Tag: writing
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The Dream of Creative Writing
I have been doing quite a bit of soul-searching in the past few weeks and months, and I have played with several ideas for my future that are worth noting. One of these is my desire to write fiction, to unleash my creative imagination in a channel detached almost entirely from education and educational technology.…
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Enlisting Student Moderators for Classroom Blog Posts
What a beautiful sight this was today in our school library! A team of 4th and 5th grade student volunteers, who have been working as mentors in our enhanced eBook project, are now helping moderate both comments and student posts on the 22 classroom blogs we have at our school. by Wesley Fryer I wish…
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Widget of Recent Student KidBlog Posts with Yahoo Pipes and RSS Dog
This evening I used the free web service RSS Dog to add right sidebar widgets to a new page of “KidBlog Links” (classroom interactive writing websites) on our school website for Independence Elementary in Yukon, Oklahoma. by Wesley Fryer Several months ago I used Yahoo Pipes (also free) to create an “aggregated feed river” of posts from…