Guidelines for Book Reviews (Lead Story)
Published June 14, 2005
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The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
Published June 07, 2004
by Rebecca Blood. Reviewed by Kelly Arsenault. As teachers, we are constantly searching for new ways to reach students, to show evidence of learning, and, let?s be honest, to make our lives easier in the coordination and communication of school related information. A school or classroom weblog could be a possible solution for all of these tasks...
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Schools
Published June 07, 2004
edited by Nancy M. Doda and Sue C. Thompson. Reviewed by Jill Spencer. The power of a story well told can inspire and move us deeply. Rarely do we leave a Nancy Doda keynote without wiping a few tears from our eyes and making a silent vow to try one more time to reach our most troubling students. If we?re lucky we hear a stirring keynote once a year. But aren?t there those years when we really would benefit from keynote a week simply because the combination of pressures mount exponentially, and we begin to feel under siege on a regular basis? Fortunately NMSA has provided us with an anecdote for this feeling in Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Schools: Middle School Change, edited by Nancy Doda and Sue Thompson...
The Tech-Savvy English Classroom
Published June 07, 2004
by Sara B. Kajder. Reviewed by Barbara Greenstone. With two years of one-to-one computing under our belts, many of us have moved beyond needing help with the hardware and software. We?re ready to look at how technology in the classroom can transform our teaching and learning. Sara Kajder?s book, The Tech-savvy English Classroom, looks beyond occasional word processing and presentations to explore every-day classroom practice that incorporates technology and engages students. There?s nothing earth-shattering here but there is good advice for classroom teachers...
I Read It, But I Don?t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers
Published June 07, 2004
by Cris Tovani. Reviewed by Jill Spencer. How would our teaching lives be different if our students read with comprehension the materials we assign? Imagine: spirited discussions instead of blank stares, downcast eyes and muttered expressions of ?This is stupid.? Most of us have felt the frustration of having a lesson go flat because our students ?didn?t get? or missed the main points of the text. Cris Tovani addresses this issue head on in her book I Read It, But I Don?t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers...
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