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Photo Prompt
TEACHERS: Feel free to use any of these pictures. We apologize that the source info is not present. They have been obtained under creative commons licensing and we will endeavor to have cites. To select a photo to put in your exercise, save the photo you want to your desktop, by clicking on it, then clicking "download original."
Choose one of these photos. Look at it closely by clicking on it to make it better. Then create a blog entry (TIP: Hover your mouse over the 'Blog Entry' link and RIGHT click it and select 'Open in a new Tab' so you can have your blog on one tab and your photo on another.
Write a story, poem, essay or reflection on the photo you have chosen. You have seven minutes to write, so don't do much self-editing. Just think of what you want to do and go. This exercise is good to help you understand the importance of just getting the idea out -- without worrying about spelling or where you'll end up or, even, whether you will finish. Read more »
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Presentation
Introduction
1. YWP is a nonprofit that engages kids to write, helps them improve and finds them authentic audiences online, in newspapers and on radio and on stage. It essentiall has two parts: Read more »
Day 2
Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 16:19So, basically, pissed seems to the consensus, particularly about the phrase Child Page.
Screencast tests
Submitted by ggevalt on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 18:41This is a test on Screenr
This is a test using Camtasia, but have not fiddled with getting HD yet. This was uploaded to Vimeo.
The Jing/Screencast version...
Some links
Submitted by ggevalt on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 16:19http://brattleboroms.ywpschools.net/node/1209 ... Students organically express interest and questions about another student's first draft. The student responds and then does 20 revisions, creating a podcast as part of the end product. 7th grade
http://brattleboroms.ywpschools.net/node/1443 ... A podcast by a student talking about his Asperger's and about finally finding a friend.... how "different" people can find equal voice on the sites.
http://peoples.ywpschools.net/recentcomments?group_nid=1131 ... High School AP English commenting. Quality and depth and note the reflection (on handout) of teacher in talking about her own critique of students' work changed from "proofing" to discussing the students' ideas and structure. A very different process and after 18 years she changed how she did things.
What students think
This is a movie created by students of their peers' reaction to YWP's early digitial classrooms, then known as 'We Write.'
The Elders Project -- Photo Stories
This is an example of an Elders Project Photo Story made by hundreds of students in YWP Schools Project classrooms. Students were asked to find a picture of an elder, write a very brief story, record themselves reading it and add a musical background that sets a tone.
This is a photo of my great grandfather, Richard Gavin Freeman. The picture was taken in 1997 when he was eighty. I never met him, as he lived across the Atlantic and was quite frail when I was born but I feel I knew him from family stories.
My great grandfather was a compassionate, determined man. He never gave up on something he cared about. One thing he loved was politics. At age 20, he went to a tractor driving school so he could be of use to Russian farmers in their revolution. In his old age, he suffered memory loss, but never lost his passion for cricket, bird watching, and the daily news. Read more »
The Photo Story
Submitted by ggevalt on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 16:09
*In the piece, I had said WWll, however, WWl is the time where the redcoats had been worn.
