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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.
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>
  
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A teacher’s control, he said repeatedly, should be “an exercise in purpose, not in power.”
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- 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."
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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." </div>
  
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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
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>
  
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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.

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

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Web 2.0: Definition from Answers.com - 0 views

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Sometimes called the "New Internet" as well as "Internet 2.0," Web 2.0 is not a specific technology; rather, it refers to two major paradigm shifts. The one most often touted is "user-generated content," which relates more to individuals. The second, which is equally significant, but more related to business, is "cloud computing."
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lets everyone have their say on anything and publish it to the world at large
- Jamie LaCava-Owen on 30 Sep 11
  
  This makes me think about writing, specifically about the articles that we have read that focus on using technology to make writing a "safe space." In my opinion, the authors of each article we have read, specifically the Hawisher and Selfe, Selfe and Selfe, Selfe by herself, and the Ohmann article all talked about how technology can either connect or divide groups of people, depending on how we use it within the classroom. Our country has had a history with prejudice among races, religions, genders, and sexualities. If used appropriately, technology can create an environment that fosters acceptance. In my 6th grade class, students are being to notice their differences and are starting to feel uncomfortable in their own skin. They are afraid of judgement by their peers, whether physically or academically. I know that being able to publish their papers and have an anonymous reader give them feedback would greatly impact their level of writing. Also, on the issue of publishing--who doesn't want to be published. There is a lot of honor in having something published. Publishing, which seems so unaccessible, has become a more obtainable thing with the onset of the internet. Blogs and wikis make information and idea sharing more readily accessible. I've used blogs to obtain all kinds of information ranging from decorating tips to delightful baking treats. This, too, has connected us a nation, and even a world. Everything is literally at our finger tips. It is easy to say (or type) about how you feel, what your ideas are, or how you see that world. You always have a voice, which is extremely important in a writing class.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This makes me think about writing, specifically about the articles that we have read that focus on using technology to make writing a "safe space." In my opinion, the authors of each article we have read, specifically the Hawisher and Selfe, Selfe and Selfe, Selfe by herself, and the Ohmann article all talked about how technology can either connect or divide groups of people, depending on how we use it within the classroom. Our country has had a history with prejudice among races, religions, genders, and sexualities. If used appropriately, technology can create an environment that fosters acceptance. In my 6th grade class, students are being to notice their differences and are starting to feel uncomfortable in their own skin. They are afraid of judgement by their peers, whether physically or academically. I know that being able to publish their papers and have an anonymous reader give them feedback would greatly impact their level of writing. Also, on the issue of publishing--who doesn't want to be published. There is a lot of honor in having something published. Publishing, which seems so unaccessible, has become a more obtainable thing with the onset of the internet. Blogs and wikis make information and idea sharing more readily accessible. I've used blogs to obtain all kinds of information ranging from decorating tips to delightful baking treats. This, too, has connected us a nation, and even a world. Everything is literally at our finger tips. It is easy to say (or type) about how you feel, what your ideas are, or how you see that world. You always have a voice, which is extremely important in a writing class. </div>
  
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Can Web 2.0 stars get a second chance at success? - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views

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to create the core of a new, faster company built around social information.
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In the space of just a few months, Rupert Murdoch had purchased Myspace, Skype was bought by eBay, and Yahoo had gone on a spending spree that resulted in a dizzying sequence of purchases: Delicious, Flickr, MyBlogLog and more.
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YouTube’s Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
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Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield
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Silicon Valley is populated with people who got lucky once and cashed out, usually thanks to the largesse of a free-spending major corporation like Google, Microsoft or (now) Facebook. Many simply disappear with their winnings and are never heard of again. Others return with new ideas and new companies. Why? Partly because that’s the only thing they know how to do — and partly because they want to prove that they weren’t just fortunate, they were good. And that’s the challenge facing this latest crop of success stories, too. How they fare remains to be seen.
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- Amanda David on 30 Sep 11
  
  I liked this article because it talks about the founders of the Web 2.0 movement. What companies make up the Web 2.0 platform? This article details them all.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I liked this article because it talks about the founders of the Web 2.0 movement. What companies make up the Web 2.0 platform? This article details them all.</div>
  
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Education Week: Let's Stop Teaching Writing - 0 views

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Interesting article.

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Usability of Web 2.0 - 2 views

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- Beth Bensen-Barber on 30 Sep 11
  
  I find the focus on usuability interesting and the break down of the "user experience," themes, and benefits of Web 2.0 technologies is helpful.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I find the focus on usuability interesting and the break down of the "user experience," themes, and benefits of Web 2.0 technologies is helpful.</div>
  
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Wikipedia, Myspace, Forums, Blogs, RSS … all these words form and represent a new way of using the Internet, and has come to be known as Web 2.0.
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- Beth Bensen-Barber on 30 Sep 11
  
  This first paragraph also offers a brief idea of what Web 2.0 is today.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This first paragraph also offers a brief idea of what Web 2.0 is today.</div>
  
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- Beth Bensen-Barber on 30 Sep 11
  
