school’s filter?
•Does this tool meet all policy
requirements for my school?
User Setup
•Can you easily set up a lot of users?
•Can you duplicate pages and/or
websites easily?
Scalability
•How easy is it to monitor?
•How much control can you have over
viewing, editing, and commenting?
Management
•Does the site allow hyperlinks?
Embedding?
•Uploading?
•What are the capabilities of
simultaneous editing?
•Can the document be viewed and/or
edited on multiple platforms? (like
tablets and mobile phones)
Interactive
features
•Does the site have good help files?
•Does the site have an active
community of educators that is well
supported by the company?
•If this is a mandated, privately
supported tool, what community will
be used to support teacher and
student work?
Community
•How private is data shared on the
platform?
•How secure is data shared on the
platform?
•What are the intellectual property
rights associated with what is shared
on the platform?
Privacy, Security,
and Intellectual
Property Rights
20 Questions about Technology Tools
Reality CheckWhat am I
trying to do?
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20. 5 Most popular ebook readers
Kindle
iBook
Nook
Kobo
Google Play Books
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/ ReinventingWriting
@coolcatteacher
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
#1 Reinventing Paper
22. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org
eReaderIQ ereaderiq.com
Free Booksy freebooksy.com
Book Bub bookbub.com
Bookish bookish.com
Hundred Zeroes hundredzeroes.com
Goodreads goodreads.com
What Should I
Read Next?
whatshouldireadnext.com
Which Book openingthebook.com/whichboo
k
Calibre calibre-ebook.com
Learn More: Epic Ebook Guide
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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25. 7 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
http://liber.io/
(Write in Google Drive eBook)
2. Draft
http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
http://leanpub.com/
5. PowerPoint (It works!)
6. Keynote (Yes you can!)
7. Scrivener
Learn more:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/publish-ebooks-free/
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26. Teacher Question:
How can I get the notes I take in
my Kindle or iBooks into Microsoft
Word or something else?
27. Did you know?
You can export your notes from Kindle or
iBooks into Evernote?
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/kindle-notes-evernote-export/
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/export-ibooks-notes/
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30. Calibre
You can convert almost any format of ebook
to another using Calibre?
See The Epic eBook Guide:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
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32. 2 Easy Ways to get PDF’s onto a
Kindle
1. Students can set up a kindle email
Put them in a group and email docs to them (a
small charge will be incurred.)
2. You can drag files onto a Kindle by hooking
it up to the computer with a cable (it looks
just like a thumb drive on the computer)
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34. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Evaluate Amazon Whispernet
Create a place where you can distribute or
link to free ebook content
Older students set up a profile on
kindle.amazon.com
Learn to export notes from books
Make epublishing part of what you do
#1 Reinventing Paper
Learn More: Chapter 3, Reinventing Writing
41. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
4. PAPER! ;-)
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
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51. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Select an official notebook service for your school
Connect students and teachers
Share notes
Learn to capture, annotate, and find
See if students can find notes at a later date
#2 Reinventing Notetaking
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
52. Teacher Question:
Is there an easier way to research
for term papers or research
papers?
(And do students really have to
print out a million pages on my
printers?)
55. Meet the
new
notecard
Hyperlink is part of bookmark
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 5
See: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/diigo-social-bookmarking-tutorial/
56. Features of
the New
Notecard
(Diigo) Annotate Websites: Privately,
To a group or publicly
Group Bookmarks
http://physicsofthefuture.wikispaces.com
Student efolios
Citation Reports
60. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up a bookmarking group for each class
Set up a “tag dictionary” for common topics
for the term
Install the Diigo plug in to add more features
to websites
#3 Reinventing Notecards
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 5
70. Dropbox: Did you know?
You can connect to your students and share files
Dropbox is a great way to share videos
You can create a folder people can upload to using dropitto.me
Sortmybox will help you organize and move your dropbox
materials
Jotform sends forms straight to Dropbox
Automate Dropbox with IFTTT
You can create a website from a Dropbox Folder using site44
My bookmarks of all the things you can do with Dropbox:
https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/dropbox
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#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
71. Google Drive: Did you know?
You can install Google Drive like a Dropbox
Folder
You can set up shared class folders
Google Drive can link with other services (like
wevideo)
See “Becoming a Google Drive Master”
http://j.mp/gdrive-master
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
72. One Drive: Did you know?
Integrated with Office and Windows 8 (no need to
install)
If you don’t buy the service, only 3 students can
sign up PER DAY behind a firewall (I give it as a
home assignment/ school supply)
Free versions of Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint
available online with your files if you use it
Replaces the “Jump Drive” more easily than
anything else.
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
74. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Create shared places in the cloud for students
and teachers to move files between devices
Educate everyone on how to use them and
what they are doing (even if you don’t allow
them to use popular services)
Students need places to share video and
other files!
