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English classroom and Technology

Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Petra Mar 21, 2009. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Blogs and essay writing

Started this discussion. Last reply by Nancy Bosch Mar 21, 2009. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Technology and the Paper load

Started this discussion. Last reply by Tammy Moore Mar 19, 2009. 1 Reply 0 Likes

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Thomas Petra replied to Ellen Petra's discussion 'English classroom and Technology'

Welcome to Classroom 2.0!! I think it would be interesting to link students to interesting blog articles and have them write opinion essays on them. You might ask the students to respond in paragraphs directly to the blog and track their efforts…

Mar 21, 2009

Tim replied to Ellen Petra's discussion 'English classroom and Technology'

I haven't done much with it yet, a relative new-comer to web 2.0 tools etc., but the site wordle.net, which generates word clouds intrigues me. I've skimmed some general suggestions of how it might be used in the classroom, so I know that…

Mar 21, 2009

Nancy Bosch replied to Ellen Petra's discussion 'Blogs and essay writing'

I teach gifted kids and we have an active blog. My kids are younger but some of them are good writers. Start at Recent Posts, your students might be tickled at what the kids are writing about. Clara is a radical and green-nik, Rachel goes to a…

Mar 21, 2009

Nancy Bosch replied to Ellen Petra's discussion 'English classroom and Technology'

We've done tons of stuff to enhance reading and writing. We have a student blog that has had 53,000 unique visits in three years (that's a heck of a lot of writing), we've done 5 wikis, book discussions using Moodle and Blackboard,…

Mar 21, 2009

Mobbsey replied to Ellen Petra's discussion 'English classroom and Technology'

etherpad is a pretty cool one I just stumbled across recently - http://etherpad.com/ wikis hold much potential for English in terms of writing and publishing.

Mar 20, 2009

Discussions posted by Ellen Petra Mar 20, 2009

Technology and the Paper load

I've just finished grading a stack of papers and am thinking to myself that there must be a better way. How can I use technology to effectively teach writing and at the same time reduce my paper load?

Discussion posted by Ellen Petra Mar 19, 2009

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School / Work Affiliation: St. John's School

About Me: I am an English teacher at St. John's School, a private K-12 school located on the island of Guam. I teach highschool English, including IBS English 11 and 12.

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