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Friday May 11/12

dbarker — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:11:48 +0000

Act 1 scenes 1-2

dbarker — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:27:10 +0000

Super-psyched to speak at NXNEi

dbarker — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:59:04 +0000

Is it June yet? Not because I’m wishing away the school year. I’m just awfully excited about getting the chance to speak at this amazing event with some of my favourite people.

Want to find out more? Go to this website: http://nxne.com/interactive

Seriously. Go now.

Why are you still here?

PML Day 8

dbarker — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:46:07 +0000

Pml 8

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I’ve drawn extensively on Literate Futures for today’s lesson.

So today was fun!

dbarker — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:24:16 +0000

First, I got a nicely printed and bound copy of the action research projects I worked on a few years ago with an amazing group of teachers. I guess that means I’m officially published!
Then based on my discussion with my preservice class last night, I had an impromptu poetry slam with my ENG4C class. The things they came out with amazed me! I have to thank one of my preservice students, Brittany L. for sharing some of her favourite examples of slam poetry on her blog. Yes… some of the poems contain profanity but this is a grade 12 class and we critically discussed this.

We’re going to keep building on it, but here is a list of what my students (ENG4C) noticed about the poetry performances we watched:

Poem

Performance

Repetition (eg/ rock out like…)

powerful imagery

fresh imagery(putting things together that wouldn’t normally go together)

comparison/contrast

aggressive

enthusiastic

passionate

energetic

responsive to audience

volume and pace varies

smooth transitions

One of my students just left class now and said “I just wanted you to know I had a lot of fun in class today.”

“Me too!” I said.

Today was good.

PML Day 7

dbarker — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:16:31 +0000

Pml7

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PML Day 6

dbarker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:12:13 +0000

I’m very excited to be bringing some of my first semester students to Althouse today to talk to you.

Pml6

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(PS the videos in this presentation are Queen’s “Under Pressure” and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”)

PML Day 5

dbarker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:08:01 +0000

I must confess, I cannot disguise my enthusiasm for this week’s class. Today we’re going to explore some web 2.0 tools and you will have some time to play, experiment, make mistakes, and report back to the class. I hope that this will give you some ideas for your lesson redesign. All links in the presentation below are active.

Pml 5

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Last act of Brevity is the Soul of (t)Wit

dbarker — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:44:18 +0000

PML Day 4

dbarker — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:19:31 +0000

I may have been a tad ambitious last week. We didn’t get to finish (or really start our jigsaw, although I was able to assign all the topics last week). So this week will finish the jigsaw exercise before talking about comics in the classroom.

Pml4

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