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Intute - Home - 0 views

www.intute.ac.uk

library research education

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 07 Nov 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 07 Nov 09
     
    For those who need further help in research, this site may prove helpful.
J.Randolph Radney

Art of Memory « Andrew B. Watt's Blog - 1 views

andrewbwatt.wordpress.com/...art-of-memory

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 06 Nov 09
     
    Although this webpage may be of general interest to the English classes as a whole, I am sending it along for Stephanie to take a look at. Would it be an interesting source for your research essay, Stephanie?
J.Randolph Radney

Centre for Teaching Excellence Blog » e-learning: green learning? - 0 views

cte-blog.uwaterloo.ca/?p=928

environment ebooks

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 05 Nov 09
     
    Do you think it would be good for the environment if textbooks were made available using eReaders?
J.Randolph Radney

Power Paths | Independent Lens | PBS Video - 5 views

video.pbs.org/1317137222

power independentlens PBS Video Navajo

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 05 Nov 09
     
    This is a video about how Navajo people are generating their own electricity that does not pollute the environment.
J.Randolph Radney

The Fischbowl: This I Believe Goes Global - We Want You! - 2 views

thefischbowl.blogspot.com/...e-goes-global-we-want-you.html

writing collaboration podcasting global

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 03 Nov 09
     
    What would it look like if students banded togehter to write and podcast their ideas for Williams Lake?
J.Randolph Radney

Brainware: How to Succeed with Failure - 1 views

danerwin.typepad.com/...w-to-succeed-with-failure.html

writing fear failing

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 02 Nov 09
     
    Please don't think that I am trying to set any of you up for failure in this class. I don't anticipate any of my students failing (except those who don't try... and they have already failed...). Rather, think of what this site has to offer regarding making mistakes. Many of you have been afraid to write for fear of making mistakes. I would suggest that you try to double the rate at which you are making mistakes in writing...:)
J.Randolph Radney

More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder | The Onion - Americ... - 2 views

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YTD youthful tendency disorder

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 02 Nov 09
     
    Please read very carefully; I would like to get an idea in class whether many of you face this malady... Cheers, radney
J.Randolph Radney

coolfood kidz - 1 views

www.coolfoodplanet.org/kidz

health nutrition education

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 31 Oct 09
     
    Those of you with children (or who have younger siblings) will find this site helpful in finding out key nutritional ideas.
J.Randolph Radney

Blogger in Middle-earth: The Ubiquitous Question - a reflection on learning - 1 views

newmiddle-earth.blogspot.com/...us-question-reflection-on.html

questions learning

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 31 Oct 09 - Cached
  • I gained the respect of my teachers, probably because of this attribute of asking questions, for I certainly wasn’t a model student.
  • Good teachers admire learners who ask pertinent questions.
  • Asking a question offers a teacher the opportunity to fulfil that so-often-difficult-to-attain goal of the pedagogue. The goal is to teach relevantly. While it’s true that learners tend to engage more in learning when they interact during a ‘lesson’, I’m not so sure that speaking up or even asking a question is necessarily exclusive for learning to occur.
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  • I’m not entirely opposed to the suggestion that questioning is a way to learn. Nor am I questioning the idea that learners will learn nothing if they don’t ask questions. My hunch is that questions are asked in the mind all the time. The trick of learning relevantly lies in asking the right questions.
J.Randolph Radney

Why Writer's Block is Your Secret Weapon | Copyblogger - 0 views

www.copyblogger.com/use-writers-block

writing storytelling blocks

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • When you work it right, writer’s block is your secret weapon to becoming a better and more resilient writer. And when your ability to write is what pays the bills, that’s gold.
  • face the fear that any act of writing brings.
  • use writer’s block as a signal to stop and reflect on what you fear and why, because if you don’t acknowledge the fear, you’ll never be able to face it. All it takes to move through fear is facing it, feeling it. Saying to yourself, “Okay, this is scary. But it still needs to be done.”
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  • Take a blank sheet of paper and write down a one-line summary of what you think you’re supposed to be writing.
  • Write down all the ideas and opinions about that topic
  • put that page aside because that’s not the one that’s going to turn your block into a weapon. (In fact, it’s the one that will keep you stuck.)
  • Get another blank sheet of paper. Again, write down what you think you should be writing in the center of the page.
  • Dig deep into what you have to say, what you think, and what your opinion is, stripped away from all of those from the first sheet. Put it all out on the page, and take more pages if you need to. Remember, there is no one to judge you and your task is to write without any reference to the ideas or opinions from that first sheet, but write only from within you.
  • Each time you unblock yourself by writing despite your fears, it builds confidence. You realize, “Hey, I’ve got a lot to say! And I’ve got a unique position!”
  • You teach yourself that even though your job requires you to write to and for other people, you’re really doing it for yourself
  • To be a resilient and fierce writer, you need to write despite your fears. And you need signals, such as writer’s block, to help uncover your fears so you can face them.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    For those of you who find the writing for this class too much to handle: Read this; read it several times; try to follow it's advice.
J.Randolph Radney

