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Building the Picture Book World: Concise, Consistent and Contagious | Whats Write About This
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About the WWAT Crew. May 20, 2015. Posted by Lynn Barnes. On May 20, 2015. In Ready, Setting, GO! Building the Picture Book World: Concise, Consistent and Contagious. In young adult or middle grade novels, the. Is slowly unpacked in the first few chapters. And readers have the luxury of discovering more about characters, plot and impact throughout the 40,000- to 120,000-word manuscript. In five hundred words or less, the picture book. Can increase reader commitment: Concise. Bats at the Beach. Is everyth...
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Me and My Hating Reader | Through The Tollbooth
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Skip to primary content. Me and My Hating Reader. July 30, 2015. The other day I read a library book. I often borrow books from the library, and enjoy the pages softened by the many turnings. A library book smells of promise, sturdy and resolute. Sometimes I note coffee stains, or a turned down corner, and I get a brief reminder that I am following many other readers who have enjoyed the same book. This time, I was reading. I Capture the Castle,. I hate it here. Or was it not directed at the story at all...
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #6 Flickr fun, mashups, and 3rd party sites
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 6 Flickr fun, mashups, and 3rd party sites. Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups* that use Flickr images. Here is just a sampling of a few …. Or Trading Card Maker. 1 Idea #1: Use Flickr...
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #5 Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 5 Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site. Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr. Now owned by Yahoo! To catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr uses "tags" or what we would call keywords to help identify and search for photos. Work, what groups. Are creating thanks to Flickr.
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #19 Podcasts: iPod not required
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 19 Podcasts: iPod not required. The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the " word of the year. Podcasts have great potential for the classroom...
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #21 Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 21 Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog. You’ve reached the 21st thing. Give yourself a pat on the back for completing the program. Please give us your feedback on your experience by completing this online survey. And by reflecting on your learning journey by posting a few thoughts. Here are some questions to prompt you:. If so, check out Discovering Assistive Technology.
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #9 Locate a few useful Classroom related blogs
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 9 Locate a few useful Classroom related blogs. Now that you have an RSS Reader (your Bloglines. Or Google Reader account), you can begin adding other feeds that interest you. There are several ways you can locate RSS feeds:. When visiting your favorite websites - look for RSS. That indicate the website provides it. Often a feed icon will be displayed somewhere in the navigation of the site.
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #10 Play around with online image generators
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 10 Play around with online image generators. No, I’m not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I’m talking about are websites that allow you to easily manipulate images. For this discovery exercise, we want you to have even more fun than you're already having! 1 Play around with some image generators and find one that you like. Generator Blog FD Flickr Toys. 2 Idea #2: ...
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: Welcome to the 21 Things
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. Welcome to the 21 Things. Registration occurs after you have completed the first three "Things.". The links below will take you to each specific lesson. 1 Please begin by reading this blog and find out about the program. 2 Discover a few pointers from life-long learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process. 3 Set up your own blog , add your first post, add an avatar. Podcasts, Vid...
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0: #16 Take a look at online productivity tools (word processing, spreadsheets, and more)
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GRMS Classroom Learning 2.0. An online learning program developed by the California School Library Association. 16 Take a look at online productivity tools (word processing, spreadsheets, and more). To author and publish posts to your blog. Another new free and open productivity suite is OpenOffice.com. Create a free account for yourself in Zoho Writer. Explore the site and create a test document or two. Try out Zoho Writer’s. Google's online word processing, as an option for this exercise. Viewable as a...
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