Susie KamenyDigital Writing and Technology Integration

Napa CUE 2015

http://susie.com/napacue2015

susie@susie.com

Do Now: Download Dragon Dictation App

on an iPhone or iPad if you can.http://www.nuancemobilelife.com/apps/dragon-dictation

Agenda- Rethink Writing

Tweet-A-Thon

Google Classroom

Dragon Dictation

Blogger

Memes

Font Making

NaNoWriMo.org

All About Ms. Susie

Technology Curriculum Integration Specialist at Roosevelt Middle School, SFUSD

Board Member and former Co-President CUESF.org

A very reluctant writer

Loves Maker Pedagogy

Tech Savvy Vs. Tech Literate

Tweet-A-Thon

Write a Tweet (140 Characters)

http://www.charactercountonline.com/

Tweet-A-Thon

We had students write tweets summarizing a book or a chapter.

Because of age issues we had kids fill out tweet cards.

Students who finished the most tweets got breakfast at Twitter.

Google Classroom

http://classroom.google.com

You must have GAFE and your admin/IT must set it up

for your school.

Who is Your Audience?

Debate!

Reply!

Google Classroom

Pros…1. Fully integrated with Google Apps

2. Can design full lessons that even a substitute can manage easily.

3. Students can respond to each other.

4. Organizationally, everything is in one place and there is nothing to lose.

Cons…1. Possible privacy issues2. Workflow problems3. . Students can respond to each other.4. Doesn’t connect with my districts grading system.

Dragon Dictation

http://www.nuancemobilelife.com/apps/dragon-dictation/

How to convince

LD SPED kids to

write?

LD Kids Can Write!

Blogger.com

Students can use GAFE account to login to Blogger.

Blogger

randoom name http://randoomname.blogspot.com/

Beckett's Random Blog http://beckettsrandomblog.blogspot.com/

Wesley's hero blog http://wesleyheroblog.blogspot.com/

Rachel's Creative Blogs http://rachelscreativeblogs.blogspot.com/

B.Ks Blogger http://bksblogger.blogspot.com/

The_Horse_Land http://madisonhorse.blogspot.com/

My life http://mylifeanthony2003.blogspot.com

Puppycat5 http://puppycat5.blogspot.com/

DisCoolblog http://discoolblog.blogspot.com/

My Blog http://myblog584.blogspot.com/

Anysha's Life http://anyshahurley.blogspot.com/

Rainbow waffles 123 http://rainbowwaffles123.blogspot.com/

Macros

Skitch- Good for Annotating

https://evernote.com/skitch/

Macros

Do We Really Look at the Alphabet?

NO. Or should we say…

Illuminated Texts

"Saint Louis Psalter 30 verso" by [1]. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Louis_Psalter_30_verso.jpg#/media/File:Saint_Louis_Psalter_30_verso.jpg

Steve Jobs, Calligrapher

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-jobs-death-apple-calligraphy-248900

Make Your Own Font

myscriptfont.comhttp://www.myscriptfont.com/res/ScriptTemplate.pdf

Handwriting Font“Susieq”

Design Your Own FontFontstruct.com

Math Grids

Leading & Kerning Spacing

www.theconversation.com

fastexposure.wordpress.com

Student Work

Student Work

Student Work

Bad Fonts

True Type Font (.ttf) Install

We installed our fonts on Macs using a built-in font manager called “Fontbook”.

What To Do With Fonts?

Blog about it

Share it

Write some poetry

Design a resume or letterhead

Make business cards

Create typography art!

Debates

Serifs vs. San Serifs

Comic Sans vs. No Comic Sans

Legible vs. Illegible

Why is there no 10 key?

quizlet.com

Bonus Slide

http://the-digital-reader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Open-Dyslexic.jpg

NaNoWriMo.org

Young Writers Program

826Valencia.org

Who doesn’t love a pirate store?

The Rules

1.You may write from November 1 at 12:01 a.m. until11:59 p.m. November 30th 2. Set a word goal.3. Write! Write! Write!4. Finish and call yourself a novelist.

Sign-Up Form

Spreadsheet

Pro Tip

Always leave a comments box at the end of a form. You never know what your students may want to tell you!

Peer and Teacher Comments

Curriculum

http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/workbooks

Author Party!

We invited San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar!

Flocabulary.com

Sign-In (you can get a trial account)

https://www.flocabulary.com/capitalization/

Comiclife.com

How To Writing