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This page is for all of us to add information on readings and resources. Please add the item alphabetically and add a brief synopsis afterwards if the title is not sufficently descriptive. Please avoid copying and pasting the details directly from a website or Word document as this brings in fomatting that is difficult to change. (You can use notepad to remove formatting). Thank you ---Enhancing Lessons Team
Authentic Assessment
Lombardi, Marilyn, M. (2008) Making the Grade: The Role of Assessment in Authentic Learning http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3019.pdf
Mueller, Jonathan. The Authentic Assessemnt Toolbox: http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/whatisit.htm
Community of Practice
CP Square: http://cpsquare.org/
Etienne Wenger's Site: http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
Full Circle Blog on Communities of Practice: http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/tag/communities_of_practice/
Copyright Issues
JISC Copyright Tutorial: http://restricted.jisc.ac.uk/freearea/copyright2/0000.html
McGrail, Patrick J. and McGrail, Ewa (2009) What's Wrong with Copyright:Educator Strategies for Dealing with
Analog Copyright Law in a Digital World. Innovate: Journal of Online Education 5 (3)
Digital Natives
Palfrey, John. (2009) Teaching and Learning with Digital Natives PBS Webinar
Information Literacy
Association of College and Research Libraries: Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
Second Life
Knittel, Beth (2008) Introduction to Second Life for Educators
Writing, Interference and Error Correction
Dana Ferris, Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing, 2002, ISBN 0-472-08816-5
Eli Hinkel, Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar, 2004, ISBN 0-8058-3890-2
Michael Swan & Bernard Smith, eds., Learner English: A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems, 2nd edition, 2001, ISBN 0-521-77939-1
To get a quick sense of the first or other languages of your students, visit www.omniglot.com.
Comments (9)
Margaret Redus said
at 9:33 am on Feb 1, 2009
Resources for Understanding and Enhancing Learner Language:
Here are the books mentioned in the Elluminate discussion in Week 3, plus one website you may find useful.
Dana Ferris, Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing, 2002, ISBN 0-472-08816-5
Eli Hinkel, Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar, 2004, ISBN 0-8058-3890-2
Michael Swan & Bernard Smith, eds., Learner English: A teacher’s guide to interference and other problems, 2nd edition, 2001, ISBN 0-521-77939-1
To get a quick sense of the first or other languages of your students, visit www.omniglot.com .
Margaret Redus said
at 9:34 am on Feb 1, 2009
Robert, did this come through OK? I took a Word file and saved it as plain text. If that's not a good procedure, please let me know.
Robert Squires said
at 10:23 pm on Feb 1, 2009
Hi Margaret, that's a good way to take out formatting. Do you use Blackboard? You can do the same thing by clicking on the <> html mode before you paste from Word. It automatically removes the html tags. Anyway, would you like to try to edit the actual wiki page? I'll copy Dana Ferris and Eli Hinkel references, and you see if you can do the same for Swan and Smith and Omniglot. You should be able to edit this page by signing in with your e-mail and password.
Margaret Redus said
at 4:09 pm on Feb 2, 2009
Editing mission accomplished (see above)! Also, thanks for the Blackboard reminder. I just copied text from a Word file to a new page on BB that way. Now the students can copy the unformatted text back to a blank Word doc to practice MLA formatting tomorrow morning. They will have a reference handout of the same paragraph correctly formatted. I can already hear the gnashing of teeth....
Robert Squires said
at 5:56 pm on Feb 2, 2009
Yes, I can imagine. Your comment brings to mind the role of Information Literacy in ESL classes. Here is an excellent resource on this: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm I was copied on a document from the university library today on the information literacy standards being adopted in the redit classes being offered. The English Language Institute offers non-credit classes, but I would certainly see our ELI beginning to adopt these standards as part of the curriculum. Personally, I see the issue of being able to make sense of all of the information available on the Internet today as one of the greatest challenges for students and instructors alike.
Maizie said
at 1:32 pm on Feb 4, 2009
I found this very interesting too.
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/prof-dev/teach-tech-gavin.html
Maizie.
AnaliaD said
at 9:40 pm on Feb 4, 2009
TRAINING!!! Listen to Gavin Dudeney. We're all on the right track then. And hear what he says about the kind of training we need and how we can benefit. Music to my ears!
Analia
Margaret Redus said
at 2:19 pm on Feb 5, 2009
Thanks for putting Gavin Dudeney and his relevant work on my radar! Having access to community offers so much to us all.
Mary Di Mónaco said
at 9:14 pm on Feb 6, 2009
"...Contact with other people, bouncing of ideas, different perspectives..." This IS music to my ears! Thanks Maizie for sharing this wonderful video.
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