Writing has been reinvented in several ways according to the document. Some key ways include ebooks replacing printed books, cloud services like Dropbox replacing physical filing cabinets, and collaborative writing tools like Google Docs allowing multiple people to work on documents simultaneously. Other changes involve new notetaking methods using services like Evernote, reinvented illustrations using tools like Canva, and public writing platforms like blogs and wikis replacing private journals.
5. Some favorite new tools
Kahoot
Plickers
Telegami
Thinklink
Tiny Tap
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Random Awesomeness
9. 5 Most popular ebook readers
Kindle
iBook
Nook
Kobo
Google Play Books
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10. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project
Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.
org
eReaderIQ www.ereaderiq.
com
Free Booksy www.freebooksy.
com
Book Bub www.bookbub.c
om
Bookish www.bookish.co
m
Hundred Zeroes www.hundredzer
oes.com
Goodreaders www.goodreads.
com
What Should I
Read Next?
www.whatshould
ireadnext.com
Which Book www.openingthe
book.com/which
book
Calibre www.calibre-
ebook.com
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11. 6 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
1. http://liber.io/
2. (Write in Google Drive eBook)
2. Draft
1. http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
1. http://leanpub.com/
5. Powerpoint or Keynote (Yes you can!)
6. Scrivener
Learn more:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/publish-ebooks-free/
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12. Did you know?
You can export your notes from Kindle or
iBooks into Evernote?
See 11 Ways eBooks Can Improve Your Life:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/11-reasons-ebooks/
You can convert almost any format of ebook
to another using Calibre?
See The Epic eBook Guide:
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-ebook-guide/
Students can set up a kindle email
Put them in a group and email docs to them (a
small charge will be incurred unless you hook it
up directly via cable.)
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13. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Evaluate Amazon Whispernet
Create a place where you can distribute
or link to free ebook content
Older students set up a profile on
kindle.amazon.com
Learn to export notes from books
Make epublishing part of what you do
#1 Reinventing Paper
Learn More: Chapter 3, Reinventing Writing
17. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
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23. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Select an official notebook service for your school
Connect students and teachers
Share notes
Learn to capture, annotate, and find
See if students can find notes at a later date
#2 Reinventing Notetaking
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 4
24. Did you know?
Feature Evernote One Note
Set up an email to send notes to your
notebook
Set up your networked copier to send
scanned documents (via email)
Use IFTTT to link your notebook to other
services
Use a browser plug in to clip sites and
info
Capture Screen pics Skitch One Note Clipper
Set up an import folder to automatically
bring in documents
Use Onetastic –
not really
available
Collaborative Spaces to Edit Shared notebooks
can’t edit
simultaneously
#2 Reinventing Notetaking
26. Features of
the New
Notecard
(Diigo) Annotate Websites: Privately,
To a group or publicly
Group Bookmarks
http://physicsofthefuture.wikispaces.com
Student efolios
Citation Reports
35. Dropbox: Did you know?
You can connect to your students and share files
Dropbox is a great way to share videos
You can create a folder people can upload to using
dropitto.me
Sortmybox will help you organize and move your dropbox
materials
Jotform sends forms straight to Dropbox
Automate Dropbox with IFTTT
You can create a website from a Dropbox Folder using
site44
My bookmarks of all the things you can do with Dropbox:
https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/dropbox
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#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
36. Google Drive: Did you know?
You can install Google Drive like a
Dropbox Folder
You can set up shared class folders
Google Drive can link with other services
(like wevideo)
See “Becoming a Google Drive Master”
http://j.mp/gdrive-master
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
37. One Drive: Did you know?
Integrated with Office and Windows 8 (no
need to install)
If you don’t buy the service, only 3 students
can sign up PER DAY behind a firewall (I give
it as a home assignment/ school supply)
Free versions of Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint
available online with your files if you use it
Replaces the “Jump Drive” more easily than
anything else.
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
38. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up collaborative writing tools
Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
Empower peer feedback
Train and connect everyone!
Teach students (and teachers) to convert
files of all types
Teach students how to convert and use
many types of cloud tools
#5 Reinventing Filing Cabinets
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 6
43. Did you know?
You can call people and live chat them
from inside Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
and Excel in Office 365?
You can live edit Microsoft Word now?
You can get Microsoft Office on the iPad now?
Microsoft Office has Add Ons too?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/store/
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors
44. Did you know?
Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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45. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up collaborative writing tools
Make sure teachers know how to give text
and voice feedback
Empower peer feedback
Train and connect everyone!
