A link from a classmate, Sherry, who found these posters while searching for other six traits materials:

Six Traits Posters

Six Traits of Writing Posters

Thanks, Sherry!

It’s Elementary #12 Using RSS (Really Serious Stress relief) | EdTechTalk

All of the EdTechTalk shows are excellent, and It’s Elementary has some particularly useful topics for you as future elementary school teachers.

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I encourage you to check out this live webcast Wed. night. I have worked with many of these teachers through the National Writing Project and this looks to be an outstanding use of blogging as a way to inspire student writing:

Help us plan our Spring Blogging curriculum on Teachers Teaching Teachers this week.

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Tomorrow we’re going to find out if eight people can plan a curriculum together. These 8 teachers from Writing Projects across the country are planning to meet and talk about a 15-week blogging curriculum that they have started to put together (see below.)

Join these teachers at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times .

Bob Levin and Gail Desler (Area 3 Writing Project, Sacramento, CA)
Woody Woodgate (Alaska Writing Project, Marshall, Alaska)
Bill O’Neal (Trenton, NJ Writing Project)
Chris Sloan (Wasatch Range Writing Project, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim (New York City Writing Project)
Lee Baber (Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia)

Our curriculum so far… ( add your thoughts at http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/Curriculum )

To: Students
From: Your teacher
RE: Our blogging curriculum

Essential Questions
* What are you passionate about and how do these interests fit with our big questions?
* What voices or sources of information do you think are important to include in your search for answers?
* How do you become an effective networker and get people with shared interests to value your voice online?
* How can you use our social networks as personal learning sites that lead to social action?

Enduring Knowledge
This curriculum is about what you do when you sit down to work at your computer. It is about creating a space in your life for you to safely extend and explore your online voice with a group of peers, both at your school and around the world. You will learn about re-blogging and how people choose to build together and share their creations and their resources. By following this curriculum, you will identify ideas and issues that are of importance to you, learn more about them and find other people who share your interests and passions. Being able to have a substantial online presence and network effectively are necessary skills today for success. Fluency in text, images and audio are part of this communication. Through the work in this curriculum you will develop your sense of humor, cleverness and understanding of how people use their online communication skills to affect the world in many different ways including political, civic, academic and entertainment spheres.

Online Toolbox
Like a carpenter would assemble and sharpen his or her tools before beginning to build, you will be adding to your toolbox for online communication. Specifically we will introduce or review the following tools and ask you to use them.

First Tools
* Gmail or another email that you use for school purposes. This will be your professional, work or school email. (Suggestion – but I think it should be gmail to get a google account and you need another email anyway when you register with gmail)
* Google Docs (expressive writing, editing, sharing) or any word processor such as Word ( no not for me – not OR – I want them to use docs – they already use word) (Not sure who made this comment, but I agree that we should encourage Docs when writing collaboratively. For “solo” pieces, I think Word is fine. – gail)
* Tumblr or Blogger (collecting, publishing, inviting conversation, building a portfolio)
* iGoogle or Tabbed Browsing on Firefox or Flock (a way to have all tools easily available on the desktop)

Multimedia Tools
* Splashup, Photoshop or another image editor (to create graphics–like an icon or name banner)
* Audacity, Adobe Audition or Garage Band/iTunes (recording, editing sound)
* VoiceThread (multimedia presentation, inviting conversation)
* Tagzania (mapping, tagging, collaborating)
* Flash and other open source free animation programs (to push the way we think about order and telling)

Social and Collaborative Tools
* Youth Voices or Personal Learning Space (blogging in a social network)
* Youthwiki (collecting, presenting in a collaborative wiki space)
* Google Reader (reading, organizing information, (suggestion – reading text feeds –such as NYTimes or Sports programs) and listening to podcasts–such as NPR or WNYC programs)
* Twitter (questions, capturing process thinking, back channelling) or your teacher’s public wiki (suggestion- sharing and building information resources)

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FRONTLINE: coming soon: growing up online | PBS

FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES THE RISKS, REALITIES AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF TEEN LIFE ON THE INTERNET

FRONTLINE presents GROWING UP ONLINE
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS
www.pbs.org/frontline/kidsonline

Jessica Hunter was a shy and awkward girl who struggled to make friends at school. Then, at age 14, she reinvented herself online as “Autumn Edows,” an alternative goth artist and model who posted provocative photos of herself on the Web, and fast developed a cult following. “I just became this whole different person,” Jessica tells FRONTLINE. “I didn’t feel like myself, but I liked the fact that I didn’t feel like myself. I felt like someone completely different. I felt like I was famous.”

News of Jessica’s growing fame as Autumn Edows reached her parents only by accident. “I got a phone call, and the principal says one of the parents had seen disturbing photographs and material of Jessica,” her father tells FRONTLINE. “They were considered to be pornographic. … I had no idea what she was doing on the Internet. That was a big surprise.”

In Growing Up Online, airing Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about just how radically the Internet is transforming the experience of childhood. “It’s just this huge shift in which the Internet and the digital world was something that belonged to adults, and now it’s something that really is the province of teenagers, “ says C.J. Pascoe, a Ph.D. scholar with the University of California, Berkeley’s Digital Youth Project. “They’re able to have a private space, even while they’re still at home. They’re able to communicate with their friends and have an entire social life outside of the purview of their parents without actually having to leave the house.”