Educational Resources
Links to my Teaching in the 21st Century entries for the Bedford/St. Martin’s BITs Blog (and eventually my NCTE Inbox Blog posts), sorted by categories.
assessment
Contributors
intellectual property rights
Social Networking and Internet Tools
- Free Software for One and All (Bedford Bits, 04/01/09)
- How to Move Closer to School 2.0 (Inbox Blog, 12/01/09)
- Illegal 21st Century Research Skills (Bedford Bits, 04/13/09)
- Jazz Up Your Next Presentation (Bedford Bits, 06/10/09)
- Pause that Lecture (Bedford Bits, 04/08/09)
- Plug-in Composition Lessons (Bedford Bits, 05/11/09)
- Powering Up Student Learning (Bedford Bits, 04/01/09)
- Springing Forward (03/09/09)
- Teaching Students to Use Wikipedia Wisely (Bedford Bits, 07/07/09)
- Ten Handy How-To Resources for Twitter (Bedford Bits 04/24/09)
- Ten Ways to Use Twitter with Colleagues (Bedford Bits, 05/06/09)
- The Sky is Falling! The Students Will Fail! (Bedford Bits 04/16/09)
- Three Things Teachers Should Never Do (Bedford Bits, 09/28/10)
- Three Tutorials on Using Search Engines (Bedford Bits, 07/20/09)
- Twitter Resources for the Classroom (Bedford Bits, 05/18/09)
- Using Social Bookmarking to Organize Your Links (Bedford Bits, 06/18/09)
- What Everyone Assumes You Know about Social Networking (Bedford Bits, 05/15/09)
Visual Rhetoric
- 16 War Poster Sites for Persuasive Analysis (Bedford Bits, 09/22/09)
- A Simple Starting Point for Visual Assignments (Bedford Bits, 11/17/09)
- Analyzing Cigarette Ads from the Past (Bedford Bits, 09/14/10)
- Collaborative Visual Notetaking (Bedford Bits, 08/04/09)
- Free Documentary Films for the Classroom (Bedford Bits, 02/10/10)
- Free, Classroom-Ready Visual Texts from CreativeCloud (Bedford Bits, 09/29/09)
- Getting Beyond Words in Visual Analysis (Bedford Bits, 12/02/09)
- More Resources for Poster Analysis (Bedford Bits, 09/23/09)
- Notetaking for Visual Learners (and Everyone Else) (Bedford Bits, 03/25/09)
- Show Movie Clips to Teach Writing (Bedford Bits, 12/18/09)
- The Persistence of Stereotypes in Visual Texts (Bedford Bits, 10/07/09)
- Use Newsreel Videos for Background and Analysis (Bedford Bits, 07/29/09)
- Using Current Events to Discuss Writing and Visual Rhetoric (Bedford Bits, 09/17/09)
writing process
- 100 Sticky Notes, or The Simple Way to Move from Observations to Composing (Bedford Bits, 09/30/09)
- 4.5 Minute Lesson on Audience, Purpose, and Voice (Bedford Bits, 07/29/09)
- A Writer’s Creativity Kit (Bedford Bits, 10/26/10)
- Create What You Want To! (Bedford Bits, 06/18/09)
- How Baby Pictures Can Help Writers (Bedford Bits, 09/16/09)
- My Hunch about Finding Good Ideas (Bedford Bits, 10/12/10)
- My Secret Weapon in the “Show, Don’t Tell” Battle (Bedford Bits, 11/11/09)
- No Yelling in the Food Court (Bedford Bits, 12/08/09)
- Persuasion, Argument, and Book Banning in 10 Steps (Bedford Bits, 09/21/10)
- Photos as Inspiration: Ten Photo Collection Links (Bedford Bits, 10/05/10)
- Post-CCCC 2009 Round-Up (Bedford Bits, 03/16/09)
- Use Oral Discussion as Prewriting (Bedford Bits, 10/19/10)
- Warning: Your Usage May Vary (Bedford Bits, 03/20/09)
- What If Students and Teachers Tweeted for Help? (Bedford Bits, 07/22/09)