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Dynnelle Fields

Wordnik - 10 views

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    definitions, examples, usage lists, and more
Dana Huff

Book Drum - 28 views

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    Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music.
Rick Beach

Testing mandates flunk cost-benefit analysis - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 7 views

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    Smagorinsky nails the real origins of NCLB testing as a $20 billion cost to states that profit the testing/textbook companies.
Dana Huff

SideVibe - 13 views

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    "A simple way to place useful, formative classroom lessons over any Web page. "
Rick Beach

Cowbird · A witness to life - 9 views

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    Corbird: contributors share their stories about everyday life, organized by topics and themes.
John Atkinson

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 8 views

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    Create word clouds from texts in a variety of shapes. Requires Microsoft Silverlight.
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    Like Wordle but choose cloud's shape
Cindy Marston

How to Create Nonreaders - 11 views

  • all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people. 
  • I once sat in on several classes taught by Keith Grove at Dover-Sherborn High School near Boston and noticed that such meetings were critical to his teaching; he had come to realize that the feeling of community (and active participation) they produced made whatever time remained for the explicit curriculum far more productive than devoting the whole period to talking at rows of silent kids.  Together the students decided whether to review the homework in small groups or as a whole class.  Together they decided when it made sense to schedule their next test.  (After all, what’s the point of assessment – to have students show you what they know when they’re ready to do so, or to play “gotcha”?)  Interestingly, Grove says that his classes are quite structured even though they’re unusually democratic, and he sees his job as being “in control of putting students in control.”
  • The first is that deeper learning and enthusiasm require us to let students generate possibilities rather than just choosing items from our menu; construction is more important than selection. 
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    Fall 2010 article by Alfie Kohn about things that don't work, and things that do for encouraging a real LOVE of reading. Includes some challenging comments about motivation and traditional methods for teaching reading.
Dana Huff

"The Lord of the Rings," "Twilight," and Young-Adult Fantasy Books : The New Yorker - 9 views

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    Adam Gopnik discusses the appeal of high fantasy in YA. He misses the mark, I think, in not discussing Joseph Campbell's influence in all of this, and he's condescending throughout much of the piece, but it's an interesting analysis aside from these two admittedly major issues.
Dana Huff

Mr. Palmer Discusses His Fellow Minor Characters « Jane Austen's World - 6 views

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    This blog post would be fun to turn into a writing assignment: Have minor characters in a novel your students are studying discuss the other minor characters in the manner of Mr. Palmer.
Dana Huff

Put Poor Students to Work - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 7 views

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    Sent to me just now via a my blog. Would be a great piece to pair with "A Modest Proposal."
Rick Beach

Teaching Publishing is a 21st Century Literacy | DMLcentral - 11 views

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    Posit the value of publishing students' writing as a 21st Century literacy
Rick Beach

Mixel lets you create and share iPad art | Macworld - 6 views

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    Mixel, iPad app for collecting and remixing images for collages.
Rick Beach

Moglue - Create Play Share - 13 views

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    Tool for creating interactive ebooks
Rick Beach

Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 8 views

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    NYTimes article on Edchat Twitter groups to share and acquire information, for example, #Engchat
Dana Huff

Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 16 views

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    The New York Times' collection of resources for teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
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