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1000 journals - Journals - 1 views

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    Site at SFMOMA that corresponds to the exhibit of the 1000 journals project.
Dennis OConnor

The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently | Edutopia - 12 views

  • Burdened by expanding curriculum and multiplying high-stakes assessment requirements, some of my respected colleagues might be forgiven for not integrating student journals into their courses. The most common objection: "Who has time?"
Dennis OConnor

21st Century Literacy - 12 views

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    Teaching digital literacy, information literacy, citizenship literacy via journalism lessons and resources for 7-12 grade students. I like the combination of writing journalism with the deep thinking skills needed for information fluency.
Sheri Edwards

in education | exploring our connective educational landscape - 6 views

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    creative commons online, peer-reviewed, open access journal
anonymous

Resources: ADText - An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Advertising - 0 views

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    Sleek interactive site about media in society. Here is their description: ADText is authored by Professor William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Professor O'Barr (mack@duke.edu) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in advertising and its relation to society, culture and history. He is author of Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising (1994). He is also founding editor of the online journal, Advertising & Society Review.
Jeff See

"Thinkbook" Reading Journals - English Companion Ning - 21 views

  • How might Archer take advantage of his marriage?
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      Calls for analysis of his character.
  • Without May's perception, the reader has no reason to believe May is betraying their marriage by any means.
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      Key Point. Perspective can play a large role in our understanding of a situation.
  • because of her value to society.
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      This seems to point to a lack of "love" on his part. Good insight.
Dennis OConnor

oneword.com - 21 views

  • simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it. click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place. don’t think. just write.
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    Looks like a fun way to spark journal writing.  Fit's Natalie Goldberg's great advice about first draft writing: Just keep your hand moving!
Jenny Gilbert

Language Arts Lessons :: Video Writing Prompts: Beauty Before & After - 13 views

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    Our view of beauty is distorted - excellent prompt for VO wrting journals
Teresa Ilgunas

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program - 10 views

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    I like the Dare Machine for ideas for journal prompts!
Leslie Healey

Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views

  • For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
  • literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
  • real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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  • George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff are classic creative nonfiction efforts—
  • communicate information (reportage) in a scenic, dramatic fashion.
  • offers flexibility and freedom while adhering to the basic tenets of reportage. In creative nonfiction, writers can be poetic and journalistic simultaneously
  • inematic techniques, from scene to dialogue to description to point of view, to write about themselves and ot
Susan Payne

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space. What Social Networking Does Not Offer to Learning
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
Susan Payne

Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • specific instructional use is more effective and acceptable for students to understand why the teacher has created the space.
  • While this level of connection and shared information is a great first step in community building, it does not necessarily lead to learning communities or the sharing of ideas. This must happen intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process.
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    Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.
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