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media type="youtube" key="aaRxu1-Z6NY" width="560" height="315"toc =Where are our visitors from?= =media type="custom" key="28789724"= = = = = = = =How to Use This Wiki for Ed 213, Ed 214, and Ed 314/316= You have two major wikis to use in these classes. The literacymethods wiki contains content, and lots of it. It includes a lot of topics related to literacy, as might be expected, and it also contains information about many creative/art-based projects. There is a significant element of technology here, too. Just look at the list of pages to see the kinds of information you can find here. Think of it as your own personal Wikipedia. You are invited to add information that will benefit your colleagues and your teachers. This is our semioticstextbook, and your voice can be part of it.

The other wiki is your portfolio wiki. This is where you document what you have done in class, whether it is reflections, art works, thoughts, etc. You need a FREE account from wikispaces.com in order to fully edit your page. PLEASE MAKE SURE ANYTHING YOU UPLOAD HAS A UNIQUE NAME (E.G., YOUR NAME AND THE TOPIC). Otherwise, if someone else uploads a picture or document with the same name, it will replace yours and you will be frustrated.

Here are links to your portfolio wikis.

=Ed 213 Children's Literature Portfolio Wiki= http://ed213portfoliosfall2014.wikispaces.com/home= =

Ed 214 Arts in the Elementary Classroom Portfolio Wiki
http://ed214fall2014.wikispaces.com/homeWiki, Fall 2015== http://ed214fall2015.wikispaces.com/

Ed 314 Portfolio Wiki
http://ed314316fall2014.wikispaces.com/home== ==

=New Stuff= [|Check out this neat article on lthe value of letting your mind wander....sometimes!]

The Ohio Resource Center is a great place to find teacher resources: []

Check out ideas for making instruments and making music with young children. This is a classic example of emergent curriculum: If the link doesn't work (and it probably won't.), please cut and paste until I fix it. [|http:​​/​​/rec​​.ohiorc​​.org​​/InquiryProjects​​/Project​​/instrument​​.aspx] Tobie

And check this out if you are looking for information re: The Third Grade Guarantee. The info will help you understand the intent and impact of TGG in Ohio School's and will also provide you with solid reading strategies, assessment tools, instructional idea and more all aligned with with Ohio's ELA and Common Core Standards. http://www.ohiorc.org/Literacy_K5/3GRG/default.aspx

Tobie and I are working on a grant and we found an interesting document on how to write a good grant. It's posted under "Grant Writing" on this wiki.

There's a new page called "Standardized Testing Issues" that has a couple of interesting articles in relation to the inaccuracy of standardized tests.

**What?** You mean every learning experience is not necessarily planned in advance???? Take a look at the video overview. How would you describe an emergent We think that an emergent curriculum can be powerful in a university setting. What do you think? Can you think of a time you learned deeply because a teacher or other person supported your intellectual, social, emotional or other interests? Did the environment matter? Were relationships influential? Was it necessary for you to finish what you started, even if your interests moved elsewhere?
 * Emergent Curriculum**

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The Bed Brigade, a mission of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Grove City, is an effort to give beds to those who don't have a bed to call their own in the Central Ohio area. ======

Below is the link to the St. John's Bed Brigade website which explains further the mission and purpose of this effort and includes reflections and pictures of those that have been touched by this ministry.

http://www.stjohnsgc.org/Discipleship/BedBrigade/tabid/163/AlbumID/723-24/Default.aspx

At this link, you can find the national movement for the Bed Brigade and how providing for low-income children can benefit them in terms of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, aggression and delinquency.

http://www.bed-brigade.org/

Education 214 is making and donating blankets, sheets, pillows, and other miscellaneous items that we can donate to this cause!

=What's New and Different!= We post new things here for you to explore. Later they get placed on pages within the wiki (sometimes even their very own page), so they will always be available to you.

QR Codes How to make business cards with QR codes that allow people easy access to a website.

Pi(e) Day Information about pi and pie!!

