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@newsfromtengrrl for 2009-09-23

September 23, 2009 by Traci Gardner

The World's Largest English Department (Teacher Magazine) http://bit.ly/t9r3f — On the English Companion Ning #
Don't Click: New Twitter Phishing Scam Targets Users Through DMs http://bit.ly/yy0nr #
Google Unveils SideWiki, a Tool to Annotate Web Sites – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/6rhtB #
Curvy students ‘perk of the job’ | BBC NEWS | http://bit.ly/QcYxn #
Open Letter on Open Access – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/3kaWV — On open access to journal articles on federally funded research #
When Less Is More – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/4GlMbT — On college application essays #
Educated family may mean higher eating disorder risk | Health | Reuters http://bit.ly/2ka0US #
9 Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter | Fast Company http://bit.ly/iYh1S (Includes the 20 most re-tweetable words) #
French Officials Propose Disclaimer on Photoshopped Ads | ReadWriteWeb | http://bit.ly/Lg6Vj #
Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray, With iRex – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/2jFmnz #
Value of reading becoming lost – The State News: http://bit.ly/FAP8R #
Teacher Disciplined For Unusual Creative Writing Assignment – WMUR Manchester http://bit.ly/Eum7u #
Call for Nominations: 2010 Kairos Awards (February 1, 2010) | Kairosnews http://bit.ly/YO4jZ #
One Day Teacher Institutes focused on Creating the United States – from the Library of Congress – http://bit.ly/uCi5M #

September 22, 2009 by Traci Gardner

Resist the Pedagagogical Far Right – Inside Higher Ed | http://bit.ly/1yOtzv — Put stds, not prestige or politics, at center of higher ed #
'The Trials of Academe' – Inside Higher Ed http://bit.ly/WDbMp (featuring WILL's Legal Issues in the News Reporter Amy Gajda) #
Lacking the 'Ability to Benefit' from Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed – http://bit.ly/KFH7y #
At-Risk Students Make Multimedia, Edutopia: College & K12 tchrs discover how building videogames elevates performance. http://bit.ly/3TzZI7 #
Advertising Agencies & Social Media: A Culture Clash | Social Media Explorer http://bit.ly/13kJ9O #
Facebook Will Shut Down Beacon to Settle Lawsuit – PC World http://bit.ly/6hgDJ #
College students write, produce, post comedy episodes on YouTube – Oroville Mercury Register http://bit.ly/84EM7 #
Education Experts Propose Skills Set for Students Nationwide – washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/4v9Bde #

April 10, 2007 by Traci Gardner

Is cursive an unnecessary curse? http://tinyurl.com/35tln3
more on diff between HS and college needs: http://tinyurl.com/2ygza5
survey in HS doesn’t match deep needs in college: http://tinyurl.com/2c9qzh
adult literacy influences family involvement. duh? http://tinyurl.com/25mtyp
fired for being more tolerant than the school system: http://tinyurl.com/2gj4gr
what it really takes for no child to be left behind: http://tinyurl.com/2g86e6
the idea his pedagogy was to blame never occurred to him. http://tinyurl.com/2l8vmw it must be the laptops. couldn’t be him.
write congress on NCTE recommendations for NCLB: http://tinyurl.com/24ml5u
Latinos Online? Language AND Access in the Digital Divide: http://tinyurl.com/28nt2k
measuring growth against standards, rather than grading: http://tinyurl.com/2ptbgy
Student free speech on MySpace: http://tinyurl.com/3222bw
CT law to “protect” kids from the [online] world: http://tinyurl.com/2pwwru
Vulgar language!!! Banning the Chocolate War: http://tinyurl.com/2utcpz
on the nonsense of timed writing samples a la SAT essay: http://tinyurl.com/38x3nf
why smaller can be better: http://tinyurl.com/2qybwc in academic conferences that is.
classroom activity on book banning/burning and F451 http://tinyurl.com/2vlf87

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April 5, 2007 by Traci Gardner

students quieted with clothespins http://tinyurl.com/yr2lna in what pervy world did this make sense? wonder if she was “highly qualified”
maybe the problem is how we decide what “highly qualified” means… http://tinyurl.com/29nw5d
map mash-ups: http://tinyurl.com/2j7uyp classroom: have students map childhood places, places in fiction/nonfiction, biog places on authors
when we personalize edu via tech http://tinyurl.com/2belu6 will we be able to ditch the one size fits all assessment system finally?

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April 4, 2007 by Traci Gardner

poor word choice in the news http://tinyurl.com/25snvr do ppl really believe this nonsense? disappointing. now gingrich is a liar & a bigot!
MarcoPolo named “Best site to download free lessons” in Edutopia’s 2007 Readers’ Survey!!! http://tinyurl.com/2ggpk5 Go Us!!!
The Colbert Effect is all well & good http://tinyurl.com/2465bo but when am I going to finally find some Americone Dream in stock???
another generic cyberbullying article http://tinyurl.com/37llckfav line:”1 kid may start a rumor…someone is sexually promiscuous or has a
sexually transmitted disease, & it spreads overnight” which spreads? :)
so what’s the wrong url? :) http://tinyurl.com/32bvar and why didn’t the teachers check the links ahead of time?
student moons teacher http://tinyurl.com/2xxyls yes only danger is on the Internet. no problem with general behavior if you keep ’em offline
claims s/w makes no diff in test scores. http://tinyurl.com/26olcj limits
of study: few pgms, inexperienced teachers. disheartening. how about instead
choosing the best s/w and exp. teachers? can’t remove pedagogy & prof dev from
the equation & pretend it doesn’t make diff
Cali HS teacher discusses proposed podcasting class http://tinyurl.com/2876m7 he shoulda put up a podcast on it :)
new nclb tests for dyslexic et al. proposed http://tinyurl.com/yqtup5 why can’t we just get rid of all the tests and just teach?

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April 3, 2007 by Traci Gardner

warn them about myspace/facebook, but not too explicitly. ahh the smell
of lawyers. http://tinyurl.com/2bfsfd get
real (& up-to-date) please
heh. http://tinyurl.com/29xr77 not sure about Easter eggs in public school,
but a GPS hunt? some bunny’s witty :-)
UK suggestion NOT to TXT/IM students: http://tinyurl.com/ypk6p7 um, college students… okay, can you convince them not to msg US?
arguing to "fully" include ELL in NCLB http://tinyurl.com/ysy75a I’d
rather a system that pays attention to real learning. kids != numbers
on the value of personal story
and memories in the classroom: http://tinyurl.com/2az5wh
Spellings’ black hole: cost/evolution
of tech makes teaching fundamentals to educators take too much time. http://tinyurl.com/26u5ct geesh
snapshot of Internet resources a teacher is using while teaching Shakespeare http://tinyurl.com/29xu92
lesson ideas for using
out-of-date edu resources with up-to-date classes: http://tinyurl.com/yt6jwt
Spellings
on tech & education? http://tinyurl.com/34ph6t Next
to last paragraph is the kicker. How about paying attn to learning, not #s?
usual rant re: cyberbullying http://tinyurl.com/36suqn why
is ‘cyber’ the focus? it’s not tech that causes the problem. focus
on the ppl!
pop opinion on copyright changes http://tinyurl.com/3534×5 wd
make nice addition to the music-copyright lesson http://tinyurl.com/39pm8h
MySpace as safe (rather than
the normal alarmism!): http://tinyurl.com/2g3hth

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