Episode #3: Every Kid Should Write and Publish!

Featuring Host, Mark Gura’s interview with education author and speaker, Bernard Percy

Click to launch podcast>>> Literacy Specialist Podcast, Episode 3: Every Kid Should Write and Publish This episode features an interview with Bernard Percy, an internationally known author and speaker on a variety of education subjects. Percy guided his elementary grade students in writing How to Grow a Child: A Child’s Advice to Parents, a book that was published and distributed internationally. Also, this episode covers a variety of approaches and resources for authentic student writing and publishing projects, such as how to create a digital book and a class newspaper.

Direct Download: EveryKidShouldWriteAndPublish_Episode_3.mp3

Episode Segments with Run Times:

1.      Opening Essay: Authentic Writing and Publishing Projects Starts @ 4:00 minutes

2.      Teacher and Class Created Textbooks: Apple website “iBooks textbooks for iPad. There’s nothing textbook about them.” and  KQED blog article – “How to Create Your Own Textbook, With or Without Apple Starts @ 10:42 minutes

3.      How To: School and Class Newspapers Segment Starts @ 14:55 minutes

4.      How To Publish Student Writing on the Web: Approaches and Resources Discussed Segment Starts @ 17:36 minutes

5.       Finding an Authentic Audience for Student Writers Segment Starts @ 19:42 minutes

6.      Every Kid Should Write and Publish – Discussion of the content of a popular YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjRr24dgIc  Segment Starts @ 25:03 minutes

7.   Interview with Bernard Percy: As an elementary school teacher, Bernard supported and guided group of elementary grades students in writing a book that was published by a major publishing house. The book, How to Grow a Child: A Child’s Advice to Parents was published twice, with 3 decades between editions. Segment Starts @ 32:45 minutes

Links to Content and Resources
a) YouTube video: Every Kid Should Write and Publish!
http://youtu.be/7bjRr24dgIc b) Website: iBooks textbooks for iPad. There’s nothing textbook about them.
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
c) Article from KQED ‘MindShift’ blog “How to Create Your Own Textbook, With or Without Apple http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/how-to-create-your-own-textbook-with-or-without-apple/

       d) Downloadable PDF Resource (Miami Herald):  Creating a Classroom Newspaper http://nie.miamiherald.com/_pdf/CreatingAClassroomNewspaperNAA.pdf

      e) Scribd: Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents. Scribd's vision is to liberate the written word. www.scribd.com

     f) Docstoc: Docstoc is an electronic document repository and online store, aimed at providing professional, financial and legal documents for the business community. http://www.docstoc.com/

      g) Article from Edutopia Blog:  “Young Writers Become Primary Sources”
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/one-world-student-writing-primary-sources-suzie-boss

       h) One World Education: “Our Mission: To prepare youth to be culturally and globally literate citizens and to enhance student engagement and learning through a classroom curriculum built around student writing on culture and global issues”
www.oneworldeducation.org/

     i) Bernard Percy http://www.bernardpercy.com/

      j) Bernard Percy’s Book - How to Grow a Child: A Child’s Advice to Parents
http://actionpublishing.com/non-fiction_books/percy-how-to-grow-a-child.html
and…
http://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-Child-Childs-Parents/dp/1888045248

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      COMING SOON…Upcoming episodes, featuring inspiring interviews with:
- NY Times Bestselling Author,  Andrea Davis Pinkney: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/andrea-davis-pinkney - Scholastic Playwright,  Mack Lewis: http://macklewis.com/ - ISTE Keynoter, Jeff Piontek, author of Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts, Oh My! Electronic Media in the Classroom http://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/estore/product/50112