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ECN Book Group: Write Beside Them

147 members Latest Activity: Jan 3 Site for upcoming ECN Book Club hosted by Penny Kittle who will lead the discussion of her book "Write Beside Them."
Teaching Mass Communications

2 members Latest Activity: Nov. 28, 2009 A forum for English teachers who happen to teach Mass Comm at the high school level

University of Oklahoma English Education

3 members Latest Activity: 16 hours ago This page is a gathering space for students and alumi of the English Education program at OU. We'll use this page for class projects, but also for sh…
New Teachers

475 members Latest Activity: 12 hours ago A place for preservice and new teachers to ask questions, let off steam, tell stories, celebrate.

English Companion Ning Feedback

45 members Latest Activity: Nov. 23, 2009 Discuss how we can improve the Ning through additions, adjustments, and omissions.
Using Blogs and Wikis in the English Classroom

557 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago For English/Language Arts teachers who are using blogs and wikis in their teaching. Image credit: Image: 'Web 2.0 Workshop Sneak Preview: What is+RS…

Testing and Assessment

184 members Latest Activity: Jan 3 Use this group to share ideas about testing and assessment, to ask for examples of tests others create, to offer alternative ways of assessing student…
Professional Development

147 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago A space for teachers, administrators, professional development providers, and instructional coaches to share resources, generate ideas, and collaborat…

Journalism

71 members Latest Activity: Dec. 31, 2009 Newspaper advisers can share their passion for and thoughts about teaching journalism in the 21st century.
History-Literature Connection

113 members Latest Activity: Dec. 13, 2009 Literature and history often complement each other. How are teachers using literature and history together to help students learn?

Creative Writing

148 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 Discuss ideas around this elective class. Share advice about helping students develop writing outside the standard academic curriculum.
Urban Teachers: Teaching English in the City

61 members Latest Activity: Jan 3 This group shares ideas, resources, stories, and strategies for teaching English in Urban schools.

San Jose State University- English teachers

12 members Latest Activity: Oct. 9, 2009 This is for former/current/future English teachers that have/do/will attend San Jose State University. It was started by people who took the English m…
ESU #11 English Teachers

2 members Latest Activity: Jul. 14, 2009 Share resources, ideas, successes and struggles with other local teachers.

FSU English Education

39 members Latest Activity: 8 hours ago A group on the English Companion Ning for FSU students currently in the English Education program at Florida State University.
Response to Intervention (RTI)

24 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago RTI is increasingly important at all grade levels. Sometimes it's hard to find resources and discussions about what it "looks like." This group comes…

Recommended Resources

221 members Latest Activity: 12 hours ago Post must-read, must-see, much-check out links to books, studies, websites---whatever. Tell us what it is, why you like it, how it helps, and how you…
Authors' Corner

92 members Latest Activity: Dec. 4, 2009 The EC Ning is blessed with many of our profession's most important authors who are always coming out with new books to help us do our work.

Teaching Reading

567 members Latest Activity: 10 hours ago Share strategies, questions, resources for teaching middle and high school students how to read different types of text.
Students with Special Needs

75 members Latest Activity: 12 hours ago However you define "special needs," we have lots of them in our classes. Share strategies, curriculum, and resources here.

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Mark Smith commented on Bill Maniotis's blog post 'Teaching the ten commandments'

Michael writes: Most often it's [constructivism in practice] not that extreme, but usually it tends to share in the general progressive antipathy to "mere" knowledge and hostility to the "sage on a stage" or any sage anywhere. This is mere caricat…

9 minutes ago

Dave commented on Carol Sanders's blog post 'They just don't get it!!'

