Upcoming ALI Writing Opportunities for Students

Hello high school English teachers!

These opportunities sound neat. The deadline for the 1st one is this Friday, April 20th. Read more about all three by clicking on the links.

~Katie


In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Apple Learning Interchange is pleased to announce the launch of "2:25PM / Real-World Writing," a collection from The Student Publishing Program that features exclusive poetry readings and writing advice from many of the world's top writers, including U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
These resources provide three educational programs through the latest technologies most prevalent in the lives of teens - on-demand video, podcasts and other mobile formats - with the common goal of bringing real-world writing into the classroom and classroom writing into the real world:

"Ask America's Poet Laureate" invites secondary students and educators nationwide to submit their text or video questions to U.S.
Poet Laureate Donald Hall until April 20th. On April 30th, we'll publish his video responses to the 10 questions that help student writers the most. Click here to submit a question!

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=10728

"Publish with the Poet Laureate!" invites secondary students to submit their text or video poetry for possible publication alongside the poems of U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. This program is a free, ongoing contest to help inspire students to write for a larger audience, and to help students recognize their work as publish- worthy. Click here to submit a poem!

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=10726

"Greatest Living Writers Project" invites people of all ages to experience exclusive video poetry readings and writing advice from many of the world's greatest writers - Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize- winners, National Poetry Slam Champions, best-selling novelists, playwrights, and musicians. This resource not only preserves and shares the voices, writings and teachings of literary icons, but also brings these top writers into the classrooms through on-demand video as a means to inspire our next generation of literary icons (today's
students!) to share their own.

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=784

Palms, anyone?

Just a few new things that have surfaced recently regarding the Palm handhelds…

… Who knows, with all that free time everyone has on their hands, we may be able to look through it and actually use something! (Ha!)



All kidding aside, this Dale guy is a pre-service teacher who does his own programming and has created some GREAT apps. They can all be accessed from http://dalesapps.blogspot.com . Many are for elementary age students (clocks, money, double-digit multiplication, etc.) but some have applications for 7th graders as well. I like the SRC one which has simple reading strategy templates (KWL, 5Ws, etc.) for kids to use for reading comprehension help. Probably the coolest thing about his website is that you can watch short little videos on how his applications work before you download them. A picture is worth a thousand words!



I’m also linking to an “oldie, but a goodie.” It is a pdf file with 217 ideas (many quick and easy) for using Palms with students. Almost every one has a website that you can click on to find the information, application, or additional resources to go with the idea. Good ideas for a rainy day!



Finally, Go Know is sponsoring the 4th annual Sketchy contest. ( I think I already sent some of you the info.) Rules, etc., can be accessed at http://www.goknow.com/sketchycontest. We’ve had winners from O’Neill every year prior to this one, so the kids kind of know what it is about. If any student creates a Sketchy that they would like to enter, I would be happy to submit it for them so you don’t have to mess with it. Just give them the invitation and some students may surprise you!