Vocabulary in the Content Area

March 17, 2007 at 4:23 pm | In uncategorized | 14 Comments

What steps can we take to assist students who struggle with vocabulary to make up the deficit they have when they enter our class? 

Pick your top 2 vocabulary strategies and describe how you would use them in your content area?

Hannah, Sara, & Michael

Educational Jargon

March 14, 2007 at 9:36 pm | In uncategorized | 1 Comment

If you are unsure of a term used in education, try visiting this ASCD site.

TechTips #2

March 6, 2007 at 1:43 am | In Technology | 1 Comment

Okay, so you may have read some posts or comments from the instructors or some of your classmates with hyperlinks in them. What’s a hyperlink? It basically is a shortcut to another website, blog, or file. Bloggers (people who blog) use hyperlinks to link back to blog posts or other resources they have read and are writing about. More importantly hyperlinking adds support to your writing. This is a new way to add resources to your writing. It also takes the research out of it for the rest of us, and we all thank you for that!

Here’s how to make your text a hyperlink. This requires a bit of HTML tags (not enough to make your an expert however). Look at the bottom of the comment area on the post you will be commenting on and you will see the following…

XHTML: <a href=”" title=”"> <abbr title=”"> <acronym title=”"> <b> <blockquote cite=”"> <cite> <code> <del datetime=”"> <em> <i> <q cite=”"> <strike> <strong>

To create a hyperlink you will need to bookend the web address with the the “<a href=”"> and </a> tags. Here is how it used to hyperlink Wikipedia…

Enter the URL (web address without any spaces) between the quotes in the <a href= ” http:// wikipedia.org “> Wikipedia Hyperlink </a>.  The result will look like this <a href=”http://wikipedia.org”>Wikipedia Hyperlink</a>.

So go ahead and start hyperlinking. Use hyperlinking sparingly as some blogs (like this one) and websites filter the number of hyperlinks due to spam.

ELA and MST

March 3, 2007 at 5:45 pm | In uncategorized | 15 Comments

What are some ways you can incorporate ELA standards into your content area?

What makes literary response and expression (Standard 2) so difficult for MST teachers to incorporate in their lessons?

Which aspect of literacy (reading, writing, listening, speaking) do you think will be the most difficult to incorporate in your MST lessons?  Why?

Post written by Kerry, Cathy, Andrea, & Shawna

Thinking About Engaging and Important Instruction

March 3, 2007 at 11:07 am | In uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=590PNSh6g_4

Tips and Tricks

March 2, 2007 at 8:53 pm | In uncategorized | 1 Comment

To make a quote when you are refering to text written by someone else on a blog post or in a comment, simply bookend the quote with a simple HTML tag like this:

<blockquote>So-and-so said this.</blockquote>

What you will get is something like this:

So-and-so said this.

Check out the tags just below the commenting section on each blog post for more XHTML tags.

Welcome to GMST 525!

March 2, 2007 at 7:34 pm | In uncategorized | 17 Comments

Hey, have you learned something new yet? What is your first impression of blogging?  What potentials do you see for integration in your classroom or future classroom?  What concerns or questions are you thinking about?

We are looking forward to exploring literacy in the content areas with you and establishing our learning community.

Thanks for helping us, Brian!

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