ePal International Find pen pals throughout the world - 0 views

happygold.com

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    Do you think it would be easier to write electronically to one person than it is to write in a blog?
J.Randolph Radney

Listen to the Walls Talking | Collaboration Center - 1 views

media.iearn.org/...wallstalking

walls collaboration global iearn

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    Can you find some pictures to send along to this site?
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iEARN - International Education and Resource Network - 0 views

iearn.org

global collaboration education technology

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  • Debunking Stereotypes. In this project, students collect information about the cultural stereotypes of their countries and and debunk them. Facilitated by Saeed Al Abdulsalam in Oman. Poster at right by Macedonia team. Read more and connect to the forum.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    Here is the iEARN website.
J.Randolph Radney

Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals - 1 views

www.idrc.ca/067-5

poverty

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  • Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the changing policy discourse and the processes that led to the greater visibility of both poverty reduction and gender equality
  • Chapter 2 charts the gradual evolution of macroeconomic analysis from its earlier gender-blindness to current attempts to make it more gender aware.
  • Chapter 3 sketches out an ‘institutional framework’ for the analysis of gender inequality within the economy and explores its variation across the world.
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  • Chapter 4 turns to a more detailed examination of the relationship between gender inequality and poverty at regional and national levels, drawing on findings from three different approaches to poverty analysis: the poverty line approach; the capabilities approach (using human development indicators); and participatory poverty assessments.
  • Women’s role as economic actors – and its critical importance to the livelihoods of the poor across the world – is considered in Chapter 5.
  • Chapter 6 focuses on the human development concerns of the MDGs.
  • Chapter 7 reinforces the critical importance of certain resources to women’s capacity to exercise agency, but this time focuses on forms of agency that are in the interests of women themselves – in other words, those that serve the goals of women’s empowerment and gender justice.
  • The final chapter (Chapter 8) attempts to draw out the implications of the relationship between gender equality and pro-poor growth for policy efforts to achieve the MDGs.
  • Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on poverty eradication.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    "In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 governments across the world made a commitment to take collective responsibility for halving world poverty by 2015."
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    So far, one of the few countries making progress on-track to achieve this goal is (surprisingly) Bangladesh (cited in Yunus, Mohammad. _Creating a World Without Poverty_)
J.Randolph Radney

YouTube - Phishing Scams in Plain English - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

plain english scams youtube

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09
     
    Students need to protect their private information. Please watch this short youtube video for information.
J.Randolph Radney

The secret link between refinishing furniture and academic research - ProfHacker.com - 1 views

www.profhacker.com/...urniture-and-academic-research

profhacker creativity scholarship education standards

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  • I have long been fascinated by the myth that there are two different types of people in the university: The creative faculty who produce works of art, on the one hand, and the scholarly faculty who write peer-reviewed journal articles, on the other hand.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09
     
    What do you think? Is there a divide between people who are creative and people who are analytical/scholarly? Must we choose one or the other?
J.Randolph Radney

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Marks its One Millionth Download - 0 views

ostatic.com/...rks-its-one-millionth-download

opensource software openoffice

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09
     
    If you are tired of paying for office software, here is a reputable and free application suite that will do everything generally required of students in the way of word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations.
J.Randolph Radney

YouTube - The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company - 2 views

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shakespeare hip-hop

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 29 Oct 09
     
    What do you think? Shakespeare Hip-Hop!
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Top News - The rise of the globally connected student - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...index.cfm

Global writing

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 27 Oct 09
     
    Do any of you use either iEARN or ePals?
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: At the End of the Anomaly of the Age of Printed Books - 2 views

teachpaperless.blogspot.com/...anomaly-of-age-of-printed.html

teachpaperless writing text literature literacy

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 27 Oct 09
     
    What is this author's point in terms of print text and literature?
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