Bits Posts (by date)
From my Teaching in the 21st Century entries for the Bedford/St. Martin’s BITs Blog, by date (reverse chronological order). You can also see the list in alphabetical order.
- A Writer’s Creativity Kit (10/26/10)
- Use Oral Discussion as Prewriting (10/19/10)
- My Hunch about Finding Good Ideas (10/12/10)
- Photos as Inspiration: Ten Photo Collection Links (10/05/10)
- Three Things Teachers Should Never Do (09/28/10)
- Persuasion, Argument, and Book Banning in 10 Steps (09/21/10)
- Analyzing Cigarette Ads from the Past (09/14/10)
- Free Documentary Films for the Classroom (02/10/10)
- Show Movie Clips to Teach Writing (12/18/09)
- Warning: No Yelling in the Food Court (12/08/09)
- Getting Beyond Words in Visual Analysis (12/02/09)
- My Experience with Selling Lesson Plans (11/25/09)
- A Simple Starting Point for Visual Assignments (11/17/09)
- My Secret Weapon in the “Show, Don’t Tell” Battle (11/11/09)
- The Persistence of Stereotypes in Visual Texts (10/07/09)
- Does Effort Count? (10/06/09)
- 100 Sticky Notes, or The Simple Way to Move from Observations to Composing (09/30/09)
- Free, Classroom-Ready Visual Texts from CreativeCloud (09/29/09)
- More Resources for Poster Analysis (09/23/09)
- 16 War Poster Sites for Persuasive Analysis (09/22/09)
- Using Current Events to Discuss Writing and Visual Rhetoric (09/17/09)
- How Baby Pictures Can Help Writers (09/16/09)
- Two Simple Tools to Test Copyright and Fair Use (09/03/09)
- Collaborative Visual Notetaking (08/04/09)
- 4.5 Minute Lesson on Audience, Purpose, and Voice (07/29/09)
- Use Newsreel Videos for Background and Analysis (07/29/09)
- What If Students and Teachers Tweeted for Help? (07/22/09)
- Three Tutorials on Using Search Engines (07/20/09)
- Teaching Students to Use Wikipedia Wisely (07/07/09)
- Using Social Bookmarking to Organize Your Links (06/18/09)
- Create What You Want To! (06/18/09)
- Discussing Intellectual Property Rights (06/15/09)
- Jazz Up Your Next Presentation (06/10/09)
- Twitter Resources for the Classroom (05/18/09)
- What Everyone Assumes You Know about Social Networking (05/15/09)
- Plug-in Composition Lessons (05/11/09)
- Ten Ways to Use Twitter with Colleagues (05/06/09)
- Ten Handy How-To Resources for Twitter (04/24/09)
- The Sky is Falling! The Students Will Fail! (04/16/09)
- Illegal 21st Century Research Skills (04/13/09)
- Pause that Lecture (04/08/09)
- Powering Up Student Learning (04/01/09)
- Free Software for One and All (04/01/09)
- Notetaking for Visual Learners (and Everyone Else) (03/25/09)
- Warning: Your Usage May Vary (03/20/09)
- Post-CCCC 2009 Round-Up (03/16/09)
- Springing Forward (03/09/09)
