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What’s the Best Plagiarism Detector?

Should you look for a tool that ensures bibliographic citations are perfect? Can you help students avoid plagiarism by comparing their finished drafts to resources in a database or search engine? What is the best way to determine when a student plagiarizes? My answer is in this week's NCTE Inbox Blog. Continue

Added by Traci Gardner on November 5, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom

As posted of Brenna Coleman in suite101.com: Students today have an unprecedented access to media; yet, media literacy education remains a relatively new development in education, particularly in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms. Children use the internet both as a research tool and a social outlet; they listen to mp3's while sending text messages; they play video games with their next door neighbor, but also with the media savvy children who live on the other side of… Continue

Added by FelipeI on November 4, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Greetings....

Greetings, I am looking forward to sharing my two decades of inquiry into the impact of art-based literacy on students reading and writing skills with you during the Nov. Convention. I will be presenting twice. On Friday, Nov. 20 from 4:00pm-5:15pm , I will be presenting a full 75-minute session with 2 colleagues--Dr. Sue O'Connor (a school administrator) and Susan O'Byrne (a classroom teacher and past District mentor). Linda Rief will be chairing our session. We are presenting Artists/Writers… Continue

Added by Beth Olshansky on November 4, 2009 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Summer HS News Literacy Teacher Institute

Become a News Literacy Fellow this summer at Stony Brook! Help pioneer a new course for high school and middle school students on how to know if you’re getting the truth from the news media! Work and study with a select group of journalists and faculty at the School of Journalism. The two-week immersion course, underwritten by the Ford Foundation, will include a condensed version of the university’s innovative News Literacy course, colloquia with journalism school lecturers and professional jour… Continue

Added by Frank W. Baker on October 30, 2009 at 8:35pm — No Comments

Questions for Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is our Thursday evening convention speaker. Diaz let us know that he enjoys responding to teachers' questions. As you pack your bags for Philadelphia, throw in a couple of "meaty" questions for the author! See you there, Carol Continue

Added by Carol Jago on October 29, 2009 at 7:47am — 2 Comments

Hotel sharing?

Hi All, I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this. Our affiliate is sending a young teacher as the Leadership Development Award winner to the conference in Philadelphia She's very excited but also concerned about costs. We can help a little, but she's from a small private school that can't support her beyond allowing her to attend, so this is a hardship for her. She was shocked to find the hotels are booked and also at the prices (and she's more than a little afraid of the big city too).… Continue

Added by Karen Johnson on October 27, 2009 at 11:02pm — 2 Comments

Media Literacy- Book Recommendations

Due to upcoming travel and other commitments, I am sending this annual list of recommendations early. Each year, around this time, I create a list of books about media and media literacy that might make great additions to your library, personal collection, or as a gift. The list can be found on the home page of my web site under NEW RESOURCES. Happy holidays. Frank Baker Continue

Added by Frank W. Baker on October 26, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Session L:26 "It’s the Context Not the Text: Engaging Students in Required Reading"

Here are the handouts for our session. We hope you can come, and if you do come, we hope you enjoy it. It’s the Context Not the Text: Engaging Students in Required Reading Continue

Added by Susanne Nobles on October 24, 2009 at 9:45am — No Comments

NCTE New Media Gallery 2009- Don't Miss It

Coming to Philadelphia? Please join us inside the New Media Gallery 2009 You’ve heard of blogs, wikis, and nings, but you’re wondering how to use them in your classroom? We have some exciting possibilities on exhibit at our New Media Gallery, Friday, November 20, 2009 from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Room 202A of the Convention Center. Sponsored by NCTE’s… Continue

Added by Frank W. Baker on October 20, 2009 at 11:55am — No Comments

Writing takes Time; Time takes Writing

I teach a writing class to seventeen-year-old students. As they are handpicked for the course, they tend to be competent writers. Some are very good writers; others have the potential to be professional writers. I am not a professional writer, but I do know a thing or two about the craft of writing. Having been an avid reader most of my life and an English teacher for twenty-three years, I possess some relevant knowledge. Although I am not a fuddy-duddy grammarian, I do respect the conventions o… Continue

Added by Brian Moore on October 20, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

Inbox Blog: 4 Ways to Inspire a Love of Writing

This week’s National Day on Writing and the unveiling of the National Gallery of Writing will draw the attention of students and the rest of the world, but how do we sustain this focus on writing? I share four ways to inspire a life-long love of writing in this week's NCTE Inbox Blog. Continue

Added by Traci Gardner on October 20, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Hotel Insurance

If we are attending a convention next year, is it a good idea to get some sort of Temporary Health Insurance to cover potential medical expenses while traveling. Looking at the list of Augusta Hotels and doctors nearby, I am not sure if they would be in my network. Do an… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on October 19, 2009 at 3:19pm — 1 Comment

The Lost Symbol

Anyone else reading Dan Brown's newest? Continue

Added by Katherine Nelson on October 19, 2009 at 1:42pm — 1 Comment

2nd LAN Party of the K12Online2009 Conference

Please join us on October 20, 2009 at 22:00GMT/3:00pmPDT/4:00pmMDT/5:00pmCDT/6:00pmEDT for a live event of the 2009 K12Online Conference On October 20, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order… Continue

Added by mrsdurff on October 18, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Benefits for writers

If I am in negotiations with a publishing company, would it be appropriate to ask for Temporary health insurance or Temporary medical insurance while I am working for them. I know that many writers provide this on their own, but I was wondering if this was out of order. Have any of… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on October 17, 2009 at 5:31pm — 1 Comment

Coaching in a Culture of Change (February 3-4, 2010; Seattle, WA)

The University of Washington's Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) is pleased to offer a two-day institute designed to support the important work of K-12 school and district-based literacy coaches. Learn from nationally-acclaimed author and literacy coach Katherine Casey about the evolving role of coaching in improving classroom practice. This includes how to help teachers make data-driven decisions based on evide… Continue

Added by Grace Chiu on October 16, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

eEverything

Recent church meetings have been teaching about the internet and how much our lives are becoming in twined with the information highway. If all the Travel medical insurance records and Heart surgery statistical information is to… Continue

Added by Lee W. on October 14, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

TCTE 2009 Conference and Next Year in Chattanooga

The Nashville conference entertained 115 enthusiastic attendees, most of whom registered the week before! We enjoyed great speakers (Carol Jago, Barry Gilmore, and talented teachers from across Tennessee) and spent two rainy days indoors discussing our successes and setbacks in the classroom. President Sue Gilmore kept us happy as we hunkered down in the rain. She fed us and fed us: coffee, brunch, lunch, afternoon reception on Friday, then awards brunch on Saturday. Thanks, Sue! We were a small… Continue

Added by Brenda Robinette on October 13, 2009 at 5:34pm — No Comments

Looking for Bias, Manipulation and Stagecraft in News Images

Recently, President Obama invited physicians to the White House for a Rose Garden talk on health reform. Perhaps you, or your students, saw the images of this event in the news. If not, you can find them by going to Yahoo News and limiting your search criteria to "news photos." The President, in one image, is surrounded at the podium by four doctors--and both racial and gender diversity are evident. In that photo, as well as wider shots, we s… Continue

Added by Frank W. Baker on October 11, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Bits Post: The Persistence of Stereotypes in Visual Texts

In my most recent Ink’d In column, I wrote about “Finding Hidden Messages in Visual Texts” and pointed to some World War II posters that demonstrated anti-Japanese bias as examples. In my related classroom activity, I ask students to look for similar messages in more contemporary texts. Read my latest Bits Post for details on a perfect example from the news to use in class. Continue

Added by Traci Gardner on October 9, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

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