Tag: writing
How To Combat Student Plagiarism
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It's exam time and students are stressing about turning in papers on time. What's a teacher to do in terms of noticing student plagiarism?
10 Quick Writing Tips For Students
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Staring at a blank Word document can be downright terrifying. So here are some quick writing tips for students looking to get the mind ready to write.
5 Myths About Writing With Mobile Devices
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There are some big myths about writing with mobile devices. But are they actually true? The EdTechTeacher team weighs in on a controversial topic.
6 Time-Saving Writing Apps For Students
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For anyone who has ever had to write a paper, you know that getting the ideas down when they come to you is important. These mobile apps will get you started and keep you going.
The 36 Rules Of Social Media
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The following rules of social media are geared towards online businesses and less toward teachers but they're worth seeing anyway.
How To Create An Effective Classroom Website
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No doubt you have already have a classroom website or will be required to create one in the very near future. Here are some best practices and tools to help.
30 Powerful Ways To Promote Your Blog
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Whether you're a seasoned pro or just getting started, here are some powerful ways to promote your blog that will help you out.
A Beginner’s Guide To Proofreading
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Writing plays a key part in your life. Whether you're a blogger, teacher, administrator, or someone else ... writing (and therefore proofreading) is a critical skill.
The 10 Most Popular Writing Resources Being Used By Students
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According to Turnitin, these are the 10 most popular writing resources and sites that university and college students use in their writing.
3 Little-Known Apps For Learning To Read
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Teaching a group of students to read and write can be a daunting task - especially taking into consideration that each student may learn differently, and at a very different pace.
250 Ways To Say The Word ‘Went’
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One of the most boring and banned words in classrooms is 'went.' There are SO many synonyms that you're simply trying at all if you stick with the word 'went.'
Blogging In The Classroom: A 4-Step Guide
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As this visualization from the always wonderful langwitches explains, 21st century skills are learned and enhanced by blogging in the classroom.
6 Web Tools To Make You A Better Writer
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Your essay needs to be done and you can’t get it done with all of these distractions. Here are 6 writing tools you can use to help you be free from those distractions and actually get your work done.
25 Ways Twitter Can Help Your Essay Writing
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Twitter is not just a social media site where users post tidbits of information in 140 characters or less. It can also be used as a helpful tool for students who need to prepare a paper. Here are a couple dozen (or so) ways Twitter can help your essay writing.
The Connected Learner’s Guide To Proper Grammar
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Grammar has regrettably but understandably fallen by the wayside for a generation of connected learners and web 2.0 students. Casual web repartee in posts, tumbles and tweets has encouraged sloppy style and poor grammar among the younger set.
10 Ways To Use Technology To Teach Writing
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Both high-tech innovations for learning and the inability of many American schoolchildren to write well have been major talking points in educational circles for quite some time, but oddly enough, one may offer a solution to helping remedy the other. There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students.
