Time for Summer Reading: Bits Flashback for June 5
June 5, 2011
It’s that time when many of us size up the list of texts we’ve been thinking of all year and choose the few that we’ll try to get through during the all-too-short summer months.
If you’re struggling a bit with your choices, take a look at Lifehacker’s How to Create an Awesome Summer Reading List for some tips on where to find books, ways to track your progress, and recommendations from other bookworms.
While you’re looking for great texts to read, be sure you’ve read the great ideas for the classroom or professional development in these Bedford Bits posts from last week:
- Blogger Holly Pappas addresses The Semiannual Plagiarism Outbreak with some ideas for plagiarism-proofing assignments.
- Andrea Lunsford offers her fourth Tip for New Teachers — On Responding to Student Writing, Part 1.
- High School Bits guest blogger Elizabeth Hollow shares a strategy to help students develop comparative theses in Apples to Apples? Developing a Comparative Thesis.
- So is Facebook, in essence, populist or elitist? Jack Solomon explores The Dark Side of the Social Network.
- What basic tech literacy skills do you assume students bring to the classroom? Barclay Barrios questions the assumptions teachers sometimes make in http://ass.u.me.
- How did people connect before Facebook and Twitter? Traci Gardner discusses MOOs: Online Social Networking Before Social Networks.
A Few Extra Links
- Is your doctor well-versed in literature? Does she write about her experiences? Listen to NPR on the value of stories in Can Literature Make A Better Doctor?
- Andrea Lunsford’s recent post on building a syllabus is listed in Weekend Reading: First Summer Show Edition from ProfHacker!
- Challenge students to take notes without words? Read how one educator is Teaching a whole new way to read as the class explores graphic novels.
- Sign up for our Ink’d In newsletter and request free professional resources today.
- Have great assignments or student essays to share? Jay Dolmage is Looking for Essays and Assignments and paying up to $100 for works chosen for publication.
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[Photo: Summer reading list by soundfromwayout, on Flickr]