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How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal - 20 views

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Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10

Interesting visual to explain the appropriate usage of the apostrophe.

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How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN | Edutopia - 3 views

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A Visual Word Puzzle From Radiolab : NPR - 9 views

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Companion Visual Puzzle to NPR's story on the Origin of Language / Speech

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VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 17 views

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VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

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Bullying Classroom Management Ed Policies

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  What is the balance? Stress their important role, teach them how to partner with the school, church, etc at home - but hold parents accountable? Would this not teach students that they are not personally accountable for their actions?
  
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"It has to be a process. I don't look at it as being one shot, one year and done,"
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focusing on bystanders, mostly at the middle school level,
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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

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  on the other hand, I just tried to change the color of my highlighter, and redo a highlight that supported a different conclusion, and Diigo would not let me--I learned that on my iPad
  
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no obvious shape or thickness.
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"haptic dissonance"
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e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
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- Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
  
  this is the big problem for me
  
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drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
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people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
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When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
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metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
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Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," s
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Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
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Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
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Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
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Leslie Healey on 12 May 13

paper vs screen in your brain

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How to Teach a Novel - 28 views

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teaching novels reading

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Meredith Stewart on 03 Jan 10

Great blog from an EC Ning member

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How to use backchanneling in your classroom - 22 views

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ED Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet -- TOC - 3 views

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edtech global culture

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YouTube - Using Crocodoc for collaborative homework marking - 7 views

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Video tutorial showing how to use Crocodoc for peer and collobarative homework marking.

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HOW TO: Use Twitter's Advanced Search Features - 0 views

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search twitter

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YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint! - 0 views

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powerpoint video

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Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: How to Use Leftover Class Time Wisely - 0 views

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practical tips for new teachers classroom management

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Larry Ferlazzo offers tips on the most effective use of those last few minutes of class time.

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REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 1 views

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Patrick Higgins on 21 Jul 09

Frank McCourt's 2002 essay on teaching creative writing.

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REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 0 views

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frank_mccourt teaching writing education

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What I learned, most of all, was that if you're teaching and not learning then you're not teaching, and if you don't enjoy yourself in the classroom, you might as well be driving a taxi.
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Mary Worrell on 20 Jul 09

A great article by the late Frank McCourt about teaching creative writing and learning alongside his students.

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Wonderful Web2 tools for classrooms | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 0 views

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Recently I was approached by an aspiring teacher.  She wanted to know which five Web2 tools I use the most, or see as the most valuable…well, the problem was obvious:  How do you choose only five?! 
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YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint! - 0 views

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Teaching Students How to Discuss - 0 views

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teaching instruction learning talking speaking listening discussion

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How to write an Application Essay - 1 views

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writing seniors college_essays AP

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More help on writing college application essays

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The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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twitter socialnetworking

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Author Peggy Orenstein comments about Twitter and how we use social networking to craft our identities.

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How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal - 20 views

How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN | Edutopia - 3 views

A Visual Word Puzzle From Radiolab : NPR - 9 views

VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - 17 views

Defining bullying - The Sun Chronicle Online - News - 0 views

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

How to Teach a Novel - 28 views

How to use backchanneling in your classroom - 22 views

ED Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet -- TOC - 3 views

YouTube - Using Crocodoc for collaborative homework marking - 7 views

HOW TO: Use Twitter's Advanced Search Features - 0 views

YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint! - 0 views

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: How to Use Leftover Class Time Wisely - 0 views

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 1 views

REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 0 views

Wonderful Web2 tools for classrooms | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 0 views

YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint! - 0 views

Teaching Students How to Discuss - 0 views

How to write an Application Essay - 1 views

The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 10 views

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