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Bay Area Writing Project

17 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 Comparing things with Drupal and just checking out the Ning scene.
English Online

14 members Latest Activity: Jan 4 This is a group supporting teachers who are teaching English online or in a hybrid environment.

LGBT Literature

39 members Latest Activity: Dec. 31, 2009 A place to discuss your favorite LGBT titles and how to teach them.
Book Reviews

29 members Latest Activity: Sep. 24, 2009 Post your reviews for English Composition texts to use in the classroom (or any other books for the English Companion!)

Scriptures in/as Literature

24 members Latest Activity: Dec. 21, 2009 This is a group in which to discuss teaching scriptures in and as literature. What questions/frustrations/insights do you have about teaching sacred s…
Teaching Boys

67 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 Share resources, solutions, questions, and concerns about boys' literacies and teaching boys.

ECN Book Group: Rethinking Rubrics

188 members Latest Activity: Nov. 4, 2009 Welcome to the English Companion Ning Book Club for Maja Wilson's "Rethinking Rubrics." The actual book discussion will take place through the individ…
Larry Ferlazzo's English Blog

11 members Latest Activity: Dec. 12, 2009 This "group" will publish the RSS feed from the blog "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day....for teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL"

Latino/a Literature

34 members Latest Activity: Dec. 31, 2009 Share topics, titles, resources, and strategies for teaching Latino/a literature.
Discussing Carol Jago's Beyond Standards

7 members Latest Activity: Sep. 24, 2009 This group has been set up specifically for EHS 612 at UAB to discuss the book Beyond Standards, but anyone is welcome to contribute.

Supporting ESL and Refugee Students

10 members Latest Activity: Oct. 11, 2009 Do you have refugee students in your classroom? Let us discuss the issues with educating refugee students and share strategies to help our students sm…
Classroom Management

185 members Latest Activity: Jan 1 Join this group to share your great classroom management idea or tip. Whether you are a veteran or a newbie this is the place to share your great idea…

The Personal Creed Project

89 members Latest Activity: Jan 3 Deepening Students' Engagement in Learning
Interdisciplinary Teaching

13 members Latest Activity: Jan 1 Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are skills that are necessary to all disciplines. In addition, we are literature experts who know a lot of d…

University Writing Center

7 members Latest Activity: Sep. 28, 2009 Share resources or ideas regarding creating, expanding, or managing a college-level writing center.
Philosophy and Literature

31 members Latest Activity: Dec. 20, 2009 Inspired by the Philosophy and Literature Initiative at Stanford and the growing need for discussion of Big Ideas in the NCLB era

Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC)

23 members Latest Activity: Jan 4 A place to share modules and lessons created for the CSU Expository Reading and Writing Course.
Nova Scotian Teachers

3 members Latest Activity: Oct. 24, 2009 A place to discuss resources, issues and professional development opportunities specific to teachers in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Alternative/Charter/Private Schools

29 members Latest Activity: Jan 2 For those teachers who work in alternative, charter, or private schools. Discuss the issues within these programs. Support, brainstorm, and share with…
ECN Book Club: Readicide

310 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago This is the main page of the EC Ning Book Club discussion for Kelly Gallagher's "Readicide."

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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…

2 minutes 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…

7 minutes 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'…

8 minutes 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…

14 minutes ago

A Anthony left a comment for Jenna R Waid

17 minutes ago

Stacey Kerr commented on Frank W. Baker's blog post 'Digital Nation: new PBS/Frontline Special coming in February'

Yay Doug! He was one of my teachers in pre-teaching grad school (itp.nyu.edu), and I'm a huge fan of his work. Thanks for posting this, Frank. I'm really excited to see what these guys have come up with this time.

22 minutes ago

Judith Newman added a discussion to the group Teaching Writing

Opportunites for student publication

I am looking for opportunities for high school students to publish their writing. I am in VT. We are part of the NWP and can certainly offer that to our students. I know about the Mountain Review, but I would really appreciate other venues where stu…

23 minutes ago

Hamilton Salsich commented on Hamilton Salsich's blog post 'TEENAGERS AND SPRING ICE'

Oh, a marvelous poem, Carol -- by one of my favorite poets. In graduate school far back in the 60's, I took a creative writing class from Bly at the University of Kansas, and have never forgotten it. Thanks for the connection.

29 minutes ago

Eileen Williams commented on Hamilton Salsich's blog post 'TEENAGERS AND SPRING ICE'

I actually do have a plan (I also have a yearly book filled with objectives). I just can't say I have a detailed plan. I found it easier to plan for 90 minute block lessons than the 45 minutes we have at this school which makes me feel like I am in…

33 minutes ago

Christine Trala replied to Ron Shapiro's discussion 'The Sad But True State of the American University'

Oh I do! I just had a tutorial with a final year student, who thank me for introducing her to philosophy. It's just that the rest of it sucks up so much time.

1 hour ago

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

Andy, The fact that you have not heard of it doesn't mean the theory has not had a wide influence. Nearly every school of education in America now promotes "constructivist" ideas, and it is why many of our student teachers are not receiving some of…

2 hours ago

Carol Jago commented on Hamilton Salsich's blog post 'TEENAGERS AND SPRING ICE'

How about this for a poetic connection to your posting, Hamilton? Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake, We place our feet where they have never been. We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy.…

2 hours ago

Chris Shelley replied to Hellen Harvey's discussion 'E-books and their effect on reading and writing' in the group Teaching with Technology

I really think that PDFs kick SOOO much butt compared to .mobi Kindle Books or any other text with DRMs.

2 hours ago

Clix replied to Hellen Harvey's discussion 'E-books and their effect on reading and writing' in the group Teaching with Technology

... and xboxes can make lovely computers if you know how to hack them. But that's also illegal. ;) My husband has a bebook, which will read PDFs and some other formats... I don't know if it does text files or not.

3 hours ago

Ken C. replied to Maja Wilson's discussion 'Making Audience Matter in the Writing Process'

And yet many teachers would grade "gentle seductions" harshly and comment that they "take too long to get to the point" or "meander." It just goes to show the huge chasm that exists between persuasive essays taught in the "Cookie-Cutter School of Es…

3 hours ago

Michael Umphrey replied to Maja Wilson's discussion 'Making Audience Matter in the Writing Process'

While it may be true that in reality there are not that many people reading student work on the Web (who but an English teacher could love a character analysis of Scout Finch??), I wonder if that really matters. I suspect it does matter. I think it…

4 hours ago

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