Mrs. Van Geons' English Class Extravaganza

Catawba College's BookRevue Panel Discussion 

North Carolina English Teachers' Association Presentation- November 2007-Conceptualizing a Social Vision and Social Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom

• • Taking Technology to the Classroom:
    Pedagogy-Based Training for Educators by David P. Diaz  
  • Classroom Blogging: The Pedagogy and The TechnologyThoughts on Pedagogy: Does Technology in The Classroom Help or Hurt?
  • Technology Integration: Secondary Language Arts by Robert Mayben 

  Useful Information:

  •  Ideas for Technology Integration!
  • BBC
  • National Council of Teachers of EnglishNorth Carolina English Teachers' Association
  • Grammar Rules!
  • Important Links for Media Literacy and Teachers of English
  • NC Wise Owl
  • Learn NC
  • MLA Citation (from the Newton Homestead)
  • Novels Online (from the Newton Homestead)
  • How to Take Notes (from the Newton Homestead)
  • Acoustical Liberation of Books at LibriVox (from the Newton Homestead)
  • United Streaming
  • YouTube
  • PBS in the Classroomhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/

   

Helpful Sites for Students and Teachers:

• Literary Terms and Definitions
•  Wikipedia's Literary Terms
• Grammar PowerPoints
• More Grammar PowerPoints
• Writing Skills  PowerPoints
• Grammar Websites
• Grammar Rules!

Weird, fun, possibly helpful stuff:

• Conjunction Junction- School House Rock on YouTube
•  Interjections!-School House Rock on YouTube
• I'm Just a Bill- School House Rock on YouTube
• Nouns- School House Rock on YouTube
•  Get Your Adverbs Here-School House Rock on YouTube
• Funny? Maybe about Prepositions
• Mrs. V's class anthem

What's New in Technology 'n Stuff?

Many of this comes from the profoundly technologically saavy MR. NEWTON.  I "borrowed" some (actually many) of his resources.

• Teacher Tube is awesome!  
• Build your own site using freewebs
• Mr. Newton's Info on How to Blog 
• Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom
• Creating Websites Using GeoCities
• CyberGuides
• About.Com- How to Podcast
• MyPodCast- free hosting
• PodCasting with CastWiki.com
• iLearn Technology-  An edublog about integrating technology into the classroom.
• NiceNet- Internet Classroom Assistant

Odd and Intriguing Info

• Publish your work online at Scribd
• The Stanly News and Press (SNAP)
• Salisbury Post
• News of the Weird 
• The Green Goat Gallery
•  J.K. Rowling Office Site
• The Naked Archaeologist
• Useless Information
• Works of the Bard
• 301 Useless Facts
• The Pulizer Prize
• Rate My Teacher
• This is JEOPARDY!
• Stanly County Visitors' Bureau
• Rowan County Arts Council
• Stanly Arts Council
• Poets and Writers, Inc.
• Enclyclopedia Mythica
• This I Believe
• Bollywood
• The ECHO Foundation
• Playbill (Broadway online)
•  Creative Loafing of Charlotte
•  NoDa-Charlotte's Historic Arts