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Charles Hwang

English Companion Ning - 5 views

  • A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
  • A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
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    A thriving community of teachers and others involved in teaching English Language Arts. Has abundant support, resources, a several thousand members who offer encouragement, job news, curriculum, and community. A great place to be.
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    Social network for English teachers: "Where English teachers meet to help each other." Created and maintained by Jim Burke. See also www.englishcompanion.com, his other website for his own work.
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    A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
Rachel Ernst

English Teachers Find an Online Friend: the English Companion Ning - National Writing P... - 0 views

shared by Rachel Ernst on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  •  "The first semester I was groping my way along, trying to not completely implode," said Rachel E., who is teaching high school students in El Cajon, California, for the first time. "But second semester something amazing happened. I found this Ning. And it has literally changed the way I teach. I feel like I have insight from some of the best teachers out there. I can listen in to conversations that would never happen in my staff room."
    • Rachel Ernst
       
      Hey that's me! If you haven't joined the Ning, you really should. It has helped my teaching immensely!
Adam Babcock

The Free Learning Library - English Companion Ning - 102 views

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    The Free Learning Library is proud to offer the complete digital library of Teaching That Matters to all its members for free. This special ECN Edition of the library, which includes links back to the ECN, is free to use in all schools and classrooms thanks to the generous donation of these materials by Steve Peha from Teaching That Makes Sense. Please click on the document link below to learn more about this new partnership between the EC Ning and Teaching That Makes Sense.
anonymous

The English Teacher's Companion - 0 views

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    New blog from Jim Burke, author of many books, englishcompanion.com, englishcompanion.ning.com
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    "Please turn on your textbooks and upload your homework..." In five years (three? two?!) I will not ask my high school students to open the 6.5 pound textbooks that currently sit on the floor under the desks. Nor will I bemoan their reluctance to look up words or mark up the text as they read. I will not wonder how to meet the needs of the 35% of my class who have learning disorders, most of which are language processing disorders of one form or another. Instead, I will ask them to get out their digital textbooks (what will we call them: DBooks? DBs? ETexts? Readers?) and "read the assigned story." Here is what will be different:
Ed Webb

The English Teacher's Companion: Of Our Teachings: What Do They Remember? - 0 views

  • What was clear today was that it was our relationship and their appreciation for the importance of ideas and my subject that remained one, two, eight or ten years later.
  • After all these encounters, these smiles, these chats and talks in the cafe, through emails and Twitters, what do I realize, what's the lesson? (Does there always have to be a lesson, Mr. Burke? they whine....). Relationships matter: you to your kids, you to your subject, kids to each other.
  • you can't teach kids if you don't know who they are or what they care about. The lesson is that if you don't know or care about what you teach, they will not remember it, will not value it going forward.
Darin Johnson

Moodle as Course Mgt System? Need feedback - English Companion - 0 views

  • Since I also use Ning for blogs and forums, I don't use these much on Moodle, though I do use Moodle forums somewhat like an essay question on the test. I set it so a student can't read any other answers until after they post their own response--then they can read and comment on what others' wrote. I like that quite a lot. I just haven't been able to get Diigo to work through the password log on, so I don't have a really good way to comment on their responses.
    • Darin Johnson
       
      Here's a teacher using Moodle as a forum and then wanting to use Diigo to respond to the students' posts. I hadn't put the two together, but this solves one problem I have had in the past.
Katie Keeler

Jim Burke: English Companion - 2 views

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