Resources to Support Elaborated Communication
ELABORATED COMMUNICATION:
Accomplished adults in a range of fields rely upon complex forms of communication both to conduct their work and to present its results. The tools they use — verbal, symbolic, graphic, and visual — provide qualifications, nuances, elaborations, details, and analogies woven into extended narratives, explanations, justifications, and dialogue. Elaborated communication may be most often evident in essays or research papers, but a math proof, CAD drawing, complex display board, or musical score could also involve elaborated communication.
Resources
- 20 Tech Tools for Learning and Communicating
- 21st Century Educators Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Publish It!
- 50 Free Collaboration Tools that are Awesome for Educators
- 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story
- 55 Interesting Ways to Support Writing in the Classroom
- 100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
- Authentic Intellectual Achievement in Writing
- Communication in the Mathematics Classroom
- Creative Expression and Communication in Fine Arts
- Rubrics for Assessing DIgital Work and More
Tools
- Animoto - Introduce a topic, booktalk, record an event, simulate field trips, create commercials and more
- Apollo - Web-based collaborative platform
- Board800 - Multi-user online whiteboard
- Cacoo - Multiple users can plan, share, edit, and review simultaneously
- Collaborize Classroom - Support your in-class instruction or help your flipped-classroom model
- Creately - Create, share, and collaborate with data-rich diagrams
- Digital Storytelling with Web 2.0 - 50+ sites and resources
- Edistorm - Brainstorming, add, discuss, and organize ideas
- Edmodo - For Micro-blogging in the classroom
- Entri - Collaborative tools for writing and sharing documents
- Ficly - Collaborative writing environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel
- Google Sites
- GroupTweet - Enables 2 to 100,000+ contributors to tweet from the same account
- iCritique - Publish, view, and discuss media online
- Jing - Screencasting with voice to narrate
- Little Bird Tales - Upload original art; add text and voice
- LiveBinders - Gathering place for knowledge, resources, and learning
- MentorMob - Create collaborative learning playlists
- Myebook - Write, create, publish, and share
- Phonecasting - iPadio - Video of how to use in education
- Pirate Pad - Writing is synchronized as you collaborative with others
- Popplet - Real time collaboration platform - think together
- Posterous Spaces - Blogging, collection of evidence, individual or collaborative
- Primary Pad - Web-based word processor designed for schools that allows real-time collaboration
- Quick Topic - Platform to engage students in written discussion about curriculum topic
- Scribblar - Online teaching and learning, revising artwork and images, brainstorming, interviews, and student collaboration
- Shelfari - Create a book shelf and collaborate with others around the books
- Stroome - Upload footage, work collaboratively to mix it, mash it, and share
- Student Publishing - Students write and publish their work
- Thumbscribes - Co-create haiku, poems, short stories, and more in real time or asynchronously
- Twiddla - Mark-up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas
- Using Audio Boo in the Classroom - Podcasting - Video
- Using Kid Blog in the Classroom - Video
- Using Ning in the Classroom - Video
- Voicethread - Respond to a problem, peer review of art, music or writing, or group discussions
- Wallwisher - Gather images, gather feedback from audience, share ideas, make recommendations
- WeVideo - Video or picture, collaboratively shape your story and share
- Wiggio - Collaborate on projects, case studies, labs, study groups, and more
- Writeboard - Write, share, revise, compare
- Zoho - Chats, discussions, meetings, sharing, track collaborative projects
- Zooburst - Create 3D popup digital books
Student Samples
- Art Showcase Portfolios
- Bubbl.us (scroll to bottom for samples)
- Collaborize Classroom Sample Lesson
- Digital Story telling, Voicethread, Podcast, Narrated Slideshow and more
- Google Earth to explore symbolism in poems
- Google for Educators - Examples from the classroom
- Pagecasting - Pageflakes
- Poetry Glogster Lesson Page
- Quicktime Movie - 8th Grade English
- ReadWriteThink - Includes Lessons
- Student Designed Webquests
Teaching Videos
- Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
- Language Arts meets Music
- Language Arts and Poetry - (Could technology enhanced this lesson?)
- Poetry Work Stations