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WorldLiterate
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a global citizen? And what role might literature play in...
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Mia Zamora
34 weeks 3 days ago
Digital Writing Marathon: Keeping Teachers Connected in a Rural State
“With the advent of Web 2.0 tools, cell phones and a social networking phenomenon, writing has become a part of the adolescent growth experience in...
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Lindsay Sorenson
31 weeks 1 day ago
Digital Writing Marathon: The Planning Process
For implementation of our Digital Writing Marathon in the summer, planning begins in April. Recruiting of participants and facilitators take place...
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Lindsay Sorenson
31 weeks 1 day ago
Digital Writing Marathon: Legging It Out
Participants in their places.  Facilitators prepped and ready for action.  All systems go! The Gun So the race begins.  Two legs to...
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Lindsay Sorenson
31 weeks 1 day ago
What is the cost of "closed"?
In classrooms where connected learning is happening, there is a demand for lots of digital content, and the unfortunate fact is that many schools...
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Karen Fasimpaur
30 weeks 2 days ago
3. To Be or Not to Be
With the resources I had, I believed the students could come to an understanding of what resilience was all about. But, I needed a way for them to...
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Tommy Buteau
30 weeks 1 day ago
2. Mythic Journey
Another great find in O'Donnell-Allen and St. Romain's unit plan was this inspirational talk by Bob Shumaker. In it, he talks about resilience and...
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Tommy Buteau
30 weeks 1 day ago
Making Movies - Using Digital Text to Document Personal Connections
In my junior level American Literature classes, we need to cover a play by Shakespeare each year to be able to meet our Common Core State Standards....
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Tommy Buteau
30 weeks 11 hours ago
#NWPAM12 lightning talk slides & text
Hello! My name is Chad Sansing. I teach humanities at the Community Public Charter School, and I am an unabashed fan of joyful learning. It can be...
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Chad Sansing
29 weeks 5 days ago
1. Resilience Unit Plan
Cindy O'Donnell Allen and Jenny St. Romain created and team taught a unit on resilience at Fossil Ridge High School. Their fulcrum text was Hamlet,...
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Tommy Buteau
29 weeks 5 days ago
Writing With Pictures: Creating Comics in the Classroom
Introduction:             Language Arts is, at its core, about teaching students to...
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Nick Kremer
28 weeks 3 days ago
4. Process and Reflection
My school has a 90 minute block schedule. We had already finished Of Mice and Men and Hamlet, and we had made connections to the...
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Tommy Buteau
27 weeks 5 days ago
Good Memes, Bad Teaching
Peter Kittle, Ignite Talk Thursday from DML Research Hub on Vimeo. Peter Kittle, Director of the Northern California Writing Project, delivered this...
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Paul Oh
27 weeks 4 days ago
#engchat: community, conversation and collaboration for English teachers
“But the real victories come when you have the guts to launch the untestable.” - Seth Godin This conversation took place around dinner time on...
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Meenoo Rami
26 weeks 3 days ago
Teaching to Learn: Using Technology Purposefully to Support Student Learning
  How can technology support hands-on, interactive literacy learning for students and teachers as well? Increasingly, teachers have access to...
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Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
25 weeks 4 days ago
"Helping ELLs Own Their Stories": An Interview with Preservice Teacher Brittany Belmarez
In this interview, preservice teacher Brittany Belmarez describes her experiences working with practicing teachers in the Teaching with Technology...
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Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
25 weeks 4 days ago
Saving Our Stories: Digital Storytelling with ELLs
 “What if we formed a partnership between young writers and community members to collect oral histories about Fort Collins?” What if? Those two...
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Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
25 weeks 4 days ago
Making History Ourselves: An Interview with SOS Project Directors
  In this interview, Jane Phelan-Jones, Cameron Shinn, and Diane Witteveld, teacher directors of the Saving Our Stories Project, document what...
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Cindy O'Donnell-Allen
25 weeks 4 days ago
Digital Storytelling with the iPad: Creating Book Trailers
Background Through a generous grant from a corporate sponsor, our university was able to purchase 14 iPads with iMovie, young adult literature...
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Julie Warner
25 weeks 3 days ago
Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts After so many months emphasizing the writing skills students need for college, this assignment was a pleasant reminder that fluency in...
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Larissa Pahomov
23 weeks 6 days ago
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