Archive for April 1st, 2011

NetGenEd Project Notes

Here is the “Wonderful Wiki Editing Tips for Teens and Teachers” blog post from the NetGenEd Project Ning site, that I mentioned in class. It develops and explains in a bit more detail some of the ideas and points that I have been emphasizing and reiterating.

Also, over the next week try to watch the Frontline documentary Digital Nation from PBS. Clicking the Watch the Full Program Online link will take you to a page with a video player, however the film is broken up into segments. So you need not watch the 90 minutes all at once. The segments are listed as links above the video player: Living Faster, Relationships, Waging War, Virtual Worlds, and Learning. Try to have complete screening the whole thing by Thursday, April 7.


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Freshmen English

This college preparatory class concentrates thematically on the notion of growth through experience. All the major works in this course have been chosen to illuminate this idea in some fashion. Your analysis of the work will be concerned with exploring this primary theme, as well as additional themes and related questions. In addition, the class will always be concerned with the following overarching questions:

From whose viewpoint and from what angle or perspective are we reading?

How do we know when we know? What is the evidence and how reliable is it?

How are things, events, or people connected to each other?

What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?

What’s new and what’s old? Have we run across this idea?

So what? What does it matter? What does it all mean?

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