Teaching with Technology

In my United States History survey classes at Northern Virginia Community College, like most teachers I ask the students during the first class of the semester to introduce themselves and then respond to two or three questions. My questions include the basics like where you are from, do you have a hobby and what is it, […]

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My interest in working with Generation 1.5 writers began back in August 2006 when I had just started my first year as an eight grade Language Arts teacher in an American college preparatory school in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo. No sooner than the first weeks into the semester–and noticing that the majority […]

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http://www.usdla.org All, I have chosen the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA) journal; Distance Learning, for Educators, Trainers, and Leaders, as my selection for CTCH 603. At first glance, the journal looked kind of “cheesy” (lots of pictures/advertising, short 2-3 page articles, etc), so I didn’t think it would fly. However, once I dived in, there […]

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For the next several weeks I’m going to be reading and summarizing articles from the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) which can be found at this link. I chose this journal because I believe as both the breadth and distribution of bandwidth increases globally, forms of instruction that rely less on classrooms and […]

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CTCH 603 will read a chapter of this book; my Teaching the Reading of Literature course is reading the entire work.  I’m only just beginning, but it is very interesting so far.  Gee claims that if the learning principles embedded in games (particularly the long, hard ones that kids learn in order to win) were applied to curricula, […]

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The “American Journal of Distance Education” has been edited by the same person for its over 20 years of existence, producing a consistency of purpose not found in many other journals.

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This semester I will be blogging about articles I have read from “Language Learning & Technology Journal” (LLT). You can find the journal at: http://llt.msu.edu. The editors are: Dorothy Chun, University of California, Santa Barbara and Irene Thompson, George Washington University (Emerita). Publication began of this refereed journal in July 1997. Its aim is to […]

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…to the collaborative site for CTCH 603: Teaching with Technology.

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