Google Alerts gain VIDEO
I’ve long believed that Google Alerts were one of the most UNDERutilized free tools out there for busy teachers. Now my beloved Alerts include video! Nary a week goes by without Google updating something…
Google Alerts gain VIDEO
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– September 26, 2007
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(RE: Kids and interactivity) They expect to be part of the discussion, part of the living thing that text itself is becoming. This is how we get kids excited about language, about writing, about thinking: by giving them the power to be part of the conversation. When we lock our machines down, filter their internet service and not allow them to be contributors we take away the involvement, the intensity, the power. Remember doing grammar worksheets in school? I don’t. But I do remember art class, the time I got to take part in making a radio play and another teacher that let us act in class. They involved me, they challenged me, they forced me to think, to play with language, to defend my opinions. »