Archive for June, 2010

An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer This article really was by Emily Van Noy, the teacher who employed blogging in her classroom, and Kajder and Bull […]

McKeown, M. &  Beck, I. (November 1999). “Getting the discussion started.” Educational Leadership.  Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. An Annotation by Laurie Walsh I […]

An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Jakes outlines three ways in which the new literacies seem to be upon us, including, “learning with the Web as […]

Leahy, S., Lyon, C., Thompson, M., &Wiliam, D.  (November 2005).  Classroom assessment: minute by minute, day by day.  (Electronic version). Association for Supervision and Curriculum […]

Heffernan, V.  (2008, April 27).  Sepia no more.  The New York Times.   Retrieved from  http//:www.nytimes.com. An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer This article almost entirely […]

Kahn, E. (Mar 2007). Building fires: raising achievement through class discussion.  English Journal, 96, 16-19.  Retrieved March 7, 2008 from ProQuest database. An Annotation by […]

This article is the 2nd in a series, based on action research I collected while studying for my M.Ed, explores the impact digital technology can have on how our students learn, and how we, as educators, can leverage that impact for the good of our students. Before I was introduced to wikis in April 2008, I never would have envisioned how much my teaching could use these new technologies. More importantly, my students could not be more ready to take their education to a new level that I sincerely hope will better connect them to the world and prepare them to participate in a digital world. The time is now, and while students have been hungry for this opportunity, the reinforcing research is thorough enough to justify using wikis,blogs, podcasts, Flickr, Moodle, and online writing technologies that I feel can significantly improve students’ writing, and perhaps more importantly, prepare them for digital citizenship.

Guhlin, M.  (2006, August 15).  Flickr-ing – out.  Retrieved June 9, 2008,  from    http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2006/08/flickring_out.php. An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer In a blog entry, Guhlin […]

Johannessen, L. (Sep 2003). Strategies for initiating authentic discussion.  English Journal, 93, 73.  Retrieved July 6, 2008 from ProQuest database. An Annotation by Laurie Walsh […]

Gnatek, T.  (2005, August 3).  The grades that vanished, and some other threats to students’ data.  The New York Times.  Retrieved from http//:www.nytimes.com. An Annotation […]