Robin Young on March 12th, 2009

Recently this web site was sent out through my PLN (personal learning network).  It was given as a suggestion for using technology to teach poetry. http://www.piclits.com/ Basically the website has photos and users can drag and drop words from their gallery onto the picture, or they can write free style.  Here is my first attempt: [...]

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Robin Young on October 14th, 2008

The idea that when students create for a real-world audience online the quality of the work is better, got me thinking about what were some other ways to tap into this world. Last year we published folk tales students had written as audio files.  Those files were posted on a blog and the students could [...]

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Robin Young on April 16th, 2008

Need Pictures: Comp Flight – http://compfight.com/ What is it?  Searches Flickr for photos for the term you give it.  The results are returned on one page in thumbnail form instead of a list of images that you have to page through in Flickr.  Hold your mouse over an image and you can see the image [...]

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