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Thursday, September 4, 2003 |
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Wonderful Words
I wish i could write like this.
Words Have Heft. " I toted in a brobdinagian, unabridged dictionary to class today. ...Teaching is not mostly or even mainly a concatenation of lesson plans, rubrics, behavioral objectives-- fileable, domesticated puzzle pieces of the intellect. As teachers we are addicted to this way that the world isn't; instead, we need to be educing the mystery of the world that is." [Tellio] [ebnWL News]
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Subversive Education
Incorporated Subversion. I object, it’s good to subvert…
...Basically, IS is set out by David Squires in his 1999 article ‘Educational Software and Learning: Subversive use and Volatile Design’ (.pdf) as design which gives learners ‘opportunities to work in environments which allow for idiosyncratic exploration and expression’ as opposed to those which provide for neither or only one aspect of exploration or expression. ... Alternatively to a pretty stream of diagnostic learning objects then, give a learner a personal publishing tool (like a weblog) host a class website, facilitate the formation of effective community dynamics and you’ve got something completely different. You’ve got learners engaged in understanding and constructing knowledge both socially and individually. They can explore what they like where they like, they can express themselves how and when they want to and they can belong to a cohesive group and exist in their own right.... [Xplana] I've got to spend some more time with this, but it sounds like what I've been thinking about as I work on our school's curriculum initiative and as I listen to Kevin Bartlett.
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Format Bibliographies Online
NoodleBib Gets An Update, Free Offer for Educators
NoodleBib is an inexpensive web tool ($8/year/for personal use) that allows users to quickly and painlessly format bibliographies (MLA and APA formats) online and then plug them into a document. [ResourceShelf]
This is a timely post for me. Just yesterday a teacher emailed me that MyBib (EasyBib), the free online bibliography formatting site that we have been telling students about, had become fee-based. It turns out that she was wrong -- the screen has been redesigned a bit, so that the link to pay for enhanced services is more prominent -- but the basic service is still free. Meanwhile, last spring we had decided to subscribe to NoodleBib, to give the students another option. NoodleBib has a very reasonably priced school license, and it's an excellent tool. The new features of the most recent update make it even better. I think it does a much better job of helping the students understand what they're doing when they create a bibliography. The other parts of the NoodleTools suite are great resources for students as well.
The ResourceShelf post also points out that NoodleBib is offering free access to teachers through September.
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