Tag: QR codes

@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-08-04

Aug 04

By Traci Gardnernews censorship, Facebook, QR codes, social media, wikipedia, writing Comments Off

How to Avoid Overwriting http://hoki.es/q9SMxQ #
Shame in Academic Writing – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/pfR6QS #
Encore Episode: Wikipedia’s Co-Founder on Academic Uses, and Limits, of Popular Open Encyclopedia – CHE http://hoki.es/qm51ve #
Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation | Economics and Statistics Administration http://hoki.es/nfLjdv #
New Missouri law on social-media ‘friending’ confounds teachers – KansasCity.com http://hoki.es/mWYj1G #
Student Learning Groups: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous? | Edutopia http://hoki.es/qK5bYx #
“Internet Explorer Users Have Lower IQs” Study Is a Hoax: Here Are Some of the Red Flags | Epicenter | Wired.com http://hoki.es/ny9TT5 #
“Internet Explorer Users Have Lower IQs” Study Is a Hoax: Here Are Some of the Red Flags | Epicenter | Wired.com http://hoki.es/ny9TT5 #
Chris Crutcher: How They Do It http://hoki.es/o1RXB6 #censorship #
Literature Profs Offer Book Lists to Beat the Heat – UT Dallas News http://hoki.es/plSoTj #
The Literacy of Gaming: What Kids Learn From Playing | MediaShift . PBS http://hoki.es/pj5Jha #
Are academies the future of education? | The-Dispatch.com http://hoki.es/rkQaAd #
Rethinking COPPA in the Age of Social Media | Edutopia http://hoki.es/pvJmzh #
Your New Campus Guide: A Small Patterned Square (QRCode) That Talks to Your Smartphone | Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/rbZkK8 #
Zotero in the Archives | GradHacker http://hoki.es/nKIhCg #
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity | Video on TED.com http://hoki.es/nLdcIz #
The English Teacher’s Email Survival Kit | Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition » http://hoki.es/nTlhOA #
Using DocScanner to Scan on the Go | ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/reDzuL #
BBC News – Warning over children's multi-screen viewing http://hoki.es/qKkAcG #
Student journalists use 20th-century tools to assemble campus paper | Video on Tweed – CHE http://hoki.es/qeniCv #
Academic English Is Not a Club I Want to Join – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/qSYosQ #
What's Your Major? Probably Not One of These – News – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/plf3aS #
The Encyclopedia of Babel: Scholars & Wikipedia – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/o9po5Q #
Updating the Common Rule – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/mUJ991 #
“Clicks” Get Bricks | Harvard Education Letter http://hoki.es/omRC8e #
'Why Should We Care?'—What to Do About Declining Student Empathy – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/rlr33Z #
Innovations: E-Learning 'Nightmare Scenarios' – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/rdmdgf #
Casual References to Violence Bring Serious Consequences for College Instructors – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/oLnFQi #
From Classic to Modern, the Forthcoming digital version of the Loeb Classical Library – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/q4adEA #

The Evolution of Digital Texts: Bits Flashback for June 20

Jun 20

By Traci GardnerBedford Bits, composition, social media collaboration, digital writing, poetry, QR codes, transmedia Comments Off

Just published last week, Troy Hicks’ collection on Reading and Writing Transmedia on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is site explores how digital writing is evolving.

The collection of texts “primarily authored by Laura Fleming represents one educator’s vision of what transmedia is, and what it can be, for teachers and students learning to read and write in a digital age.” You’ll find an explanation and history of transmedia as well as example texts and pedagogical reflections.

Also out last week are these posts from Bedford Bits posts:

Looking for a new way to do group writing? Holly Pappas explores The Collaborative Writing Sprint: Product & Process.
Andrea Lunsford shares her Tip for New Teachers #7: Setting Up Effective Peer Groups.
Jack Solomon explores the semiotics of recent scandals in Congressmen Behaving Badly.
Whether you want to catch up with poetry or keep up it, High School Bits blogger Jesse Tangen has a solution for you in The Poetry Foundation’s New Website: A Walk-through.
Traci Gardner explores how to use cell phones and encoded images in the writing classroom with QR Codes for Composition Teachers.
Susan Naomi Bernstein considers what happens when students compose in that precarious space outside the box—or outside the standardized curriculum in Crooked Seams, ADHD, and Basic Writing: A Narrative of Personal Experience.

A Few Extra Links

Writers tell stories that demonstrate how everyone is a writer in the video “Who is a Writer: What Writers Tell Us” from the National Conversation on Writing and and the WPA Network for Media Action.
Learn How the Internet Is Revolutionizing Education in this infographic that takes us from TV lectures to YouTube & Facebook.
For a diversion, “Test Your Literature IQ” with quizzes on first lines, classic texts, and even cats in fiction.
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