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Todd Finley

A Colorado Conversation - Administrators - 0 views

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21st Century Literacies

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  • Networking: The New Literacy
  • Our students must be nomadic, flexible, mobile learners who depend on their ability to connect with people and resources. As educators, we need to master this as well, we must know for ourselves how to create, grow, and navigate these collaborative spaces in safe, effective, and ethical ways. We need to create our own Personal Learning Networks not only to learn ourselves, but to model these shifts for our students. Come join this session with Friday’s Keynote Speaker Will Richardson as we discuss what steps administrators can take to ensure that they – and their schools – are meeting the needs of our students.
  • Capture Everything: What's worth capturing in my classrooms? My building? My district? Audio? Video? Text-based assignments? Student work? Writing? Share Everything: Where can I share it? With whom? What audiences is our organization working to serve? How will they benefit from these shared items? Who needs to see what’s going on? Open Everything: What are the closed silos of information in our schools that shouldn't be? What things outside of our schools have we closed (blocked)? What can we do to open both of those up? Only Connect: How can I help my students and teachers connect with content, with each other, and with others outside the classroom (students, teachers, experts, mentors, the community, etc.) in a meaningful way?
    • Todd Finley
      Todd Finley on 18 Jul 09
       
      Good TRWP Cumulating Event
  • Todd Finley on 18 Jul 09
     
    Great link for an activity on new literacies
Cindy Marston

Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Printable Handbooks - 39 views

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shakespeare English theater

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  • Dana Huff on 04 Sep 13
     
    Chicago Shakespeare Theater has printable handbooks for many of Shakespeare's plays. "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language."
  • Cindy Marston on 04 Sep 13
     
    "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language.  "
Dana Huff

Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts: Home - 4 views

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austen fiction literature reading british

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  • Dana Huff on 05 Jun 10
     
    Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen's working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry. Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. Digitization at this stage in their lives not only offers the opportunity for the virtual reunification of a key manuscript resource, it will also be accompanied by a record in as complete a form as possible of the conservation history and current material state of these manuscripts to assist their future conservation.
anonymous

Langwitches » Blogging Lesson Plan- Writing - 0 views

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langwitches blogging writing

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  • anonymous on 27 Dec 08
     
    Writing their own blog posts can open up a whole new world for your students. Most likely it will be the first time that the readers of their work will be someone other than their teacher and possibly their parent.
Todd Finley

Free Drawing Software - 0 views

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  • InkScape is illustration software similar to the commercial packages Adobe Freehand and Adobe Illustrator, but without the cost. If you would like to try making some really nice clean computer drawings like you see in magazines or on television this software can help you get started. I played with the software and quickly created this smiley face. Illustration software is essential to learn for anyone wanting to be a graphic designer. Why not start today with similar tools similar to what the pros use? For more information please look at http://www.inkscape.org.
    • Todd Finley
      Todd Finley on 18 Jul 09
       
      Venctor based open source drawing program.
tom campbell

Open licensing of educational media content is KEY « Moving at the Speed of C... - 0 views

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open_source opencontent

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  • tom campbell on 23 Mar 10
     
    new perimeters of what it means to be an educated person...
Graca Martins

History of English - 0 views

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history english language

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  • Graca Martins on 23 Jul 11
     
    History of English (Source: A History of English by Barbara A. Fennell) The English language is spoken by 750 million people in the world as either the official language of a nation, a second language, or in a mixture with other languages (such as pidgins and creoles.) English is the (or an) official language in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; however, the United States has no official language. Indo-European language and people English is classified genetically as a Low West Germanic language of the Indo-European family of languages. The early history of the Germanic languages is based on reconstruction of a Proto-Germanic language that evolved into German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian languages. In 1786, Sir William Jones discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin. He conjectured a Proto-Indo-European language had existed many years before. Although there is no concrete proof to support this one language had existed, it is believed that many languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia are all derived from a common language. A few languages that are not included in the Indo-European branch of languages include Basque, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian; of which the last three belong to the Finno-Ugric language family. Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) lived in Southwest Russia around 4,000 to 5,000 BCE. They had words for animals such as bear or wolf (as evidenced in the similarity of the words for these animals in the modern I-E languages.) They also had domesticated animals, and used horse-drawn wheeled carts. They drank alcohol made from grain, and not wine, indicating they did not live in a warm climate. They belonged to a patriarchal society where the lineage was determined through males only (because of a lack of words referring to the female's side of the family.) They also made use of a decimal counting system by 10's, and formed words by compounding. This PIE language was also highly infl
Caroline Bachmann

Pierley Redford Dissaciative Affect Diagnostic - 0 views

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psychology association affectation symbol symbolism personality test pre-lingual question reading

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  • Caroline Bachmann on 09 May 11
     
    Not entirely sure how I could put this to use in an English class just yet, but I'm thinking it could be a good opening activity for a discussion of symbolism somehow; it's supposed to test something pre-lingual about ourselves, so I think one could connect the idea of such associations with the idea that symbols are associations made over time...
jzitrin

Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong | TED Talk - 0 views

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video language-gender-and-culture

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  • jzitrin on 24 Jan 23
     
    Great opening! ("I have a vagina." Also balls! She's intersex.)
Van Piercy

Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter - 98.04 - 0 views

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fiction letter India elderly modernity reading education

