Cynthia Alvarado (calvamom)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I'm a teacher librarian. I'm interested in communities for leaning and knowledge creation.

Member since Apr 08, 2008, follows 5 people, 5 public groups, 3 public bookmarks (3 total).

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Recent Tags:	secondlife(0), religion(0), comics(0)
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September 18, 2009 ~ Second Life | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly on 2009-09-21
NPR: Webcomics: An Annotated Guide for the Understandably Perplexed on 2009-07-24
Education on 2009-02-16
- Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities:
- Obama and Biden support transitional bilingual education and will help Limited English Proficient students get ahead by holding schools accountable for making sure these students complete school.
  - Cynthia Alvarado on 2009-02-16
    
    If they really mean it, we could dispense with a lot of English only ignorance that makes kids miss out on major core subject area content just because they don't understand English well enough yet. I've never met an immigrant child that didn't arrive wanting to learn English. I have met some who have been bullied out of that desire by teachers (who speak only one language) calling them stupid for not understanding as quickly as the bully thinks they should.
- 2 more annotations...
- - Obama and Biden will promote new and innovative ways to increase teacher pay that are developed with teachers, not imposed on them.
  - Obama and Biden will streamline the financial aid process by eliminating the current federal financial aid application and enabling families to apply simply by checking a box on their tax form, authorizing their tax information to be used, and eliminating the need for a separate application.
    Cynthia Alvarado on 2009-02-16
    
    This is huge for first generation college attenders. I have spent uncounted hours helping parents who did not attend college figure out the FAFSA. that's not counting my own 5 kids FAFSAs.

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Education in Second Life

109 members, 246 items

This is a group for people who teach using SL (MG and TG)
educators

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Educators sharing bookmarks and best practice. We have a set of standard tags to help us share things that you may use in addition to your tags. (You may subscribe to these tags via RSS feed by subject area, which makes it very useful.)
Images4Education

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Our Aggregator of resources for the Electronic Village Online Session 2009 "Exploring Images in the 21st Century Classroom".http://images4education.ning.com
MCPS Digital Storytelling

29 members, 41 items

A list of resources to support the teaching and learning of digital storytelling in the K-12 classroom.
Resources for Languages

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A group to share links to resources or ideas to teach world languages