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Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Find Easy to Read Text for Lower Levels - 14 views

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tools esl efl text

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  • Nik Peachey on 06 Oct 09
     
    "Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough. "
  • Nik Peachey on 06 Oct 09
     
    Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough.
Dennis OConnor

10 Free Online Courses for Writing Teachers - The Writing Teacher - Tips, Tec... - 8 views

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6-traits writing free online courses

shared by Dennis OConnor on 18 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time.
  • Dennis OConnor on 18 Oct 10
     
    "Taking writing courses can help writing teachers become better writers, mentors, and readers. There are several free university level writing courses that can be taken online. Credit is not available for any of the courses and degrees are not awarded, but the opportunity to build new skills is undeniable. Here are 10 self-paced writing courses to explore in your spare time."
Todd Finley

Discourse community - 0 views

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discourse

shared by Todd Finley on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Discourse community Swales (1990) found that a discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its aims has acquired some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms) has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.  
  • Todd Finley on 27 Mar 11
     
    Discourse communitySwales (1990) found that a discourse communityhas a broadly agreed set of common public goalshas mechanisms of intercommunication among its membersuses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedbackutilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its aimshas acquired some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms)has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.  
Dana Huff

Readability-Score.com - Free Online Readability Calculator - Flesch Kincaid, Gunning Fo... - 5 views

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readability writing tool tools reading

shared by Dana Huff on 17 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 17 Apr 13
     
    Checks writing for readability levels, including Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, SMOG Index, and Automated Readability Index.
Kim Laird

First Days Must Haves... - 16 views

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First Day procedures

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  • Kim Laird on 21 Jul 10
     
    A spreadsheet with many first day activities from teachers at all grade levels. Also has websites and twitter names for contacts.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Survey Results: Mobile learning for ELT - 1 views

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survey mobile learning ipad ipod iphone elt efl esl tefl ICT web2.0 education technology

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  • Nik Peachey on 21 Aug 10
     
    The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers' existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.
Adam Babcock

EdTech by Bloom's Taxonomy levels - 23 views

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edtech

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  • Dana Huff on 13 Nov 10
     
    This chart includes Web 2.0 tools to be used with each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and hyperlinked to the the tools' websites.
  • Leslie Healey on 14 Nov 10
     
    This is fantastic--I already sent it to everyone in my department. Thx
Karen LaBonte

LearnCentral - 8 views

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elluminate pd resources tools learncentral

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  • Karen LaBonte on 16 Mar 10
     
    About LearnCentral LearnCentral is a new social learning network for education, sponsored by Elluminate. More than a social network or a learning community, this free, open environment represents the next logical step of combining asynchronous social networking and the ability to store, organize, and find educational resources with the live, online meeting and collaboration provided by Elluminate technology. Not just for Elluminate customers, LearnCentral is for any educator who is passionate about teaching and learning and wants to find and connect with like-minded colleagues to share content, develop best practices, and collaborate on a global level. While still in its early stages, LearnCentral has the potential to make a significant historical difference in how educators work together for professional development in their own careers.
Mrs. Lenker

hackneyed on Vimeo - 12 views

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vocabulary

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  • Mrs. Lenker on 27 Jan 11
     
    Level F
Susan Payne

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

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socialnetworking web2.0

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  • 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

thejournal.com/...ward-Learning-Communities.aspx

shared by Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • Susan Payne on 18 Jul 09
     
    Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.
Leslie Healey

BBC News - Internet has 'not become the great leveller' - 8 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-10642697

worldlit bbc news TED

shared by Leslie Healey on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 22 Jul 10
     
    this is what happens when we look to prioritize our news by what's trending instead of perusing all of it and then deciding.  This supports my efforts to add contemporary texts to my World Lit course.
Mark Smith

"The Blood of Thought": Zbigniew Herbert on Hamlet, first time in English  | ... - 5 views

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literature shakespeare hamlet

shared by Mark Smith on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The mad Ophelia and the mock-mad Hamlet expressed the poet’s many-sided rebellion against the world’s ordinariness. For there is a kind of normality that is unacceptable, a base, comfortable normality that submits to reality, forgets easily. It is universal because some inner law of economics doesn’t allow us to experience reality to the full, to the depths, at the level of the most profound feelings and meanings. The same instinct for self-preservation in the sphere of the mind protects us from an excessive sensitivity, from the ultimate why and wherefore. Hamlet is the contradiction of that attitude.
  • Mark Smith on 01 Sep 10
     
