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A tumblr created by Luke Neff. From his "About" page, he describes himself as a teacher. This page has over 400 writing prompts, most of which include a photo or illustration, a quote, and then a suggestion for a writing exercise.

These might be useful in writing classes.

Sponsored by the Center for Recruitment & Retention of Mathematics Teachers at the University of Arizona, this site is a compilation of one-hour television shows, originally presented weekly on a local cable channel. The team has moved the programs to YouTube to expand their reach.

Produced by Learn Alberta (Canada), this site provides (online) interactive exercises in math.

Posted on YouTube by UsherVEVO on Mar 29 2010.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Posted to YouTube by LadyGagaVEVO on Dec 19 2009.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Published by CollegeBoard, revised 12/2008. This guide provides practice for the WritePlacer test including information about how the exam is scored.

R.O. (week 5, semester3) used this guide with her students to help them prepare for their retest.

Posted by beyonceVEVO on October 2 2009.

This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

This biographical page, by the IDEA Center (a nonprofit that promotes improvement of teaching, learning, and leadership) describes the career and significant presentation topics of L. Dee Fink; his most popular work seems to be The Joy and Responsibility of Teaching Well.

Dr. Fink was mentioned in the Editing, GULP forum, as L.H. attended one of his professional development presentations.

ANGEL Learning Management System - merged with Blackboard

By Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.

CAT technique used from this resource: Double Entry Journals

TM cites Angelo & Cross as she discusses assessment techniques that she had used. Several other cites which I will also bookmark here.

By James Britton. Technical Report on National Writing Project website. Link to PDF download of report. Author discusses teacher developed strategies used to encourage children to learn to write-and-read. Together these create a literacy learning environment.

Although this paper highlights Adult Basic Ed/ELL it has some interesting conclusions about eLearning and assessment.

On free4teachers.com blog, November 26, 2010. Many links to education based games sites and resources.

A sub-site of Teaching Matters, Writing Matters provides writing curricula, interactive technology, and professional development targeted at upper elementary and middle school level. There is a related product, TeXT which facilitates publishing of student e-zines.

This website collects user-contributed definitions of today's slang.

By Deb Aronson. In Council Chronicle, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, Vol 19(#2), Nov 2009. pp. 18-21. Click to page 18 of this PDF for the start of the article.

NH says, "In this article Scott Warnock and others describe the high level of detail that is needed in an online syllabus and writing assignments."

from Michelle Zollars

JEC uses this site as a tool for her students.

By Robin L. Simmons, the site includes terms, exercises, hand-outs etc., all about grammar.

A project of Johns Hopkins University and the University of York (UK), this site provides an encyclopedia of evidence and reviews of K-12 education programs. There might be useful information here; as well the presentation might be one that we can learn from.

Saxon, D. P., Levine-Brown, P., & Boylan, H. R., from Research in Developmental Education, 2008 .

Levine-Brown, P., Bonham, B.S., Saxon, D. P., & Boylan, H. R., from Research in Developmental Education, 2008.