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As Tartarugas Along with public Blogs and eMagazines, these eNewspapers represent our commitment to encourage sharing of student work so their efforts can be recognized by a wider audience and feedback can be given to promote improvement. They were published at  Issuu , which allows for comments online and different sharing options.  The news articles are fictitious and were created by individual students as practice for the newspaper writing style in Laureana's and Ana Paula's classes. Collaboration happened in the grouping of articles to form a  newspaper. Students also had to agree on the first page headlines and A Formiga Herald                         the newspaper formatting-style                    Once uploaded, most students read each others' articles and posted comments online. You can read the newspapers by clicking on the links on top of the images on the left.  A snapshot of students comments is seen at the bottom of this article. Those comments showed a good

In Grade 9 Biology class, Amy Flindt is helping students get organized using the Cornell Notes strategy. In that type of notes, the student has to associate a main idea/key point to a note. So when Amy and I talked about the type of technology that could replicate Cornell Notes, we thought that Inspiration Mind Mapping would be a perfect fit. In Inspiration, you can have a diagram with the main ideas associated with notes, and the main ideas can be represented by images. On the first image to the left you can see the diagram view of sample Biology notes.  The image below shows  how notes can be opened up for each key idea. It is also possible to move back and forth from diagram to outline view as shown below. The outline and diagram can be exported to Microsoft Word or Open Office. Students will practice with Inspiration notes before they can make a choice of what type of notetaking strategy to adopt for personal learning and organization. The exported notes will be shared online with