Friday, April 27, 2012

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

       - Host, Mark Gura’s blog www.markgura.blogspot.com

- Literacy Special Interest Group links: http://siglit.iste.wikispaces.net/HOME+PAGE
http://www.iste-community.org/group/siglit
http://www.iste.org/connect/special-interest-groups/sig-directory/siglit.aspx

- Contact the Literacy Special Interest PODCAST:
literacyspecialinterestgroup@gmail.com

ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. You can learn more about becoming an ISTE member at www.iste.org/join




      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
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Episode #2: “Author Study for the Connected Classroom”

Featuring - Host, Mark Gura's exclusive interview with T.A. Barron, author of The Lost Years of Merlin.

Literacy Special Interest Group Podcast: Episode #2
Direct download: LiteracySpecialInterest_EPISODE_2_AuthorStudy4ConnectedClassroom.mp3 


Episode Segments:

1) Mark and Susanna Livingston discuss Teaching With Author Websites - Using T.A. Barron's website resources for teaching and learning - Studying & learning from Kurt Vonnegut's new biography and Vonnegut YouTube resources - and more… Segment Starts @ 3:18

2) Short Takes: News and Developments in Literacy Learning with Resource Recommendations:

a) Using theComputer/Video Game MACHINARIUM to foster Literacy Learning... Segment Starts @ 19:07
b) Virtual, FREE Author Visits to Classrooms via SKYPE... Segment Starts @  21:32
c) Author Study Improving Reading Comprehension, a tech-supported practice from Read – Write - Think… Segment Starts @23:49

*3) Exclusive, in-depth Interview with author T.A. Barron, a well-known young peoples’ authors who has written and published over 30 books, including picture books and series of novels. One of his Merlin novels is currently being made into a movie by Warner Brothers. Mr. Barron offers observations and sound, inspiring advice on fostering literacy learning in our classrooms...  Segment Starts @ 29:18 SUGGESTION: Download and listen to Episode #2 in iTunes to monitor segment start times!
Links:
- “How to Write a Good Short Story” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVcIhnvSx8&feature=related
Vonnegut reveals “how to do it” in 8 brilliant points delivered in 90 seconds! -                  
- “How To Get A Job Like Mine” (LITERARY DISCOURSE series) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESwSiKRs9hc&feature=related
Vonnegut gives his highly memorable (and absolutely brilliant, hearteningly irreverent( advice to young writers.
 “How It Went” - NY Times review of “And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/and-so-it-goes-kurt-vonnegut-a-life-by-charles-j-shields-book-review.html?pagewanted=all

- Host, Mark Gura’s blog www.markgura.blogspot.com
- Literacy Special Interest Group links: http://siglit.iste.wikispaces.net/HOME+PAGE

http://www.iste-community.org/group/siglit

http://www.iste.org/connect/special-interest-groups/sig-directory/siglit.aspx


- Contact the Literacy Special Interest PODCAST:

literacyspecialinterestgroup@gmail.com

ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. You can learn more about becoming an ISTE member at www.iste.org/join

COMING SOON… Episode # 3, featuring an inspiring interview with Educator/Author, Bernard Percy  who coached his 5th Grade Students in writing the book "How to Grow a Child"
 http://howtogrowachild.com/
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Literacy Special Interest - EPISODE #1 - NOTES



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Episode #1… “A Keeping Quilt for Literacy Education” - Featuring an exclusive interview with author, Patricia Polacco


In this episode:
1) Mark and Susanna Livingston discuss the SIG, Book Trailers, Using Patricia Polacco’s books in class, and more… Segment Starts @ 2:14

2) Short Takes: News and developments in Literacy Learning
a) A next-generation digital book Segment Starts @ 11:27
b) The Power of Teaching Something You Know Nothing About Segment Starts @ 13:45

c) More than just a Writing Prompt / CREATIVE EDUCATOR magazine Segment Starts @16:28

3) Text to Voice Generators, a wonderful type of free Web 2.0 resource… and some related instructional practices… -  Segment Starts @ 19:08

4) Book Trailers, and some fantastic FREE resources related, to that… Segment Starts @ 23:25

5) Exclusive, in-depth Interview with author Patricia Polacco, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and well known young peoples’ authors… Ms. Polacco is the writer of some 80 books, including ‘The Keeping Quilt’, a very popular book in classrooms…. and beyond. Segment Starts @ 32:24 SUGGESTION: Download and listen to Episode #1 in iTunes to monitor segment start times!

Links:
1) Short Takes
- A next-generation digital book: Mike Matas @ TED
http://blog.ted.com/2011/04/28/a-next-generation-digital-book-mike-matas-on-ted-com/
      Push Pop Press - http://pushpoppress.com/about/
- The Power of Teaching Something You Know Nothing About
http://tweenteacher.com/2011/09/06/the-power-of-teaching-something-you-know-nothing-about/
- The Creative Educator
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/v10/Fall-2011_Issuu
2)  Text to Voice Generators
- ReadTheWords http://www.readthewords.com/
- VOKI http://www.voki.com/
  VOKI Avatars Used in Gura’s  EdTech Course Student Projects
  example 1 - http://goldwatereslflow.blogspot.com/
  example 2 - http://striveandthrive.blogspot.com/
  example 3 (scroll down) - http://eslbeyond.blogspot.com/

3) Book Trailers Examples
- HouseonMangoStreetBookTrailer
http://youtu.be/tS3vCz2ZAuQ
- Found on YouTube… the book trailer “THE GRAVES FAMILY GOES CAMPING, by Patricia Polacco”
http://youtu.be/TIqwbn2OOYs
3A) Book Trailer Resources
- Book Trailers for All
 http://booktrailersforall.com/
- Origins of BFTS (book trailers for all… presentation will launch loud music)
http://prezi.com/aujzpy9nk4ly/origins-of-btfa/ 
- *How to Make a Book Trailer
http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/How+to+make+a+book+trailer
- How to Make a Book Trailer
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/01/guest-blog-week-how-to-make-book.html
- (8 ½ minute YouTube Video) Free Course -  How to Make a Book Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kkmwAyOvE
- ANIMOTO http://animoto.com/
There’s a great deal more 'How To' info on making Booktrailers to be found online!
4) PATRICIA POLACCO
    http://www.patriciapolacco.com/

CONTACT LINKS:


- Host, Mark Gura’s blog www.markgura.blogspot.com

- Literacy Special Interest Group links: http://siglit.iste.wikispaces.net/HOME+PAGE


http://www.iste-community.org/group/siglit


http://www.iste.org/connect/special-interest-groups/sig-directory/siglit.aspx


- Contact the Literacy Special Interest PODCAST:    literacyspecialinterestgroup@gmail.com
ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. You can learn more about becoming an ISTE member at www.iste.org/join
COMING SOON… Episode # 2, featuring an insightful interview with young peoples’ author T.A. Barron – author of the Merlin Series of Novels. http://www.tabarron.com/

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