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Shelley Rodrigo

What is Web 2.0? (Simple definition, please!) - 0 views

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ENGL665 web2.0

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  • Web 2.0 is an Internet jargon term used to describe the newer generation of websites that are about "User-generated" content
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 29 Sep 11
       
      Like that it focuses on user generated content...as a writing teacher, students are "writing" as users.
Catrina Mitchum

Help Mozilla stop Internet Censorship Legislation - 0 views

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Censorship

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  • Catrina Mitchum on 17 Nov 11
     
    Wow. Really?
Catrina Mitchum

More Universities Break the Taboo and Talk to Ph.D.'s About Jobs Outside Academe - Facu... - 0 views

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Jobs

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  • Catrina Mitchum on 09 Nov 11
     
    Thought this was interesting for those not on the PhD listserv.
Catrina Mitchum

Create stories using social media - storify.com - 1 views

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tools

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  • Catrina Mitchum on 19 Oct 11
     
    Thought this was an interesting tool
Dionne Wesley

CollegeWriting.info--A Free, Full-Text Writing and Composition Textbook, Handbook, Edit... - 1 views

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Learning to Write for all areas

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    • Dionne Wesley
      Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
       
      This site is cool. A student can find out how most writing techniques are created and they have examples. The site is set up for the visual learner in templates. The templates allow the student to stay organized and it breaks down the process to product..
  • Section A. Starting To Write Section B. Arguing   Section C. Responding to Readings Section D. Online Help Grammar Handbook \                                             \                                          /                                           /           E.-G.-Speak-Read-Think _  Welcome!        Table of Contents        Grammar        Samples _  Sections H.-I. Revise Edit College Writing High School Writers     Teachers     Theory     Free Use     http://www.tc.umn.
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  •    Welcome to CollegeWriting.Info!  This Web book is an online, full-length college, AP, and basic writing textbook and professional resource--the most complete and practical writing textbook on the free Web.                     Are you a student?  CollegeWriting.Info is easy to read and highly practical, with more information than other free college writing textbooks on the Web.  It is a community with many houses, each with different rooms: CollegeWriting.Info has dozens of chapters on academic, professional, literary, and creative writing, all containing a variety of helpful descriptions and examples.  Most chapters offer multiple focuses for both beginning and advanced writers, and for classroom, personal, or professional use.  Navigation is simple, with both visual and textual links to other pages and sites, to sample papers, and to related readings.  Why is this book good?  Here is a 4:45-min. video showing you why having a highly practical (and free) guide to real writing is important in our world: "A Vision of Students Today": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.                            Are you an instructor?  CollegeWriting.Info is a genre- and community-oriented textbook with an emphasis on learning-centered, writing-intensive instruction useful in most beginning and some advanced undergraduate college courses in composition, writing across the curriculum, literature, speech, and writing in other disciplines.  A section for basic writers is included, too.  CollegeWriting.Info also can help you and your students easily explore other online writing resources, with links to some of the Web's finest sites containing usage and mechanics, argumentative and other nonfiction essays, and full-text literary classics.  In addition, CollegeWriting.Info provides instructor-oriented essays on--and links to--theory and pedagogy, listings of academic writing organizations and resources, and many other helpful professional links.  For more about the author and the development of this Web textbook, see "About the Authors."  For more about the theory behind this textbook, see "Teaching Strategic Experience."                 
  • Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
     
    A composition site for college students
Betsy Long

Wunder Groove Crop and Intention Tank for the Gym | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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exercise brainrules brain workout

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    This represents Brain Rule #1-- Exercise makes your brain sharper so that you can reach your goals!
Betsy Long

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Anson distantvoices newspaper obselete

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Anson says that the newspaper will go the way of the dinosaur-- pretty insightful for being written in 1999... Although, he did think we'd be plugging our tablets into vending machines that accepted quarters... hmmm...
Betsy Long

Computers in the Composition Classroom - 0 views

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Hawisher Selfe computers classroom students

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Hawisher & Selfe say that because computers are in classrooms everywhere now, teachers have to revamp their strategies for teaching. They can't just take their traditional methods and throw in computers. There is a better way!
Betsy Long

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students computers classroom library teacher librarian

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Now that there are computers in school libraries, library specialists and instructors have a responsibility to make sure students are using the computers while following certain regulations.
Betsy Long

Web 2.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
       
      I like wikipedia's definition. I think that Web 2.0 does have to do with web apps that facilitate participatory info sharing, interoperability, etc. Social media is also an important part of web 2.0
  • The concept of Web-as-participation-platform captures many of these characteristics. Bart Decrem, a founder and former CEO of Flock, calls Web 2.0 the "participatory Web"[17] and regards the Web-as-information-source as Web 1.0.
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      Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
       
      The concept of web as a participation platform is a big part of web 2.0, and also the teaching writing with technology classroom. The participatory culture is a huge part of integrating technology into the classroom.
  • Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
     
