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Similarities & Differences
A look at the ways Brooke and Tiffany acquire their supplementary materials.
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Bee Foster
1 year 38 weeks ago
Brooke: Shark Tank
Brooke discusses the way in which she used television clips to engage students into deeper conversations around decision making and character.
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Bee Foster
1 year 38 weeks ago
Tiffany: Children's Books
Tiffany uses Children's books to teach rhetorical analysis.
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Bee Foster
1 year 38 weeks ago
Visuals Matter
Video to create a sense of urgency surrounding Visual Literacy.
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Bee Foster
1 year 38 weeks ago
Supporting Youth to Develop a Mental Map of Where They Learn
For a number of years now, Global Kids, Inc. has been attempting to figure out a simple approach to support the youth in our programs to develop the...
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Barry Joseph
2 years 8 weeks ago
The Dover Inquiry Community: Empowering Students in a Year-Long Issues-Based Project
This  Hudson Valley Writing Project- Dover Middle School partnership, federally funded with an NWP grant, allowed teachers in this project to...
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Bonnie Kaplan
1 year 19 weeks ago
Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age
Teachers Are the Center of Education is a series of reports that highlight the importance of teachers and the quality of their work. This report...
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Bob Jobin
2 years 29 weeks ago
Persuasion through Public Service Announcements
I started off the year with extremely reluctant writers.  I knew that to survive I would need a way to motivate and engage my students. ...
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Kristyna Brewer
10 weeks 2 days ago
Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted - Malcolm Gladwell
In his essay, "Small Changes," published in the New Yorker in October, 2010, Malcolm Gladwell pushes back on the notion that social media has opened...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 32 weeks ago
Teachers' Letters to Obama Facebook Group
Teachers' Letters to Obama is a Facebook group created by Anthony Cody, teacher and blogger, as a way of collecting communciations to President Obama...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 32 weeks ago
Interview: Will Richardson on Connective Writing
In this interview, broken into three parts, Will Richardson further explains what he means when he talks about connective writing.   It part 1,...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 29 weeks ago
Will Richardson's "Connective Writing" Wiki
In this wiki, a resource used to support a presentation, Will Richardson, an educator, author and consultant attempts to sketch out his notions of "...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 29 weeks ago
Hyperlinks Are, Well, Hyperlinks, I Guess
Hyperlinks are overlooked as an essential tool in the digital writer's toolbox. Perhaps this happens because the people who use them have...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 30 weeks ago
Teaching Blogging Not Blogs
As I was preparing to give a presentation for CyberCamp, a summer professional development experience I created in the summer of 2008, I tried to put...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 29 weeks ago
Reading the Web - Readability
In this screencast, I take a short trip through Readability, a reading tool developed by Arc90 that folks use to strip the text out of a Web...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 30 weeks ago
Reading the Web - Instapaper
In this short walk through of how I use Instapaper, a text harvesting tool for websites,  I talk about the value there is in being able to...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 31 weeks ago
Reading the Web - Evernote
Evernote has become a place where I keep a copy of much of the Internet that I want to refer to later.  This is dangerous as it is handy, as it...
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Bud Hunt
2 years 30 weeks ago
Children Selling Books to Each Other
How do most of us choose books to read? Do we Google book recommendations? Not anyone I know. Maybe we go to Barnes and Noble and browse through...
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Cecele Carter
2 years 28 weeks ago
Critical Literacy
This method of teaching comes from Paulo Friere, a Brazilian educator and theorist we have been reading in our E401 Teaching Reading class are...
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Chelsea Geier
1 week 4 days ago
Literacy is All Around Us
After watching that short video, what was running through your mind? Think about it for a second. Were you constantly putting images to words? Making...
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Chelsea Geier
1 week 4 days ago
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