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Roland O'Daniel

wchsread [licensed for non-commercial use only] / WCHS READS - 2 views

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web2.0 wiki wchsread comprehension write2learn write2pub

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 17 Sep 10
     
    Washington County Library/reading wiki. Lisa Burkhead has done a fantastic job of integrating the wiki into her literature course and her library work. There is lots of student voice and apparently a lot of reading going on at Washington County High School!
Roland O'Daniel

The Fischbowl: Wikileaks, the TSA, and Ninth Graders: Want to Participate? - 1 views

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fischbowl wikileaks reading comprehension web2.0 current events

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 16 Dec 10
     
    Karl Fisch does a great job of sharing and facilitating great instructional activities, this is just another example. Connections between literature (Farhenheit 451, 1984, and Little Brother), wikileaks, and TSA.
Roland O'Daniel

Smithsonian Libraries : Digital Library - 2 views

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smithsonian digital libraries web2.0 comprehension instruction

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 14 Apr 10
     
    he Smithsonian Library's 'Digital Library' contains digital publications, collections and objects including online exhibitions, webcasts, digital editions, bibliographies and fact sheets, and finding aids/inventories for collections such as our trade literature collection and artist files.
Roland O'Daniel

Inderscience Publishers - Article - 1 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 02 Feb 11
     
    http://inderscience.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=1746-7268&volume=1&issue=2&spage=159 The purpose of this study is to identify the benefits that mobile technology can provide in education. From a review of the literature and interviews with individuals in the field of education, we developed an activitybased model to associate the uses of mobile technology with their benefits. The model first identifies the general uses of mobile technology in education and the specific activities that they encompass. Then, the benefits from their uses are identified with overarching themes emerging as follows: greater efficiencies and effectiveness in learning, increased individual support and opportunities for personal development, better methods of collaborating and communicating and greater exposure to technology.
Roland O'Daniel

remix my lit - 0 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 16 Sep 09
     
    Not many books begin with a word of warning. Through the Clock's Workings does. This anthology of literature is not some textual tome, frozen in time and space. It is alive, evolving organically in a constant state of flux. Why? Because each story is available under a Creative Commons licence, giving you rights to share and reuse the book as you see fit. This is a world first: a remixed and remixable short fiction anthology. Buy your copy here or download the electronic version.
Roland O'Daniel

Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers | Teaching Degree.org - 0 views

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write2learn write2pub comics

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 06 Jul 09
     
    Gone are the days of children sneaking comics past diligent parents and teachers watching out for sub-par literature. The comics of today not only have plenty
Roland O'Daniel

Fiction Audio Books Free Download. Free mp3 Audio Book Downloads. - 1 views

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web2.0 audio books fiction

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 27 Nov 09
     
    Free audio books, looks like a great opportunity to get some people access to literature from a different perspective.
Roland O'Daniel

The Longfellow Ten - 3 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 08 Jun 10
     
    Best of 2009 for best stop-motion films.
Angela Cunningham

eNotes - 0 views

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reference literature

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Jill Griebe

NEA - Turning the Page - 1 views

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  • Getting students engaged in 400-year-old drama is usually a challenge, to put to mildly. But in Seale’s classroom, classic literature gets the Web 2.0 treatment. During Romeo and Juliet, for example, Seale used Ning.com to create a class-only social media group called Verona Lifestyles, where her students, posing as characters in the play, created profiles and posted updates and discussion forums. “Posting in character got them more engaged,” explains Seale, “and gave them confidence to tackle the language. They even took a stab at writing couplets and shared them on Ning
  • “It’s about initiating higher levels of engagement,” says Seale, “and making the learning more self-directed and self-motivated.” “Let’s face it,” she adds, “being literate today means more than reading words on a printed page and writing an essay.”
  • Digital technology, however, still suffers from an image problem. To their more boisterous critics, blogs, video games, wikis, and other social media have stunted the attention span and diluted the concentration of an entire generation. What’s more, Web sites provide not knowledge, but the lesser currency of “information,” broken down into bytes to be skimmed over and hyperlinked.
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  • Consequently, say the detractors, young people no longer have the time or inclination for books—not to mention proper grammar, smart writing, or reasoned thought.
  • “Kids have the passion, the technical know-how, and the creativity,” says Hogue, “but they need educators to teach them how to use digital media constructively and responsibly. There’s a huge difference between blogging for a friend or posting an update on Facebook and writing for a prospective employer.”
  • Instead, her students take To Kill a Mockingbird to the blogosphere and discuss the novel with a ninth-grade English class in Illinois, led by a teacher Seale met via Twitter. She also plans to have her students use Flip video cameras to record each other acting out different parts of the novel as they explore character motivation and perspective.
  • The key for students today, says Hogue, is the “authenticity” of the audience—in other words, creating for and sharing with someone other than the teacher. “Students are reaching literally global audiences online,” she explains. “Why would they be motivated to write an essay for only one person, who is only reading it because it is his or her job?”
  • In other words, Johnny can post, friend, update, and tweet, but he still can’t read.
  • a ninth-grade English teacher in Bryant, Arkansas, was confident that her students were enjoying the unit on Romeo and Juliet. But she didn’t realize the extent of their enthusiasm until the day she pulled out an audio CD of actors performing the Shakespearean classic.
  • Jill Griebe on 17 Dec 09
     
