About ISC • Experience • International Storytelling Center. The power of storytelling is unquestionable. We are all storytellers and we live our lives through a network of stories. The cornerstone of the International Storytelling Center is a belief in a single, immutable principle of life—storytelling. People crave, remember, and honor stories. And now, after years of scientific research in 17 different fields, analysts conclude that storytelling is our most powerful tool for effective communication. Each of us has the power to tap into our stories, our narrative assets, to become better communicators—to entertain, to share our history and culture, to spread knowledge, to persuade, to advance a cause, to teach, to dream a vision of the future.
The International Storytelling Center is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Our Team Collaboration drives everything we do. Areas of Interest Performance, preservation and professional practice of storytelling Our Story The mission, vision and history of the Center. Storytelling Organizations and Associations. Storytelling Organizations and Associations This is a listing of storytelling organizations with an online presence.
This list is a compilation of sites obtained from several search engines, and various sites' links lists. The summaries are edited versions of those obtained from the previous sources, unless otherwise noted. A few sites have been personally reviewed by the Storybook Lady and are noted as such. If you know of a site which should be added, please contact us with the hyperlink and a short summery. If your site is already on this list, please feel free to contact us with additional information or a revised summery. United States National Storytelling Membership Association http:/www.storynet.org 116 1/2 West Main Street Jonesborough, Tennessee 37659 800-525-4514 or 423/913-8201 fax: 423/753-9331 e-mail: mwhited@naxs.com Storynet is the online presence for the newly reorganized National Storytelling Membership Association.
One highlight is the National Storytelling Directory. National Storytelling Network. Home Page - Home Page - McGraw Center - Princeton University. Teaching and Learning Center Support for faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates interested in exploring innovative pedagogical approaches and strategies for learning. Broadcast Center State-of-the-art television and radio facilities allowing faculty to produce innovative content to support their teaching at Princeton and in online courses.
Educational Technology Center Support for the purposeful use of technology in teaching, learning, and research. New Media Center Multimedia Laboratory offering the university community access to cutting-edge digital media technologies. The lost art of handwriting. Do you remember learning to write? The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook. Repeating endless cursive letters along wide-spaced, pale blue lines. Looping the tail of a "g", flicking the line up from the end of an "m", arcing it over an "a" or an "o".
I loved writing so much during my childhood years that I constantly reinvented my script, dotting my "i"s with little hearts, or switching between a round "a" and one with a little arm above the circle. I filled endless diary pages, sent snail mail to several pen pals, even invented secret symbols to ensure notes passed in the classroom were indecipherable by enemy eyes. But no longer. Today I barely lift a pen or a pencil to scribble a shopping list (my iPhone notepad function is far easier), and as a result, when I do have cause to abandon a keyboard in favour of a more old-fashioned tool, the result is at best sloppy, and more often than not illegible.
But does it matter? Online Diagram Software and Flowchart Software - Gliffy. Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines. Teachers Should Know Copyright from Wrong. Know what you can -- and can't -- download for the classroom. Credit: Getty Images As tech-savvy teachers integrate more multimedia work into their classroom, they also face a thorny question: Who owns the visual, audio, and moving images they download and pop into their presentations?
Get that answer wrong, and you may get dinged with a hefty fine. "I don't think most teachers willingly ignore copyright issues," says David Ensign, a professor of law at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. Fair use is a component of U.S. copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without obtaining written permission, purchasing the work, or paying the creator a royalty. It's a concept with increasing importance in the modern classroom. Seems simple, but there's a catch. Fair use in the classroom is often dependent on the subject matter of the content. Before dismissing these options, educators should realize that failure to honor copyrights can cost them personally. Writing Across the Curriculum. In 2009, we stopped publishing our popular Writing Across the Curriculum Guide to make room for the new guides we were publishing. Below, find approximately 50% of the guide that we have posted for all teachers to use.
If you'd like to purchase one of the very last copies of this print guide, visit our NNWP's Publications Page for details. Writing Across the Curriculum, Module #1: Exit Tickets Across the Curriculum WritingFix's Exit Ticket Homepage An "Exit Ticket" is a short written response that is completed individually by students at the end of learning. As students exit the class or the lesson, they hand in an exit ticket, which demonstrates their individual levels of understanding of a piece of classroom content. Exit tickets can become very effective gauges of students' learning, and they can help increase your students' ability to communicate succinctly while organizing their thoughts about your classroom content. Click here to access WritingFix's Exit Ticket Homepage. Web English Teacher. Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)