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dotSUB.com ~ Any film in any language. - 0 views

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    Subtitles are added to videos! Subtitles available in different languages. You can upload video and create the captions for it.
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Chapter 3: Teaching Every Student TOC: Information & Ideas - 0 views

  • Chapter 3: Why We Need Flexible Instructional Media








    Introduction

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I"That's online writing, not boring school writing": writing with blogs and the Talkback Pr... - 0 views

  • During a parent-teacher conference to discuss my concerns about her lack of involvement, I was shocked to hear her parents say, "But she writes all the time! She's on the computer writing essays and poems for hours each night." Cassandra was quick to reply, "That's online writing, not boring school writing. We all do
    it on Xanga."
  • Leu and Kinzer (2000), in their research of technologies and literacy, found that "the convergence of literacy instruction with Internet technologies is fundamentally reshaping the nature of literacy instruction as teachers seek to prepare children for the futures they deserve" (p. 111).
  • There are many successful weblog projects used in K-12 schools, such as the fourth-grade blog by students in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, which won the International Reading Association's Miss Rumphius Award for technology integration (Kreul, 2001).
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  • To begin the project, I signed students up as users on the blog, using my school e-mail to avoid forgotten usernames or passwords, and assigned each student a pseudonym to use while signing their blog entries. My students posted their journal entries on the Talkback Project blog during class time on one of the 25 computers I had available for student use. The preservice teachers read the novels along with the students and also responded on the blog weekly.
  • importance of clarifying expectations for both students and preservice teachers.
  • Finally, both groups
    felt that the end of the project was anticlimactic.
  • The good news spread as far as
    Iraq, where a soldier wrote to ask if he could participate in the book discussion with his son's literature circle group.
  • One student wrote, "By taking away our access to the Talkback Project blog, you have taken away my voice."
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    interesting article includes process reflection what worked didn't censorship etc.
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    "That's online writing, not boring school writing": writing with blogs and the Talkback Project.(FIRST PERSON)
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Legal and Social Compliance - Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Materials (CA Dept of E... - 0 views

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    Instructional materials for California public schools must comply with Education Code sections 60040-60045 and 60048 as well as the SBE guidelines in Standards for Evaluating Instructional Materials for Social Content , 2000 Edition (PDF; 364KB; 20pp.).
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Resources - 0 views

  • Students should be able to request a pause for clarification
    or analysis
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johnblake wiki / MiddleSchoolSciTube - 0 views

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    Example of how teacher embedded playlist of middle school science youtube video links in own site (a pbwiki).
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