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Figment: Write yourself in. - 6 views

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  • Barry Janzen on 09 Dec 10
     
    Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.
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Authors - ELT and the Crisis in Education: Digital Reading Skills | Delta Publishing - ... - 3 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 08 Dec 10
     
    We take it for granted as English language teachers that we need to develop our students' reading skills, but in most cases the nearest our students get to reading online is a printed version of a web page pre selected by their teacher. At best they may actually get to see a pre selected page on the screen of a computer, but is this enough to really develop their digital literacies?
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Nik's Quick Shout: Make Quick Pronunciation Activities - 3 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 03 Dec 10
     
    "Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."
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The Differentiator - 21 views

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  • Dana Huff on 29 Nov 10
     
    Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.
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NWP Works! - ...making the case for the National Writing Project - 1 views

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  • The time to advocate for NWP is now! We need all teachers and site leaders to call their two senators on Monday, November 29. Please ask them to VOTE NO on Coburn amendment #4697 to S. 510 that would ban all congressionally directed spending in FY2011, FY2012 and FY2013. We expect a vote to be held on this amendment on Monday, November 29, 2010. Read about what's at stake: "Earmark Ban Would Result in Catastrophic Cuts for Children" (Huffington Post)
  • Dennis OConnor on 29 Nov 10
     
    The possibility of the National Writing Project being killed by the Senate makes me physically ill.  Follow up on this article, call your senator. Stop the destruction of a national educational resource that we cannot let die.
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The Great Gatsby - Studio 360 - 16 views

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  • Dana Huff on 28 Nov 10
     
    "Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."
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Tutoring Center, Hand Outs - 15 views

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  • Dana Huff on 26 Nov 10
     
    Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.
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eduTecher.net - 8 views

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  • Teresa Ilgunas on 25 Nov 10
     
    One stop for teachers looking for tech tools. Click on Edutech.TV, and many of these tools have how-to videos. Nice.
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The Word Exchange: Anglo Saxon Poems in Translation / Poems Out Loud - 6 views

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  • Dana Huff on 25 Nov 10
     
    Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • “Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
  • is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
  • plays video games 10 hours a week
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  • regularly sends Facebook status updates at 2 a.m., even on school nights
  • his best friend calls him a “YouTube bully.”
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healigan1011 - BESTIARY - 3 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 18 Nov 10
     
    may be useful for British Lit or World Lit teachers: my resource page on bestiaries for my mythology unit/World Lit.
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: willslist. - 3 views

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  • Dana Huff on 17 Nov 10
     
    Shakespeare meets Craigslist.
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Report Spotlights Revolutionary Use of Technology in Teaching Writing - National Writin... - 10 views

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  • New York, June 10, 2010 – "If school is supposed to help us in the rest of the world, shouldn't school look like what's going on in the rest of the world?" asks 10th-grade teacher Paige Cole, one of nine classroom teachers profiled in Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age (PDF), a College Board–National Writing Project (NWP)–Phi Delta Kappa International (PDKI) report released today on the state of technology resources in the classroom.
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