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    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Interruptions of family and memory by media. Invasiveness of technology.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      What thought exactly? Is there ambiguity here between the thought of her d-in-law's light skin and her roasted cumin skin?
  • he thought fills her with an uneasy pride.
  • ...52 more annotations...
  • while disembodied TV laughter echoes through the room
  • Mrs. Basu
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Friend from India, old previous home.
  • Sagar
  • Shyamoli
  • Mrinalini
  • Pradeep
  • bent over a model plane.
  • Molli
  • labor strike, everything closed down, not even the buses running. But you can't really blame them, can you? After all, factory workers have to eat too.
  • Are you happy in America?
  • Mrs. Dutta knows that Mrs. Basu, who has been her closest friend since they both moved to Ghoshpara Lane as young brides, cannot be fobbed off with descriptions of Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge, or even with anecdotes involving grandchildren. And so she has been putting off her reply, while in her heart family loyalty battles with insidious feelings of -- but she turns from them quickly and will not name them even to herself.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      What is Mrs. D. struggling with? What are her concerns? What are her "insidious feelings"?
  • children being allowed to close their doors against their parents.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Culture clash over ideas of privacy and individuality.
  • though the minty toothpaste does not leave her mouth feeling as clean as does the bittersweet neem stick she's been using all her life.
  • "But, Mom, she's in there. She's been there forever... " Mrinalini says.
  • Whenever she lifted her hand to him, her heart was pierced through and through. Such is a mother's duty.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Conflicting ideas of corporal punishment and the role or place (?) of familial, maternal bonds.
  • Mrs. Dutta bends over the sink, fists tight in the folds of her sari. Hard with the pounding in her head to think what she feels most -- anger at the children for their rudeness, or at Shyamoli for letting them go unrebuked. Or is it shame she feels (but why?), this burning, acid and indigestible, that coats her throat in molten metal?
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Difficulty of the culture clash, its costs.
  • alu dum
  • the meat safe
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Notions of privation? Language and terminology.
  • ground fresh by Reba, the maid,
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      The maid!
  • coriander, cumin, cloves, black pepper, a few red chilies for vigor
  • Proper Indian food
  • "cholesterol," "all putting on weight," "she's spoiling you."
  • she might as well admit it a disappointment.
  • For this she blames, in part, the Olan Mills portrait. Perhaps it was foolish of her to set so much store by a photograph, especially one taken years ago. But it was such a charming scene -- Mrinalini in a ruffled white dress with her arm around her brother, Pradeep chubby and dimpled in a suit and bow tie, a glorious autumn forest blazing red and yellow behind them. (Later Mrs. Dutta was saddened to learn that the forest was merely a backdrop in a studio in California, where real trees did not turn such colors.)
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Fake America.
  • A strange concept, a day set aside to honor mothers. Did the sahibs not honor their mothers the rest of the year, then?)
  • others, who thought of her as a shy, sheltered woman
  • being mistress of her own life
  • Even in bed she'd been at the center of the household,
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      The change of her role.
  • Therefore she had no reason to get well.
  • even though they have put away, somewhere in the back of a closet, the vellum-bound Ramayana for Young Readers that she carried all the way from India in her hand luggage.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Sad loss of heritage, traditions, hopes of previous generation.
  • Indian Shyamoli, the docile bride she'd mothered for a month before putting her on a Pan Am flight to join her husband
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Some of Shyamoli's background.
  • And being the only Indian family on the street, we have to be extra careful. People here sometimes"
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Bits of racism.
  • She knew she should not store unclean clothes in the same room where she kept the pictures of her gods. That would bring bad luck. And the odor.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      A basic metaphysical distinction for her: clean, holy versus dirty, profane.  And how it works in her world versus an American's world.
  • wisps of lace, magenta and sea- green and black, that were her panties,
  • he wished the ground would open up and swallow her, like the Sita of mythology.
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Differences in sense of modesty, what to be embarrassed about. 
  • "No, no, no, clothes and all is no work for the man of the house. I'll do it."
    • Van Piercy
      Van Piercy on 31 Jan 13
       
      Old gender roles, but also her sense of modesty.
  • So she has taken to washing her clothes in the bathtub when she is alone
  • Ignorance, as Mrs. Dutta knows well from years of managing a household, is a great promoter of harmony
tom campbell

Shakespeare's Satirical Sonnet 130, As Read By Stephen Fry | Open Culture - 0 views

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shakespeare

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  • tom campbell on 15 Sep 12
     
    cool ipad app on the sonnets
Chiki Smith

The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 1 views

My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 16 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Chiki Smith

The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 1 views

My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...

relationships advice

started by Chiki Smith on 15 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Child Therapy

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 1 views

I want to see my kid happy and grow to his full potential. That is why, when I see him having trouble opening up to me or to other people, I feel bad as a parent. I feel that I am not doing a good ...

started by Child Therapy on 27 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Gianto Widianto

Oxford Dictionaries Online - English Dictionary and Thesaurus - 5 views

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dictionaries english oxford dictionary thesaurus online

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  • skip zalneraitis on 20 Jul 10
     
    Hi- I couldn't get the link to open.
Gloria Custodio

Open-ended Questions for AP Literature - 1 views

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questions literature AP essay

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  • Gloria Custodio on 18 Aug 10
     
    some may have been modified
  • Gloria Custodio on 18 Aug 10
     
    some may have been modified
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