All Things Twitter

Twittercure is packed with ideas and resources for using Twitter in educational settings.

"A dose of Twitter for every day of the school year"

Thinking about...

How does the need to write within a 140 character frame shape meanings, forms, and writing decisions?

How many kids tweet? How many read Twitter?

And how might we use tweeting to support young children's literacy learning?

Shared writing through collaborative blogs!

Collaborative blogs are a great way for young children to pool their research, raise questions, and share what they're finding. Check out this great second grade blog: http://allaboutbears.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

The blog was cited in Knobel & Wilbur's (2009) Educational Leadership article, Whether it's Web 2.0 or Literacy 2.0, it's a whole new way of thinking.

How will you use ebooks in your classroom?

Here's an interesting discussion with an embedded YouTube video demonstrating how children's books might work on iPads.

Punctuation Saves Lives

'Let's eat Grandma!' or, 'Let's eat, Grandma!' Punctuation saves lives.

A great Facebook page! Become a fan and collect punctuation and grammar bloopers for your classroom or just for fun.

Digital Poetry Links

Highlights from Linda's great class presentation: Teaching poetry not just as a structure but as a feeling, a way of looking, a connection, a moment captured and shared...

Video Poem A Valentine to Ernest Mann

Straight Lines , a wonderful poem by Georgia Heard...

and children's poems on Poetry Fridays

Wondering what to do this July?

Explore new literacies and virtual worlds at the UKLA conference in London:
The Changing Face of Literacy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Imagine a Multimodal Research Paper

Here's a great video that demonstrates children using digital tools to narrate and post their research online so that others can also add comments and extend the learning: Voicethread classroom video

What would you post and what would you say about your research with this tool?