It seems like a lot of kids don't care for details. Spelling, anyone? I have had the same problem especially with the transfer. You would think that after teaching students how to use parenthetical citation and then correcting their mistakes on thei…

9 minutes ago

Jeffrey Robert Nordgren replied to Laurie Jones's discussion 'Is comedy underrepresented in most AP lit courses?' in the group AP Lit and Language

I believe comedy is underrepresented. My students often complain about the depressing works we read (12 grade, but they also say that about previous English courses). We added Much Ado About Nothing a dozen years ago as something of a balance to Ham…

10 minutes ago

Julie Coiro replied to Pat Keefe's discussion 'Vocabulary Videos and Rubric' in the group Teaching Vocabulary

Hi Pat, I have never done these myself, but there are some great examples at VocabAhead Vocab Videos which also contains links to digital resources to help students create their videos. While most of the videos are done professionally, there is at l…

13 minutes ago

Julie Coiro replied to Pat Keefe's discussion 'Vocabulary Videos Rubric and Discussion'

17 minutes ago

Jennifer Hoefer replied to Jennifer Hoefer's discussion 'Rigor in AP Writing: What is appropriate and how do you get colleagues on board?'

Thanks for your reply -- it was very helpful. I think I understand what you are saying -- kids do try to craft a dazzling sentence, rather than one with insight. And something simple can be insightful. But my concern is really the thinking behind th…

25 minutes ago

Krystine replied to Laurie Jones's discussion 'Is comedy underrepresented in most AP lit courses?' in the group AP Lit and Language

I would say comedy is underrepresented. My students have nicknamed my class "AP Sex & Death" as we tend to go to the dark side. I do try to use some comedy in preparation for a Q3 comedy prompt. We do use A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Color Purple…

27 minutes ago

Margery Willis replied to Margery Willis's discussion 'National Board Certification'

Your "rambling" is fantastic. So much good advice. You know, I'm actually looking forward to writing now. I feel like I've got a handle on it. Thanks for all of your comments.

30 minutes ago

Dave replied to Kathy's discussion 'The Great Depression novels'

I really like "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. It is short and I think very accessible for struggling students. It won the Newberry Medal. Not only did it help me understand what the big deal was about the duststorms of the time, I thought it told…

38 minutes ago

Carol Jago replied to Maja Wilson's discussion 'Making Audience Matter in the Writing Process'

And what about the fact that often writers don't know what their thesis is until they begin reflecting in writing about a subject or occurrence? Happens to me all the time.

45 minutes ago

Ryan Rish Inviting my pre-service teachers @OSU to join Bill Kist's ECN book club as part of our class, Laboratory Experiences in English Education.

1 hour ago

Dave replied to Dave's discussion 'What do essential questions look like?'

Thank you so much everyone! I definitely have a better feel for how essential questions work. I've been able to brainstorm a few and included a few here. Feel free to tell me if I am way off base. What does it mean to be an “Outsider”? What makes…

1 hour ago

Eileen Zygarlicke replied to Judith Newman's discussion 'Opportunites for student publication' in the group Teaching Writing

Judith-- One opportunity is Teen Ink (http://www.teenink.com). This is a publication for teens only, ages 13-19, to submit and publish their work. The one draw back I found is that once accepted, Teen Ink keeps all rights to the work. This means ki…

1 hour ago

Andy Esquivel Jr. commented on Bill Maniotis's blog post 'Teaching the ten commandments'

Bill, You have it wrong. I didn't say the theory has not had wide influence. I never said anything like that. I agree that it has had wide influence. What I said was I've never heard of teachers labeling themselves as constructivists or nonconstruct…

1 hour ago

Alan Sitomer added a blog post

The Ugly Truth That's Black and White

The Ugly Truth is that my number one goal for my students right now has to be to raise their 2010 standardized test scores. I find it disturbing, off-base, heart-wrenching, and almost something shameful to admit. However, NCLB has my entire school'…

1 hour ago

Kathy added a discussion

The Great Depression novels

I am in search of a novel set during the Great Depression/Dust Bowl era. It will be used in a 10th grade history class; most of the students are struggling readers. The teacher would like to stay away from the "big name classics." He wants something…

1 hour ago

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