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You can read notes from the talk on my blog and hear my audio reflections in this podcast.

ENG 315 Podcast 7 – Reflections on Talk by Dr. Steve Graham

What is common across all kinds of assessments? For what purposes might tests be better suited as an assessment tool? When would you choose to use these different kinds of assessments and why?

Command Performance: Creating Accountability That Works | Edutopia

While schools wait for innovation in accountability testing, some are taking matters into their own hands, creating performance assessments that guide and strengthen teaching and learning. Typically, these assessments come in the form of portfolios and presentations — tasks that bear something in common with the kind of work students may ultimately do in college or in a job.

Timelines 2.0: A Fun, Easy, and Free Classroom Tool | Edutopia

Timelines are one of the most useful and effective tools I’ve found that can fit in nicely with any classroom’s content area and grade level. They are fantastic vehicles for doing research, being creative, and sharing and publishing information. In addition, they are easy to use for simple classroom projects such as tracking birthdays, major significant events, and holidays. Furthermore, they offer a rich opportunity to explore the goings-on behind significant events, allowing students to uncover what led up to wars, significant scientific breakthroughs, changes in culture, or shifts in art styles and music. The possibilities are endless.

A fantastic new timeline tool I’ve been playing with is xtimeline. This free Web-based tool makes it simple to create timelines, and it has built-in capabilities that allow you to conduct research, embed photos and videos, do group editing, and engage in social collaboration. Imagine combining the power of a traditional timeline tool with the history and edit features of a wiki while making it a social, globally published, living online document. It doesn’t get much simpler, or more effective, than this.

Cover Letters Used By Applicants to Apply for a Career in Education

Cover letters can be written in different manners reminding employers to choose for qualified applicants that are applying for a certain position in the company. Writing cover letters can be difficult yet these letter or business letters are required in the employment process. Likewise, there are different cover letter format that can be written especially with the education cover letter used in applying a position in the educational departments.

Cover Letters Used By Applicants to Apply for a Career in Education – Job Search Secrets

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$300 FIRST PLACE PRIZE

The contest is open to all CMU undergraduate students registered in at least one English or creative writing course.

Submission deadline: Friday, MARCH 21ST.

Submission guidelines: Please submit one short story, a maximum of 30 typed and double-spaced pages of fiction.

All stories must include a cover sheet listing story title, author’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.

All stories must be submitted to Denise Abbey, English Office,
215 Anspach

A link from a classmate, Sherry, who found these posters while searching for other six traits materials:

Six Traits Posters

Six Traits of Writing Posters

Thanks, Sherry!

I just wanted to let you know that the local animal shelter H.A.T.S., is holding a writing contest. The rules are located at the following pdf file address below. I just thought it would be a good opportunity for those that are interested:

http://www.hatsweb.org/PDF/2008-SpayDayUSAEssayContest.pdf

Thanks, Lynette!

Maine’s pioneering program to give every middle school student a laptop computer is leading to better writing, according to a new study.

Despite creating a language all their own using eMail and text messages, students are still learning standard English, and their writing scores have improved on a standardized test since laptop computers were distributed, the study says.

Moreover, the students’ writing skills improved even when they were using pen and paper, not just a computer keyboard.

“If you concentrate on whether laptops are helping kids achieve 21st-century skills, this demonstrates that it’s happening in writing,” said David Silvernail, director of the Maine Education Policy Research Institute at the University of Southern Maine.

Research – School laptop program begets writing gains

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Blog Struggles – The SeriesBlog Struggles Article SeriesThe series is called “Blog Struggles” and will cover how to find and write content, editing blog content, blog writing tips, finding your blogging voice, when to publish – and when not to, how to encourage comments or spurn them, comment spam, trolls and mean folks, splogs and content abusers, reader perceptions, creating an online and/or blogger persona, writing a personal or technical blog, creating a blog working environment, changing your blog topic and concept, getting found, social networking, explaining what blogging is to friends and family, finding time to blog, panning your blog, linking, blog structure, maintaining your blog, blog evolution, web traffic mythology, closing your blog, finding inspiration and motivation to keep blogging, blog branding, blog development, fitting blogging into your life in spite of your life, and the trends, fads, and blog clutter I’ve seen come and go, and then come back to our blogs.

New Article Series – Blog Struggles « Lorelle on WordPress

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