All reflections should be in by midnight Thursday, December 2. Helen and I will be handing in grades on Friday morning.
Blog Work Due Date
November 24, 2010 — Uncategorized
Practice with Jing and Other Tools
November 23, 2010 — Uncategorized
http://123.writeboard.com/7mh9ubxofcjzgt6k
While at Glogster, check out http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/6542?ref=search
Homework for November 16
November 15, 2010 — Uncategorized
Explore and test at least 2 of the following tools. On November 23, come prepared to show your fellow teachers how you would use the selected tools in your own classrooms.
Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing/
Inspiration http://www.inspiration.com/
Thesis builder http://www.tommarch.com/electraguide/
Interactives Spelling Bee http://www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/
Penzu http://penzu.com/features
Listen and Write http://www.listen-and-write.com/
Writeboard http://writeboard.com/
Glogster http://edu.glogster.com/
6 Free Sites to Create your Own Animations http://mashable.com/2010/10/27/create-animations-online/
Reflection 10
November 2, 2010 — Uncategorized
Read the following articles. Then write your opinion based on what you have observed in your own classrooms.
How Social Media is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write
http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-social-media-is-affecting-the-way-we-speak-and-write/
The Internet: Communication Corruptor or Language Liberator?
http://www.jyi.org/features/ft.php?id=258
How the internet is changing language
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10971949
Hello Teachers!
September 7, 2010 — Uncategorized
Welcome to the Borinquen Writing Project experience. By registering in the 2010 Invitational Summer Institute, you have the opportunity to share ideas geared towards the improvement of writing skills at all levels. You have become part of a network of enthusiastic teachers from Puerto Rico and the United States, who are members of the National Writing Project, you have become part of the BWP community. Besides you, we have many other teachers who have attended past Summer Institutes and have become teacher consultants through the sponsorship of the National Writing Project. Though we have a web page and a BWP blog, we have established this particular blog as a means of communication during our institute. We hope it will help us to get to know each other better. Here we will provide information about the project, readings, sites and other materials you might need during our time together. We also invite you to visit NWP’s site. Here is some information about us.
• The Borinquen Writing Project was established in 1995 at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico as a site of the National Writing Project http://www.writingproject.org/ Its goal is to improve the teaching of writing in Puerto Rico through the professional development of English and Spanish teachers.
• The core of our program is a four-week summer institute where teachers study current writing theory and share their teaching strategies. The summer institute in English and Spanish is offered in June from 9 am to 3 pm for participants who will receive master’s level credit at the University of the Sacred Heart.
• Participants will receive credit for the following courses: Eng 740 Pedagogy of Writing and Eng 625 Literacy Development / Esp 620 Comprensión y producción del discurso y Esp 750 Pedagogía de la escritura:teoría y práctica. During the Invitational Summer Institute, teachers offer demonstrative classes on how they approach the writing process , write extensively while learning innovative teaching strategies and methodology , read and discuss recent research related to the teaching of writing.
• Participants in the Invitational Summer Institute become teacher consultants for the project and offer workshops on writing to other teachers throughout the school year.
BORINQUEN WRITING PROJECT 787-728-1515 X2294, X2187
Reflection 1
September 7, 2010 — Course Reflections
Read “All Children Can Write” by Donald Graves. View Donald Graves Tells Us How to Get a Writing Class Started (Watch on You Tube) Then write a reflection describing the relationship between Graves’ ideas about the writing process, your own writing practices in the classroom, and the activities we have already done in class. The reflection should be about three paragraphs long and should be specific.
Donald H. Graves “All Children Can Write”
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6204
Kimberly Swick Slover “The Write Way”
Reflection 2
September 7, 2010 — Course Reflections
After listening to Peter Elbow and reading Regina Richards’ article. What points do they have in common, if any? What problems do you face in your language classrooms that impede practicing the writing process as Peter Elbow and Regina Richard’s recommend? What are your best teaching practices for writing?
Peter Elbow: On Writing
Richards, Regina. “Strategies for the Reluctant Writer”.
Reflection 3
September 7, 2010 — Course Reflections
Stephen Krashen is a professor at UCLA who has written over 350 books on bilingualism, second language acquisition and reading. Read http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/spelling-krashen.html then view the following videos:
Reflect upon how you teach reading. The PRDE sponsors the whole language approach. Do you follow their guidelines? Do you agree or disagree with Stephen Krashen? How do his ideas apply to your second language learners.
The following articles might help you:
Whole Language and Phonics : Can they work together? http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr029.shtml
Principles and Practices in Second Language Acquisition http://www.languageimpact.com/articles/rw/krashenbk.htm
Reflection 4
September 7, 2010 — Course Reflections
Read “Teaching Reading Comprehension to ESL/EFL Learners”, “Schema theory”, and “Helping ESL Students Become Better Readers: Schema Theory Applications and Limitations” at http://iteslj.org/Articles/Stott-Schema.html
Reflection 5
September 7, 2010 — Course Reflections
After reading the following articles about visualization reflect upon how you would use these ideas in your own classroom and provide at least one idea of your own to share with your colleagues.
Simmons, Eileen. “ Visualizing Vocabulary”.
http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/lpt/nwpr/403
Opening the Door: Teaching Students to Use Visualization to Improve Comprehension http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev094.shtml
