help!

I am having trouble! I made a wordle and took a snapshot--but when I try to put it in a post, all that comes up is some code--same thing with my voki, which I just created!  what am I doing wrong? or is the code supposed to be cut and pasted so a reader can go to it as a link?

Thing 2

I really like Wordle and Word Sift. I had played with Wordle at the beginning of the school year, but never figured out how to use it for learning, but now I know what to do. As an AP English teacher, I think the most important thing I can do is to inspire in my students a love of words and language. I have them write and embellish a favorite word to hang from the ceiling when we study poetry. Now I think I will ask them to play with Wordle at the beginning of the year to see what words emerge from a text they paste in and to use it as an invention strategy for writing about a piece of text.

Also I was enchanted by Word Sift. I especially loved the imagery in the links I got for dream and for other words from the poem, Rose of the World, which I had wordled before--but couldn't figure out how to save on my blog. I think my imaginative students would love this tool.

More to come.....

Thing 1 (continued)

I looked at the movie again just to get more information about all the sources.  Also now I am not sure if you want us to have our students do research or make a film. Mine make wonderful films for various creative choices, so I think they need more work on the research part. I do think my role is to be the guide and advisor in their research choices, and our librarian at Memorial is great at helping the students as well.

Thing Number 1 (11.5 Things)

I love the idea of connectivity! I love the idea that students can reach out to various resources and get in touch with people who have knowledge about a field they want to know more about. I am a bit concerned about the students jumping in to find the first website they can--and not looking further to judge its worth. However this is an issue to be addressed in class. The students can write on my blog about how they judge the validity of a source as they reach further out into webspace; they already know how to judge simple Google search results.

I want to practice this myself this summer, so I can show my students how to come up with some good sources, which I can demonstrate on the projector with my computer. The librarian can also give a talk about how to find and judge sources as we go to the library to research.

Self-Assessment

Students, please write about what you have improved in your writing first semester, and what goals you have for improving second semester.

Fall research paper

I was very hopeful about this year's fall research papers as many students discussed excellent topics with me. However, I am finding as I grade weaker papers than I had thought I would get. Many students are focussing on their critics' ideas at the expense of their own reading of the novel's text. Please look again at the criteria sheet which emphasizes your use of the text itself rather than excessive reliance on critics's ideas.

Remember this problem so that you can correct the problem with next semester's research paper on a twentieth or 21st century novel.

Please post a comment as soon as you get your paper back about the research paper. I want you to mention your strengths as well as your weaknesses on the paper and to comment on your plan for improving on the next research project. I also want you to mention how you are going to go about correcting any citation errors (most of the errors are spacing problems).