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2005 Summer Syllabus [ .PDF format ]
NWP
Electronic Writing Marathon
http://blogs.writingproject.org/mooclass/
ONLINE WELCOME PAGE FOR SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS
Invite your summer institute participants to visit the welcome page on
the NWP website to learn more about how they can connect with national
programs and opportunities.
http://www.writingproject.org/welcome.html
NCSU College of Education's Online Tools for Schools: http://ced.ncsu.edu/onlinetools/
For lovers of language... Kay Byer, NC's new poet laureate, featured an NC poet each day during April (poetry month), and she's now featuring one or two a week. Go to www.ncarts.org, click on poet laureate, then poet-of-the-week. I think you'll be glad you did.
This is an excerpt of a new book on why writing matters.
http://nwp.edgateway.net/cs/nwpp/lpt/nwpr/524
NEW RESOURCES FOR SUMMER INSTITUTE READING
As the range of professional literature about teaching writing and reading
has grown over the years, the opportunity for rich discussions of reading
and research continues to be crucial to the summer institute experience.
Read a sampling of several sites' key readings in the institute.
http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwp_docs/253
Offers 150+ peer reviewed, standards-based language arts lesson plans aimed at educators in grades k-8. http://www.readwritethink.org
Ruie's research on teacher-led professional development http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/project/prof_dev_res/
Ten Tips for designing Writing Assignments
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/034.shtml
Links concerning the new flap over writing ability and instruction.
http://www.writingcommission.org/
Learn about Peter Elbow, the author of many books about the process of writing including Writing Without Teachers, visit http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/writeshop/links.html
Reading Online - New Literacies http://www.readingonline.org
Newspaper articles:
http://news.google.com/news?q=The+neglected+r+writing+
in+our+schools&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
Ed Week article regarding the just-released report from the Commission on Writing. In addition to mentioning the writing project, the article provides readers with a direct link to the NWP website, and to The Quarterly and The Voice: http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=33write.h22
Technology Matters: An Advanced Institute for Technology Liaisons
http://writingproject.org/Programs/techliaison/institute2003.htm
To preview the NWP 2002 annual report, download a PDF from the NWP websiteat:
http://www.writingproject.org/Publications/other/index.html
The Parent’s Journal, a weekly national radio series, will broadcast an interview with NWP Executive Director Richard Sterling about our new book, Because Writing Matters, the week of May 7-14. To find out where to hear the broadcast in your area, contact your local public radio station, or visit http://www.parentsjournal.com/index.html and click on “Listen to TPJ.” Or, listen to the 20-minute interview online at the Parent’s Journal website beginning May 12.
As a stepping stone into a webquest, this site enables you to put bookmarks on the internet websites and access them anywhere and create public folders: http://www.backflip.com
Guide to grammar and writing: (Has a PowerPoint presentation on grammar that you can download or to show using an LCD panel) http://webster.commnet.edu?HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
Common errors in English. You can send kids to this site. (You can read html on netscape or another navigator) http://www.wsu.edu?~brians.errors/errors.html
High School English Resource Page http://www.bham.wednet.edu/ENGLISH2.HTM
TheWriteKey is a website that offers new rubrics each week for teachers to use. Students can access it and get a checklist of essential elements of good writing which apply every time one writes. Students can check out the STUDENT LINK for a brief summary and a bookmark of the month. (Free) http://www.writekey.com
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is mobililzing a new campaign to support writing. http://www.ncte.org/
Jamie McKenzie's site posts an online journal - From Now On - about educational technology and has hit a chord with teachers because he writes articles aimed at the practical side of using technology. http://www.fno.org
http://www.landmark-project.com/index.php
Some specific sites that NCTE recommends are:
Finding the active voice
Help your students take ownership of their writing. This online minilesson
is a springboard for helping students distinguish between active and passive
verbs. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=280
Consult this brochure for citations and examples drawn from research about adolescent writers: http://www.ncte.org/prog/writing/research/113177.htm
The National Writing Project and the Northern Nevada Writing Project have created Writing Fix to offer techniques and topics designed to help you get your daily writing fix. http://writingfix.com/
Creative-Journal website contains articles, techniques, a visual gallery, etc. designed to spark the creative flow when writing. http://ww.creative-journal.com/
Guide to Writing Research Papers: Community college or high school levels. Also has info on grammar and writing process: http://cctc/commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Tips to take you through the writing process, from choosing a subject to documenting your sources. Also contains information on different types of essays. http://www.powa.org
Assembling a List of Works Cited: Duke University Library Website contains informaiton on how to cite a variety of different sources in APA, MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, and Turabian formats http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited
Good for elementary teachers:
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators--Literature and language http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
NCTE's Notes Plus (See Ruie's hard copies for what this collection contains) http://www.ncte.org/notesplus/
Teachervision.com once a month offers a list of sites that are good for teachers. Sign up is free to be on the email list. http://teachervision.com/tv_index/
Links for Teachers (just about the ultimate list) http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/tealinks.html
Fabulous humanities pages, Voice of the Shuttle: http://vox.ucsb.edu/index/html
Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Make your own wordsearches, crosswords, jumbles, etc. http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/index.html
Creative Writing for Kids--homepage http://kidswriting.miningco.com/teens/kidswriting/mlibrary.html
Web Tools
Webquests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
Backflip - Web based bookmark manager http://www.backflip.com
Build your own home page and get free server space http://www.geocities.yahoo.com
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