English Education Professor

I have been folliwng Giuliani’s career for a while now; I think he may be the most corrupt politician that has ever run for office. Glad to see NY Times taking him on (again).

Citing Statistics, Giuliani Misses Time and Again – New York Times

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I. Teaching with Students in Mind

1. Students Ways of Knowing

2. Providing Scaffolds for Student Learning

3. Alternatives to Teacher-Led Discussions

4. Planning the Whole Course II. Teaching Writing Within a Unit Design

5. Goals for Conventional Writing Assignments

6. Goals for Unconventional Writing Assignments

7. Responding to Student Writing III. Designing the Conceptual Unit

8. Why Conceptual Units?

9. The Basics of Unit Design

10. Your Unit Rationale 11. Outlining a Unit 12. Setting Up the Construction Zone 13. Introductory Activities 14. Down and Dirty. Daily Planning

Heinemann Books: Teaching English by Design

I’m talking about the moment when an ordinary American–an all too typical American– –held up a Bible and said (I write from memory, but this was his meaning): “I’m going to ask you a question whose answer will tell us all we need to know about every one of you: do you believe that every single word of this book is true?” And Giuliani answered like a sensible Catholic. And Romney answered like a Mormon scared to admit to the Book of Mormon. And Huckabee answered like a good Baptist minister, a good pastoral answer balancing faith and reasoned understanding. . . . And I looked up and realized that the Constitution had vanished. Because no one–not one candidate, not Anderson Cooper the moderator, not a single person in that packed and often raucous audience–spoke the only possible Constitutionally permissible answer: Article.VI. . . . no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. No religious test. None. Yet what we saw tonight was a religious test. A crystal-clear, absolutely open and direct violation of Article VI of the Constitution.

Daily Kos: Tonight, the Constitution Died

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Main Entry: phlegmatic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unemotional
Synonyms: along for the ride*, apathetic, blah*, cold, cool, deadpan, desensitized, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, flat, frigid, groggy, indifferent, lethargic, lifeless, listless, passionless, passive, sluggish, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable, unfeeling, uninvolved, unresponsive

What’s Trustworthy Online? How do you know what information you can trust online? Here are five tips from a research librarian: 1. The URL domain: If a URL ends in .edu, .gov or .org, you can bet the information youll find there is primary. Primary sources are more authoritative than secondary sources. 2. Website audience size and reach. This is especially true for blogs. The more people who link to it or subscribe to it, the more you can trust it. 3. Membership ranks. For trade associations, check out what companies are listed as members. Big names that you recognize will tell you the association is reputable. 4. Source materials. Think about Wikipedia. Wikipedia itself is not trustworthy because it is written by anyone, not necessarily an expert, and includes articles by contributors with an agenda. Scroll to the bottom of the entry and go to the links that are cited under References. The more references (ideally to news articles or books), the more trustworthy the wiki entry. 5. Quality of links and listed resources. Generally, the more primary the information, the better. But youre busy. So look for a good aggregator of firsthand information. For example, a blog might cite a book that cites a white paper. You cant necessarily trust the blog, or even the book. And the white paper is the result of months of research.

Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You

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Readability Calculations
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html

…I often receive notes
from teachers who want to determine the reading level of a document or Web
site; I have gathered several traditional and online information and tools on
this readability page to help the process

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