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I attended Connecting Collections a few summers ago and met 40 teachers from the US, Canada and Mexico. We spent a week in NYC museums and learned from the museum educators there. It is a fabulous professional development experience and I highly recommend the education links from each of the four museums.
Get the best of this phenomenally expensive conference right here on the web. I also have the app on my iPhone. A new video and podcast are added each day. Check it out.
Wiki workshop curriculum about educational technology integration, authentic learning and student engagement created by Wesley Fryer. (www.wesfryer.com)
Great glossary to have on hand when you're too lazy to get up and search for the one you dropped $50 for in grad school. But maybe I'm projecting.
I use this site nearly every week and instruct my students to do so as well. It is infinitely superior to our school's style manual and only a click away when you're typing up an assignment.
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
The most recent edition, with updated sound and statistics. This video prompts a fascinating discussion in my classroom each year.
ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, covering web apps, web technology trends, social networking and social media.
When teaching a class online that involves significant writing, instructors face challenges in giving feedback to students. Many instructors use various editing features, such as Microsoft's TrackChanges, Comment, or other such tools to comment on papers. However, these tools present obstacles to both the instructor and the student.
Another article about using audio comments to respond to student writing. I find the bibliography here especially useful.
The idea that learning is social is built into discussion classes. If individuals contribute their thoughts, shared insights will produce more knowledge. The problem is that this assumption is largely unexamined.
Kristy, this one's for you! First, a teacher must establish a collaborative environment from the beginning of class. A wiki-based project should not be the first time students work together. Collaborative projects work well, but only if an environment of cooperation already exists.
Forget about learning Spanish or Chinese. The language you really need to know to keep up — in the U.S. anyway — is street lingo. To stay hip, visit Urban Dictionary, which has millions of user-submitted words and definitions.
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Check out my links for teachers. I've also put up my own website featuring slide shows from my lectures with the National Writing Project, student podcasts, and more.
Updated on 2009-05-20
Created on 2009-02-12
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