Teaching with web resources

This was another great webcast on using the internet to teach.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E418AFF7ABDAD18E

YouTube video of webcast on Digital Natives

This was a really great introduction to the profile and needs of digital natives.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=14C2503BED14537C

Two online magazines for teachers - great articles

The American Federation of Teachers has two great online magazines.

The first, American Educator, has a particularly useful feature on cognition and learning.

Here's the main link,

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/index.htm

Here also is a link to an article on accommodating ELLs in mainstream classrooms - so you can get a taste.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/summer08/goldenberg.pdf




The second, American Teacher, has a variety of articles on classroom practice, policy, and administration issues.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_teacher/index.htm

Here's a sample of the useful articles you can find.

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_teacher/mayjune09/AT_MayJune09.pdf

Resources for teachers

Here is a useful website created for English teachers - lots of great stuff here.

http://englishcompanion.ning.com/

You can create your own website like this at www.ning.com A great way to create a discussion group for teachers or teacher educators.

Free online teacher development program

Here is a link to the US Department of State funded teacher development series, Shaping the Way we Teach English

Useful online video and associated readings.

http://oelp.uoregon.edu/shaping.html

Online video

Lots of great video online here at Teacher's TV

http://www.teachers.tv/video

Kathleen Bailey's resource lists for teachers and teacher educators

Professor Kathleen Bailey has a great list of resources on a wide variety of topics at
http://www.kathleenmbailey.com/5_resources_reflists.html