    Brilliant essay.
andrew bendelow

gladwell dot com - cocksure - 12 views

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  • andrew bendelow on 23 Jan 10
     
    TKAM supplement; Kinda throws a rock in the church of St. Atticus; my soph's can probably read at this level
Todd Finley

Exploring Genres - 12 views

www.msu.edu/...level1.htm

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      Todd Finley on 28 Mar 10
       
      This is one of the best MGRP resources on the web. 
Adam Babcock

Transcript: Obama's State Of The Union Address : NPR - 4 views

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education history

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  • What we can do — what America does better than anyone — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives. It's how we make a living.
  • This is our generation's Sputnik moment.
  • That's what Americans have done for over two hundred years: reinvented ourselves
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  • asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own.
  • the biggest impact on a child's success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as "nation builders." Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.
  • If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you.
Adam Babcock

Distribution of earnings and median earnings of persons 25 years old and over, by highe... - 8 views

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college classroommanagement data

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Patrick Higgins

Reading Rockets: The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction - 7 views

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literacy elementary reading

shared by Patrick Higgins on 16 Feb 11 - Cached
  • The issue is less stuff vs. reading than it is a question of what sorts of and how much of stuff. When stuff dominates instructional time, warning flags should go up.
  • In less-effective classrooms, there is a lot of stuff going on for which no reliable evidence exists to support their use (e.g., test-preparation workbooks, copying vocabulary definitions from a dictionary, completing after-reading comprehension worksheets).
  • In these classrooms, lower-achieving students spent their days with books they could successfully read.
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  • In other words, in too many cases the lower-achieving students receive, perhaps, an hour of appropriate instruction each day and four hours of instruction based on grade-level texts they cannot read.
  • No child who spends 80 percent of his instructional time in texts that are inappropriately difficult will make much progress academically.
  • These exemplary teachers routinely offered direct, explicit demonstrations of the cognitive strategies used by good readers when they read. In other words, they modeled the thinking that skilled readers engage while they attempt to decode a word, self-monitor for understanding, summarize while reading, or edit when composing. The "watch me" or "let me demonstrate" stance they took seems quite different from the "assign and assess" stance that dominates in less-effective classrooms (e.g., Adams, 1990; Durkin, 1978-79).
    • Patrick Higgins
      Patrick Higgins on 16 Feb 11
       
      This makes great sense: children need to see what experts do when they read.  
  • I must also note that we observed almost no test-preparation activity in these classrooms. None of the teachers relied on the increasingly popular commercial test preparation materials (e.g., workbooks, software). Instead, these teachers believed that good instruction, rich instruction, would lead to enhanced test performances.
Adam Babcock

"Monster" analysis by Shmoop - 12 views

www.shmoop.com/kanye-monster

music hiphop

shared by Adam Babcock on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Keith Schoch on 19 Mar 11
     
    I'm all for using pop culture references in teaching, and I did read what Shmoop had to say on this particular video, but would you really feel comfortable sharing this video in class and having a discourse on it? I'm a Jay-Z fan and a hip hop lover from its earliest days, but this video and song are reprehensible on so many levels. With so much else that we can "source" for instruction, why this? Please help me understand. And don't say it's a gangsta thang.
  • Adam Babcock on 20 Mar 11
     
    To answer your first question about showing the music video: absolutely not. Why this? I'm still struggling with it. We're in an age where we are entertained by self destruction. Kanye (unfortunately, because I was a fan of his earlier work) is definitely becoming one of the monster / Charlie Sheen / Jersey Shore / reality TV burnouts. And yet, there is an audience for it... When I first skimmed the analysis, I thought I'd go back to see if Schmoop was established enough to have a worthy application of Freud to Kanye. Alas, I was mistaken. I haven't become a fan of Schmoop; they've got some work to do. I'm sorry I misplaced my "under investigation" tag in ECN's collection.
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