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Class activities and teaching practices (58)

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Sean Nash

A Synthesis Blogging Whitman

Back in September I wrote a post about an interesting little web service called DailyLit. I had just signed up and received the first o...

Started by Sean Nash

0 Mar 23
Anna Billings

Teaching from the Ocean Via the Web

More wonders from the world of technology — students receive their science lesson from their teacher who is monitoring coral reefs nearly...

Started by Anna Billings

5 Mar 19
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Or-Tal Kiriati

What digital systems do you use to enhance teaching?

In the classroom and outside the classroom, what type of digital or web systems do you use to enhance the learning process? Can you link?...

Started by Or-Tal Kiriati

2 Mar 6
Reply by Aaron Ball
Laura Gibbs

Article about grading and entitlement in the New York Times

Wow, I sure felt unrepresented by the article in the New York Times about grading. You can read the article here. The main thrust of the...

Started by Laura Gibbs

22 Feb 22
Reply by Laura Gibbs
Laura Gibbs

Rich feedback v. the poverty of grading

I wanted to follow-up on the previous discussion about grading (thanks to Mike and Maria and Kiki for their contributions there!), to dis...

Started by Laura Gibbs

3 Feb 22
Reply by Maria Fleyshgakker
Nathan Lowell

Copyright Abuse?

This story has been trying to build up a head of steam for the last couple of days on the blog- and twitterspheres: David Vs. Goliath: T...

Started by Nathan Lowell

5 Feb 11
Reply by Laura Gibbs
Vincent Mespoulet

Share Poetry with us for The Spring of the Poets 2009: Poetry in all its bursts (of laughter) !

Hi everyone, Like last year, School Beyond the Walls is launching its festival about Poetry in many languages. You can join and share po...

Started by Vincent Mespoulet

0 Feb 1
Connie Weber

favorite short stories? suggestions needed!

Suggestions? We're studying the Short Story in class. I'm reading aloud some of the best I can find. Some I've recently read: "A Sound o...

Started by Connie Weber

8 Jan 17
Reply by Skip Zilla
Vincent Mespoulet

Our Elluminate sessions to teach foreign languages

Hi everyone, you'll find below two videos showing our first learning chinese and learning french sessions, last saturday jan 10th... May...

Started by Vincent Mespoulet

0 Jan 15
Mike

Healthy Human Development- Our Hope for the Future?!?

DARE THE SCHOOLS BUILD A NEW SOCIAL ORDER- Cold, windy, blustery night in southern new jersey..... wondering if this is not part of the ...

Started by Mike

0 Jan 10

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