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Digital Storytelling
Submitted by blsams on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 10:52When I taught English, I loved to tell stories to my students about the lives of the poets and authors we were studying. I liked reading literary biographies anyway, so I figured I could add some depth to the curriculum. For example, when we studied Modern Poetry and figures such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and E.A. Robinson, I ended (or began…or both!) each day with a little tale from William Pritchard’s Lives of the Modern Poets.
Community Spark
Submitted by blsams on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 15:45I recently discovered a site well worth checking out. Community Spark: Building Online Communities is a helpful, no nonsense resource for those wanting to design, build and maintain online learning communities. The resources on this site can be used for a variety of domains. The articles aren’t geared for a particular niche – like small business mangers, educators, or lovers of literature – but are generic enough to cut across these areas of inquiry.
Early experiences with online learning: reflections and new directions for thinking
Submitted by blsams on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 19:20The summer before my junior year of high school (in the late 90s), I took an online Algebra 2 course sponsored by a major state university (not in North Carolina). I soon discovered that I was my only resource! I took online exams/quizzes and submitted any question I had to an anonymous ‘system administrator’ – and usually no one responded with helpful feedback. There was absolutely no human element. The online supplemental worksheets provided repetition instead of clarifying potentially troubling concepts. Most times, it seemed like just me and the textbook.
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