Day 9, July 14

Today began with a continuation of the writing activity from yesterday. We paired up and wrote about details about our week-end. As Barbara pointed out, it is amazing to see all the “effort” required and all the executive functions that we use to do the activity. From emotional, to sensory perception, cognitive, motor planning, retrieval, language, time, pace, self-regulation, visual and organizing, just to mention a few. This activity sure acted as a reminder of the expectations that we put on our students daily and how much we require of them. To think that in a given day, when students have several teachers, they may be required to do a writing activity 3 or 4 times. To add to that many of our students have learning needs that make that particular job even more difficult for them. That is where assistive technologies come in and help us realize the importance  they play in education.

After a presentation from Barbara on the writing process, we decided on our groups for the Blog Assignment. Today we set up the new blog, giving all three of us access. We called it, “Less reluctant Readers” which is our goal to assist our students in become less reluctant writers. We have decided to meet on Friday morning to work on the assignment and divide tasks among us for the week-end. We plan to meet again on Monday morning, to start putting things together.

I began research for Apps on reluctant writers and have a couple to add to my blog today.

EverNote (free): This app is frequently mentioned by everyone as invaluable. Think of it as advanced multimedia note taking and sharing: you can save text notes, visual notes, audio notes, etc, and have these notes available to you across all platforms and devices.

 

SpringNote (free): text-driven note app. If you're looking for just a text-based note program that can sync across platforms and devices, try SpringNote.This tool goes with you wherever you work, and you can have personal and shared notebooks (handy for collaboration)

I had pictures saved to go with the write-ups but they did not transfer over into my blog when I cut and pasted. Something to work on!!