Curated OER
Information Overload: Looking at News
How do events reported in mainstream newspapers, on television news, blog posts, and social network sites differ? Ask your class to investigate the way the same news item is presented in the many information sources available. Groups...
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Do Presidential Candidates Need to Be Good Debaters?
Blogs can be a good way for learners to engage in writing, critical thinking, and social media in a formal way. The New York Times has provided learners age 13-18 with an article, background information, and several prompts to get them...
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Cute, Colored and Contentious
Whether your class responds to the blog linked to this article, or just answers the nine related questions, they're in for an eye-opening read. Pupils consider animal rights as they read a New York Times article about two men who have...
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Are Antismoking Ads Effective?
Are the anti-smoking ads put out by the federal government effective? This question is posed to your critical thinkers. They'll read excerpts from a New York Times article and then compose thoughtful blog responses to four related...
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Windmills and Blogs: The Impact of Technology in Rural Peru
How does technology affect a community? Research the benefits and consequences of technology in rural Peru. For this technology lesson, learners discuss how the effects of technology. They view a PowerPoint and learn about the Peace...
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Do You Have a Blog?
Ask learners about their personal writing habits, such as whether they keep a journal or a blog, or if they'd ever want to. Though this is not a fully developed lesson, you can use this article and question to provoke discussion and...
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Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
Students brainstorm a list of news sources. They interview people about today's media and discuss their results. After watching segments of a film about Walter Cronkite, they role play as reporters and subjects from an historic period...
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Presentation Blogs
Students create an audio/video blog for units of study for language skills, vocabulary, grammar patterns, idioms and body language. In this presentation blogs instructional activity, students select a topic from a unit of study and a...
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Literature Blog
Students write online responses to the Literature they are reading in class using computers, internet access, and the Blog website www.blogger.com. This technology based language arts lesson can be adapted for many different areas of...
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Quinnipiac University: Blogging Across the Curriculum
This online course was created for the Interactive Digital Design Department at Quinnipiac University and is designed to examine how weblogs are being used in academia. The various pages cover the basics of weblogs, how to use Blogger...
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Designs by Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging
Do you want a simple introduction to blogging? This site utilizes large graphics in a step-by-step format to walk you though what a blog is, some examples of blogs, the tools of blogging, the different types of blogs, and related topics.
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Fanschool: Blogs for Teachers and Students
Fanschool provides a safe and simple blogging platform for students in both elementary and middle schools. Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and accounts, and blogs are only viewable by classmates and the...
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Teachers First: Wiki Walk Through
Get expert advice on how to use a Wiki in your classroom. Easy to follow thoughts and ideas.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Beyond Email
Learn about the various ways beyond email of communicating and sharing online.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 5, Issue 6: What's Your Name? [Pdf]
This magazine article discusses how technology changes have added or changed meanings of words such as Internet, browser, e-mail, mailbox, and blog.
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Kathy Schrock's Educational Technology Blog Listing
Kathy Schrock provides a compiled list of educational technology blogs. Blogs from David Warlick, Alan November, and Will Richardson are included in the list, along with many other educational expert's blogs.
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Fagan Finder: All About Rss
This page is about using RSS and Atom, from a non-technical standpoint.If you are interested in creating RSS feeds, see this RSS Workshop, or Atom for Publishers for Atom.
New York Times
New York Times: Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply
This article discusses the implications of employees including company information in personal blogs. Click on link to a lesson plan where students discuss the issues and create their own blogs.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Word Press Resources
Review this free resource guide for help using this website management tool.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.