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"# Supporting Diigo-based fine-grained discussions connected to a specific part of a webpage - which opens up the possibility for more meaningful exchanges where teachers can embed all kinds of scaffolding into web-based materials with Diigo: * sharing questions for discussion (either online, or to prepare students for an in-class discussion); * highlighting critical features; asking students to define words, terms, or concepts in their own words/language; providing definitions of difficult/new terms (in various media, such as embedding an image in the sticky note); * providing models of interpreting materials. * using the highlighting/sticky note feature to "mark up" our "textbook" (blog) with comments, observations and corrections to specific words, phrases or paragraphs of each post. * Aggregating bookmarks the students make of websites valuable to their learning, and use the highlighting feature and sticky notes as if they were like the Track Changes feature in MS Word which lends itself more towards collaboration and the iterative process. "

Presentation at cccc10 9:30am March 19, 2010.

An interesting site to review for the Media lit class-- what does this mean for studying popular culture & technology in schools? What does this site shed light on as issues from a critical perspective?

Online (and print) activities of your classes spelling words

Janet Allen recommends creating "expert groups" topics from books and having students investigate the topics to build background knowledge for the class. Would expert groups look like this in a digital environment?

short 60 second video - took some time to load at home but would make a good support for discussion of prepositions in class as many students make errors with these.

Ben YAGODA, UD prof, on logical punctuation in Slate magazine. Everything we talk about in class is undone the minute they hit the web!

Collection of links to great anti-war essays & poems to use in class.

Many of the participants in the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program use Google Sites to create their e-portfolios.  The portfolios are created and used throughout the program. During the practicum, when students become teachers by teaching in one of our graduate classes, they also refine and polish their portfolios. Ultimately the online portfolio becomes a job search tool that helps our graduates show a potential employer what they know. 

This would be a great way to consider student's multi-genre writing portfolios. Students can have a place where they can store all their content for using all types of computer based writing.

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

This tool is fantastic when I want to have the class read a paper version of an internet article, OR when the ads are so distracting that I can't concentrate on what I'm reading.

Something to focus on in English class:  good summarizing

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

It has been a great tool for close reading in my AP Lit class. Love Bookdrum!

Thanks so much Really exceptional and so interactive..

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

Bill Gates says some surprising things about need for tech in schools!

"It was a meeting all about ideas (my favourite) and we discussed the best ways that technology could support the process of writing and drive the eventual outcomes. In this post I have included a list of 10 literacy/writing tools or outcomes that, in my opinion, teachers should currently be aware of. Many of them are basic yet still powerful tools in the classroom that support children's writing. They are in no particular order."

"...10 alternative tools that either offer a different perspective on digital writing or are a little known tool, that may have huge potential in the classroom. Not everything is free nor is it online - but the list will hopefully provide food for thought when you are looking at your next non-fiction or narrative unit with your class."

Enacting literature with students to motivate reading Wilhelm describes action strategies

Using "action strategies" invigorates the English class