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		<title>Oct. 8 Webinar Notes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbara Greenstone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Writer&#8217;s Digest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Writing Prompts</strong></p>
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<li><a title="Writer's Digest Writing Prompts" href="http://www.writersdigest.com/WritingPrompts/" target="_blank">Writer&#8217;s Digest Writing Prompts</a></li>
<li><a title="Can Teach" href="http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html" target="_blank">Can Teach</a></li>
<li><a title="Writing Fix" href="http://writingfix.com/classroom_tools/dailypromptgenerator.htm" target="_blank">Writing Fix</a></li>
<li><a title="Creative Writing Prompts" href="http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/" target="_blank">Creative Writing Prompts</a></li>
<li><a title="Creativity Portal" href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/writing.prompts.html" target="_blank">Creativity Portal</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Image Collections for Prompts or Visual Synectics</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com" target="_blank">Flickr</a></li>
<li><a title="LIFE Photo Archive" href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life" target="_blank">LIFE Photo Archive</a></li>
<li><a title="NYT News Snapshot" href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/" target="_blank">NYT News Snapshot</a></li>
<li><a title="NASA Images" href="http://www.nasaimages.org/" target="_blank">NASA Images</a></li>
<li><a title="MARVEL" href="http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/" target="_blank">MARVEL</a></li>
<li><a title="Maine Memory Network" href="http://www.mainememory.net/" target="_blank">Maine Memory Network</a></li>
<li><a title="Windows on Maine" href="http://windowsonmaine.library.umaine.edu/" target="_blank">Windows on Maine</a></li>
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<p><strong>Digital Timer</strong> (for Quick Write)</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Chimoo Timer" href="http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/chimootimer/" target="_blank">Chimoo Timer</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Resources and Ideas from Participants</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Book: <a title="Holding On to Good Ideas..." href="http://www.heinemann.com/products/E02123.aspx" target="_blank">Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones</a></li>
<li><a title="The Big Picture" href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/" target="_blank">The Big Picture</a></li>
<li>saving interesting titles from newspapers (ones that don&#8217;t give away the article) and the kids love creating the news stories from the title.</li>
<li>buy art books on sale and use photos of painting, sculptures, etc. as writing prompts</li>
<li><a title="Morgue File" href="http://morguefile.com/" target="_blank">Morgue File</a></li>
<li><a title="Geography Photo of the Day" href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day" target="_blank">Geography Photo of the Day</a></li>
<li><a title="Smithsonian Images" href="http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&amp;_pageLabel=home" target="_blank">Smithsonian Images</a></li>
<li>Use photo layers in GoogleEarth</li>
<li><a title="Research" href="http://www.usm.maine.edu/cepare/Impact_on_Student_Writing_Brief.pdf" target="_blank">Research on effects of laptops on writing</a></li>
<li><a title="Bean" href="http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html" target="_blank">Bean</a> &#8211; free word processing program</li>
<li>add an index section in NoteShare notebook to look at words</li>
<li><a title="Wordle" href="http://www.wordle.net/" target="_blank">Wordle</a></li>
<li>ABC Brainstorming for Math</li>
<li>Weaving a story from beginning to end using iPhoto images as a guide</li>
<li>Providing opening sentence</li>
<li>What happens next? Showing a short video clip, getting kids to carry on the story</li>
<li>Students in ECS create a Discovery Portfolio all about them with music added</li>
<li>PB Wiki where students respond to a reading</li>
<li><a title="American Memory" href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html" target="_blank">American Memory collection at Library of Congress</a></li>
<li><a title="Image Detective" href="http://cct2.edc.org/PMA/image_detective/index.html" target="_blank">Image Detective</a></li>
<li><a title="Pics 4 Learning" href="pics4learning.com">Pics4Learning</a> (Kids can submit their photos)</li>
<li><a title="Glogster" href="http://www.glogster.com/" target="_blank">Glogster</a></li>
<li>Kids build blogs in ePals</li>
<li><a title="Blogger" href="http://www.blogger.com/home" target="_blank">Blogspot</a> and <a title="PhotoBucket" href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank">Photo Bucket</a></li>
<li>Quick Writes successful with LD middle school kids</li>
<li>Modeling with projector</li>
<li>Highlighting best ideas, sentences or phrases in a Quick Write</li>
<li><a title="Free Rice" href="http://www.freerice.com/" target="_blank">Free Rice</a> (vocabulary)</li>
<li>Word Banks as eBulletin in Studywiz</li>
<li><a title="Math Prompts" href="http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/Writing%20Prompts.pdf" target="_blank">Writing Prompts for Math</a></li>
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