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Patrick Higgins

Graphic Organizers @Web English Teacher - 0 views

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    Web English Teacher's list of resources for graphic organizers.
Patrick Higgins

Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 0 views

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    The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter. In so doing, however, the letter writer called the first couple the "Obama's." This, too, was published, constituting an illiterate proofreading of an illiterate criticism of an illiteracy. Moments later, already severely weakened, English died of shame.
Patrick Higgins

IDEA: International Debate Education Association - Debate Resources & Debate Tools - 0 views

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    I used this site when I taught English in Ramsey to provide students with sound basis for arguments in class. At the very least it can provide you with a host of topics for students to write about and discuss.
Patrick Higgins

Doug Johnson Website - dougwri - Designing Research Projects Students (and Te... - 0 views

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    Doug Johnson's article from 10 years ago about how to create engagin research projects with students. This should be required for every high school English teacher.
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    Take a good look at this one. How do you want your students doing research?
Patrick Higgins

English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound Free Online - 0 views

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    Learn how to pronounce words via this online service.
Patrick Higgins

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

  • We can agree or disagree with Kevin, but the world keeps spinning. Screens are made and used in instructive and destructive ways. As an educator I need to learn to use screens as learning platforms so that I can model constructive informative behavior for the students I interact with. So here is how I came to write this post. I subscribe to Will Richardson's blog weblog-ed in my Google Reader. He shared a link to Kevin Kelly's blog Technium. As I read the blog post I used Diigo to underline and add sticky notes. I now have this annotation in my Diigo groups. I will Twitter this and add a link in the New Literacies Institute Ning at newlit.org. Kevin will sell a few more books, which I have hundreds of, and add more readers of his blog.
  • This article is very interesting because it made me think.And I thougt that I was right when I bought a computer for my 81st birthday.It has a wide screen,and I could enlarge the letters to be able to read it because my eyes are bad. I felt that I was not anymore excluded of the world.I had entered the 21st century. The last 12 or some years I spend writing a book by hand.Nobody would ever read a single word of the more than 400 pages.No editor would have accepted it.But is has been typed and now it is on the web.Everybody can read it,and sites of military history,dutch and french,published it or parts of it(I wrote it in french)because it is about the 1940-campaign. Thank you,dear author,you made me feel I was right.
  • Bring on the technology, we have plenty of idle brain space waiting to make use of it.
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    Kevin Kelly writes about how reading has changed from a silent, individual pastime to one that is collaborative, more physical pursuit.  
Patrick Higgins

Langwitches Blog » What does it Mean to be Literate? - 0 views

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    What do we think of our current definition of literacy? Does it effectively encompass all of the changes we have undergone as readers and thinkers?
Patrick Higgins

Zero-Thumb Game: How to Tame Texting | Edutopia - 0 views

  • guiding exercises in text translation: pulling up a MySpace page or a lingo-drenched school paper and asking students to translate the writing into standard English. Or they ask students to translate passages from classic literature into texting speak to demonstrate their comprehension of the writing and to create a form of multilingual focus, similar to how learning a foreign language tends to enhance a student's understanding of his or her native tongue.
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      This is a great example of how to take a typical assignment and give it an atypical outcome.
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    Another good reason to address the texting issue.
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    Check out how this teacher is viewing the use of text message lingo in her classroom. Very forward-thinking stuff here.
Erica Hartman

Shmoop Literature: Summary, Analysis, Themes, Characters, Paper - 0 views

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    still in beta but great potential
Erica Hartman

Writing Our Future - National Writing Project - 0 views

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    write a letter to the future prseident
Patrick Higgins

Messaging Shakespeare | Classroom Examples | Focus on Effectiveness - 0 views

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    How to bring Cellular technology to Stratford-on-Avon. This is a wonderful example of a teacher leveraging technology that is essential to the lives of students to further their understanding of a traditionally challenging subject.
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    Texting Shakespeare. Check out this use of the cell phone.
Patrick Higgins

The Girl Effect - Home - 0 views

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    Thanks to Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen for this one. Outsanding visuals and impactful message. This makes sense.
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    Love the idea, love the design, and really want to see us get involvded here.
Patrick Higgins

Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views

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    Excellent read about a teacher really going paperless.
Patrick Higgins

Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - Integrating New Literacies into the Teach... - 1 views

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    Essential reading for anyone teaching students to write today.
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