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Visual Notetaking. Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. {*style:<b> <i>(Note: This is the first post in a multi-part series on teaching writing) </i> </b>*}

Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo

How To Use An iPad To Add Voice Comments To Grading. Offering timely and effective learning feedback is a critical part of the learning process.

How To Use An iPad To Add Voice Comments To Grading

This is a concept that’d seem to be more accessible than ever with technology, but sometimes technology is two steps forward, one step back. Take for example grading papers. While K-12 education has (mostly) moved away from pure academic essays to measure all understanding, the writing process is more important now than ever. Grading a physical piece of paper is as simple as writing in the margins, using established editing symbols, or others marking the paper up. Poetry Perspectives and Word Choice. Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! Soundtrack for My Life. Learn All Year Long Kids and teens should read and write even when they are out of school.

Soundtrack for My Life

Always Write: I Keep a Writer's Notebook alongside my Students. Do you? To my dear students and their wonderful parents, All students will maintain a writer's notebook for my class.

Always Write: I Keep a Writer's Notebook alongside my Students. Do you?

Every day, we will write in it. Facilitating Literacy Discussions In High School English Class. Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. Writing Lesson of the Month Network - ...sharing thoughtful, mentor text-inspired lessons your students will love! Always Write: An Original Writer's Notebook Lesson from Corbett. Sharing the Mentor Text/Brainstorming:

Always Write: An Original Writer's Notebook Lesson from Corbett

LDC Teaching Task Planning Worksheet and Rubric. Georgia’s LDC trainers have been concerned about improving the quality of Teaching Tasks from teachers designing their first LDC modules.

LDC Teaching Task Planning Worksheet and Rubric

Where they have seen a challenge, they have also offered some potential solutions. Fortunately, the LDC Hub is also designing a new rubric for evaluating Teaching Tasks (as well as complete modules) that also supports our efforts to increase Teaching Task quality. The new LDC rubric for evaluating complete modules is still being field-tested, but it can already serve as a useful tool in training. The Teaching Task component can be introduced before or after teachers have written their first Teaching Tasks to help them see the process of writing a solid task as more than simple “plug-and-play” using the task templates. It also gives trainers an effective tool for providing feedback to participants after training. After teachers completed their self-evaluations, Kelley had them begin evaluating the Teaching Tasks of their peers. Cold Versus Warm Close Reading: Stamina and the Accumulation of Misdirection.

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Cold Versus Warm Close Reading: Stamina and the Accumulation of Misdirection

Snow Harvard Graduate School of Education June 6, 2013 Over the last 18 months I have had the chance to review a couple dozen proposed curricular units, developed by district teams or other groups, and designed to prepare students to meet the Common Core State Standards (or, more specifically, to pass the assessments aligned with the Common Core). 12b_6719_AP_AI_English_CM_WEB_130605. Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. Common-Core Online Practice Tests Unveiled - Digital Education. Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run of sorts.

Common-Core Online Practice Tests Unveiled - Digital Education

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two major coalitions of states designing the tests, has released sets of online sample test questions for grades 3-8 and 11 in both English language arts and math, the first two subjects to be tested. The common-core tests will be delivered online in participating states during the 2014-15 academic year. Common Core - Dr. Kudrna's Curriculum Corner.

100 Argument or Position Essay Topics with Sample Essays. Use Your Textbook for Topic Ideas.

100 Argument or Position Essay Topics with Sample Essays

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program. 10 Types Of Writing For eLearning. When I started counting the types of writing that are potentially required to produce an online course, I was stunned.

10 Types Of Writing For eLearning

I realized that one instructional designer can potentially provide the skills of an entire writing department. The Content Imperatives: Tools To Create Gifted Lessons. Earlier in this series, you met the eleven dimensions of depth and complexity. Today you’ll be introduced to another set of rigor-increasing, engagement-enhancing thinking tools known as the content imperatives, also developed by Sandra Kaplan. Disclaimer: Naturally, the best place to learn to use these tools is through a training or a book by the creator. Purpose Much like depth and complexity, the content imperatives are thinking tools designed to dig deeper into content.

They provide a simple way to differentiate curriculum and increase complexity for gifted learners. Resources. 10 Types Of Writing For eLearning. Secrets of Teaching Writing Revealed. Online Discussion and Student Voice Ed Week. Writing with Google Docs: Foster Collaboration & Creation (While Addressing Common Core)

At ISTE, I had the pleasure of presenting in the Google theatre on Writing with Google Docs. It was a short presentation aimed at demonstrating how educators can use Google Docs to foster writing in its various stages. I wanted to share some of the my slides to inspire other teachers to explore how docs, spreadsheets, forms, drawing and presentation can be used in creative ways to foster writing. Just some general info on Google Docs… Google Documents is a great tool to facilitate collaboration. Group students together into writing groups working on a single document so they can research, brainstorm, and pre-write together.

6-Traits Resources. Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College Students. Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research is a research area operating within the context of MATRIX. WIDE’s maintains its historical focus on creating new knowledge about digital communication, and we remain committed to results that have impact via academic literatures and via more public outcomes, such as events, performances, and software. Player not working? There is a known iOS and Android bug or download file. iOS, Safari and some Android environments will not properly prompt you for a password if this video is password protected. But, if you click the 'Download Video' link, it will then prompt you for a password. If you are having problems with the 'download file' link right-click on the link and choose 'Save As..' or 'Save Link As..' In 2013-2014, WIDE will focus on “unprofessional writing.”

WILLIAM PERRY'S SCHEME OF INTELLECTUAL AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT. A journey along the 9 "Perry" positions (as modified by Belenky et al. 1986) William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cognitive ScienceState University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY14260-2000. WilliamPerryPres. Critical Thinking Model 1.