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Mind Bloggers: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Questions for Harry and Heather and You. Both efforts threatened the right of children to participate within the imaginative world of Harry Potter." (p.170) To what extent do we threaten the rights of students to participate within any worlds other than the ones we dictate in the reading and writing curricula we design for them? How diverse are we in selecting texts, themes and worlds for our students? What subliminal messages do we send them through the texts we choose for them?
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Mind Bloggers: Tower of Babel Lesson Plan
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Friday, July 11, 2008. Tower of Babel Lesson Plan. Why do you say someone gets ribbed? What sense does that make? What sense does it make to say someone got treated if they're not sick or if you didn't buy them a candy bar? I mean, what do Indians say? Do you guys say "treated" or do you say "ribbed"? I'm from Milwaukee," the addresse replied. "We say ribbed." Chuckle, chuckle from the class. July 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Y'all are the best! Thanks to all in C&I 630.
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Mind Bloggers: June 2009
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Monday, June 29, 2009. Safe House in Urban Environment. They write without being prompted. Does their love for posting and tagging translate to a love for blogging? Is this our version of finding them where they are and taking them (reluctantly) where we want them to go? They do not enjoy blogging! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Y'all are the best! Thanks to all in C&I 630. Safe House in Urban Environment. View my complete profile.
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Mind Bloggers: A & P Parking Lot
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008. A and P Parking Lot. Our universal notions of good writing become a totalizing program of design control." This implies that students only become good writers when they follow the traditions that we set forth, when they lose their exuberance. When they become us. That might explain why some excursions in urban writing goes over well and others might not. If the instructor, for example, is more in tune with urbanism. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Y'all are the best!
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Mind Bloggers: A Letter to Grace
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Thursday, July 10, 2008. A Letter to Grace. When I arrived in Milwaukee, a southern girl hundreds of miles away from home, away from all that I had ever known, no family, no friends, no "Safe House," I, too, was afraid. But not of teaching, not of classroom settings. I was confident about my subject and gave no thought to discipline. What did I know about urban schools and ghettos? I was a teacher! But let me tell you another story. When my daughter was three, the two of us were returning from Chicag...
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Josh's Blog: 21st Century Writing
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Blog for C&I 630. Monday, June 29, 2009. Technology seems to be increasingly changing, remolding, reshaping, etc. the way in which we receive our news, talk to other people, and fare following an automobile accident (thanks airbags and ABS.we almost avoided the Subaru! It is so much apart of our lives that we fail to stop and think of the changes that have taken place over the past century in the ways that we carry out so many daily, seemingly mundane tasks. What do people write? Where do people write?
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Mind Bloggers: Questions for Harry and Heather and You
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Questions for Harry and Heather and You. Both efforts threatened the right of children to participate within the imaginative world of Harry Potter." (p.170) To what extent do we threaten the rights of students to participate within any worlds other than the ones we dictate in the reading and writing curricula we design for them? How diverse are we in selecting texts, themes and worlds for our students? What subliminal messages do we send them through the texts we choose for them?
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Mind Bloggers: Bartholomae's Conversation with Elbow
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Bartholomae's Conversation with Elbow. Classroom arrangement sometimes has no effect on the perceived distribution of power. Even in a circle, the teacher is most often still recognized as being in control. On rare occasions, the reverse can be true. The teacher can be front and center and still not be the one with the power. Is it really possible to disguise the "unequal distribution of power"? I am not sure to what extent classroom arrangement affects writing. Circles?
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Josh's Blog: July 2008
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Blog for C&I 630. Friday, July 11, 2008. Thanks for a good summer! I just wanted to thank everyone for making this year's class an enjoyable and enlightening experience. I feel like I personally learned a lot from the discussion of the articles, but I learned even more from the comments made by all of you during our three weeks. Scot: Thanks for allowing us the freedom to openly discuss the topics and go off on. Various tangents. Good luck with your dissertation! Janet: Thanks for keeping it real and sha...
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Josh's Blog: Thanks for a good summer!
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Blog for C&I 630. Friday, July 11, 2008. Thanks for a good summer! I just wanted to thank everyone for making this year's class an enjoyable and enlightening experience. I feel like I personally learned a lot from the discussion of the articles, but I learned even more from the comments made by all of you during our three weeks. Scot: Thanks for allowing us the freedom to openly discuss the topics and go off on. Various tangents. Good luck with your dissertation! Janet: Thanks for keeping it real and sha...
