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Story Starters

The Story Starter randomly generates 1,862,718,000 story starters. This idea generator can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun. Write your story starter sentence on a piece of paper or copy and paste it into your favorite word processor and start writing your story! http://thestorystarter.com/
From time to time people express amazement at how I can get so much done. I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled away doing nothing, demur. It feels like nothing special; I don't work harder, really, than most people. Nonetheless, these people do have a point. I am, in fact, a fairly prolific writer. Part of it is tenacity. http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-write-articles-and-essays.html

How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly

Word Finding Difficulties in the Classroom

http://www.wordfinding.com/WFdiffs.html Classroom Behaviors That May Indicate Word Finding Difficulties Clinical reports and anecdotal evidence suggest that certain behaviors in the classroom may indicate that students are having word finding difficulties.
Children with learning disabilities often have word finding difficulties, according to both research (German, 1979, 1984; Lewis & Kass, 1982) and clinical reports (Johnson & Myklebust, 1967). German (1998) studied 146 fourth and fifth-grade students with learning disabilities. Her studies showed that 72 students (49.4 percent) had either or both inaccurate and slow retrieval on the Test of Word Finding (TWF). http://www.wordfinding.com/whomayhave.html

Who May Have Word Finding Difficulties

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Written Expression Learning Disorder Treatment & Management

Treatment of learning problems generally occurs outside of medical environments.

Helping Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Improve Writing Skills

When you think of the word "dyslexia" reading problems immediately come to mind but many students with dyslexia struggle with writing as well. http://specialed.about.com/od/readingliteracy/a/Writing-and-Dyslexia-Hub.htm
Five years ago, most parents and teachers of students with ADHD didn't have a clue that a child's academic success was contingent upon strong executive skills. http://www.chrisdendy.com/executive.htm

Executive Function

CiteThisForMe - The Harvard Referencing Generator

http://www.citethisforme.com/ 1. Add your references Just fill in the details you know and we'll format them correctly 2. Organise them here References are sorted in alphabetical order In higher education when ever you include a fact or piece of information in an assignment or essay you must also include where and how you found that piece of information. Even if you 'just know it' - it has to of come from somewhere.

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Moglue: Create interactive ebooks and release as apps!

http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4347 What it is: Moglue is an interactive ebook builder that helps students create and share their stories on mobile devices as an app. This download desktop platform makes it a snap for students to create interactive ebooks and release them as apps for iOS devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android tablets and Android phones. Students only need to build the content once and Moglue makes it compatible with each user interface seamlessly.
This is Plagiarism Explained by Common Craft.

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iPadsELA - home

The pages of this wiki (on the left hand side) are the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. We have attempted to align iPad apps with each standard.

Days Like This… | alytapp

Today, my students reviewed their first graded essays. I tried out a new way of assessing student work — screencasting. Instead of collecting printed papers, I asked students to write in Google Docs and then share their papers with me so I would also be able to view them online.

100+ Google Tricks for Teachers | TeachHUB

It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.