Of the many ways I gain an understanding of my writers, my favorite and most valuable is gathering up all the writing and diving into reading ALL the students’ work.
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I have been in a lot of different writing workshops lately. Just this week I’ve been in 13 writing workshops and have met with 13 different teachers in either reflective practice meetings or planning meetings. Therefore, I have SO MUCH I want to record. Which leads me to my current dilemma: what do I not [...]

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I’ve taught fourth or fifth grade in low-SES communities ever since I worked as a fifth grade teacher at P.S. 72 in Spanish Harlem when I was a graduate student completing my first master’s degree at Hunter College. Hunter prepares teachers to work in “urban settings.” Hence, when it [...]
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Can you tell a story while filming something on your cellphone? Do people want to watch a live video streamed from a journalist's cellphone?
These are questions all writers need to be asking--it's almost as important as the question, "Will people upload videos to YouTube?" was in 2006. If you can find news and narrate, there will be plenty of opportunities for you on the mobile web.
The infrastructure already exists for you to report and film any event live from your cellphone with a website called Qik. Over at Lost Remote, Cory Bergman built the most amazing set of links that study and teach you how to jump on the live-video bandwagon.
As you can see from the Robert Scoble linked above, the video work isn't anything fancy--but it gets the job done if you manage to quickly corner the founders of YouTube. Check it out:
"Self-described “lifecaster” and internet cutie Sarah Meyers is packing around a high-def camera, microphone and laptop with an EVDO card to webcast live via both PopSnap and Mogulus (she started on Justin.tv). You can see how she does it in this ZDNet video clip."
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