Teach students (and teachers) to convert
files of all types
#5 Reinventing Word Processors
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 7
48. Karen Lirenman
Kathy Cassidy
Building Student Learning Communities
through Twitter
http://j.mp/lirenman-twitter
Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom
http://j.mp/primary-twitter
Class Twitter Accounts
Open Doors
50. Reinventing Writing
Recommendation
Set up a blogging platform for your
students
Encourage feedback and connection
Find a Quadblogging Group for every
classroom in your school
Use microblogging to communicate and
connect with the world
Give your classroom a public platform to
share and connect
#6 Reinventing Journals
& Reports
Learn More: Reinventing Writing: Chapter 8
54. Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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55. Popular Group Website
Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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58. Did
you
know?
You should preplan what you’ll write before
you start collaborative writing?
Favorite outlining tools:
Hackpad, Google Drive, Etherpad, Office 365
63. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/
64. Did you know?
Captions under images are read 300%
more than body copy
Headlines placed below an image are
read by 10% more people than headlines
above
Never break the left margin
Images should either have: story appeal
or demonstrate something
See: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shocking-truth-about-graphics/
#9 Reinventing Illustrations
67. Visuwords – www.visuwords.com
Top Teaching
• Teaching Helps
• Making Meaning
• Classroom Management
• Finding Cool Classroom Tools
• Building your PLN
• Staying positive
68. Google Forms – A school survey
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
69. Goes into Spreadsheet
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
70. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
72. What Westwood Students own
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
73. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
79. Give assignments and receive responses
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
84. “The next best thing to being wise oneself
is to live in a circle of those who are.” C.S.
Lewis
Build your circle of the wise
RSS
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
85. Tons of free resources for your whiteboard / classroom
http://www.mentormob.com
Theresa Allen’s page: http://j.mp/1dDkYbO
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
89. • Find apps on iPad / iPod to find new
tools
• App Advice
• Apps gone free
• For Droid –
• See Richard Byrne!
• @rmbyrne
App Advice
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
90. Feedly.com
Replacement for Google reader
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
91. Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.com
For building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
92. • Flipboard
• Editor.flipboard.com – can co-curate
magazines also!
My “personal” newspaper
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
93. You become like those you are around.
• What are you reading?
• Kindle
• iCatcher – iPhone/ iPad
• Every Classroom matters (my show!) ;-)
• Subscribe to videos and listen
• Have a personal “radio station” for the
drive to school
Staying Positive
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
95. “95% of what you accomplish is due to
your habits” Brian Tracey
Have routines to help
keep you focused
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
101. Sharing the message
• Automate
Automate
Automate!
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
102. Setting up to have an easy social media distribution plan
Create a blog on blogger.com
Use feedburner to create a feed
Feedburner email (lets people sign
up with a form)
Take the feed into Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed posts to Twitter
Social Media
• Sharing
classroom and
school
happenings
103. Now one post can!
Blog Post
Email to subscribers
Tweet from the post
Facebook fan page update
104. • Go into blogger settings Mobile and Email
• Make an email – now your secretary or
principal can update using email.
Make it easier
108. Voicethread
www.voicethread.com
• See these in action on
the Eracism Project
• http://eracism.flatclassr
oomproject.org/Semi+F
inals+VoiceThreads
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
109. Monetize the photos your annual staff is taking.
I hereby authorize the School to use
photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and
audio recordings of my child in school
media and advertisements. I understand
that I must notify the Ravenscroft
Communications Office, in writing, to
change this authorization.
Ravenscroft School
www.smugmug.com
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
114. Build your own planetarium
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ExperienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?Page=Dome
21st century
competencies
•eFolios
•Collaborative Writing
•Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
•Multimedia
•eBooks
•3D Virtual Worlds
115. • Son of Citation Machine
• Noodlebib
• EasyBib
• Citation generator in Microsoft Word
Citations
Research
• Citation and
Annotation
• Authentic Research
• Sharing your
findings
129. Fantastic Tools for Schools
50+ ways to rock!
Vicki Davis, Teacher
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And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
Resources: 12 Ways eBooks Can Improve your Life: http://www.coolcatteacher.com/11-reasons-ebooks/
Flattening your classroom is connecting yourself. And the first step is to connect yourselves to others.
Your teachers should also connect themselves. Have an RSS reader, join the diigo educators group, listen to the current conversations at edtechtalk – join Twitter and follow at least 50 educators before you make your call on it – watch videos at the free k12 online conference and encourage networking in organizations like the Google teacher Academy, Discovery Educators, Flat Classrooms Ning.
We’re too busy having a pity party to exert the influence to have a victory party.