    This Wikipedia page talks about Web 2.0, saying that Web 2.0 as we use it has to do with web applications that facilitate participatory info sharing, interoperability, and user-centered design
Betsy Long

How do I use Repetition? - 0 views

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repetition brainrules chapter6

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      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Most of the events that predict whether something learned will also be remembered occur in the first few seconds of learning. The more elaborately we encode a memory during its initial moments, the stronger it will be.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      (Chapter 5)
  • Learners who used a repetition tactic remembered 50% more content after one week (7 days) than did those learners who did not recite.
  • This is a practice activity. Use it with students who are familiar with the lesson content. Students recall facts, labels, lists, rules, or procedures by stating the correct question that corresponds to the answer provided by the narrator while participating in a game to make the lesson more interesting. This activity should be used after the students are familiar with the lesson content.
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      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Brain Rule #4: People don't pay attention to boring things! If you want your class to remember to repeat, and repeat to remember, play a game with them! Do something to hold their attention.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      Brain Rule #4: People don't pay attention to boring things! If you want your class to remember to repeat, and repeat to remember, play a game with them! Do something to hold their attention.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This goes along with the idea of CH 6-- We must remember to repeat! The fact that we know repetition is a good learning tool is useless if we don't actually remember to do it. Having a repetition tactic helps out with that goal.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This goes along with the idea of CH 6-- We must remember to repeat! The fact that we know repetition is a good learning tool is useless if we don't actually remember to do it. Having a repetition tactic helps out with that goal.
  • Repetition involves repeating the information to be recalled. Repetition can be done verbally, in writing, or mentally. It has been documented that the most effective method of Repetition is verbal repetition because it involves both auditory and vocal senses.
  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Ch 5 of Brain Rules says you must repeat to remember. This site promotes that, even giving examples of class activities that involve repetition
Betsy Long

Group and Classroom Games: Fun Socialization and Learning Activities for Kids and Teens... - 0 views

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Brainrule4 boring fun activity attention

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    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This covers brain rules 4, 5, and 6. It involves the importance of using fun for learning, as outlined in CH 4, but it also covers the importance of strenthening memory for the purpose of enhancing learning, as outlined in chapter 5 &6
  • . Students line up along the back of the room while the group leader stands in the front. The leader calls out a series of descriptors: if the statement is true, students take a step forward. If it’s not true, students take a step back.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
       
      This brings in brain rule 4, which states that audiences will pay better attention if they have rich, fun classroom experiences. It also brings in brain rule 1, which talks about the importance of activity for learning.
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  • test kids’ ability to remember a group of common items.
  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Brain Rule 4: People don't pay attention to boring things. This website of classroom games and activities does a great job of outlining some great ways to hold the attention of a class. Students, especially young students, do not have the attention span to have tons of information lectured at them for hours. Therefore, it's important to break up the monotony with some fun classroom activities-- trick them into learning, so to speak.
Beth Bensen-Barber

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views

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education good principles teaching practices

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      Beth Bensen-Barber on 12 Oct 11
       
      Seems like good practices to engage students and hold their attention per Brain Rules chapter 4.
Carrie Emerson

Memory - 0 views

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memory ENGL665

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  • Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)
    • Carrie Emerson
      Carrie Emerson on 12 Oct 11
       
      Bit old, but perhaps nothing better has come out...? Thoughts?
  • holds material for about 15-30 seconds, although this can be expanded by practice. This is much shorter than most of us think—a lot of people seem to think that it lasts for ten minutes or so. You can see, however, how disabling damage to the STM is, as in the case of dementia
  • Carrie Emerson on 12 Oct 11
     
    I think that some of the sources are outdated, but it is a nice connection to the short term/long term debate...
sarah spangler

Effective Teaching Strategies: Six Keys to Classroom Excellence - Faculty Focus | Facul... - 0 views

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GoodTeaching

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  • are makes
  • When our interest is aroused in something, whether it is an academic subject or a hobby, we enjoy working hard at it.
  • It avoids those assessment methods that encourage students to memorize and regurgitate. It recognizes the power of feedback to motivate more effort to learn.
Amanda David

Dean Encourages Professors to Teach Naked? - 0 views

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Brain Rule 4

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      Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
       
      Brain Rule #4 stresses that people don't pay attention to boring things. To keep an audience's attention this article encourages professors to teach without the boring powerpoint.
  • Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
     
    attention: teaching without powerpoints
Amanda David

Using Repetition and Picture Cues to Foster Independent Young Readers - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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brain rule 6

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    • Amanda David
      Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
       
      using repetition in lesson plans helps to build long term memory (Brain Rule 6)
  • Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
     
    repetition is key to remembering things long term
Amanda David

Teacher's Online Lesson Plan Builder | Eric Jensen's 10 Minute Lesson Plans | Lesson Pl... - 0 views

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brain rule 5

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    • Amanda David
      Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
       
      This is a good site to find 10-minute lesson plans. Brain Rules Ch.5 states that 10 minutes is the amount of time for a student's attention span.
  • Amanda David on 12 Oct 11
     
    10-minute lesson plans
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