    Literacy in the digital age.
Roland O'Daniel

Danville High School | Meadows, Steve - 2 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 25 May 10
     
    Great example of a class online assignment around a book study. Students at this high school created most of this content. It is student created and that's what I like most about it. 
Roland O'Daniel

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 03 Jan 11
     
    The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia. Use the links on the right to search the the text of the poem and the commentaries, to read more about the project, to see a list of the commentaries in the database, and to learn how to use the database.
Amber Ylisto

SRTrainingSummer09 / Chapter 6- Group 1 - 0 views

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  • seen pages
    • Elizabeth Cloyd
      Elizabeth Cloyd on 07 Aug 09
       
      typo
  • kids need to read the whole book to understand the main ideas
    • Paul Rodrigues
      Paul Rodrigues on 07 Aug 09
       
      This is so not true. Targeted reading can provide students essential content and save time for other activities.
  • So you have to prioritize; you have to decide to teach a few things well and fully- let some other stuff slide.
    • Elizabeth Cloyd
      Elizabeth Cloyd on 07 Aug 09
       
      I'm glad to know this is acknowledged and acceptable
    • Elizabeth Cloyd
      Elizabeth Cloyd on 07 Aug 09
       
      Also, this is a must with semester long courses
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  • Maybe we believe that kids need to read the whole book to understand the main ideas in our subject.
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      I don't believe this at ALL. Quite possibly, I err on the opposite end fo the spectrum, where students don't know WHY they have a textbook. Perhaps, some of these new strategies can make in-class reading more productive and encourage more use of the book.
  • They need you, the teacher, to break the work into steps and stages, and to give them tools and activities and work habits that help.
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      Scaffolding, vocabulary strategies really work well with breaking up text into manageable chunks for students.
  • Like the social studies teachers at Stagg High School, you could try to identify the 12 or 16 absolutely key, “fencepost” concepts in every course you teach. You might agree in principle that kids would do better to understand a dozen key ideas deeply, that to hear 1,000 ideas mentioned in passing. But what are the right fenceposts for your subject, your course?
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      Finding these fencepost ideas is always difficult in a department where each person feels different topics require more coverage than others.
  • beyond the classroom
    • Paul Rodrigues
      Paul Rodrigues on 07 Aug 09
       
      definately a key to motivating readers. They need to know why it matters to them.
  • So you have to prioritize; you have to decide to teach a few things well and fully- let some other stuff slide.
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      Ah. The "selective abandonment" approach. Reminds me of my days teaching Arts & Humanities -- 25 pages of random facts in the Core Content about the progress of Western, non-Western, and other indigienous visual art, drama, dance, literature, music, religion, philosophy, from time immemorial to present...all in 18 weeks of block scheduling.
  • have to decide to teach a few things well and fully- let some other stuff slide.
    • Hannah Cook
      Hannah Cook on 07 Aug 09
       
      what do you let slide and what to you cover? does each individual teacher decide this or is it done as a department?
  • Whatever our subject, we may believe that “the state requires us” to cover everything in the textbook, however thinly
  • This newer kind of test tries to determine not just whether students retain factual information, but whether, given an authentic problem, they can reason effectively.
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      This is the step some students seem to miss: application of knowledge.
  • In fact, the 50 states differ widely in the sort of high-stakes tests they actually administer.
    • Paul Rodrigues
      Paul Rodrigues on 07 Aug 09
       
      Do we have any framework for the new KY tests? Like...standards, core content...?
  • But what are the right fenceposts for your subject, your course?
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      good question
  • Sounds plausible, given the current fervor of politicians to supervise us, but we’d better be sure it is the reality
    • Elizabeth Cloyd
      Elizabeth Cloyd on 07 Aug 09
       
