https://ditchthattextbook.com/storytelling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=storytelling Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://ditchthattextbook.com/storytelling/#comments/126225 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:11:46 +0000 https://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=15031#comment-126225 I am taking my first grad classes in education after a 30 year hiatus from college classes. It is thrilling and overwhelming at the same time. This concept of the “crummy first draft” made me smile – no, more than that – it made me resolute! I will be sharing this with my 4th graders this fall as well. We have often talked about the power of yet, but sometimes it becomes a catchy fluff phrase. It will be so powerful to be able have the “power of yet” lock arms with the “crummy first draft”.

]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/storytelling/#comments/126146 Mon, 11 May 2020 17:42:26 +0000 https://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=15031#comment-126146 […] Authors love to write, right? When I submitted the original manuscript for Tech Like a PIRATE, it was too long. (Hey, can you blame me? I worked on this book for two years!) We had to cut an entire chapter to make the book the right length.Don't worry. I didn't throw away that chapter. Instead, I'm making it available exclusively on my blog! In the book, I offer seven ways to Tech Like a PIRATE: social media/apps, video, games, collaboration, images, exploration, and global communication.The eighth one is the glue that holds all of them together, the song that makes all of them sing: STORYTELLING. Click here to read that chapter right now for free!   […]

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