Notes August 30, 2011
RT @AdLit: The Content #Literacy Continuum: A Framework for Improving Adolescent Literacy: http://ow.ly/6fRjq #AdolLit #teaching #edchat
Greg McVerry
Notes August 30, 2011
Check this video out -- Mahara Collections and Navigation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO15OpFXqos&feature=share via @youtube #edtech #mahara
Greg McVerry
Notes August 29, 2011
Why #AdolLit cannot ignore how the Internet is shifting the practices of literacy. Thx to the Atlantic: http://bit.ly/nwTPPQ
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
RT @kdbrezac: hat tip @ncte inbox: build vocab early on-what they say comes straight out of your mouth: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/08/preschool-language-literacy/ #AdolLit #ncte
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
Please don't be afraid to embrace pop culture with striving adolescent youth. Get them reading and writing #BlackEdu #AdolLit
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
Instead of learning platform we giving Google+ a try for a hybrid class. Synchronous meetings using Hangout. Discussions using streams.
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
Checking out the new google sites interface as this is the website platform I reccomend to most teachers.
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
What a wonderful issue of RTE thanks to the editors and #ncte for the themed writing issue.
Greg McVerry
Notes August 25, 2011
RT @AdLit: Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers: http://ow.ly/6bSGg #AdolLit #literacy #reading #specialed #teaching #edchat
Greg McVerry
Notes August 23, 2011
Thinking of ways to integrate new literacies into my literatufe classes. Going to highlight power of #fanfic #AdolLit
Greg McVerry
Notes August 22, 2011
RT @MeredithNCSU: Using ScreenFlow to record class sessions to post on my Moodle sites. Loving it!
Greg McVerry
Notes August 22, 2011
RT @sharisentlowitz: 3 out of 4 students say the could not study with out #technology How Students Use Technology http://on.mash.to/pVOWPI ...
Greg McVerry
Notes August 22, 2011
RT @ChrisMurphyCT: Reminder: I'm gonna be at tonight's Rock Cats game to help Pathways-Senderos collect school supplies. Come hang out at 6!
Greg McVerry
Notes August 22, 2011
First faculty meeting. Great to meet my new colleagues.
Greg McVerry
Notes August 22, 2011
Just switched my tagline from Reasearch at the New Literacies Research Lab to Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University
Greg McVerry
Notes August 21, 2011
RT @2footgiraffe: @DMS_8PS For the creative section I have done "A day in life as an X molecule, technical writing #mssci
Greg McVerry
Notes August 21, 2011
RT @2footgiraffe: @DMS_8PS In order to get them to think provide models of science writing such as sciencearticlesforkids
Greg McVerry
Notes August 21, 2011
Writers block just means students do not have the strategies to develop and integrate ideas. I would begin their. #mssci #adollit
Greg McVerry
Notes August 21, 2011
My favorite type of writing to do with stduents is a collaborative case study. Helps stu who struggle with ideas seeing peers #mssci
Greg McVerry
Notes August 21, 2011
It comes down to the type of writing: you use in your class: writing to assess or writing to lean. Both approaches req instruction #mssci
Greg McVerry