(Mostly Edtech) Resources for English Education Professors & English Teachers by Todd Finley
An amazing site by Teun A. van Dijk (2007)
Also, we hope to help you avoid familiar misconceptions about CDS, for instance the unfortunately widely shared belief that CDS is a method of analysis or research, instead of a movement of socially committed scholars in the field of discourse studies, or a socially or political critical attitude in doing discourse analysis, for instance by focusing on issues of power abuse or social inequality.
Bob McMurray: Defusing the Childhood Vocabulary Explosion.
Neato little theory. With graphs!
Effective Teaching, Quality Instruction and Professional Development (David Peter, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Vincennes University)
ExploratoryLearner – The Real Deihl by William “Bud” Deihl
Islands of jokaydia in Second Life Blog – Islands of jokaydia Community of Practice
K12Online 2006 Conference (2006 EduBlog Award Winner)
Learning in a Flat World by Britt Watwood (VCU, Richmond VA)
Mexico English Teachers’ Alliance :: META Web 2.0 – EFL and ESL educators throughout Latin America and the world
MI-LIFE – Michigan Leadership Improvement Framework Endorsement.
myLearning blog/podcast – TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute
Not Your Average Teacher – A community of pre-service and service teachers dedicated to fighting burnout in education.
NUESDesk by Kevin Hansen and Robert Gordon, Technology Trainers, Northeastern Utah Educational Service Center
Portable PD (Jane Smith and Nathan Toft) A blog and podcast discussing the use of technology in the elementary classroom. Ottawa, Canada
Suppl_eMINTS (Zac Early) – a supplement to eMINTS training sessions
Technology Training & Integration by Clint Stephens, Technology Integration Specialist, Southwest Educational Development Center
The Chronicle Of.… -By Jillian Reading. Academic Advising Professional Development Blog; also covers general higher education issues.
The Eighth Floor, . . . a technology and learning center for educators.
The Student Affairs Collaborative Blog A collaborative blog of Student Activities and Student Affairs Activities Professionals from around the country. Discussing, learning, networking, and leading Student Affairs.
TIP: Technology Integration Program by Shawn Brandt, Secondary Technology Integration Specialist, New Prague Area Schools
Personal Branding Blog by Dan Schawbel, educator, author, speaker, publisher and blogger
USNWeb2.0forUs! from Scott Merrick’s summer 2007 profdev offering
Web 2.0 Book Study by K. L. Evans – This is an online Staff Development facilitated by the book, “Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, and Other Powerful Wed Tools for the Classroom” by author, Will Richardson.
ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture screen activity in real-time to rapidly create and share tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.
Yup…I like it better than Evite.
Write rhymes. took me a while to figure out (after I followed the directions). It’s a very slick rhyme-generator– the fastest I’ve seen.
Finally, an excuse for me playing Ozzy Osborn’s “Ironman” at full volume during Powerpoint slide shows:
“What seems to happen is that a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head.” said Petr Janata, a cognitive neuroscientist at University of California, Davis. “It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person’s face in your mind’s eye.”
