wikis
Wikis: Overview and Resources
Submitted by bganley on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 17:04WIKI DEFINITIONS
Will Richardson's Definition, Uses, Strategies and Examples
HELPFUL RESOURCES AND READINGS
EDUCAUSE article, "Wiki-based Collaborative Learning" by Dr. Irfan Naufal Umar
PLATFORMS, TOOLS, WIDGETS
Yackpack a widget for talk (IM) on wikis
Narrative Writing -- To tell a story
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:06By Geoffrey Gevalt
YWP Editor
All of us are storytellers. We tell stories in the halls to our friends in the morning after a long weekend. We tell our teachers great yarns as to why the assignment wasn't completed. We tell our parents or their friends something memorable to keep them from asking so many darned questions.
But for some reason many of us have trouble putting those stories onto paper; somehow we never think they're good enough, or we can't find that conversational tone or we just don't feel like it.
Art of the interview
Interviewing is the art of conversation, of making people comfortable, getting them to open up and learning things you didn't know. An interviewer needs to control the direction of the discussion while letting the person being interviewed think they are controlling the discussion. An interviewer should be armed with questions to ensure the proper ground is covered; often, though, many of those questions never need to be asked.
Here are some pointers on interviewing for students:
Multimedia Writing
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 13:30One of the greatest attractions of using digital technology to teach writing is the opportunities it offers for multimedia writing. Multimedia writing starts with writing text, and then uses a combination of text, images, audio and/or video to illustrate the story and/or enhance the viewer's experience of it. The information presented in each medium is complementary, not redundant, so that different parts of the story are told using different media.
Using multimedia is a great way to engage students in many of the disciplines of writing. It also often entices the less engaged student to participate. Among the attributes of a multimedia project are these:
Image-based Writing: Examples
Slide your mouse through this and experience an interactive photo collage of a student trip to China. Click on the "hotspots" to listen to the audio and look at the slideshows.
