Motivated to Write: 30+ Resources

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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” ~ Vladimir Nabakov

This week I am in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, presenting at the GAETC conference. It is one of the most organized and interesting conferences I’ve been to and they’ve had some incredible presenters/keynotes, such as Chris Lehmann, Tony Vincent, Jerry Blumengarten, Nikki Roberts, Jamie Vanderbilt, Amanda Dykes, Kristy Vincent, etc. I’ve seen sessions from flipping the classroom to mobile learning to media literacy. Not to mention the teachers and people I’ve met in Georgia have been super nice. Each day, I am greeted 100 times by the people here. This has happened since I walked off the plane.
I had six sessions which you can read about here, Teacherrebootcamp.com/tag/gaetc13.  Here are the resources for the Motivated to Write session in case you missed it or in case you are just interested. At GAETC, I tried collaborative note-taking with the 400 audience. We all took notes on 1 Google Doc. Scary, I know! However, it ended up being a great experience and many helped create notes and stories. Check out the document here, http://bit.ly/gaetc1234. Thank you to @MeetMrsHussain, Beth Jackson, Judy Bausch, Katika,Tonisha, Edroce,  Ty, Amber, Greg Clark, Robin (@rdaugherty73), Amanda Coody, Gwen Thibadeau (@gwen.thibadeau), River Eves (@rwhite3787), Ann Alvarez (@alvie2304), Cody, Heidi Holcomb (@hjholc), and others who helped with the collaborative note-taking experience.

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My Favorite Resources

  • Make Beliefs Comix– Two, three and four panel comics that you can create in multiple languages. 350+ free printables for teachers
  • Rreadwritethink.org– 100+ free interactives and quality lesson plans integrating technology and literacy.
  • Kerpoof– create videos, comics, and more with this free tool
  • Buncee– free iPod/iPad app that creates interactive posters and comics with a library of stickers, backgrounds, audio, images, and video. Super easy to use and embeds.
  • Favorite writing prompt sites aligned with the common core are John Spencer’s Photoprompts and Luke Neff’s Image Writing Prompts.
  • Comics Head– IOS and Android app to make comics. Best one in my opinion that allows adding your own images along with their library of characters, backdrops, and more.
  • The Digital Storytelling Course Wiki – I helped organize and run this open online 5 week session for the last 2 years. You can check out the resources curated by over 500 teachers worldwide. We cover creative common music and images, comics, video, storybooks, and more!
  • Kathy Schrock’s Rubrics
  • My Digital Storytelling Symbaloos– Find a free tool or app for any digital storytelling project.
  • All the storyboarding worksheets can be found here,  http://stopmotionmovies.yolasite.com/

More Fantastic Resources

Find all my bookmarks in this Pearl Tree, http://pear.ly/bKdKD! It’s a free mindmap of links. You click a pearl and it’ll expand into the resource. Works on mobile devices.

Challenge:

Use one of these resources or ideas and share with me how the experience went with your learners.

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Inspiring Writing in English Language Teaching / Shelly Sanchez Terrell (shellyterrell)
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