Setting Guidelines for Discussion
how to use online discussion in teaching, perhaps in Blackboard: many good tips on mother site, including rubrics for evaluating grades; most teachers require a certain amount and quality of entries, and also grade them.
more fromwww.edtech.neu.edu
Reading Online--A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy
compares two approaches to reading critically on the Internet, and how to teach that skill; "education is always a contextually situated, socially constructed, ideological practice"
more fromwww.readingonline.org
Pew Internet: Writing, Technology and Teens
4/28/08:"Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing [yet]... believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them."
more frompewinternet.org
John Lye's Courses and Sources Pages
a guide to critical reading and writing, good for anyone writing on literature or the narrative arts, including film and storytelling
more fromwww.brocku.ca
CyberArts
After choosing a piece of artwork and researching the artist, the students create a “tableau vivant”, or “living picture”, image – one in which they dress up, pose for, and become the subject in the image.
more fromwwwf.countryday.net
Andrea Polli: graduate course in audio production: sound environments
How does one define music, sound, noise, and silence; the social and political functions of these elements? Useful paths for both producers and listeners. Good online resources and links, stimulating ideas.
more fromwww.andreapolli.com
University of Essex :: Course Materials :: Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Many courses in literature and film have lecture notes, readings, exam archives, etc. posted here. A model for a college department web site useful to students and others interested in the subject matter.
more fromcourses.essex.ac.uk
Literary Study at Univ. of Essex
many online resources for study of literature and literary theory, including lecture notes, texts online, sample exam questions, etc.
more fromcourses.essex.ac.uk
NCTE - Reading and Writing on the Web
National Council of Teachers of English classroom exercises and resources to teach Internet evaluation and writing for the Web
more fromwww.ncte.org
Technology Review: Blogs: Ed Boyden's blog: How to Think
people working in media and tech need to retool all their professional skills careerwise about every six months; this tells how to do that; one's cognitive framework has to be maximized for constant new learning
more fromwww.technologyreview.com
VoiceThread - "What does the network mean to me?"
Alec Courous had a lot of educators to respond to this question either in audio or video format and presents the compilation here. It's a basic question and the answers reveal people's actual shift in pedagogical practice.
more fromvoicethread.com
Adult Learning - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology
wiki giving clear explanations of theories of adult learning and pedagogy
more fromprojects.coe.uga.edu
The Ipod Hacker: 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better
first post of a new blog, and it has lots of information, plus links to other sites with more information; a site to keep an eye on
more fromthe-ipod-hacker.blogspot.com
Introduction to New Historicism
broad, multi-layered website, of interest to those in cultural studies, film studies, literary studies, and other areas of the humanities; some good summaries of work of major thinkers
more fromwww.cla.purdue.edu
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… » The Best Science Websites For Students & Teachers — 2007
not only is this good for teaching and learning science, but Ferlazzo uses it to teach English to immigrants, giving them a process to do, discuss with each other, and write about.
more fromlarryferlazzo.edublogs.org
CHNM Essays--Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”
on how a college teacher found that his students did not take email or a class discussion site seriously, but responded well to blogging
more fromchnm.gmu.edu
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Home Page
very large set of links, in many kinds of categories, useful in teaching and learning
more fromschool.discoveryeducation.com
Modern Poetry - Open Yale Courses
can get downloads of course pack, audio or video/Flash downloads of lectures; one of the best designs, simple and clean, for online courses I have seen
more fromopen.yale.edu
Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
in opposition, parents want kids to learn proprietary software, like Windows and Word, for future in career. I support the free side, and OLPC, but it's an important current debate and folks should know the arguments pro and con.
more fromwww.gnu.org
Welcome! Ultimate storytelling guide
especially useful are sections on course material and oral history
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