Your students can prevent words like succisive, welmish or alogotrophy from fading into obscurity by adopting them through the Save the Words web site. When students visit Save the Words, they are confronted with a wall of lonely, unused words crying out for new homes. Literally. They cry out. Really. Try it. As the Save [...]
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A New Journey – Writing Workshop in the Digital Age
April 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Technology, Writing
As the fourth quarter begins, the dawn of a new era of teaching for me rapidly approaches: the Digital Writing Workshop. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for quite a while, but it has taken some time and effort to find the necessary planning time, resources and courage. Courage? Yes, courage. I am [...]
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Wikipedia as Bathroom Graffiti
March 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Research, Writing
Using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is like using bathroom graffiti for relationship advice–it might sound confident, but after a while you’ve got to wonder who wrote it. If you’ve struggled to explain to students why Wikipedia is not a reliable source, Mark Moran at FindingDulcinea has written The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite [...]
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