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Orlo Avenue Elementary School students received their BoomWriter Books and they cannot contain their excitement!! Each book (yes, a real paperback book!) not only features the StoryWriter project's chapter winners, but every participating students' name is listed as well! A HUGE thank you to Principal Gallant for sharing the video & Congratulations to all the published authors! :-)
The weather may be getting warmer, but WordWriter's new vocabulary activity will end the school year on a fun, cool note! Download now for free!
Need a fun and engaging activity to get through the last few days of school? (Thanks snowpocalypse) Kick-off Summer with our new monthly downloads! 😎
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Check out Instagram for some great photos of Gator Run Elementary students loving their new published BoomWriter books from our Tech Heroes Program with the wonderful educators at Broward County Public Schools! 😄📚💻
Newest Video in BoomWriter is for Teachers series: "The School Play” is here! ;-)
We want to hear from you!
BoomWriter was designed by teachers for teachers, and our 3 edtech group-writing tools--StoryWriter (creative/narrative writing), WordWriter (vocabulary), and the new ProjectWriter (expository/argument/scientific writing)--were created to fit the needs of teachers in a variety of grades and curricula!
We want to know: What are the creative ways you’re using BoomWriter in your classroom?
Spring has sprung: Our engaging science-focused WordWriter vocabulary activity is sure to have students blossoming into botanists! Download the Vocab Sheet & Lesson Plan for free now!
BoomWriter – Join for Free and Bring Vocabulary Instruction to the 21st Century! BoomWriter’s easy to use and interactive group-writing tools are an ideal fit for homeschool co-ops and let students develop and enhance their writing, reading, vocabulary, and peer assessment skills—collaboratively!
New post about WordWriter on Homeschool.com!
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Celebrate the librarians: great article on the essential role librarians play in edtech
April is National Poetry Month! Do you have everything you need for an epic and creative celebration? Refrain from missing out; Check out our well-versed Poetry Activity Downloads and get sonnet ;-)
I do think there are certain TYPES of books that every kid should be exposed to -- the kinds of books that truly introduce them to the best of what the written word has to offer.
What was your favorite book growing up?
Bring your Vocabulary Instruction into the 21st Century!
Trending Words revolutionizes vocabulary instruction, allowing you to easily create vocabulary for your students from your most trusted source for curriculum--other teachers!
Confessions of a Bad Vocabulary Teacher
Dear Friend of BoomWriter,
I have a confession to make. While in the classroom, I was probably the world’s worst teacher when it came to vocabulary instruction. Seriously! Let me paint the picture:
Cut to the classroom with sixth-graders in post-dodge ball Gym class decompress mode (you know exactly what I’m talking about) with kids either crying or gloating (must they play dodge ball EVERY week?) and consisting of a read aloud (which, BTW, always works like magic!). Then while reading, I encounter a word that I determine may be unfamiliar to most of the students:
Me: “Hey Kids, anyone know this word? I’ll say it again <repeat word>.”
Class: Sniffles, coughs, perhaps a hand or two raised depending on the word followed by an attempt at a definition.
Me: “Okay, so this word means <definition>. Got it? Okay let’s continue with the story.”
How pathetic, but in fairness I was never provided with the curriculum, tools, or guidance for teaching vocabulary. I was, however, aware of importance of vocabulary instruction and would at least attempt to take advantage of those opportunities to do so when the words I deemed appropriate presented themselves.
Jump ahead a couple of years when, as an administrator, I’m observing students in the classroom at their desks with heads down and in their workbooks as they’re reading about and then writing down the week’s vocabulary words. Was it engaging? No! Effective? Highly unlikely! And this was with one of the most widely used and well-known vocabulary curriculums in Education! It immediately became apparent that the solution to providing engaging and impactful vocabulary instruction was still out there to be found or created.
Mission accomplished! Be it for whatever reason (guilt, greed, personal fulfillment, etc.), I think we at BoomWriter have now created this solution with the creation of WordWriter and it’s newest feature, Trending Words!
