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Rick L

Wiktionary:Academic word list - Simple English Wiktionary - 0 views

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  • Rick L on 06 Apr 10
     
    "The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities." This page gives a compact listing of all the word families in the AWL, divided by sublist, each word linked to a simple definition page.
Paul Beaufait

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American - 1 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 18 Dec 10
     
    "Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web's usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).
Paul Beaufait

A publishing platform for the Mary Washington community - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Nov 12
     
    "UMW Blogs is a publishing platform available to any member of the University of Mary Washington community. Based on the open-source system, WordPress, it allows any faculty member, student, or staff employee to create a blog, a course or project site, or professional Web presence. We invite you to create an account and start exploring!" (About, ¶1)
Paul Beaufait

Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 02 Aug 10
     
    Authors of Teaching Writing Using Blogs... are hoping to collect "material related to the topics in this wikibook: links, references, files, descriptions of teaching activities, or student work." For permission to comment on or edit this wiki, "request access from Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, at rbeach@umn.edu" (Front Page, 2010.08.03).
Paul Beaufait

SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011 - 0 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • several problems are inherent in machine scoring. First, though Ferris (2003) claimed that students will improve over time if they are given appropriate error correction and that students use teacher-generated feedback to revise things other than surface errors, students rarely use programs like MY Access! to revise anything other than surface errors (Warschauer & Grimes, 2008); paragraph elements, information structure, and register-specific stylistics are largely ignored. Second, although teachers can create their own prompts for use with the program (more than 900 prompts are built into MY Access! to which students can write and receive instantaneous feedback.), MY Access! will score only those prompts included in the program. Third, regarding essay length, in many cases, MY Access! seems to reward longer essays with higher scores; consequently, it appears that MY Access! assumes that length is a proxy for fluency.
  • Overall, students’ opinions regarding MY Access! were mixed; students found useful aspects as well as aspects they termed less helpful.
  • Some students found working with the program very helpful in discipline, encouraging multiple revision. Others liked working with the many tools provided, finding them very helpful in the revision process. On the other hand, some students, lacking basic computer skills, found the program stressful and unusable. Others were discouraged by the seeming overabundance of feedback; in some cases, writers found it overwhelming, so they tended to disregard it. Our most disheartening finding: When some of the students were unhappy with their scores, they found ways to raise them by simply inserting unrelated text to their essays.
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  • They appreciated the help MY Access! offered in finding grammar errors, but they were not always sure how to fix them. Further, the program offered no positive comments about what students were doing well, which could negatively impact student motivation. In addition, after working on a prompt once or twice, many became bored and wanted to switch to another prompt. Many of the student writers used MY Access! for surface editing only and rarely used it for revision. In general, students in this study did not use features in MY Access! (e.g. My Portfolio, My Editor), possibly because their teachers did not explicitly assign them.
  • Locally controlled assessment is important; when assessments are created from within, they are specific to one context―they are developed with a very specific group of students in mind, considering what those students have learned in their classes and what they are expected to be able to do as a result of what they have learned in that context. Standardized tools such as the many machine-grading programs available today cannot address this specificity.
  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Mar 11
     
    "Though Crusan (2010), Ericsson and Haswell (2006), and Shermis and Burstein (2003) offered a more thorough treatment of machine scoring in general, in this article, I concentrate on one program―MY Access! (Vantage Learning, 2007)―briefly describing it and discussing a small study conducted in a graduate writing assessment seminar at a midsize Midwestern university in which graduate students examined second language writers' attitudes about using the program as a feedback and assessment tool for their writing in a sheltered ESL writing class" (¶2).
Paul Beaufait

Handouts on Writing - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Jun 14
     
    This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing handouts. For example, there's a handout illustrating the use and misuse of apostrophes and commas, and another explaining and illustrating the use of transitions.
Paul Beaufait

College Writing Center: Websites on Writing - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Jun 14
     
    This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing websites. For example, there's link to the Purdue OWL resource page for students and teachers of English as a second language.
Paul Beaufait

Avoiding plagiarism - University of Leicester - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 01 Aug 12
     
    This study guide comprises "an interactive online tutorial designed to help ... [students] to understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. There are different versions of the tutorial available tailored to the needs of different subjects" (Don't cheat yourself, ¶1). It sports a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales. Ready-made subject areas range from bio-science to psychology (2011.08.01).
  • Paul Beaufait on 01 Aug 12
     
    Check out the tailor-made tutorial for English (and American studies)!
Paul Beaufait

The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar - Michelle Navarre Cleary - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 13 Mar 14
     
    "Just as we teach children how to ride bikes by putting them on ... bicycle[s], we need to teach students how to write grammatically by letting them write. Once students get ideas they care about onto the page, they are ready for instruction-including grammar instruction-that will help communicate those ideas" (¶5).
Paul Beaufait

McToonish » ... » The Death of Communities When Courses End - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 04 Sep 09
     
    "Fortunately Facebook, Ning, Google and Yahoo Groups and many other options for social networking don't work that way. Those communities can continue for as long as the members of the community put in the effort to keep it alive. This can be very useful for students to stay in contact for social, professional and learning opportunities" (Ross, 2008.10.06).
Paul Beaufait

Athabasca University Press - Mobile Learning - 0 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology.
  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Sep 09
     
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  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Sep 09
     
    "This collection is for anyone interested in the use of mobile technology for various distance learning applications. Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research. Businesses and governments can learn how to deliver timely information to staff using mobile devices. Professors can use this book as a textbook for courses on distance education, mobile learning, and educational technology." (Details, ¶1)
Paul Beaufait

Blog U.: Search: How Libraries Do it Wrong - Library Babel Fish - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • The ultimate purpose is to prepare students to develop a habit of finding evidence and reasoning from it, which involves being thoughtful about both the search process and sources encountered as our graduates go forth to think for themselves.
  • It turns out the databases we use are more likely to include content from mega-corporations that from societies or universities, and the content of over 40% of the new journals was available in only a very few libraries, so even if a database identified a citation, it wouldn’t be accessible to most library users. Many open access journals would be available – just not discoverable through library tools.
  • we need to make sure that we aren’t turning libraries into walled gardens of overpriced material only available to the few, that when we introduce undergraduates to search, we recognize that searching is not a matter of tool use but is a creative and critical part of the research process and so teach it in the context of learning language, finding connections, and looking for patterns
  • Paul Beaufait on 05 Aug 11
     
    Highlights weaknesses in collections and uses of library resources
Paul Beaufait

Grammar resources - University of Chicago Writing Program - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 07 Nov 14
     
    "An annotated collection of grammar and writing resources from around the web" (deck, 2014.11.07).
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