      This book must have been written during the Bush admin.
  • So you have to prioritize; you have to decide to teach a few things well and fully- let some other stuff slide.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      good point
  • Don’t leave kids alone with their textbooks We can harness the social power of collaboration, having kids work in pairs, groups, and teams at all stages of reading to discuss, debate, and sort-out ideas in the book.
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      I find this works well in social studies, especially with topics that apply to events in the world today.
  • Don’t leave kids alone with their textbooks
  • to remember ideas, learners must act upon them. Period. You can have students move their noses above any number of pages, left to right, top to bottom, but that is neither teaching nor learning.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      love this
  • What’s Really on the State Test?
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      in response to selective abandonment, I found in the A & H Core Content that most of it was unnecessary to do well on the test. Most of my students were able to perform at the Proficient/Distinguished level without a text...and without covering every single thing on the suggested list. Highly discouraging for a new teacher...effort, in a sense, wasted.
  • roe of textbooks
    • Amber Ylisto
      Amber Ylisto on 07 Aug 09
       
      typo
  • only a fraction (17% in mathematics for example) understand a field well enough to do higher-level operations or performances. (2000).
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      not surprised
  • Sure, we can make students read daily sections of the textbook as a matter of compliance and obedience.
    • Amber Ylisto
      Amber Ylisto on 07 Aug 09
       
      Sounds really boring.
  • NAEP tells us
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      what is NAEP?
  • cussedness
  • the content of any subject field has different levels of importance. There are some anchor ideas we ant students to understand in a deep and enduring way, others that are important to know about, and finally, some aspects where a passing familiarity is sufficient.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      very true
  • 1.Does the idea, topic, or process represent a big idea having enduring value beyond the classroom? 2.Does the big idea, topic, or process reside at the heart of the discipline? 3.To what extent does the idea, topic or process require uncoverage? 4.To what extent does the idea, topic, or process have the potential for engaging students?
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      i like these questions?
  • the reform movements between1820-1850. There are four distinct strands which emerged during this period- religious renewal, abolitionism, the early women’s rights efforts, and workplace reform- each of which receives several pages of coverage in the textbook
  • making sure your kids can think like a scientist, a mathematician, a historian, or a writer.
  • Many books couldn’t be studied this way because information in earlier chapters is crucial for understanding later ones. But textbooks frequently can be easily subdivided.
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      Another way to subdivide the chapter is to have students divide in groups and present their information in a creative way to their classmates.
  • Have empathy. Remember, not only are you a grownup and a subject matter expert, you have also read this textbook five or 10 times before. The material may seem easy to you, but it may really be Greek to the kids.
  • Jigsawing
    • Paul Rodrigues
      Paul Rodrigues on 07 Aug 09
       
      You can also pair proficient and poor readers and do a parallel reading in a jigsam format for added differentiation and support for struggling readers.
  • giving students support before and during reading
  • Make more selective assignments
  • Greek to the kids
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      Especially if you teach a course in Greek. LOL. ;)
  • Choose wisely. Make more selective assignments
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      This is particularly important for honors/excel students. Accelerated does not mean "do more of the same."
  • more are using constructed responses, items that present some data (a chart, article, or problem) and then ask students to work with it. This newer kind of test tries to determine not just whether students retain factual information, but whether, given an authentic problem, they can reason effectively.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      these are the best kind!
  • With jigsawing activities, when kids sit down to find the links between movements like abolitionism and worker’s rights, they are coming pretty close to “doing history,” not just dutifully accepting what the textbook says.
    • Josh Yost
      Josh Yost on 07 Aug 09
       
      This does require students to be trained in how to do effective jigsaw strategies.
  • assigning fewer pages
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      Especially important for students in regular-pace and more slowly-paced groups. Do reading in class, alongside practice.
  • focus on making sure your kids can think like a scientist, a mathematician, a historian, or a writer.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      i like this statement
  • websites
    • Jamie Poff
      Jamie Poff on 07 Aug 09
       
      I finished a course last year by using my WJHS Wiki, a website with discussion forums you can build, ideas you can exchange, and digital copies of assignment lists, expectations, etc. it was pretty cool.
  • Have empathy.
  • The material may seem easy to you, but it may really be Greek to the kids.
    • Lyndsey Timoney
      Lyndsey Timoney on 07 Aug 09
       
      very true
  • similarities
  • laboring under tough requirements to “cover” material, having
  • ACCESS: Textbook Feature Analysis Directions: Use this activity to better understand the textbook in this class. Its purpose is to teach you how the textbook works by showing you what it is made of and how these elements are organized.
    • Amber Ylisto
      Amber Ylisto on 07 Aug 09
       
      Likes this.
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