English Companion Ning Group

Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities and tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to watch the whole thing.

Interesting post by Aaron Eyler about whether a larger class size might benefit students. I don't agree, but the comments offer an interesting read.

Interesting post by Aaron Eyler about whether a larger class size might benefit students. I don't agree, but the comments offer an interesting read.

From a great session at NCTE 2009 about teaching literature of the Middle East and knocking down stereotypes. Great resources here.

"# Supporting Diigo-based fine-grained discussions connected to a specific part of a webpage - which opens up the possibility for more meaningful exchanges where teachers can embed all kinds of scaffolding into web-based materials with Diigo: * sharing questions for discussion (either online, or to prepare students for an in-class discussion); * highlighting critical features; asking students to define words, terms, or concepts in their own words/language; providing definitions of difficult/new terms (in various media, such as embedding an image in the sticky note); * providing models of interpreting materials. * using the highlighting/sticky note feature to "mark up" our "textbook" (blog) with comments, observations and corrections to specific words, phrases or paragraphs of each post. * Aggregating bookmarks the students make of websites valuable to their learning, and use the highlighting feature and sticky notes as if they were like the Track Changes feature in MS Word which lends itself more towards collaboration and the iterative process. "

As stated in the title! 347 of them!

Resources and discussion that support the reading workshop.

Great resources for teaching writing and documenting resources

Links to writing and grammar resources