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Jenny Gilbert

ABC Television | Re-enchantment | Welcome - 4 views

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    great for literature students or the gifted and talented. very interactive
Leslie Healey

The Fictional 100 - 17 views

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    fascinating, useful blog about the characters we love (or hate) great resource for student research, research, discussion. We have already begun to argue about which Shakespearean characters deserve to be on the list........
Dana Huff

Evolving English Teacher: #engchat: Out of the Desk & Into the Text: Using Performance ... - 5 views

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    Glenda Funk shares some performance pedagogy techniques designed to get students out of their desk and on their feet.
Tracee Orman

Teen Twiction - 1 views

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    Educational site for teachers & students to use Twitter in class.
Daniel Bruno

News: Calibrating Students' B.S. Meters - Inside Higher Ed - 8 views

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    Great article on critical literacy
Vanessa Alander

Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom - 12 views

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      Use of exit slips as formative assessments!  
  • self-evaluation is a logical step in the learning process.
  • students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it
Berylaube 00

pedagogy literature "Teaching Literature in the Secondary School" Richard W. Beach, Jam... - 10 views

The book's response-centered approach engages the student with literature. Contains in-depth discussions of multi-cultural literature and the uses of drama and film in the classroom that will enhan...

literature exceptional guide films drama multi-cultural teaching reading resources tools

started by Berylaube 00 on 15 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Rose Black

Plagiarism checking tool - the most accurate and absolutely FREE! - 12 views

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    In this technological age a plagiarism checker is essential for protecting your written work. A plagiarism checker benefits teachers, students, website owners and anyone else interested in protecting their writing. Our service guarantees that anything you write can be thoroughly checked by our plagiarism software to insure that your texts are unique.
Dana Huff

Evernote as Portfolio | The story of using Evernote as a portfolio in my k-12 school - 14 views

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    This blog explores the option of using Evernote as a portfolio tool. Worth checking into.
camillenapierbernstein

Statement on Class Size and Teacher Workload: Secondary - 12 views

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      We are asked to use best practices when teaching; if concomitant best practices in staffing/class sizes are not met, what is the effect?
  • Teachers of larger classes are more likely to spend less time with each student paper, and to concentrate on mechanics rather than on style and content.
The0d0re Shatagin

Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools - The Learning Network Blo... - 7 views

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    Ryan Goble, who often coaches teachers in what he calls the "mindful" use of technology, has written today's guest post on user-friendly tools that enable the creation of student projects.
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    NYTimes article recommending 5 free tools: Visualizing Text, Comic Text, Interactive Timelines, Digital Interactive Presentations, Idea Maps & Brainstorms
Clifford Baker

Editorial Observer - Cutting and Pasting - A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name) - NYTimes.com - 9 views

  • “This represents a shift away from the view of education as the process of intellectual engagement through which we learn to think critically and toward the view of education as mere training. In training, you are trying to find the right answer at any cost, not trying to improve your mind.”
  • Not everyone who gets caught knows enough about what they did to be remorseful.
  • “The big sleeping dog here is not the moral issue. The problem is that kids don’t learn if they don’t do the work.”
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  • The Pritchard axiom — that repetitive cheating undermines learning — has ominous implications for a world in which even junior high school students cut and paste from the Internet instead of producing their own writing.
  • When many young people think of writing, they don’t think of fashioning original sentences into a sustained thought. They think of making something like a collage of found passages and ideas from the Internet.
Boyd Logan

The Future of Reading - 'Reading Workshop' Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Seri... - 0 views

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    NYT Article on Lit Lab/Reading Workshop approach.
James Miscavish

Foundations of English Portfolio Template - 1 views

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    Excellent use for online portfolios. Thanks whoever I got this from because I've forgotten...
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    That's mine :) Students will make a copy, personalize, and fill it up during the year.
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