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ESL Kidscribe

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What is Kidscribe?

Kidscribe is a bilingual blogging sight for children designed to help them share their writing and build their self confidence. Children from all over the world post their writing pieces to the site and it allows them to express their personal writing style through their native language. Kidscribe also exposes children to many different languages and cultures as they view and read other pieces posted by children from around the world. There are four types of writing children may choose to post: jokes, stories, poetry, and other writing pieces such as a school assignment, a journal entry, or just a piece that was written for fun that a child might want to share. 

 

Tutorial

To get to the Kidscribe website you may follow this link: http://brightinvisiblegreen.com/kidscribe/

Once you are on the site you will see many pieces of writing posted by children from all around the world. Some pieces are in English and some are in Spanish.

 

 

There are five tabs available for children to click on.

When clicked on, these tabs take you to different types of writing. Children can read other children's jokes, stories, poetry, and can obtain access to links to other fun and interactive websites. To submit a piece of your own, scroll to the bottom of the web page or click on the tab called Be an Author.

This tab will take you to the bottom of the web page where you will see a button that says Click Here!

Clicking on this button takes you to a separate page where children can submit their writing piece:

 

Kidscribe Uses in the ESL Classroom:

Kidscribe was developed to help students with their writing as well as to build their confidence in writing. There are several different ways this program can be used in the classroom to help ESL students work on their English as well as to expand their writing knowledge. For example:

  • Kidscribe can function as a blog, and therefore can be used as such to share various writing pieces and receive positive feedback on them
  • Due to the variety of tabs at the top of the Kidscribe website, students are able to share stories, jokes, writing in general, as well as poetry
  • This site also shares a variety of other learning websites to further educational exploration
  • Kidscribe uses English as well as Spanish, and encourages students to write in the language they feel comfortable in doing so. Therefore they can work on their writing skills, while also maintaining their native language but expanding upon learning English by reading other posts

Examples 

 

This is an example of the blog like format of Kidscribe. Each entry includes the name, age, as well as where the student is from while also including their country's flag. 

 

Una pareja de novios se estaban besando y ella dijo:"Mi amor me tragui tu chicle." el dijo hay perdon, estoy enfermo.!! (gargajo)
por Ivellisse, edad 12, Puerto Rico   

 

This is an example of a joke posted In Spanish from a student coming from Puerto Rico. This site encourages writing, no matter the language, in order for students to build confidence and feel comfortable writing. 

 

Kudos for Kidscribe!

 

 

These educators and libraries have additional resources for child authors.
Wow, they 've recommended 
Kidscribe from all over the world!

 

 

 

Schools

 

Libraries

 

Universities
Be a Young Author! from Mark Twain Elementary, Heidelberg, Germany National Children's Book Week '99 Linksfrom the Houston Public Library, Texas, USA Integrating Educational Technologies into Literacy Instruction from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Webquest Po-Etree from Meyzeek Middle School, Louisville, Kentucky , USA KidSite from the Department of Public Libraries, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA CCC Reading and Language Arts Online from Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Foreign Language Resource Sites from the Waxahachie ISD, Texas, USA Language Arts Resources from McAlister Middle School Media Center Suffield, Connecticut, USA The Savvy Cyber Teacher, week 7 from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Web Sites of the Week for Teachers from the San Francisco USD, California, USA   Teacher Training Links from Teacher Created Materials, Wendy Marshall, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Online Activities from Peducah Public Schools, Peducah, Kentucky, USA    
Media Links from Highland Elementary School, Huron Valley SD, Highland, Michigan, USA    
Great Teaching with the Internet from the Phillips Brooks School, Menlo Park, California, USA  

 

This example is called Kudos for Kidscribe and share additional resources for "child authors" and further encourage students to share their writing.

 

Links:

  http://www.brightinvisiblegreen.com/kidscribe/purpose.html

This link is a memo from the creator of Kidscribe, she explains why she created the site. This would be a good link to show parents or fellow teachers to explain how technology is being incorporated into the classroom's writing unit.

 

http://ezinearticles.com/?Integrate-Technology-Into-Your-Writing-Lessons&id=2767286

This article not only talks about how to incorporate Kidscribe into the classroom, but also shares other useful websites that can be incorporated into the classroom. 

 

http://courses.education.illinois.edu/edpsy313/projects/2002_spring/biled.html

This site provides Bilingual Education Resources, and highlights Kidscribe as being a productive and helpful tool to use in the classroom. The site not only describes Kidscribe entirely, but also describes how this program could be used in the classroom which could be helpful for teachers who aren't familiar with the program. 

 

http://www.education.com/reference/article/supporting-creative-writing-technology/

This site contains an article on how technology supports creative writing. It discusses how technology can motivate children to write and how it can inspire children to keep writing based on the feedback they receive from posting their pieces online. It mentions Kidscribe as an easy to use bilingual site that can be used effectively with teacher instruction.

 

 http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/mcraet/pubsites.html

This site contains several links to sites just like Kidscribe. It lists Kidscribe as well-organized site that is easy to use and publishes children's work from all over the world. The other links can be used as teacher resources to continue students' writing through engaging them in different sites. These different sites can engage different students interests and motivate them to enhance their writing skills.

 

 

 

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