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Paideia ResourcesNational Paideia Website: www.paideia.org
The Paideia Seminar Manual Online, "Active Thinking Through Dialogue": http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/paideia/contents The Paideia Seminar vs. Socratic Seminar: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/paideia-method-socratic-l_n_1380973.html "Think Like a Seminar" by Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. Educational Leadership, December 2012/January 2013 http://www.educationalleadership-digital.com/educationalleadership/201212?pg=70#pg70 |
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Other Great Resources for Your ELA Toolbox
Teaching English with Technology: http://tewt.org/
Teaching English with Technology is dedicated to helping English & Language Arts teachers incorporate technology effectively into their classrooms and is presented by EdTechTeacher. EdTechTeacher and TEWT are led by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich, academic technology trainers, speakers, and authors .Explore TEWT.org and find inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and online social networks, and explore innovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Writing Sample Analyzer: http://www.bluecentauri.com/tools/writer/sample.php This writing sample analyzer takes a sample of your writing and then calculates the number of sentences, words, and characters in your sample. As it is calculating these statistics, it makes estimates as to how many syllables are present in each word. Using these numbers, it then calculates the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, which are three of the most common readability algorithms. Simply supply a sample of your writing up to 5,000 characters and then click "Analyze." Interactive Printing Press: http://interactives.mped.org/ppress110.aspx The Interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events. The tool allows for multiple pages as appropriate. Text added to the templates can be modified using a simple toolbar, which allows students to choose text features, such as font size and color. Documentation for the Printing Press includes folding and printing instructions, as well as an extensive Guide to using the tool. Customized versions of the tool, which include additional instructions and more focused choices, are included. with some lessons. A basic planning sheet is available to help students gather ideas before working at the computer. Kerpoof Teacher Page: http://www.kerpoof.com/teach You are going to love this one! The website www.kerpoof.com turns your kids into true cartoon artists. Doodle, create a movie, build your own greeting card or draw a comic strip using predesigned elements in this free multimedia software. This software is free for educational use, and you will be amazed at the applications that students and teachers will find for this tool. The link above will connect you to the Kerpoof teacher page where you can sign up for an account and start experimenting with uses. Once you get started, you are only limited by your (or your students’) imagination. The site says it all: Kerpoof is meant to be fun, but we're serious about its educational value. There are many ways that ...school teachers can use Kerpoof to enhance their classroom activities and meet educational standards as well. The National Gallery of Writing: http://www.galleryofwriting.org/ The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual space—a website—where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers—mothers, bus drivers, fathers, veterans, nurses, fire fighters, sanitation workers, stockbrokers—select and post one thing they have written that is important to them. The Gallery accommodates any composition format—from word processing to photography, audio recording to text messages—and all types of writing—from letters to lists, memoirs to memos. Local Partner Galleries (http://www.galleryofwriting.org/start.php)are the perfect way to feature student writing and to celebrate the many roles writing plays in our lives. Creating a gallery is simple, quick, and most importantly—fun! |
Podcasting Legal Guide, v 1.0: Rules for the Revolution:
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide.pdf This guide, written by Colette Vogele, Mia Garlick, and staff from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, Is designed to advise podcasters on Copyright Law as it pertains to podcasting. The site notes: The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. EFF has produced a very practical and helpful guide for issues related to blogging generally(http://www.eff.org/bloggers/). This Guide is not intended to duplicate efforts by EFF, and in many cases refers you to that guide for where crossover issues are addressed. Our goal is to complement EFF’s Bloggers FAQ and address some of the stand alone issues that are of primary relevance to podcasters, as opposed to bloggers…Copyright law” is essential in a digital age. But it ought to be a copyright law made for a digital age. Ours is not. And this fantastic Guide for those wanting to obey the rules should be evidence enough to convince anyone of that fact. Podcasting hints brought to you by Apple: http://www.apple.com/education/resources/podcastingvideos/ Apple has three excellent instructional videos available online that focus on using Podcasts in education. Join Jason Ediger, senior marketing manager, Apple Education, along with his guests, as he explores podcasting and its benefits for education in this free, three-part video series. In Part I, find out what podcasting is all about and how you and your students can create your own podcasts. Part II, Meeting Standards,introduces you to podcasting examples in the classroom, how podcasting workflows engage students, and the equipment used in a classroom environment. Part III, An Administrator’s View, highlights a community that has felt connected through its middle school administrator’s implementation of podcasting. The video also summarizes his path to community buy-in for this revolutionary program. What you will learn: What is podcasting? What are the tools available for podcasting? How to incorporate podcasting into teaching and learning. How podcasting has impacted students in a seventh grade classroom. How podcasting has facilitated school-to-community communication. How podcasting can make a difference in the vocabulary, writing, and leadership skills of your students. The Newseum: http://www.newseum.org/ The Newseum, located in Washington, DC, has an excellent website that has outstanding resources for teaching and learning. One source of high quality is the Daily Front Pages section. The Newseum Education Department donates sets of recent front pages on a first-come, first-served basis. Each set contains one enlarged and printed front page from every state and the District of Columbia, as well as a sampling of international newspapers. Writing.Com—A Free Online Writing Portfolio: http://www.writing.com/ Writing.com is the Writing.Com is the online community for writers and readers of all interests and skill levels. Whether you're an enthusiastic, creative writer looking for the perfect place to store and display your writing online or a casual reader searching for a good story, Writing.Com is the website for you! Free memberships are available to everyone. Each membership includes an online writing portfolio, numerous writing tools, email services and the chance to meet and bond with fresh creative minds, just like you! Free memberships are available to everyone. Each membership includes an online writing portfolio, numerous writing tools, email services and the chance to meet and bond with fresh creative minds, just like you! The Mortimer J. Adler Archive at www.radicalacademy.com http://www.radicalacademy.com/adlerdirectory.htm The Mortimer J. Adler Archive, a part of The Radical Academy site, is necessary visit for any devotee of Paideia methodology or educational philosophy in general. There you will find a wealth of useful information, philosophy, pedagogy, and thinking rooted in Adler’s pragmatic vision for life long learning. The host site, The Radical Academy, is dedicated to, according to the “About” section, an analysis of the human condition as seen through the eyes of classical and contemporary thinkers in the areas of philosophy, politics, religion, science, and education. We define philosophy as the science of all things knowable to man's unaided powers, in so far as these things are studied in their deepest causes and reasons. We define politics in its widest sense to include the study of government, economics, and social theory and policy. Weather you’re into all that or not, you should take some time to discover the trove of all things “Adlerian” that can be found in The Mortimer J. Adler Archive at www.radicalacademy.com |