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Feb. 10 Webinar Notes – Technical Writing
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Michael Fawcett Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s webinars. It was great to have some science and math teachers with us and I hope they use some of the ideas we discussed to...
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March 31 Webinar – Vocabulary: There’s a Word for That!
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by chrisjohnbeckett Every teacher, at any grade level or in any content area, faces the challenge of teaching vocabulary. The traditional practice of having students look up the word,...
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March 31 Webinar Notes: Vocabulary
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by dangerismycat I hope everyone who attended Thursday’s webinars learned one or two new things about vocabulary instruction and can try out some of those ideas with students. Special...
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Nov. 17 Webinar – Assessment 1: What Do They Really Know and What Can They...
CC BY 2.0 ccarlstead When we think of assessment, often the first thing that comes to mind is a high-stakes test. Although the MEAs, the NECAPs, and the SATs play a part in determining how our students...
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Dec. 1 Webinar – Assessment 2: Using Assessment to Further Learning
Thanks to everyone who attended the first MLTI assessment webinar on November 17. In that webinar, we discussed summative and formative assessment and how they differ. We took a close look at a...
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January 5 Webinar – Finding and Collecting Digital Text
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Beppie K If you are an ELA teacher, you have probably already begun to study the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. You may also have suggested that your colleagues...
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February 2 Webinar – Strategies for Reading Digital Text
As we discussed in our webinar on January 5, many schools in Maine are beginning to study and unpack the Common Core State Standards and are taking preliminary steps to align their curriculum. The...
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March 15 Webinar – Using Social Media to Enhance Writing Skills
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Kexino “Beware the Ides of March,” said the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, but in today’s world he would likely have tweeted that warning or written it on Caesar’s FaceBook...
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April 26 Webinar – Digital Tools for Improving Listening and Speaking Skills
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Florian SEROUSSI (Flickr) “To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation,” said François de La Rochefoucauld. In our...
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Free Online Course – Open Content Licensing for Educators
CC BY 3.0 Sunshine Connelly (WikiEducator) Ten years ago UNESCO coined the term Open Educational Resources (OER). Since then, interest in creating, collecting, and curating open content for teaching...
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