Literacy for the iGeneration

I had planned on using this blog to keep track of the things we do in class. The purpose is both to help students and to help myself when I reteach the class in the future. It will give me a place to capture what occured in class, what worked and what didn’t. But, the [...]

Welcome back to a new semester. We’ve had our first week of class and it was great seeing everyone again. We did a little getting to know each other activity even though we’ve been together for one semester already. At the end of last semester, it became obvious to me that despite my efforts to [...]

Remember way back during Fall semester when Allison and I talked about the public representation of self – and particularly Facebook? Well, it’s real. Here’s an article from the NY Times about a woman who was dismissed from her student teaching placement because of a Facebook photo.

I was supposed to Blog for Last week’s class however, we did not have class all week due to Frankenstein, Four Freedom’s, and other great events. I will try to catch up what we have been up to in class however, I don’t want to step on any shoes or ruin someone’s blog so I [...]

    I am sorry for this blog being a little late.  I have been having trouble finding a way how to write on the class blog as opposed to my personal blog, but now I think I have finally figured it out.
On Tuesday, October 2, the class went down to L100 in the Library for [...]

On Tuesday, September 25, we got into groups and did a content map on our assigned readings.  The notetaking strategy for this reading was using post-it notes.  When we got into our groups we took out our post-its and discussed what we all had.  Then we decided as a group what the main themes from [...]

 We discussed some of the readings.  A student brought up the “Cricket Example” of prior knowledge.  We were given an excerpt from some text and without the information that they were talking about Cricket, the sport, it was difficult to comprehend.  Once you were told “Cricket,” it was much easier to understand. Another point brought up was how [...]

On Tuesday Allison Bosworth came into class to discuss our field experience for this semester.  She had a powerpoint and she had made copies for us to follow along with.  We discussed how we will be placed and when, which will most likely be next week and come in the form of an email.  If [...]

Here is an example of a NY Times article that I might refer to in a blog or use in teaching.
Virus possible cause of killing honeybees You’ll need a free subscription to the NY Times to access the article.
I think this article is interesting because it really captures the interconnectivity of things. First, honeybees [...]

Hi everyone, here is a summary of what we did in class.
Tuesday, Sept 4th
*First the professor introduced herself and than we got to know each other better.
*After that, we wrote introductory letters to bilingual students at Monroe High School.
*We were told about the professor’s expectations about our personal and class blogs and how they were going to [...]