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From the Learning Theories Knowledgebase at Learning-Theories.com, n.d. This page presents brief entries on Social Development Theory (Vygotsky) and Communities of Practice (Lave and Wenger), with links to further details for each.

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."

by Heather Coffey, published by Learn NC: K-12 teaching and learning from the UNC School of Education, n.d.

By Thomas Berger. Published by Dial Press, 1964

Website for the movie. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning.

By Lewis Carroll on Poemhunter.com. Mentioned in Using Context Clues in Vocabulary Learning discussion in the Comity Club pedagogy circle.

Academic program within the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The basis for this program is to listen carefully to patients' stories and use the stories to help treat the patients. The program's founder, Dr. Rita Charon, combines her MD with a PhD in literature.

Performed by Taylor Mali at the Bowery Poetry Club on November 12, 2005. From OpenCulture, but originally posted to YouTube.

This important early (1977) discussion of basic writing made a woke the world up to the concept of teaching basic writing and still provides important insights today. Her work on error analysis is very useful.

By Mina P Shaughnessy. Published by Oxford University Press, 1977. This guide examines student errors in thousands of papers to better understand the nature of writing errors among incoming college students.

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.

By Galbraith, Michael W. and Melanie Jones. In Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2007): 20-27. This was one of the pre-camp reading assignments, and is available on Polilogue. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

Published by Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1974, this document "includes the resolution on language adopted by members of CCCC in April 1974; the background statement explaining and supporting that resolution; and the bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement...."

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

"A nonprofit organization that increases sharing and improves collaboration." Creative Commons recommended license is one of the standards for content that is freely shared online. The idea of open educational content has implications for teachers, students, publishers, colleges/universities, etc.

Novel by Cory Doctrow. Published by Tor Teen, 2008. This book has been published both in print (see WorldCat or Amazon to find a copy) and for free, online (at this link) under Creative Commons license. This is tagged with technology; online texts provide new opportunities for teachers and students.

Google offers a collaborative writing tool (similar to MS Word), with JEC uses with her writing students in order to manage the draft-edit-revision process.

By Chung, C.J. In Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. This was one of the pre-camp reading assignments, and is available on Polilogue. Article is available for purchase or may be available through document delivery in your college's library.

By Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff. In Style, vol 42 (1), spring 2008. pp 18-21. Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 54 (30), p A40.

By Harold Pasher, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork. Published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, vol 9 (3), Dec 2008, pp. 105-119. The authors looked at scientific evidence related to learning-style assessments in education. They concluded that evidence did not bear out the use of such assessments, but also point out that many versions of learning styles have not been tested at all (and thus there is no evidence).

By David R. Arendale from New Directions for Teaching and Learning, vol 1994, issue 60, pp. 11-21. This is a widely-cited article that explains supplemental instruction.