E-Anthology

This Friday, the summer 2011 e-anthology will close. You will still be able to read your personal portfolio but won't be able to post anything new.

Instead, I was just sent the following email that gives us an opportunity to continue to contribute our writing.

Happy Friday, E-Anthology participants,

We have been lucky to be able to read and enjoy your work. Now you can share your writing with a larger audience. Please consider posting it in the National Writing Project's Gallery of Writing in NCTE's National Gallery of Writing.

http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/national_writing_project_gallery

Featured NWP Resource:

Take a tour of the many NWP resources: books, monographs, and articles. Visit http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/resources.csp

You'll be glad you did!!

The E-Team

NWP Connect

Join NWP Connect

We’re excited to announce the opening of NWP Connect—NWP’s new online, interactive community.

NWP Connect is a constellation of linked Writing Project communities where you’ll be able to engage in online discussions with colleagues, write and read blog posts, contribute resources, and connect with teachers across the country and in your service areas. 

Joining NWP Connect

Joining NWP Connect is easy: 
1. Go to NWP Connect and click the link that says “Login”
2. Use your NWP.org username and password to login (for help retrieving that information, click the link that says “Forgot your username or password?”).

By logging in you’re automatically a member of the National Community, an open space for all educators to share ideas and explore practices connected to the teaching of writing.

Once you’re in, check out the Help page for information on navigating the space, contributing your work, and responding to others.

Joining Communities

There are several public communities you can join, including NWP Book Groups and NWP Site Leaders. You’ll find a list of the communities currently open for joining on your profile dashboard, which you can reach by clicking on your name in the NWP Connect banner after you’ve logged in. Once you've reached your dashboard, click the “Join a Community” button.

If you have any questions, please email them to connect@nwp.org.

Web Tools: Please view spread sheet for great suggestions for web tools from NWP Tech Liaisons

Web Tools for the Writing Classroom : Sheet1 Go to spreadsheet view – Hide colors

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Survey from National Writing Project:Required please

Please fill in this survey at ine time. It takes about 20 minutes.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3X8738N

Schedule for Last Day

Thurs., June 30

Lehua writers meet in the cafeteria.

8:30-9:15 Sacred Writing

9:15 Set Up

9:30 Guests Arrive
Tamara reads her poem "Lovely Ladies of Lehua."
Debbie, Kristi, Colleen all share a favorite piece of writing.
Robyn teaches her lesson.
Jessica D., Shawna, Beatrice and Jeanne share a piece of writing.
Colleen teaches her lesson.
Jessica G., Doreen, Cecilia and Marissa share their writing.

11:00 a.m. Beatirce sings Oli Mahalo
Potluck

12:00 end time.

Reminders/Updates

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Tomorrow we will have a shortened morning meeting and elbow group sharing to fit in a field trip to Holualoa at 11-12:00. Friday is field trip day to the City of Refuge. Please arrive at 8:30.

Homework: Start locating your articles for your research project. Find/polish the pieces of writing that you would like submit to our hardcover anthology and e-anthology. PLEASE BRING A HARDCOVER PAPER COPY OF THE PIECES OF WRITING YOU WANT TO SUBMIT BY MONDAY!

Distant Teachers

The Art of Classroom Inquiry

Chapter 5 The Legacy of Distant Teachers

Chapter 5 helps show the next steps after teacher researchers develop the research questions. The authors refer to “distant teachers” as those we can learn from but who are separated from us by distance or time. We can access these distant teachers through their bodies of research and literature. Our research and wonderings become framed by their collective knowledge and can guide us as we begin to try out our own developing theories in the classroom.

Please read Chapter 5 and post to your blog three statements of what you learned from the reading and one question you have. Remember you will also need to post your research question Thursday night.