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ALERT Processes - 6 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 29 Nov 09 - Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 29 Nov 09
     
    Students today need to learn to live amid vast amounts of information. They need to learn to construct points of view using reason, evidence, and intelligent emotions. Such skills and understandings are best taught by helping them create original presentations, drawing on original research from primary sources.\n\n Through learning expeditions planned to include the ALERT processes, young researchers can explore and contribute to their cultural heritage.
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A Key to the Lock - 3 views

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shared by Suzanne Rogers on 17 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Suzanne Rogers on 17 Apr 11
     
    Written in 1715 by Pope (using the pseudonym Esdras Barnivelt), this humorous interpretation of The Rape of the Lock serves as a warning to critics not to take the poem too seriously. In the Key Pope exposes his own poem as a dangerous political allegory (Belinda represents Great Britain, the Lock represents the Barrier Treaty...). 
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The Fictional 100 - 17 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 15 Apr 11
     
    fascinating, useful blog about the characters we love (or hate) great resource for student research, research, discussion. We have already begun to argue about which Shakespearean characters deserve to be on the list........
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PECHA KUCHA BOOK REVIEWS - Google Docs - 2 views

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shared by Leslie Healey on 01 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 01 Apr 11
     
    if you have not tried Pecha Kucha, you should. I am using it this year for my junior SAT prep group.They have been reading independently, and I want to give them some credit for the numerous books they have read. It also requires organization, clear judgment and prep. Also, IT IS FUN.
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Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com - 9 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 10 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • So a few years ago, I started slipping my classes short writing assignments alongside the required papers. Once, I asked them, “Come up with two lines of copy to sell something you’re wearing now on eBay.” The mix of commerce and fashion stirred interest, and despite having 30 students in each class, I could give everyone serious individual attention. For another project, I asked them to describe the essence of the chalkboard in one or two sentences. One student wrote, “A chalkboard is a lot like memory: often jumbled, unorganized and sloppy. Even after it’s erased, there are traces of everything that’s been written on it.”
  • My ideal composition class would include assignments like “Write coherent and original comments for five YouTube videos, quickly telling us why surprised kittens or unconventional wedding dances resonate with millions,” and “Write Amazon reviews, including a bit of summary, insight and analysis, for three canonical works we read this semester (points off for gratuitous modern argot and emoticons).”
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 11 Apr 11
       
      these comments are more useful than the article--we do a "welcome" every morning from the night's reading. This might freshen up the "welcome" and remind them of its relevance to their lives. Thanks.
  • And short isn’t necessarily a shortcut. When you have only a sentence or two, there’s nowhere to hide.
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  • Rewarding concision first will encourage students to be economical and innovative with language.
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Evolving English Teacher: #engchat: Out of the Desk & Into the Text: Using Performance ... - 5 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 06 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 06 Apr 11
     
    Glenda Funk shares some performance pedagogy techniques designed to get students out of their desk and on their feet.
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YouTube - Ai Weiwei detained. Here is his TED film - 1 views

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shared by Jenny Gilbert on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Jenny Gilbert on 04 Apr 11
     
    excellent video for yr 10's Mao's last dancer - and yr 12 encountering conflict. gives insight into China today, use of social media and the ways people go about gaining freedom of speech.
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Teen Twiction - 1 views

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shared by Tracee Orman on 06 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Tracee Orman on 06 Apr 11
     
    Educational site for teachers & students to use Twitter in class.
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PrimaryWall - Web based sticky notes for schools - 2 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 25 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 25 Apr 11
     
    Specialized wall wisher?  Filtered for school use.
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Jeff Clark - Portfolio Illustrating Patterns in Data - 14 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 29 Apr 11
     
    This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators.  As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns.   What a find! 
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Education Week: Why Core Standards Must Embrace Media Literacy - 5 views

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shared by andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • andrew bendelow on 28 Jun 11
     
    Problems with CC media literacy standards: " focus marginalizes uses of a range of other media/digital literacies associated with social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, digital images/videos, smartphone/tablet apps, video games, podcasts, etc., for constructing media content, building social networks, engaging audiences, and critiquing status quo problems.And, other than a mention of the need to "evaluate information from multiple oral, visual, or multimodal sources," there is no specific reference in the common standards to critical analysis and production of film, television, advertising, radio, news, music, popular culture, video games, media remixes, and so on. Nor is there explicit attention on fostering critical analysis of media messages and representations."
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All Edublogs Blogs Are Now Advertisement Free - Help Us Keep It That Way! - 4 views

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shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 18 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 18 Jul 11
     
    Now ad-free, even for the free blogs. Yes!
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Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views

www.creativenonfiction.org/...whatiscnf.htm creativenonfiction writing web2.0 blogging studentblog
shared by Leslie Healey on 13 Oct 12 - Cached
  • 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
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If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones | Networked - 13 views

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shared by Adam Babcock on 21 Jul 12 - No Cached
    • Adam Babcock
      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.
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Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers - 1 views

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shared by Kirstie Knighton on 15 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Kirstie Knighton on 15 Jul 12
     
    Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.
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