Category: English Education
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Nobis and Cook: Connecting Comics and Essays
Nobis Nobis and Cook: Connecting Comics and Essays Mitch Nobis and Rick Cook are teacher consultants from Red Cedar Writing Project, and presented a number of ways that they connect graphic novels and expository writing in their writing classes. They will also be presenting a similar session at Bright Ideas. Thinking about what comics are…
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Jim Burke’s “Teaching: The First Ten Minutes”
Jim Burke’s “Teaching: The First Ten Minutes” Presentation at MRA 2007 Jim Burke began by inviting participants to think about the actions that students must engage in to be successful in their core academic work. He then talked about how students need to continue a number of academic skills in classes that have traditionally not…
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Telling the Technology Story in K-12 Schools
The past week or so has been crazy. Yes, busy crazy for me personally, for sure. But, I am talking about another kind of craziness. I am talking about the number of teachers that I have talked to who have been fighting filters, trying to get equipment to work, and generally trying to make meaningful…
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Link to “Multiliteracies Meet Methods” Article
The article that Jeff and I wrote for English Education got a mention in a recent NCTE INBOX: Teacher educators can find useful strategies in the English Education article “Multiliteracies Meet Methods: The Case for Digital Writing in English Education” (TE). The article provides a rationale for teaching digital writing and explores the rhetorical, interactive,…
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Link to "Multiliteracies Meet Methods” Article
The article that Jeff and I wrote for English Education got a mention in a recent NCTE INBOX: Teacher educators can find useful strategies in the English Education article “Multiliteracies Meet Methods: The Case for Digital Writing in English Education” (TE). The article provides a rationale for teaching digital writing and explores the rhetorical, interactive,…
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Visions of Online Learning
Are we, as educators, approaching this in the right way? To deal with the growth, the University of California is launching an extensive effort to make sure applicants’ online high school courses are on par with traditional classroom instruction. More students across US logging on to online classrooms – The Boston Globe To be honest,…
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Of Photography and Five Paragraph Essays
For the past two Mondays, I have been attending a photography class. This was a Christmas present from my wife, and a much-needed break from the regular weekly routine in this cold, cold mid-winter stretch. The award-winning photographer teaching the class, Ron St. Germain, shares a number of tips and tricks while also teaching us…
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Engaging Writers with Interactive Genre Samples and Peer Review
The folks at UofT are at it again, and this project looks to be quite useful for writing teachers who are beginning to think about how technology can be useful for more than just web searching: iWRITE is web-enabled courseware developed at the University of Toronto by Margaret Procter and colleagues to support the use…
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(Re)Imagining the Writing Workshop
Today, I invite you to think about what the writing workshop model offers for teachers and students and how it relates to Michigan’s ELA High School Content Standards. Differentiating Writing Process from Writing Workshop Quick write: What is Ray’s argument that she is trying to make for teaching writing? Do you agree or disagree with…
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Visions of Technology In English
Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now. First, I return…