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A friend challenged us to create video tutorials on using some the Mozilla Webmaker tools, so I created this screencast of using Popcorn to remix the Digital Is animation video....
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The other day, a companion in the Teach the Web MOOC shared out a feature in Firefox that I didn’t even know existed. It allows you to get a 3D view of a website. Check out these two screenshots that I took of my blog site:
What is amazing is that this tool is right...
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A few weeks ago, for Digital Learning Day, Fox News (with anchor John Roberts) came to my school to interview me and some students, and a parent of one my students, about our teaching of digital citizenship with sixth graders. It is part of a larger Fox News feature about data mining and privacy...
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(This is reposted from my blog)
I am pulling together a collection of student stories that were created as part of our Interactive Fiction unit, in which my sixth grade students first read and reflected on the use of “choose your own ending” style of stories (we were lucky enough to have some...
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(This is reposted from my blog, as part of my own exploration around interactive fiction.)
I saw someone in my RSS feed share a link for this beta site — Rvl — that allows you to create virtual-cube-shaped presentations, and I wondered if it might work for interactive fiction. You have to envision...
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This is for Slice of Life challenge over at Two Writing Teachers (where folks are writing about the little moments in their days). I was thinking about the ways I write and share my daily slices of life, and I decided to create this “napkin graphic” to show what...
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(This is reposted from my blog site).
If ever there was a good use of Dan’s Awesome Rage Maker comic site, this is it. I discovered some news about the length of time it will take for students to complete the components in the PARCC assessment. That led to me thinking of my own school. Which led me...
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The other day, I came across Jason Seller's post about Interactive Fiction and became intrigued. This week, I dove in and wrote about my adventures as I sought to play with various IF possibilities and thought about how this kind of writing might have a place in my sixth grade classroom.
Day one: I...
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This is part of a larger conversation I have been having with Anna Smith about digital writing and literacies (and which we are archiving at Jog the Web and the National Writing Project Digital Is site.) Here, I ponder how we “find” communities and networks of other folks who...
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This is part of an ongoing series of discussions I am having with my good friend, Anna Smith, about digital literacies. (You can follow the entire thread of our back and forth talks here.) The other day, Anna asked the question of “where isn’t digital” as she considered a quote by David Wees about...
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I’ve been sharing out some of the data from a grade-level survey that I did with my students around their perceptions and use of technology and digital media. I’ve talked about how much time and what they do with that time, and also, I’ve shared out how many of my...
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Yesterday, I began sharing out some data that I collected from my sixth grade students about their use and perceptions of technology in their lives as we lead up to Digital Learning Day on Wednesday. Today, I want to share out the data from questions about social...
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Each year, I have my sixth graders take a survey we call The State of Technology. The data I collect over a series of questions forms the basis for discussions (we will have next week) around digital citizenship and privacy and footprints. Plus, I find it fascinating...
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Dear Anna and the world,
So far, we’ve exchanged video talks, and then screencasts, and now, I am inviting you to create a webcomic via Dan’s Awesome Ragemaker Comic.
The topic?
How do we acknowledge the opposite view of our discussions: the fear that digital writing is not unique, or that it is...
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My students love using Gamestar Mechanic to learn video game design. But they also expressed questions about features and abilities that do not exist in the site. So, I figured, why not give them an opportunity to express those wishes for improvements to the Gamestar Mechanic folks directly? I...
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Anna challenged me to a screencast. Do I accept? You bet!
And here is my reflection, which I am doing in comic form:
-- Kevin
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(This is reposted from my blog)
Last week, I had the pleasure of taking part in an ongoing collaborative Twitter adventure with my National Writing Project friends at the Digital Is site. A handful of us have signed up to take on the “digital is” handle (@NWPDigital_is) on Twitter for a week at a...
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This is fascinating, as Jerry Seinfield shares his writing process to come up with one joke. Check out his piles of notes where he writes his drafts, and how long he works on the editing for pacing and voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=itWxXyCfW5s
--Kevin
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(Anna Smith and I are starting up a conversation about writing in a digital age, and we intend to use different platforms to have our discussions. We also want to reflect on how those platforms inform our writing. Here, in comic form, I think about the use of a one-sided video chat. -- Kevin)
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Anna Smith and I are starting up a "conversation" about writing in the digital age that will stretch across different platforms. We invite you to join us, too.
- Kevin
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