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  • What a man is…A former male 8th grade student of mine has been e-mailing me consistently ever since he figured out that I really love to read my students…
  • The Ning InterviewEarly last week I was asked by Yoz Grahame (a lead developer of Ning.com) to answer a few questions about how I was using web 2.0 tools (and…
  • 09.01.06Cores 1-3: Introduce the blog safety resources that we will be using to create our own Discovery Blogging Rules. Go over a few of the minor points…Lesson Plans
  • 08.31.06Cores 1-4: Introduce the ELT reading strategies assessments (not shown here because we use them from year to year) and talk about the importance…Lesson Plans
  • 08.30.06Core 1-2: Share-On: Share your Authentic prompts with 2-3 others and select the best one or two to be included in the online resource for student…Lesson Plans
  • Writing as Inquiry (A G/T Pro. Dev. Opportunity)My questions: How can we use our language so that our students become more metacognitive and reflective? Others’ questions: Is peer editing…
  • 08.29.06Cores 1-4: I was at a G/T Langauge Arts meeting for most of the day, so here are my sub plans. Core 3: Discuss any great reading that happened in…Lesson Plans
  • MetawritingToday, in class, I asked my students to think of the best and worst prompts that they could be asked to write about (most authentic and least…
  • Language Theory Class #2 08.28.06Linguistics is a sub-set of Cognitive Science. Linguistics is only a study of natural langauges (not like esperanto) If Language is a mirror to…
  • 08.28.06Cores 1-4: Last week we spent quite a bit of time talking about our reading program. We have now sufficiently set up AR+. This week we are going…Lesson Plans