Education Week: How to Improve Teacher Quality? Treat Teachers as Individuals http://hoki.es/l0dNdH # How I Trick Myself Into Clearing Grading Backlogs – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/mKeylZ # Farewell, Flip. Hello, Kodak! – ProfHacker – The Chronicle…
Author: Traci Gardner
Another Trauma Narrative: Bits Flashback for May 8
On Saturday, Black College Wire posted an article on a composition assignment that had consequences the teacher never expected. The teacher, Lisa Carl, asked students to write “either a first-person autobiographical account of a significant event in their lives or…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-08
Streams Are A Better Place To Talk About Work Than Email | Podio Blog http://hoki.es/m7phhn # Goodreads Makes Great Readers | Free Technology for Teachers: http://hoki.es/jwZvZ6 # Twitter – Expanding our Classrom – Shrinking the World | Free Technology for…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-07
The Aftermath of NC Central Student’s Account | Black College Wire – http://hoki.es/ljJKzK # Corporate Rule of Cyberspace – Inside Higher Ed http://hoki.es/j1bUZg # Newbery Books Lack Characters with Disabilities, Study Says http://hoki.es/mbHafG # Study finds huge gender imbalance in…
Focus on Cultural and Historical Exploration, May 8 to 14 on ReadWriteThink
In her Community Story, Jacquelynn Pleis describes how she uses ReadWriteThink’s Exploring and Sharing Family Stories lesson plan as part of a year-end celebration of students’ cultural backgrounds. If you don’t have time for the kind of cultural fair that…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-06
Facebook Quietly Fixes its Original Privacy Problem, 5 Years Later http://hoki.es/mR9Vog # Scrible: A New Tool for Web Annotation – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/msqCI6 # Implementing Mutuality in the Composition Classroom | Edutopia http://hoki.es/j0kxp1 # Powered…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-05
Testing and Teaching – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic http://hoki.es/koH6Dh # Reader's Almanac: “Nobody Knows My Name”: Manuel Muñoz on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha http://hoki.es/lnmUbh # Use Readability to Make Sites Zotero-Friendly – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-04
Situation Room Photo Shows Flickr Is Grown Up | Epicenter | Wired.com http://hoki.es/k9xLTn # Neil Gaiman Laughs Off Minnesota Politician’s ‘Weasel’ Slam | Underwire | Wired.com http://hoki.es/iZISIJ # The A to Z of Excellent Copywriting | Copyblogger http://hoki.es/kleoTt # Report…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-03
That Mark Twain Quote for Osama's Death Is Fake, Too – Culture – GOOD http://hoki.es/jXCOHT # Altered Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote Goes Viral After Osama Bin Laden’s Death | XYDO http://hoki.es/ifdVcS # Is Blogger Copyright Dead? | Problogger »…
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-05-02
Online, an Urge to Be a Part of the Bin Laden News – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/mKFo1H # How the Internet Affects Plagiarism | KQED MindShift http://hoki.es/lUlivj # Teaching Carnival 4.9 – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/jDpCyJ # Welcome…