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Thomas Clancy

Podcasts of CliffsNotes Literature Notes - CliffsNotes - 0 views

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  • Thomas Clancy on 07 Sep 10
     
    Each CramCast is a three- to four-minute overview of a classic work of literature and gives you background on the author, a brief summary of the book or play, and ends with the top three things you should know about the work.
Keith Hamon

OnFiction: Gateway of Imagination - 1 views

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  • One might think that this kind of imaginative play is mildly interesting but essentially frivolous. Not so. Imagination of the kind that starts in childhood is the gateway not just to literature, as Keats discerned, but to adult thinking. In her experiment-based book on how imagination is necessary for creating mental models (including models of how the world might be but is not), Ruth Byrne (2005) has said that rational thought has turned out to be: “more imaginative than cognitive scientists ... supposed,” and that “imaginative thought is more rational than scientists imagined” (xi).
  • Keith Hamon on 17 Feb 10
     
    Imagination of the kind that starts in childhood is the gateway not just to literature, as Keats discerned, but to adult thinking.
  • Thomas Clancy on 18 Feb 10
     
    However, was it not "imagination" that got the students into trouble who were "filming" their classmate's beating with their "newscameras" and "microphones"? They seem to have gotten swept up in the pretense of their imaginative play to the point of disregarding the reality that was happening before them, or, if not disregarding it, feeling that a make-believe distancing actually removed them from active engagement.
Keith Hamon

Mapping Novels with Google Earth - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Erin Sells novels mapping Google Earth literature data visualization writing Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 11 Apr 11
     
    The use of models and other abstract forms in literary study has recently seen a revival in a digital age that puts data and sophisticated data management systems in the hands of the literary scholar, teacher, and student. Pedagogical applications of these abstract models are rich with possibility for the literary classroom, and offer exciting opportunities for engaging non-English majors and non-traditional learners in the advanced study of literature, as well as challenging students to verbally articulate visual and spatial knowledge.
Stephanie Cooper

100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School | Online Colleges - 0 views

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Google Tricks Google Tricks Education search technology

shared by Stephanie Cooper on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Use this specialized Google search to get results from scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, and academic publishers. Use Google Earth’s Sky feature. Take a look at the night sky straight from your computer when you use this feature. Open your browser with iGoogle. Set up an iGoogle page and make it your homepage to have ready access to news stories, your Google calendar, blogs you follow in Google Reader, and much more. Stay current with Google News. Like an electronic clearinghouse for news, Google News brings headlines from news sources around the world to help you stay current without much effort. Create a Google Custom Search Engine. On your own or in collaboration with other students, put together an awesome project like one of the examples provided that can be used by many. Collect research notes with Google Notebook. Use this simple note-taking tool to collect your research for a paper or project. Make a study group with Google Groups. Google Groups allows you to communicate and collaborate in groups, so take this option to set up a study group that doesn’t have to meet face-to-face. Google Code University. Visit this Google site to have access to Creative Commons-licensed content to help you learn more about computer science. Study the oceans with Google Earth 5. Google Earth 5 provides information on the ocean floor and surface with data from marine experts, including shipwrecks in 3D. Learn what experts have to say. Explore Knol to find out what experts have to say on a wide range of topics. If you are an expert, write your own Knol, too.
  • Stephanie Cooper on 18 Mar 10
     
    There's so much Google can do that most of us aren't even aware of! Some of these might come in handy for yourself as well as your students.
Keith Hamon

AJET 27(2) Guo and Stevens (2011) - Factors influencing perceived usefulness of wikis f... - 0 views

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Zixiu Guo Kenneth John Stevens wikis writing elearning Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Sep 11
     
    This study reports the findings of an investigation of the factors influencing the use and usefulness of wikis in an introductory, undergraduate information systems course. Informed by the media choice, technology acceptance model from information systems research, and group collaborative learning research from the education literature, a survey instrument was developed and administered across the entire course. The study found that wiki use was influenced by the student's prior expertise with wikis, with their perceived usefulness of wikis being strongly influenced by their teachers' attitudes towards the technology, and the ease of access to the wikis. The students' overall attitude towards wikis was largely influenced by the extent to which they saw wikis as helping with their assignment work, and their intention to use wikis in the future was driven by their perception of wiki's usefulness. The paper concludes with an outline of the lessons learned from the study and recommendations for instructors who are thinking of using wikis in their teaching.
Keith Hamon

Lit Bits » Blog Archive » Twitter in the Literature Classroom? Part 1 - 1 views

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Tim Hetland Kelli Marshall Twitter social networking writing elearning Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 02 Nov 11
     
    Kelli Marshall's blog is a candid and detailed post on using Twitter as a discussion tool in some of the film courses Marshall has taught. She explains that while some students have resisted using the site, they have generally produced great comments about the course's content and have participated in thoughtful conversations, even beyond the classroom.
Stephanie Cooper

Seven Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 3 views

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 11 Apr 12
     
    This guy has some very interesting thoughts, but can teachers really afford to follow some of his advice??  
  • Mary Ann Scott on 12 Apr 12
     
    His sense of audience is ridiculous. I'm all about creativity, even in academic writing. My students have a variety of creative opportunities, but the fact remains that they need to learn how to put thoughts together effectively. I just looked at two essays that had absolutely no coherent point, even though they featured personal experiences. He made a comparison between essays and novels. Dude! They are two completely different forms of writing. They have different goals and different parameters. Yes, the 5-paragraph essay is a stilted, inauthentic form of writing and it is largely on its way out, but at the secondary level, it is the training wheels some students need to learn how to organize their thoughts coherently. No matter how they write, they still have to say SOMETHING.
  • Thomas Clancy on 15 Apr 12
     
    He does exaggerate for effect, e.g. his claim that students are told to write in a style similar to classic literature--ridiculous! No one is told to copy any writing style previous to 1950, unless it is graduate students being told to mimic the horrible jargon of academic journals, but I think that's a different "bad" than what he means here. He avoids what should be his real topic--truly bad writing; I mean incompetent, to the point of being an effort to follow, poorly structured writing. We see this writing from the strongest cases of ESL students and from students who seem to have skipped several grades in school or who have never read a great deal in their school years. He leaves off the most important tool for teaching writing, and that is frequency. Anyone who only writes by email, Facebook, and twitter, and only writes something for a class once or twice a semester, will never break into a "conversational" form of writing (with complete sentences and paragraphs) that will be recognized as literate, normal, and natural. We recommend starting with short, non-graded writing and, by writing 2-3 times a week, working up to something more substantial. If teachers can do that, then college student writing will improve, but the plan requires patience and consistency from the teacher.
Keith Hamon

450 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture - 4 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 03 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 03 Jul 12
     
    Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
  • Thomas Clancy on 05 Jul 12
     
    Keith, this is amazing, astounding, and literally science-fiction come to life for us oldsters -- throws the concept of "home schooling" into an entirely new light, not to mention expanding the conventional classroom. In just poking around a little at the site, I also found "gutenberg.org" and "librivox.org" mentioned as sources of more and more treasures. Thanks for this gift!
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