English Education Professor

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   Be true to yourself

2. Leave no regrets

3. Become love

4. Live the moment

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   Give more than you take

Genuine Curiosity: Five Secrets for the New Year

Serious open-source competitor to Illustrator.

Inkscape. Draw Freely.

John McGhie has some excellent tips and links. Step by Step: Writing a Book

How to create the ripe environment for teaching with tech. 

Teachers get caught up on jargon, on the basic skills of one program or process. They are still so focused on podcasting or dreamweaver that there is no room for creating the environment in which people will actually want to go beyond the tools, into true learning (you know, what we want our kids to be doing). What, then, is beyond the tools? What should we really be reaching for? The Ripe Environment

» The Ripe Environment Discourse about Discourse

I gave this a try with different combinations of “teacher salary” and came up with nothing. The technology, when it improves, could be remarkable.

http://www.graphwise.com/ Imagine doing a search for, say, Iraq civilian casualties, or highest paid athletes, or maybe, education spending and then having the site search the web for any tables of data it might find with those numbers and finally creating a chart of that data. What if you could then share those graphs?

TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips: [TIPS] graphwise – GREAT tool

By Stephen Downes September 13, 2006

• From time to time people express amazement at how I can get so much done. I, of course, aware of the many hours I have idled away doing nothing, demur. It feels like nothing special; I don’t work harder, really, than most people. Introduction: Four Types of Discursive Writing
• These are your choices of types of article or essay:

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Instructify (see link at bottom) have a lot of useful ideas and resources. Here’s just one of them. I plan to use Screencast-O-Matic to show my students how to use my Moodle courses.

Are you using screencasts yet? For the uninitiated, screencasts are mini-movies that demonstrate how to perform tasks on the computer. And making your own is super-easy thanks to Screencast-o-Matic.

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Many I have never heard of, including Buzzify, put out by Adobe! Definitely check out Free Web-Based Word Processors – lifehack.org

This blog has some good posts…but it has long been dormant. I was just reviewing some vocabulary activities there.

Todd Finley’s ENED 4323: Teaching H.S. English