This is a resource to help you think about how formal students want their public blog to be.

Here are some ideas to help students improve their strategies for searching the Internet for information.

Take a look (when you're having a good day) :)

Some of you may be interested in the music on this web site.

What do you think? How do you think sound affects your ability to write? Have you tried different sorts of sound/music to write by?

I would like to discuss this with students. What do you think about the late policy discussed in this blog entry?

While that might be an interesting point of debate, Tara, I notice that you are talking about children, whereas the discussion was intended to relate to adults, such as yourself. Do you really want me to treat my students as if they were children?? I also would like to challenge your statement that all policies are good. Do you mean by this that there is no such thing as an unfair policy? Please write more about this.

This is the present view in many large university classrooms in North American teaching contexts. I have to prepare you for this sort of class.

Here's a webpage showing the current commitment of education specialists to the development of learning using digital technologies (blogs, social bookmarking, wiki pages, etc.).

I would like students to comment on what makes learning boring (as it presently seems to be in schools), and what you think it would take to make learning fun. Please watch the video embedded in the "What did they tweet" bookmark elsewhere on this site before you respond.

See if this link works, to go directly to the video:

There are also more videos at http://thefuntheory.com/

This is another recent article written on the use of social media in education, particularly by younger students.

This article is a recent discussion of the need to use social media in teaching English language arts in BC.

This is a summary in point form of the competencies expected of graduates of secondary school in the are of English Language Arts.

In light of our discussion (Monday, 19 October), I thought students might want an understanding of the current expectations for English 12 students in the secondary schools.

"However, perhaps the most exciting element of Diigo from my perspective, is the insight it will give me as a teacher into the students' research process. Rather than having vague status-update conversations with students, where I'm typically assured that everything is "going well" (a response which, in its vagueness, I can neither confirm nor deny), I, by virtue of being connected to my students' Diigo networks, would be able to look at their sources, and more importantly, their annotations for those sources, and give them specific feedback about their level of engagement and depth of research. Not only would this ability allow me to see what progress they've made on their research, but it will also help students develop a clearer sense of what constitutes valuable active reading and how one distinguishes salient, useful information from that which is less valuable."

This is an evaluation of social media tools for classroom use.

How do you feel about the likelihood that many minority languages are expected not to be spoken by 2100?

Actually, Tara, I think it would help to have more writers and producers of web content in minority languages online. What is important seems to be reinforcing the community ties of language use, giving people things to read, watch, and listen to in their heart language.

This is the full article on First Nations Internet use.

Are you interested in contributing to the evolution of Internet use in the north?

This site is the British Columbia Teachers of English Language Arts homepage.

The National Council of Teachers of English (in the US) has prepared several pages of information for people who want to write well. Check out the links that are on this page.

The National Council of Teachers of English (in the US) has prepared several pages of information for people who want to write well. Check out the links that are on this page.

What will you risk today? Is the risk you fear actual or only apparent?