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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
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Classroom Management - 0 views

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  • 3. Establishing Rules. Establish a set of classroom rules to guide the behavior of students at once. Discuss the rationale of these rules with the students to ensure they understand and see the need for each rule. Keep the list of rules short. The rules most often involve paying attention, respect for others, excessive noise, securing materials and completion of homework assignments.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      As we learned in Brain Rules, it is also important to repeat the rules many times, especially for younger students.  
  • 5. Learning Names. Devise a seating arrangement whereby students' names are quickly learned. Calling a student by his or her name early in the year gives the student an increased sense of well being. It also gives a teacher greater control of situations. "JOHN, stop talking and finish your work" is more effective than "Let us stop talking and finish our work".
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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This technique helps us as teachers remember students names.  It deals with brain rule 6, where we need to remember to repeat the same behaviors so that we are able to engrain names in our memories.  
  • 4. Overplaning Lessons. "Overplan" the lessons for the first week or two. It is important for the teacher to impress on the students from the outset that he or she is organized and confident of their ability to get through the syllabus.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      Overplanning is necessary for brain rule 4, attention.  If students are left to their own devices, they quickly lose attention and will start doing what they want to do.  It important to over plan so that students remain engaged throughout the class period.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This also helps students remember what is taught to them, if they are paying attention!!
  • Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
     
    This website focuses on the very essential teching practice of classroom management.  This is specifically geared towards elementary- high school classrooms, where structure is necessary all of the time.  i chose this because it relates to Brain Rules 5 and 6.  Repetition is EXTREMELY important for elementary, middle, and high school students when it comes to teacher expectations and policies.  This gives good advice to teachers to help them manage their classrooms.  
Betsy Long

How do I use Repetition? - 0 views

www.lpg.fsu.edu/...ht-k2flrep.asp

repetition brainrules chapter6

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    • Betsy Long
      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
      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
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “So if there’s anything else on your desk right now, please put that inside your desk.” He mimics what he wants the students to do with a neat underhand pitch. A few students in the front put papers away. “Just like you’re doing, thank you very much,” Zimmerli says, pointing to one of them. Another desk emerges neat; Zimmerli targets it. “Thank you, sir.” “I appreciate it,” he says, pointing to another. By the time he points to one last student — “Nice . . . nice” — the headphones are gone, the binder has clicked shut and everyone is paying attention. Lemov switched off the video. “Imagine if his first direction had been, ‘Please get your things out for class,’ ” he said. Zimmerli got the students to pay attention not because of some inborn charisma, Lemov explained, but simply by being direct and specific. Children often fail to follow directions because they really don’t know what they are supposed to do.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This is a very interesting technique that works well for 6th graders.  In order to get the students attention, you need to give them precise and clear directions.  Often, if they notice each other make sudden movements, they will begin to model that behavior.  
  • A teacher’s control, he said repeatedly, should be “an exercise in purpose, not in power.”
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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This point is a very important teaching tool.  Policies and procedures need to be constantly repeated so that they become long term memories for students.  At the age of 11, many of my students do not recognize the inappropriate behaviors that they constantly do.  My constant reminders make them aware of their behaviors.  I can see when they are about to make a mistake and then they say to themselves, "Oh...I'm not supposed to do that." 
  • which Lemov attended, the students don’t raise their hands — the teacher picks the one who will answer the question. Lemov’s favorite variety has the teacher ask the question first, and then say the student’s name, forcing every single student to do the work of figuring out an answ
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      We do this at my school.  The fact that every student is forced to be held accountable for the answer at any time forces students to pay attention in class.  When students assist each other with coming up with the answer, it actually helps them remember in the future.  They end up learning from each other, explaining the concept in a different way.
  • Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
     
    This article, though lengthy, is very interesting.  You really have to get towards the middle to get into the meat of the article.  This relates to all of the Brain Rules (4, 5, 6) that we have discussed in the past three weeks of class.  
Amanda David

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

www.10minutelessonplans.com

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
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.
Shelley Rodrigo

Widgets for Web 2.0: What is Web 2.0 - 5 views

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ENGL665

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  • Web 2.0 is all about the following and more... 1. User Centric and User Oriented2. Web Services, Web API's3. Widgets, Gadgets, Mashup's4. Blogs, Feeds, Wiki's, Tagging, Podcasting 5. Social profile 6. Social bookmarking 7. Client rich technologies like CSS, HTML, DOM, XML, AJAX, JSON, XHTML, REST, SOAP
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 29 Sep 11
       
      I really like that the first item is focused on the user writer.
    • Betsy Long
      Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
       
      From what I've read, that's a big part of the concept of Web 2.0-- user centeredness, and letting users get the most out of the Internet in the easiest way possible. There is so much available, but it's no good if the general public can't benefit from it.
    • Beth Bensen-Barber
      Beth Bensen-Barber on 30 Sep 11
       
      The simplicity of the definition you highlighted in green seems to be show up in many articles/definitions. I like that we can break down the definition into pieces and then expand the pieces to a more meaningful idea of what Web 2.0 means. I think this ability to expand on simplified ideas is what attracted me to the wheel in one of the definitions I posted.
    • sarah spangler
      sarah spangler on 01 Oct 11
       
      I like lists and use them frequently to order my life and my writing, so a list-type definition of this nature helps simplify the Web 2.0 concept.
    • Catrina Mitchum
      Catrina Mitchum on 29 Sep 11
       
      Image -specifically the words in orange- make me think of the teaching world because they all highlight issues in the field of rhet/comp right now.
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 29 Sep 11
       
      What do the words in pink make you think?
    • Catrina Mitchum
      Catrina Mitchum on 29 Sep 11
       
      I suppose teaching and my own learning. It gets more into the nitty gritty of it al? It brings in the New Media aspect of rhet/comp?
  • Catrina Mitchum on 29 Sep 11
     
    Web 2.0 Definition Site #1
Shelley Rodrigo

The Digital Revolution and Higher Education | Pew Social & Demographic Trends - 2 views

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ENGL665

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  • presidents
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      What do you think of the fact it is presidents being surveyed?
  • Value
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      How does this compare to stuff you've read? Your own experiences? Your hopes & desires?
  • Digital Textbooks
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      How does this connect with other materials you've read and reflected upon?
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  • Plagiarism
  • Pages
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      Notice there are more pages. Start up (and make sure to "share" w/the group) at least one more discussion prompt. Then be sure to go engage in at least 2 other discussion prompts.
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      Engage in at least two discussions on this page (you can either respond to two I've already started or engage with one of mine and then start another).
    • Shelley Rodrigo
      Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
       
      Be sure to note my second set of instructions at the bottom of the page.
  • Shelley Rodrigo on 05 Oct 11
     
    Class discussion activity for 10/5.
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