http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/writing-by-numbers-who-needs-an-audience/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/writing-by-numbers-who-needs-an-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-728701 Christine Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:54:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/writing-by-numbers-who-needs-an-audience/#comment-728701 MY Access! a tool for Learning--Not Just a tool for Demonstrating Learning which often is what teachers do when they assign writing to their students. To create a program like MY Access!, we have acknowledged that the power of writing is more than just assessment, more than just scores on a paper, What we have provided is a suite of tools that help students actually deepen their thinking and increase their engagement with learning in all content areas. What we hope is that by using MY Access! teachers will look at their students’ writing as a window into their students’ thinking and learning, even strengthen their communication and relationship with them. MY Access! a tool for Learning–Not Just a tool for Demonstrating Learning which often is what teachers do when they assign writing to their students. To create a program like MY Access!, we have acknowledged that the power of writing is more than just assessment, more than just scores on a paper, What we have provided is a suite of tools that help students actually deepen their thinking and increase their engagement with learning in all content areas. What we hope is that by using MY Access! teachers will look at their students’ writing as a window into their students’ thinking and learning, even strengthen their communication and relationship with them.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/writing-by-numbers-who-needs-an-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-726385 Garson O'Toole Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:00:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/29/writing-by-numbers-who-needs-an-audience/#comment-726385 I share Peter Kerry Powers misgivings about the “My Access” system, but I did find another website that is very enjoyable thanks to a promotion that appears on the “My Access” website. <a HREF="http://www.lexipedia.com/" rel="nofollow">Lexipedia</A> is a thesaurus and dictionary that “creates a visual word web that links the word to associated concepts and indicates parts of speech.” It appears to be very similar to <a HREF="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/" rel="nofollow">Visual Thesaurus</A>, a website that has existed for several years. However, Lexipedia is free and Visual Thesaurus provides only limited access to non-subscribers. The easiest way to understand Lexipedia is to visit the website, type in a few words, and move your mouse around on the graphical diagram. The website requires a browser with Java. It’s fun. I share Peter Kerry Powers misgivings about the “My Access” system, but I did find another website that is very enjoyable thanks to a promotion that appears on the “My Access” website. Lexipedia is a thesaurus and dictionary that “creates a visual word web that links the word to associated concepts and indicates parts of speech.” It appears to be very similar to Visual Thesaurus, a website that has existed for several years. However, Lexipedia is free and Visual Thesaurus provides only limited access to non-subscribers. The easiest way to understand Lexipedia is to visit the website, type in a few words, and move your mouse around on the graphical diagram. The website requires a browser with Java. It’s fun.

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