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e within their cooperative groups or partnerships. For example, if the class is working on using descriptive adjectives in their compositions, one student could be assigned to review another's writing. He or she could provide positive feedback, noting several instances of using descriptive vocabulary, and provide constructive feedback, identifying several sentences that could be enhanced with additional adjectives. After this, the students could switch roles and repeat the process. Goals: Set specific goals for the writing assignments that students are to complete. The goals can be established by the teacher or created by the class themselves, with review from the teacher to ensure they are appropriate and attainable. Goals can include (but are not limited to) adding more ideas to a paper or including specific elements of a writing genre (e.g., in an opinion essay include at least three reasons supporting your belief). Setting specific product goals can foster motivation, and teachers can continue to motivate students by providing reinforcement when they reach their goals. Word processing: Allow students to use a computer for completing written tasks. With a computer, text can be added, deleted, and moved easily. Furthermore, students can access tools, such as spell check, to enhance their written compositions. As with any technology, teachers should provide guidance on proper use of the computer and any relevant software before students use the computer to compose independently. Sentence combining: Explicitly teach students to write more complex and sophisticated sentences. Sentence combining involves teacher modeling of how to combine two or more related sentences to create a more complex one. Students should be encouraged to apply the sentence construction skills as they write or revise. Process writing: Implement flexible, but practical classroom routines that provide students with extended opportunities for practicing the cycle of planning, writing, and revie

Good tool for embedding an image into a blog and allowing zoomability.

This is a good video to start the COETAIL course. Many feel their ideas are not worth sharing and are reluctant to start blogging. Hopefully by watching this video you should realize you shouldn't hold back. The community needs you so start contributing.

A good summary of the Flipped Classroom phenomena

How can you not like a blog with a title like this. Have not seen all the videos, but assume they are good. Wish I had seen this BEFORE I wrote my blog posts.

COETAIL Alex Villasenor suggested this blogging site.  Used it in class and found it a good starting point for teaching kids how to comment on blogs.

Very good presentation zen like presentation

I've watched this before - very good. Today I read Larry Ferlazzo's posting on the effects of praise on motivation http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/01/20/video-carol-dweck-on-the-effect-of-praise-on-mindsets/. Stresses the big differences and impact that praising intelligence vs. effort have on what people are willing to do and how they feel about themselves.

"The list of recommendations presented below is based on scientific studies of students in grades 4-12. The strategies for teaching writing are listed according to the magnitude of their effects. Practices with the strongest effects are listed fi"

This is a great video that speaks to the development of networks that enable the creation of 'new' ideas. Bottom line, any new idea is based on another. Why would you prevent the growth and nurturing of ideas by placing a copyright on your version of something new?

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