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Jenny Gilbert

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

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language lessons writing arts

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  • Jenny Gilbert on 08 Apr 11
     
    Our view of beauty is distorted - excellent prompt for VO wrting journals
Adam Babcock

If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones | Networked - 13 views

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shakespeare love romeojuliet cellphones internet culture facebook socialnetworking PBLidea

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      Adam Babcock on 21 Jul 12
       
      Yeah... but "wherefore" translates to "why" in our contemporary language...
  • would have allowed Romeo and Juliet to move around, liberated from locale and parental surveillance. They would have been less worried about their families when they were figuring out where to meet. At the same time, their parents would have felt reassured because they could call their children and ask where they were and what they were doing. But, would Romeo and Juliet have told the truth? A location-aware app would also have been useful for parents in tracking them. Or they might have prowled friends’ Facebook updates or photo albums for clues.
  • Romeo and Juliet could find each other now because mobility means accessibility and availability. They’d be on each other’s top-five speed dial. And they would probably have had a location-aware app that that showed exactly where each other were: no wandering the streets of Verona looking for each other.
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  • Public spaces have become more silent, as people concentrate on their text messages, while downwardly-peering texters have limited eye contact.
  • Imagine Romeo making plans to meet Juliet in the park, but his father calls to say that he has to come home immediately. At least, the mobile connection would have allowed Romeo to alert Juliet to his role conflict and possible absence.
  • As long as they talked or texted in private, neither the Montagues nor the Capulets would know – unless, of course, they snuck peeks at the list of previous calls and texts on the phones. Instead of a phone ringing in a home—where all would hear it and possibly become part of the conversation—internet communication and mobile communication are usually exchanges between two individuals.
  • Mobile contact has become multigenerational, as teens—and even children—are increasingly getting their own mobile phones. This affords people of all ages opportunities to become more autonomous agents.
  • As they grew up, Romeo and Juliet had gotten past their childhoods of being household and neighborhood bound.  They made contact by encounters in public places. Teens still do that—the shopping mall is the new agora—but their mobile phones also afford continuous contact with their homes and distant friends.
  • If they are right, Romeo and Juliet might never look up from their mobile phones to see each other. Or, would the course of true love have led them away from their screens and into each other’s arms?
  • The story of Romeo and Juliet is the story of two individuals escaping the bounds of their densely knit groups. It is a story of the social network revolution that began well before Facebook: the move from group-bound societies to networked individuals. This turn to networked individualism transforms communication from being place-based to person-based.
Mrs. Dawson

Draft No. 4 by John McPhee - 9 views

www.albany.edu/...McPhee_4th_Draft.pdf

composition language English draft writing editing

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    A piece published for The New Yorker about the importance of multiple drafts and the editing process. 
Dana Huff

AAUP: New-Media Literacies - 5 views

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media language english literacy reading learning teaching

shared by Dana Huff on 05 Jun 10 - Cached
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    Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, consuming and producing words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking were sufficient. But because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, and widely available new tools, literacy now requires being conversant with new forms of media as well as text, including sound, graphics, and moving images.
anonymous

Standards: English Language Arts Learning Standards and Core Curriculum:CI&IT:NYSED - 0 views

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standards ela english curriculum

shared by anonymous on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 17 Jul 09
     
    Einstein said "an idea should be as simple as possible but not simpler." These NY ELA standards are the result of long deep thought by some of the best minds in the field, those who understand the complexity of a real classroom.
James Miscavish

The World A.T. Ways » In which 10 Twitter applications might change your glob... - 0 views

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twitter education

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  • James Miscavish on 21 Jul 09
     
    ake a poll of your followers, i.e., your students. Let your students poll each other. This tool could help jumpstart a discussion on a topic.
Meredith Stewart

Save The Words - 0 views

www.savethewords.org

English language dictionary words

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  • Meredith Stewart on 19 Jul 09
     
    Site from the Oxford English Dictionary. Suggests words not commonly used which you can "adopt" and use
anonymous

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 0 views

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application web language grammar thinking tool

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Cool tool that generates a word "cloud" around a word, concept.
anonymous

Blog: Jim Burke's Blog (Teaching, Literacy, English Language Arts) - 0 views

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textboks reading ebooks literacy

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  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    This is my blog, a place where I can reflect on a variety of subjects I consider in the course of my studies, writing, and teaching.
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