CollegeWriting.Info
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CollegeWriting.info--A Free, Full-Text Writing and Composition Textbook, Handbook, Edit... - 1 views
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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."
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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This also helps students remember what is taught to them, if they are paying attention!!
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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.
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HowStuffWorks "How Web 2.0 Works" - 0 views
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This site references O'reilly a lot, as he's apparently the authority on all things Web 2.0. There are many competing definitions for Web 2.0. Some say it's a set of practices and philosophies that help users have a deep, rich web experience. Others think it's a new collection of technology that increases accessibility for everyone. Still others think it's all hype and it means nothing...
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Web 2.0 Definition and Tagging - 2 views
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web 2.0...is about making the Internet useful for computers.
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I think these definitions relate to reading and writing because we read and write for different purposes. The definition of web 2.0 I selected mirrors the same intent. Web 2.0 tools are platforms for various purposes. I think if we can fin the appropriate web 2.0 school for out reading or writing purpose we can make these practices natural. From all my research on web 2.0 tools a reoccurring purpose was business.
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The Web as Platform", because I can then fill in the blanks depending on who I'm talking to. For corporate people, the Web is a platform for business. For marketers, the Web is a platform for communications. For journalists, the Web is a platform for new media. For geeks, the Web is a platform for software development. And so on.
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How do I use Repetition? - 0 views
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Learners who used a repetition tactic remembered 50% more content after one week (7 days) than did those learners who did not recite.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Memory - 0 views
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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
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Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views
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and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. WebCT Tip: Provide students examples of "A"-quality work. Release statistics along with grades, so that students can see how they are performing as compared to the rest of the class (stats can give the mean grade and/or the frequencies). Use the "Selective Release" feature to release course info only as students achieve a certain level of success on a test.
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WebCT Tip: Stick to a template for course page design *but* vary the types of excercises and assignments.
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