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

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

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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auburnhalclass - Writing Websites - 0 views

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Where to Find Free Literature and Literature Summaries - 0 views

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Literature Summaries Literature Free

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

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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Ideas for Inspiring Writing - 0 views

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61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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Nice little list of some texts that could be described as postmodern.

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Free Technology for Teachers: More Templates Coming to Google Docs - 0 views

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12 Unique Language Reference Tools | Ijaar, Collection of Internet Tools - 0 views

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Professional Development Vocabulary Links2.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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Links to different vocabulary sites and ideas

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SPREAD YOUR KNOWLEDGE! (Part I) Do A Presentation At A Conference This Year! | Burcu Ak... - 0 views

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Free Technology for Teachers: StudyBlue - Collaborative Study Tools - 0 views

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Clifford Baker on 19 Jul 09

Study Blue is a website for students to share and collaborate on the creation of study tools. High School and college students can share notes from class, create multi-media flashcards, email, and share calendars using Study Blue. Students can establish study groups or search for study groups already creating on Study Blue.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Study Blue is a website for students to share and collaborate on the creation of study tools. High School and college students can share notes from class, create multi-media flashcards, email, and share calendars using Study Blue. Students can establish study groups or search for study groups already creating on Study Blue.</div>

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Wonderful Web2 tools for classrooms | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age - 0 views

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Recently I was approached by an aspiring teacher.  She wanted to know which five Web2 tools I use the most, or see as the most valuable…well, the problem was obvious:  How do you choose only five?! 
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The Differentiator - 0 views

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Lesson building tool based on Bloom's taxonomy

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REFLECTIONS ON CREATIVE WRITING CLASS: THE TEACHER; How to confront 30,000 words a week... - 0 views

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What I learned, most of all, was that if you're teaching and not learning then you're not teaching, and if you don't enjoy yourself in the classroom, you might as well be driving a taxi.
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Mary Worrell on 20 Jul 09

A great article by the late Frank McCourt about teaching creative writing and learning alongside his students.

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ReadingGroupGuides.com - Blog - 0 views

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Reading Group questions and ideas

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Article: What educators can learn from brain research - 0 views

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Excellent summary with useful headers of the latest key ideas from brain research and how they apply to classroom instruction.

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Google Documents introduces Templates » Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
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Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
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"Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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"inverted classroom."
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'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
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PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
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  That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...</div>
  
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Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09

I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.

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Research: New 'science of learning' could reinvent teaching techniques - 0 views

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New "science of learning" shows initial, useful results teachers can use daily in designing and delivering instruction.

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