Month: August 2007

Core 1+4: Before we embark upon a journey of authentic learning through technology, we must first ask ourselves why we would want to do it in the first place. With that question in mind, we will be expanding our ideas of literacy, technology, and community. Brainstorm-on: What does it mean …

Core 1+4: Write-On: How do you measure how good a piece of writing is? Does it matter the type of writing? Is this piece of writing different than others? Assess your ocean question writing piece according to the Cresthill Writing Rubric. Turn-in your ocean question writing piece. Discuss expectations sheet. …

Core 1+4: Discuss-on: Describe an experience with reading out loud in class, either good or bad. How do you read out loud well? What kind of feedback should we give one another on a piece of writing? How do we give constructive feedback? How do we discuss student writing like …

Core 1+4: Write on: Describe the writing process that you went through in order to create your draft of your first Ocean question answer. I write for the first paragraph. Everything a good piece of my writing has going for it is contained in the first few lines. The cadence, …

Core 1+4: Write-On: Write out one of the anecdotes that made note of in the “Dear Students” essay as a paragraph story. (Describe one of the times you felt a barrier in your life, one of the times that you ignored a barrier that other people have, or one of …

Core 1+4: Write-On: How can what you expect affect what you receive? Share your expectations with your group and create a master list of expectations that you will want to hold the class, the teacher, and yourself to. (They may be the same.) Compile and vote on expectations to go …

Welcome to the best two years of your life. This is not an overstatement. It is not hyperbole. Up until this point your life has either been pretty great or somewhat bland, but at this moment, you become a part of something so much bigger than yourself. You become a …