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So I’ve put together tips for getting the most out of blogging with your student (you can watch the recorded ETMOOC student blogging session here). For more information I recommend you work through our step by step guide to blogging with students.
a practical how to attribute Creative Commons licensed material.
There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone.
Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is a series of elaborate games, set in the past, where students take on the roles of historical characters, and through arguments and gameplay, have the potential to reshape history. In order for students to “win” the game, they have to thoroughly master literary and historical texts for their games’ time period, and to be able to fight against their in-game opponents through a series of oral presentations and written work. In other words, students in Reacting to the Past have to basically do everything their professors want them to do in a college class—read and analyze texts, learn about historical contexts, learn how to construct forceful and convincing arguments—but in the guise of a game.
Key Takeaways
Education built around digital portfolios not only ties together various student-generated artifacts into a coherent whole but also creates an environment in which technology use has a clearly identified purpose.
Hundreds of services provide free hosting and website creation tools and are ideal platforms for digital portfolios because they can support just about any type of digital content.
Turning consumers of knowledge into producers of knowledge transforms learning into an active experience.
Deirdre DeAngelis began a detailed investigation into why, ultimately, New Dorp’s students were failing. By 2008, she and her faculty had come to a singular answer: bad writing. Students’ inability to translate thoughts into coherent, well-argued sentences, paragraphs, and essays was severely impeding intellectual growth in many subjects. Consistently, one of the largest differences between failing and successful students was that only the latter could express their thoughts on the page.
it’s important to learn how to write with authority. This means that you as the reporter and writer knows enough about the topic that you can confidently make statements that illuminate context.
Narrative authority is a lot of things. More than anything, authority signifies believability. It’s a series of deliberate yet artfully subtle cues that convince the reader that what we’re seeing on the page accounts for a genuinely human experience. In order for it to work, authority requires an acknowledgement on behalf of the reader, a tacit understanding that the narrator is a credible source to deliver the information proposed. Ultimately, authority convinces readers to take a leap of faith. It instills trust; it’s the practice of believing that the illusion of the story is as real as anything else.
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.
tips on how you can make your posts more Google-y and have more authentic, personal, and intimate conversations.
I think good writing doesn’t have to be educated or well supported or even grammatically correct. It does have to be interesting enough that other people want to read it. Much of what comes out of high schools and universities fails this test, not because our students are incapable of saying anything interesting, but because a well-meaning but flawed academic system has taught them a lot of bad habits.
Three weeks ago I added another layer to our digital writing workshop: I introduced students to Google Docs, and with it learned the power and potential of yet another space that again is changing writing instruction as I know it.
Wonderful writing across the curriculum resource from the Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Guidelines for creating solid writing assignments in college courses.
I opted to have students use Google Sites to create their portfolios, for several reasons.
Students were already using Google Documents for their essays, so the interface was reasonably familiar to them.
Google Documents integrates well with Google Sites, so it was very easy for students to embed their essays in their portfolios.
Google Sites allows for easy customization, for any student who might want to get creative with site design.
Using Google Sites along with Google Documents makes it very easy for students to control who’s allowed to see what.
This post has two purposes: (1) Present a model you can use for your own students’ portfolios. It is critical to know what you want students to present before you begin. (2) Provide videos that show you, step-by-step, how to set up portfolios using Google sites.
In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection." - modeled on Bloom's approach. It's posted in four installments:
1. A Taxonomy of Reflection
2. The Reflective Student
3. The Reflective Teacher
4. The Reflective Principal
178 items | 1 visits
Information about writing, especially writing in the Academy.
Updated on Mar 16, 13
Created on Feb 11, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: