TeachingComp

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

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

Great rant against the "dogooders" of literacy campaigns. From the article "So, every day "we," led by politicians of dubious education and intentions, and by self-enriching dogooders like Pam Allyn, label children as pathologically diseased because their brains don't work exactly like "our" brains. And then, we administer daily doses of humiliation because we somehow forget that someone like Socrates managed to know a whole hell of a lot without being "literate" at all - and, in fact - opposing literacy in every form."

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

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... ;-)

One of my favorite conferences is in SF this year, March 1-3. I'll most likely attend Friday and Saturday. You might consider going for one or two days to get a feel for current trends in digital learning and literacy. From the site: "The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine."

Registration closes Feb 3, $50 for students

tool for creating collaborative portfolios

From the article: "The idea of an "open source curriculum" has until now seemed entirely at odds with the political standardization and prescription of the curriculum. Are there any signs that curriculum will catch up with the decentered open source potential of digital media, and what are the political implications?"

From the article: "We have the content and we have the skills to build our own GarageBand for education."

Bibliographies for composition research threads

Resources for research and teaching in composition