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 6
99. Extra Features in Microsoft Word
You can call people and live chat them from
inside Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
in Office 365?
You can live edit Microsoft Word now?
You can get Microsoft Office on the iPad now?
Microsoft Office has Add Ons too?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/store/
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors
101. Zamzar!
Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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103. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up collaborative writing tools
Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
Empower peer feedback
Train and connect everyone!
Teach students (and teachers) to convert files
of all types
#5 Reinventing Word Processors
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 7
116. Karen Lirenman
Kathy Cassidy
Building Student Learning Communities
through Twitter
http://j.mp/lirenman-twitter
Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom
http://j.mp/primary-twitter
Class Twitter Accounts
Open Doors
121. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up a blogging platform for your students
Encourage feedback and connection
Find a Quadblogging Group for every
classroom in your school
Use microblogging to communicate and
connect with the world
Give your classroom a public platform to
share and connect
#6 Reinventing Journals
& Reports
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 8
131. Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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135. Popular Group Website Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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137. Did you know?
You can set up private projects on wikispaces even if your
overall wiki is public?
You can have a free ad-free site if you’re a K12 educator
See my classroom wiki at http://westwood.wikispaces.com
You can comment in-line like Google Drive?
You can use Wikispaces classroom to monitor engagement
live?
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139. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Create a collaborative wiki community
Write common information together with
others with a different worldview
Learn to write collaboratively
Multi age
Intergenerational
Within your district
Create a platform for student efolios
#7 Reinventing Group Reports
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 9
148. Did
you
know?
You should preplan what you’ll write before
you start collaborative writing?
Favorite outlining tools:
Hackpad, Google Drive, Etherpad, Office 365
150. Did you know?
You can create a mindmap to organize and embed it or link it
from your document to keep the two connected?
Live chats with documents usually aren’t saved, so you want
to have people use comments instead to include collaborative
partners
Partners should know how to find past conversations and
revisions
If you want to collaboratively write – it starts with collaborative
prewriting
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151. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Teach Prewriting tools and skills
Teach Collaborative Prewriting methods
Don’t forget prewriting
Embed prewriting documents in the final
document
Include asynchronous partners in your
communications.
#8 Reinventing Prewriting
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 10
152. Teacher Question:
How can we create graphics for
online student work? Aren’t
they important parts of modern
writing?
159. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/
160. Teacher Question:
Why are graphics so important
in online writing?
Can they be distracting and
stop people from reading?
161. Readibility tips?
Captions under images are read 300% more
than body copy
Headlines placed below an image are read by
10% more people than headlines above
Never break the left margin
Images should either have: story appeal or
demonstrate something
See: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shocking-truth-about-graphics/
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
163. Recommendation
Teach students how to create and select
images
Encourage the use of infographics to tell
stories
Help students visually organize their efolios
Follow and teach guidelines to promote
readability
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 11
165. The Collaborative Writing Cloud 9
Wikis
Collaborative
Writing Apps
Blogs
Social
Bookmarking
Graphic
Organizers
Collaborative
Notebooks
ePaper
Cartooning
Cloud
Syncing
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167. Google Forms – A school survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
168. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
169. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
171. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
172. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
177. 9 P’s for
Proactive
Knowledge
1. Passwords
2. Privacy
3. Personal Information
4. Photography
5. Property
6. Permissions
7. Protection
8. Professionalism
9. Permanence
Adapted from Reinventing Writing
by Vicki Davis
178. Teacher Question:
Are there habits that students
can develop that will make our
class writing community
stronger?
179. You can build community
CoP: Community of Practice
“Communities of practice are groups
of people who share a concern or a
passion for something they do and
learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly.”
Ettienne Wegner, Communities of Practice: A Brief
Introduction, 2012.
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182. I’m here to help!
www.coolcatteacher.com
Twitter @coolcatteacher
Facebook www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher
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183. Reinventing Writing:
How Transliteracy and EdTech Tools Create Successful
Student Writing Communities
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Author, Reinventing Writing (June 2014)
Author, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds
Host, Every Classroom Matters (itunes)
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Editor's Notes
So, I embed my learning and take 15 minutes 2-3 times a week to learn and explore new technologies and this, has been the thing that has led to the complete transformation of my classroom! But you don’t have time – you say.
One drop is a drop of water. Many drops of water together make rain. Rain makes the grass grow. One person writing is one workbut multiple people make change. Change can improve our world.
Resources: 12 Ways eBooks Can Improve your Life: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/11-reasons-ebooks/
Notetaking and Leaerning: A Summary of Research - http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/vol16/boch.pdf
Answers:
1:1 Devices of one type
1:1 BYOD
Rolling labs of devices
Computer Lab
Limited access