Web 2.0 Presentation Tools

Powerpoints -- no!  no! no!   Unless you are will to take some time and create lively engaging powerpoints with embedded videos and unique graphics!  


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Presentation Tools Using Web 2.0

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Good Reads and Adding Good Read Widget to Blog

If you value literacy and are a teacher and a reader a must have for your blog site and a must have Social Networking site is Good Reads. com


After creating your profile, establishing some bookshelves and adding and writing about some of your books it is time to add a widget to your blog site and here are the directions.   How to add a good read widget to your blog.

Check out unique features.   Choose the pull down menu More at the top of the page.   Check out some of the resources there.   Some of my favorites.   Quotes, Listopia, Creative Writing.   How might you use Good Reads for yourself professionally?  How might you use Good Reads with Students?   

On Line Collaboration

ON LINE COLLABORATION

Type With Me 

Resources for On Line Collaboration

Best Tools for On Line Collboration - Mindmaster Map

Freedcamp Tool -- On Line Tool for Collaboration

ASSESSING GROUP WORK  

Resources
Ways to Assess Group Work

Visual Literacy - Pinterest

Have you explored Pinterest?    How could you use it as a teacher?

Resources 

Pinterest for Teachers Board
Pinterist 21st Century Learners and Teachers
Twenty Ways Libraries are Using Pinterest Now

Searches for Thematic Units 

Pinterest Board Teaching Tolerance
Pinterest Board Teaching Social Justice
Pinterest Board Gun Control
Pinterest Board English Teachers
Pinterest Board Teachers
Pinterest Board Teaching With Technology
Pinterest Board Web 2.0 Tools

The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School

Using You Tube in Your Classroom

Have you found a you tube that would be great to use with your students, but you tube is blocked? Want to use you tube at your school?   Want to use you tube for your thematic unit?   Are you doing an innovation that includes having students watch a you tube video clip? 

See a video creating by student on Teacher Tube - 6 Word Memoir What It Means to Be An American 8th Grade



The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School

This excerpt is from Larry Ferlasso's blog.   Check out Larry Ferlazzo's Blog.   His Blog is his workspace, his resources file, his communication with other teachers, his history and present actions as an engaged enthusiastic teacher.   His subject areas of interest are English and ELL, ESL, and EFL learners.  If you teach in Florida you will be an ELL, ESL, and  EFL teacher.  If you teach any subject you will be an English and Reading teacher -- all student need you to engage them in reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visual literacy.   

 You could easily spend hours reading and responding to his writing on the web and it is professional reading.  

Teaching English with Technology

Ipads in English Classrooms.   Check out the development!    IPadEnglish. net  
NCTE Ipad Apps

Free books     Free 4 Teachers Finding Free E Books

Teaching English with Technology Teaching English With Technology Organization

See Slick Tech World Blogspot

Professional Reading Beyond Textbooks, Trade Books for Teachers.

RESOURCES FOR READING ON LINE

Free Learning Library on English Companion Ning

PUBLISHING COMPANIES

Heinemann and Stenhouse  the "Cadillac publishers for literacy teachers"  have free chapters and sometimes easily accessible e- books.

See Heinemann and Stenhouse  (Stenhouse provides an opportunity for newsletters Stenhouse Main Page

Stenhouse   see books like From LIterature Circles to Blogs

Free Reads Professional Development from Stenhouse

NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Council of Teachers of English
You will never have the opportunity for an inexpensive members in a professional organization again.    See Student Membership with Language Arts journal    Membership  $25  and a Journal $12.50.      See journals for Elementary, Middle and High School. 

As a member of NCTE you can sign up for a free weekly newsletter : NCTE Newsletter
The most recent post is a call for Teacher Techie's   Ed Week Call for Tech Savy Teachers

 ASCD   See articles on line    Ed Leadership Journal Article
"Every Child, Every Day Reading: The Core Skills" 
Richard L. Allington and Rachael E. Gabriel

TEACHER BLOGGERS
See Edublog Award Winners   Edublogger Awards

Jim Burke English Companion

NCTE Secondary Blog

NCTE Inbox Blogspot

NCTE Media Blog

10 High School Bloggers - must read

B G English Blog   see blogroll from blogs!  

Writing a Response to Professional Reading

 READER RESPONSE TO PROFESSIONAL WRITING

Writing a response to professional reading is not about summarizing or reporting about what we read.   It is about responding, sharing our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, our connections to the text.   With professional reading for teaching, we need to respond with how what we read shapes us as a teacher, how it provides us with ideas, how it challenges our thinking.

For a rich blog response to reading see Reader Response to Nancy Atwell article.

PROFESSIONAL READING OUR BOOKS and AUTHORS

FROM OUR SYLLABUS :  BEGINNING OR CONTINUING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
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Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well, Reggie Routman, Heinemann, 2002 ISBN 978-0-325-00492-1 / 0-325-00492-7 / 2002

OR

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching, Reggie Routman,  Heinemann, 2004  SBN 978-0-325-00601-7 / 0-325-00601-6 / 2004 / 304pp /

OR

The English Teacher’s Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum and the Profession.   Jim Burke (2007) 

or In the Middle: New Understanding about Writing, Reading and Learning by Nancy Atwell. (1998)

What’s the Big Idea : Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking  by Jim Burke  (2010);

Reading Reminder::Tools, Tips and Techniques by Jim Burke  (2000);

Writing Reminders: by Jim Burke  (2003)

Publishing Company Recommended for Professional Reading for Language Arts and Reading. Heinemann.Stenhouse.

Recommended Resources:

Membership in the National Council of Teachers of English  http://www.ncte.org/join/student    Membership $25.   With Voices from the Middle OR English Journal   $12.50.  TOTAL  $37.50

REGGIE ROUTMAN   Reggie Routman A Nationally Recognized Model Literacy Leader

NANCY ATWELL

JIM BURKE  

Teaching Poetry: Making It Relevant, Meaningful, Current

Check out Poets.Org

ONE DAY   Richard Blianco

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper—
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives—
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.

The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one wind—our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: 
hello, 
shalom,
buon giorno, 
howdy, 
namaste, 
or buenos días
in the language my mother taught me—in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one country—all of us—
facing the stars
hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together.

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