  This article as a whole defines Web 2.0 technologies and I like that it includes examples of what Web 2.0 technologies are. This article could be used in a writing classroom to encourage a dicussion aobut what it means to compose in the twenty-first century.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This article as a whole defines Web 2.0 technologies and I like that it includes examples of what Web 2.0 technologies are. This article could be used in a writing classroom to encourage a dicussion aobut what it means to compose in the twenty-first century. </div>
  
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- Laura Paganucci on 03 Oct 11
  
  It would be interesting to define Web 2.0 in terms of what it is not. This phenomenon is so inclusive.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It would be interesting to define Web 2.0 in terms of what it is not. This phenomenon is so inclusive.</div>
  
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- aleeshsireese on 05 Oct 11
  
  This is a very apporpriate definition. Web 2.0 is simply a new way to use the internet. If we look at the definiton of Web 1.0 it is simply the use of search engines, and email, etc. However, web 2.0 takes these basic tasks to the next level. I like to think of web 2.0 as a function of new media as well.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a very apporpriate definition. Web 2.0 is simply a new way to use the internet. If we look at the definiton of Web 1.0 it is simply the use of search engines, and email, etc. However, web 2.0 takes these basic tasks to the next level. I like to think of web 2.0 as a function of new media as well.</div>
  
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- sarah spangler on 01 Oct 11
  
  Beth, considering Blizzards profound Web 2.0 presence, it seems very intuitive to include their definition.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Beth, considering Blizzards profound Web 2.0 presence, it seems very intuitive to include their definition.</div>
  
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More Universities Break the Taboo and Talk to Ph.D.'s About Jobs Outside Academe - Facu... - 0 views

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Thought this was interesting for those not on the PhD listserv.

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Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again - O'Reilly Radar - 6 views

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Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")
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"Don't fight the internet."
- Beth Bensen-Barber on 30 Sep 11
  
  Sometimes I feel as though I am fighting the Internet daily. But I couldn't do much without given my current career field.
  
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- sarah spangler on 29 Sep 11
  
  I really love this abbreviated definition of Web 2.0. Lately, I've been thinking about how my own patterns of technology use have changed over the past five years and how dependent (addicted?) I've become on the internet. My students are, too, so I think the best thing to do is to find ways to use the internet as a "platform" for learning rather than resisting it (tonk, tonk!) - thinking it through from a critical perspective before implementing, of course!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I really love this abbreviated definition of Web 2.0. Lately, I've been thinking about how my own patterns of technology use have changed over the past five years and how dependent (addicted?) I've become on the internet. My students are, too, so I think the best thing to do is to find ways to use the internet as a "platform" for learning rather than resisting it (tonk, tonk!) - thinking it through from a critical perspective before implementing, of course!</div>
  
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- Catrina Mitchum on 29 Sep 11
  
  I like that you highlighted "Don't fight the Internet" because I have a colleague who received a paper from a student that tried to "argue" that "we" should get rid of the internet and focus on keeping out post offices open. The concept of getting rid of the inernet was ridiculous not only because so many people depend on it (can you imagine), but also logistically. You'd have to cut power to the whole world (I asked if the student had ever seen the Terminator series). I do agree though-it's a wonderful platform for thinking and learning.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I like that you highlighted "Don't fight the Internet" because I have a colleague who received a paper from a student that tried to "argue" that "we" should get rid of the internet and focus on keeping out post offices open. The concept of getting rid of the inernet was ridiculous not only because so many people depend on it (can you imagine), but also logistically. You'd have to cut power to the whole world (I asked if the student had ever seen the Terminator series). I do agree though-it's a wonderful platform for thinking and learning.</div>
  
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- Betsy Long on 29 Sep 11
  
  It's ridiculous to want to fight the internet. We have read a lot of articles in this class published by people who were clearly conflicted during the advent of mainstream internet. It's scary to think that something could come out and completely change the way we do everything. It's important to remember, however, that throughout history, changes like this have occurred. There's no use in fighting it.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It's ridiculous to want to fight the internet. We have read a lot of articles in this class published by people who were clearly conflicted during the advent of mainstream internet. It's scary to think that something could come out and completely change the way we do everything. It's important to remember, however, that throughout history, changes like this have occurred. There's no use in fighting it.</div>
  
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- Dionne Wesley on 30 Sep 11
  
  I like this page. It is very informational and they give great tips
  
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Widgets for Web 2.0: What is Web 2.0 - 5 views

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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 on 29 Sep 11
  
  I really like that the first item is focused on the user writer.
  
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>
  
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>
  
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>
  
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- 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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>
  
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- Shelley Rodrigo on 29 Sep 11
  
  What do the words in pink make you think?
  
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- 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?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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?</div>
  
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Catrina Mitchum on 29 Sep 11

Web 2.0 Definition Site #1

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First Hints of Modern Human Brain Emerge From 2-Million-Year-Old Fossils - Research - T... - 1 views

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ENGL665 BrainRules

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This connects to the second chapter in Brain Rules.

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This connects to the second chapter in Brain Rules.

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

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are makes
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When our interest is aroused in something, whether it is an academic subject or a hobby, we enjoy working hard at it.
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It avoids those assessment methods that encourage students to memorize and regurgitate. It recognizes the power of feedback to motivate more effort to learn.
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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.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>
  
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Amanda David on 12 Oct 11

attention: teaching without powerpoints

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Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views

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