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good tool for putting up lots of information quickly in pieces like sticky notes ie: teaching wall!

This post is full of links based around the ideas of learning gamification. You'll see some familiar names as well. :)

Okay, so I went to post this, and then saw that Karissa beat me to it... ;-)

Not really relevant to teaching comp, but pretty relevant to this crazy modern life I think

This is one perspective on why students should be given multiple opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge

Article is geared to language teachers, but ideas are interesting for all :)

Relates well to the article on math participation by Solomon

This is really interesting, especially as we approach the time to begin designing our syllabi.

Resources for research and teaching in composition

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."

focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.