AETA-08: Facing the Dead Line

I’m very excited to be attending a presentation by my new colleague Jeanne Dugan, “Facing the Dead Line: Teaching Drugs and Alcohol to Middle School, High School, and College Students.”

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AETA-08: Keynote

Beverly Ann Chin, Director of English Teaching Program of University of Montana, Missoula and former chair of NCTE presents “Strategies that invite students into the world of multicultural literature.”

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Gabcast to the Rescue?

This past weekend Devon and I presented about Google Apps at the Arizona English Teachers’ Association. The first sign that we were the technogeeks at the conference was that we were happily typing away during the keynote address. I’m sure people were irritated by us; however, we were productive. I got my blog about the keynote up by the end of the keynote itself. And by the time we walked over to the building where we were presenting, we had figured out a way …

...Continued | October 10 2007 | Comments
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Keynote Beverly Ann Chin

Arizona English Teachers Association Conference Saturday October 6, 2007 Keynote: Beverly Ann Chin “Sentence Combining: The Bridge Between Written Sentence Fluency and Improving Reading” Chin demonstrates how we tell students to draft by just getting ideas down on the page, even if it sounds like you speak. But we know that speaking is not coherent, it’s in fragments and run-ons. Chin demonstrated how doing oral sentence combing (working from lists of super-short sentences) that helps demonstrate a variety of sentences, style, tone, …

...Continued | October 06 2007 | Comments
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