Shawne’s Blog

My initial thoughts about podcasting in education:
I believe that podcasting can be a positive teaching method. Podcasting gets students really involved with creating a product that will be shared with “the world.” Whether it’s a daily idiom, a book report, a recorded poem, podcasting lets students express themselves and exchange ideas as they [...]

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http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=145&title=Literature_Circles
Listened to a variety of videos about teaching literature and grammar to ELLs. Excellent ways to teach sequencing (eslpartyland) + sharing and peer teaching literature using the literature circles. Students really like viewing videos, so they are an great way to engage students. Videos help ELLs to improve their listening skills, offer [...]

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Here is a short slideshow of a whitewater rafting trip on the Nantahala River near Bryson’s Corners, North Carolina.  This trip was a very special birthday celebration for one of the women in the photos.  Whitewater rafting ranges in difficulty from easy (Class 1 rapids, very low key) to more difficult (Class 3 [...]

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feeds for my reader – completed

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I think that Flickr will be quite useful in my ESOL classroom.  I like the suggestion from one of the Flickr articles about using Flickr for teaching vocabulary.  Visuals really help ESOL students understand the differences between words that are quite similar in meaning, e.g. meander vs walk vs amble, etc., which Flickr would do.  [...]

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Creative Commons
I have noticed the CC on various websites and did wonder as to its meaning.  Now I know!  I absolutely think that CC will impact the way students will learn and create projects.  Traditional copyright doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense in 2009.  Using CC will reduce barriers to learning and increase [...]

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Regarding the Wikis that I explored, I noticed that most were organized using a listing on the left side of the home page.  This method made it easy to see the contents of the Wiki to help me decide where I wanted to explore.  I especially liked the Wiki created by Woodward Academy.  The Wiki [...]

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I like using Google Reader for professional purposes.  As a Language Arts ESOL teacher, I especially like using the Word of the Day from Dictionary.com.  Using the Promethean Board to show a visual of the word of the day, really assists the learning and implementation of the new word.http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=dictionary.com+word+of+the+day&FORM=SSRE

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The item of interest from my reader was the article, “Of Creativity and Art,” found in Students 2.0.  Coming from a performing/visual arts background (both teacher and actress), I especially was interested in reading a student’s thoughts on creativity.  The writier defined creativity as “the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, etc.”  She felt [...]

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What do you notice about the genre of blog writing in general?
informal and great for sounding off or out
(How) is blog reading different from other types of reading? How is it similar?
very informal
 
(How) is blog writing different from other types of writing? How is it similar?
Usually written in first person + grammar [...]

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