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8th Grade English - Room 212 - **Ms. Turner**

** Education: **// The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. Carl Jung //

**Participation**//** : ** Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand. Chinese Proverb//
 * Involvement: **// I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lilly Tomlin //
 * Imagination: **// It is not necessary for the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose. To the child, it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all. G. K. Chester ton//

Note To Students and Parents
Once school begins in September, parents/guardians will be given information about Web 2.0 tools for the classroom. Only then - with your parents/guardians permission - can you become members of this wiki. For safety reasons, only students, invited as members, can participate in the online discussions. Students who choose not to become members can hand in hard copy homework/classwork responses.

** Internet Safety ** - ** Opportunity, Hard Work, and Good Manners Reside Here **

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Question: What is a wiki? Why use wikis in the classroom? Answer: Wikispaces serves the classroom as in interactive, collaborative experience for students.

Question: What are wikispaces? Answer: Students in English, Room 212 can become members in September and can edit pages - only after you become members. Parents/guardians will be given information about Web 2.0 tech tools for the classroom. ...more Web 2.0 cool tech tools. With parent/guardian permission I will add you to this wikispaces for education

Question: How do I navigate a wikispace page? Answer: The index on the left lists pages, projects, and information The index pages redirect you to other resources or invite you to participate in a discussion, project, debate, or classroom activity.

You can click on links within a page - @TechTools or @Summer Reading Student Voices or TeacherWeb

Question: **How are wikispaces used in education?** Answer: Wikispaces are tools. Using wikispaces is a bit like playing catch. This tool gives teachers and students a chance to "toss the ball back and forth;" to collaborate.

 //The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. –Piaget//

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Curriculum Word Collage
The following word collage describes 8th grade English in 212 - a http://www.wordle.net project.



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Writing Parody
Our English class is collaboration - **Communicating, Writing, Reading, and Thinking BIG!!!** //How marvelous is a ball! Its roundness endows it with unusual properties that are almost impossible to resist. Imagine that you are walking through the park and children are playing nearby with a ball. As you pass by, the ball gets away from them and rolls toward you. Of course you will reach for it, eager to throw it back to the players. And as you toss the ball back to the expectant children, for a moment you are connected with them. An appreciative shout and wave goes up from the children at your good and helpful toss of the ball, and with a friendly wave in return you are on your way again, your soul a bit richer because of the encounter with the magical ball, and your spirit momentarily energized by the playful exchange with the children that the ball made possible for you.// (pg. 1)

MLA Citation: Sanford, John. //Between People//. 997 Macarthur Boulevard. Mahwah, N.J. Paulist Press. 1982. Print

**A Parody** Ideas and stories will roll toward you. It is a fact; it is a given.

The question - Will you pick them up, toss them back to your //expectant audience // and be connected with them for a moment?

If you choose to write, the rest comes naturally.

You eagerly reach for every writing tool you have learned in the past and will learn in the future. You want to punctuate your work so your audience knows. //F or a moment you are connected with them. // You want to use different sentence structures so your audience discovers. People are //energized by the playful exchange ... that the words //<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">make possible. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; text-align: center;">You want to spell words correctly and use words precisely so your audience understands. Everyone is <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;">//<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">a bit richer because of the encounter with the magical <span style="display: inline; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-style: normal; text-align: center;">words. // Learn everything you can about everything there is. Knowledge is endowed <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;">//<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">with unusual properties that are almost impossible to resist. // <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Communication is English language arts; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">It is a bit like playing catch. You learn how, so you will.

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Copyright
MLA CItation Guide Everything you use must be cited - all photographs, movie clips, music, etc. Cite your own photographs, movie clips, music, etc. Give credit you everyone - even yourself. CIte. Cite. Cite.

Avoid Plagiarism @http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

**Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 8th Grade ELA Frameworks**
@http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/ela/0601.pdf

**Common Core of State Standards**
@http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards __@http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf__

Classrooms of the Future on Exhibit at National Tech Summit
** "About 18,000 educators are attending the annual meeting of the International Society for Technology in Education in Denver, where some are predicting that the future of classroom technology will be hand-held devices and computer games. Teachers are attending training workshops on using an iPad in the classroom and integrating student cell phones into lessons." ** (ASCD SmartBrief, June 30, 20101) @http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_15397573

Synthesizing education
** "Garnished with an eloquent review, a recent Inservice blog post makes an insightful reading suggestion for anyone and everyone interested in reading and engaging in critical discussions of education topics." (ASCD SmartBrief, June 30, 2010) ** @http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/synthesizing-education.html

Digital Storytelling
// "Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally." // - Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association

@http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/ @http://digitalfamilystory.com/