teach to inspire: August 2007

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Electronic Portfolio for EDUC 5314

The following is a link to my Electronic Portfolio in fulfillment of course EDUC 5314 for the University of Texas at Arlington

https://mavspace.uta.edu/cxh5816/Electronic%20Portfolio.doc

Monday, August 6, 2007

My Summer at the Tetons-Voice Thread

Today I created my first voice thread project. This is REALLY COOL!http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=4107

My Immortal-Song Interpretation

After listening to the song My Immortal preformed by Evanescence these were my thoughts:

This song appears to be expressing the loss of someone dearly loved through death. The memories of the loved one resonates in the authors’ daily life and hasn’t’ found condolence in that loss.

This song could be a spring board for a writing invitation when there is death in the family or death of loved ones. There are many students who at an early age have experienced the death of some they know and a writing exercise following the introduction of this song could serve as an outlet for their emotions in a positive manner.

Further, this would be a great example to use in the classroom for student to analyze the text and to some extent find the connections in their lives to the text which would make the learning experience meaningful.

Increasing Academic Achievment Among English Language Learners

Final Paper-BWP Literature Review Document

https://mavspace.uta.edu/cxh5816/BWP-Lit%20Project.doc

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Literature Reviews

Thursday, August 2, 2007

BWP 2007

Here's a short PP on our experience with BWP 2007. Thank you all! It's been a great journey.

P.P by Pat Huster, Leslie Hancock, Sugey Villareal, & Christina Castruita

https://mavspace.uta.edu/cxh5816/bluebonnet.ppt

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Chapter 4

Text Types and Genres

In the fourth chapter Wilson presents the idea of the range of language uses in the classroom and the importance to provide time for students to develop their language for different purposes which will then lead to developing the skills necessary for writing for different audiences and purposes. The tables presented throughout the chapter were beneficial to outlining language purposes and genre types, which I think would be beneficial for students to see, posted in the classroom for reference. Yet, I would allow the students to develop the charts in groups for ownership and meaningful learning experiences. One of the most important points made throughout this chapter is “PRACTICE” and “MODELING” teachers must model analyzing author’s purpose through the texts read and then practice writing for specific purposes as well to develop the writing skills necessary to prepare for higher academia and the real world.

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