To start, WordWriter is awesome (if I do say so myself)! Teachers can request specific words on the site for students to incorporate into their writing, with a nifty little tracking system for both the student and the teacher. Students can then assess their classmates’ use of the words using BoomWriter’s unique peer review process. This engaging approach to vocabulary usage will undoubtedly enhance students understanding levels while providing teachers with an effective and easy to use assessment tool.
Trending Words makes it even better! By crowdsourcing and categorizing by grade level terms that have already been used with students on WordWriter, teachers can now turn to one of their most reliable sources of curriculum when it comes to vocabulary instruction, other teachers!
Check it out by clicking on the link below, and please remember to share with every single teacher you know. Let’s make vocabulary instruction more fun and effective for everyone!
http://www.boomwriter.com/wordwriter/trendingwords
Thanks and all the best,
Ken H.
President, BoomWriter EDU
BoomWriter Media Launches "Trending Words" Real-Time Vocabulary Creation for Educators
MILTON, MA--(MarketWired - Mar 18, 2015) - "Trending Words," BoomWriter's newest feature for its interactive vocabulary tool, WordWriter, revolutionizes vocabulary instruction, allowing educators to easily create vocabulary lists by selecting from top trending terms used by other educators on BoomWriter. Trending Words brings vocabulary development into the 21st century by crowdsourcing the terms -- much like Kickstarter -- and displaying the most popular vocabulary words being taught for that month, and also like Twitter's trending hashtags.
BoomWriter's Trending Words blends signature, easy-to-use technology and academically-impactful tools with social media, where teachers can see what vocabulary words are "trending" for a particular grade, subject matter, or location based on site usage. For Trending Words' first phase, vocabulary terms tagged as ELA-focused will be featured, with other subjects and options soon to follow.
"Every teacher understands the importance of vocabulary when it comes to students' reading comprehension and overall learning," said Ken Haynes, BoomWriter's co-founder and President. "However, many teachers lack the curriculum, tools, and time necessary to help students with their vocabulary development." Haynes, a former middle school and special education teacher who was the first to pilot BoomWriter in the classroom, believes, "WordWriter helps address this need by serving as an effective and engaging tool for teachers to use with their students, and our new Trending Words feature will let teachers utilize their most trusted teaching resource for guidance with vocabulary instruction -- other teachers!"
WordWriter provides teachers with an interactive vocabulary learning experience that increases engagement levels and develops a deeper understanding in students through application in their own written work. As with BoomWriter's story-writing platform StoryWriter, and ProjectWriter, the new nonfiction tool for Science, History/Social Studies, and ELA, students review and assess the anonymous work of their classmates and vote for the piece that best utilizes and conveys the meaning of the selected vocabulary, further enhancing their vocabulary comprehension.
Like all of BoomWriter's features, WordWriter is aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Teachers can also use their students' submissions to assess the levels of understanding taking place on both an individual and/or whole class basis, as well as provide personalized feedback. WordWriter offers monthly themed activity downloads for teachers that include a themed list of vocabulary words and an accompanying lesson plan. Some of their past vocabulary themes include November's History of the First Thanksgiving, January's Civil Rights Movement, February's Innovators & Inventions, and their current offering, March's Weather activity.
For more information and to begin using WordWriter and Trending Words in your classroom, please visit www.boomwriter.com/wordwriter and register for free.
About BoomWriter Media BoomWriter Media is redefining what it means to tell stories, through its two collaborative writing platforms: award-winning BoomWriter, for education, and newly launched Skrawl, a fanfiction-focus writing service for everyone. BoomWriter Media's unique approach enables writers, in all areas of life, to collaborate and compete for pieces of stories. Readers can follow projects as they progress and watch competitions happen in real-time. Through the two writing solutions, BoomWriter Media has been used in over 60 countries, had over 2,000 titles published in 2014, and has a presence in over 20,000 classrooms. For more information, please visithttp://www.boomwriter.media.
Contact:BoomWriter Media, Inc.
Ashleigh West
Media Specialist
Twitter: @BoomWriter_
Kristin Canders
207-974-7744
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New WordWriter Activity Downloads! Start a WordWriter activity around Weather with your students today: http://boomwriter.com/weather
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