The World Needs More Love Letters...Campus Cursive....what do you think?
I tripped upon this link today. There is no campus cursive group anywhere in Ohio. What do you think? [|More love...more letters]

You may find something worthwhile for your classroom on Edmodo. [|Edmodo's Top Twenty Sites]

It's talk like a teacher day
Strive to have meaningful conversations with your students every day. Here's an article to help you think about how you can support language development, communicate clearly and effectively, and avoid some common pitfalls of "teacher talk."[|Teacher Talk Learner Talk]


 * More on talk in the classroom **

Do you enjoy conversations? Discussions?

Do you believe with all your heart that talk in the classroom is important to the curriculum?

Are you interested in what children have to say?

Are you willing to become more aware of your own speech habits so that your communication with your students will not be hampered by unconscious obstacles? (I’m still working on 3 challenges: interrupting, interjecting, and anticipating!)

Do you see the connections between thinking and talking?

What if your students do not speak the standard, more widely accepted English that would ease their way through the myriad social, school, and work situations, ahead of them?

What do motivating teachers do? Enjoy discussions, use humor, draw on personal experiences, keep open minds, invite students to teach the teacher

Dedicate a place in your classroom to be beautiful space or a funny or a calming space.

Share an online "Picture of the Day. Make time to talk with the children about they see in the photo? What’s happening” How does the photo make your feel If the person in this picture could talk, what would he or she say?

Make believe you are in the picture? What do you see? Smell? Hear? How to you feel?

Current events space

Collections space....

Sharing…teacher as sharer

When students are speaking…natural voice, can you be heard, are you looking as us, did you organize your talk, do you know what your want to say, did you make your talk interesting?

I wonder….I wonder if caterpillars know that they are going to turn into butterflies: I wonder if the ocean freezes?

Here's an instant poem to complete:
I used to... But now I....

I used to... But now... I

I used to... But now I.....

** Rabbits and Cheeses and Hares…Oh My! ** [|**http://www.ierg.net/conferences**] [] [] [] [] []

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What difference does a word make? Vocabulary! Vocabulary! Vocabulary!
When you begin your field experience next month, you may find that your cooperating teacher has a strong way of building the students' vocabulary both in terms of academic language words like compare, contrast, synthesize, analyze, organize, replicate, etc. and rich content vocabulary (terms like genus, incubation, atmosphere, monarchy), Please spend some of your time in the field figuring out useful ways to expand the students' vocabulary even more while you are in the classroom. vocabulary building might be a juicy topic for your research project. Please see Education Week article linked below.

l[|More words, please!!!!!]

Hunk and Chunk with Phonic Dance
While learning about the Orton-Gillingham Approach to Reading, a teaching friend told me about //The Phonics Dance,// which is a pretty motivating, way to teach explicit phonics for word decoding.

[|One to watch right now:]

Try Googling Phonics Dance. You will find a ton of resources!

Draw a Stick Person Interactive Stories
There is something irresistible about drawing a stick person who becomes animated and involved in life-threatening situations. Possibilities abound for teaching story structure, vocabulary, predicting, comprehension and more!

http://www.drawastickman.com .

We've added a page for FORMS.


 * Leveling Books** lots of good information, shared with 314/316 by our OSU grad crew.

=Interview with Nancie Atwell!=

Education 314 and 316
Spring 2013: http://capitaled314316sp2013.wikispaces.com/

Education 214
http://capitaled214spring2013.wikispaces.com/home

Creativity Crises article (Daily Beast), or why this course is really important! []

Grant Writing
Look on our Grant Writing page for information on grant writing from Capital University's Meaghan Ventura.

Tinkering
We have a new page! Tinkering is a great joy in life and also a great way to learn.

Call Me Maybe
Get to know Capital's services through this great video!

 =**Your Personal Literacy Coach**=

=Navigating This Wiki= To the right are the navigation tools. You can use the search box to find any word or phrase that you like. Below that is a list of pages in this wiki. Finally, below the page list is a tag cloud of tags for each page. Feel free to add tags to wiki pages.

For iPad users who can't see the navigation to the right, here is the list of pages:

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