Carnival of Education Week 38
This week’s Carnival of Education is up. My entry about comparison/contrast organizers made the midway!
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Wiki Update
I mentioned some time ago that my 9th graders were going to create hypertext writing assignments based on The Bean Trees. They have revised and edited essays about an important place. You can read their work if you visit our Bean Trees Wiki and click on their pages. You will find they have chosen four…
Writing: Best Practices
I have a question for all the English teachers out there. What do you think constitutes best practices for teaching writing? I want to get your thoughts before sharing my own. [tags]writing, education, english, teaching[/tags]
Teaching Conventions of Print
Carol Jago’s tweet this morning prompted Jen Roberts to reply: Here is a good rundown of conventions of print. Knowing and being able to use these conventions are important for literacy. What do students need to know in the 21st century? How does reading digital writing differ from print writing? Hyperlinks, for a start. Hyperlinks…
Rubrics
One last post, and I’m off to bed. I do, after all, have to teach tomorrow. I had a discussion with my principal about rubrics the other day, and today I read an article entitled “Why I Won’t Be Using Rubrics to Respond to Students’ Writing” by Maja Wilson (in English Journal, March 2007 —…
Digital Portfolios
I am thinking of using digital portfolios this year. I have a wiki for my classes, and it would be easy for students to have a page on the wiki where they can collect their pieces and also pull in other items, like Glogs, images, videos, and audio. I really liked the idea of an…
Real World Problems, Real World Learning
One of my favorite aspects of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s book Understanding by Design is the real-life unit plan model they describe for a health class. In order to help students learn more about healthy foods and healthy eating, the performance task asks them to design a balanced meal plan that allows for dietary restrictions…