Oct. 8 Webinar Notes
Thanks to everyone who attended our first webinar yesterday. I had a great time talking to Jill about prewriting activities and the participants added some great ideas and resources. As promised, here are the links from my slides and a collection that was harvested from the backchannel chat in both sessions.
Writing Prompts
Image Collections for Prompts or Visual Synectics
- Flickr
- LIFE Photo Archive
- NYT News Snapshot
- NASA Images
- MARVEL
- Maine Memory Network
- Windows on Maine
Digital Timer (for Quick Write)
Resources and Ideas from Participants
- Book: Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones
- The Big Picture
- saving interesting titles from newspapers (ones that don’t give away the article) and the kids love creating the news stories from the title.
- buy art books on sale and use photos of painting, sculptures, etc. as writing prompts
- Morgue File
- Geography Photo of the Day
- Smithsonian Images
- Use photo layers in GoogleEarth
- Research on effects of laptops on writing
- Bean – free word processing program
- add an index section in NoteShare notebook to look at words
- Wordle
- ABC Brainstorming for Math
- Weaving a story from beginning to end using iPhoto images as a guide
- Providing opening sentence
- What happens next? Showing a short video clip, getting kids to carry on the story
- Students in ECS create a Discovery Portfolio all about them with music added
- PB Wiki where students respond to a reading
- American Memory collection at Library of Congress
- Image Detective
- Pics4Learning (Kids can submit their photos)
- Glogster
- Kids build blogs in ePals
- Blogspot and Photo Bucket
- Quick Writes successful with LD middle school kids
- Modeling with projector
- Highlighting best ideas, sentences or phrases in a Quick Write
- Free Rice (vocabulary)
- Word Banks as eBulletin in Studywiz
- Writing Prompts for Math
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