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Teacher-Appropriate Content: Quick and Dirty Tips for Grammar
ThisThe following are links to a well-known grammar blog and podcast. I chose this blog because it is easy to access and professional. This website and
Who vs. Whom
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QuickTeacher-Appropriate Content: Quick and Dirty
This website and podcast offers easy-to-access tips for grammar usage. The author is Mignon Fogarty, who is an author and blogger. These will help students remember easy-to-confuse grammar rules.
Who vs. Whom
In to or Into?
Lay vs. Lie
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Welcome to Mrs. Veenema's Wiki. You know me as Language Arts and Social Studies teacher. What you may not know is that I am also a traveler, former basketball-star (almost), and calligrapher slash card-crafter as the pictures below demonstrate. I am also a stair-walker, cake-baker, Christ-follower, graduate-student, wife, and soon-to-be-mother. Welcome to my site! Here, you can find links and information about the classes you are taking with me.
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Lay vs. Lie
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Beach, R. (2012). Uses of digital tools and literacies in the English Language Arts classroom. Research in the Schools, 19 (1). 45-59.
Andes, L. & Claggett, E. (2011). Wiki writers: Students and teachers making connections across communities. The Reading Teacher, 64 (5). 345-350.
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of technology. As Andes and Claggett state, "Technology alone is not the answer, but the purposeful integration of technology in literacy instruction is an innovation whose time has come!" (2011). A wiki own education.
Beach states, "One key affordance of digital tools for collaborative construction of knowledge is that Using a wiki, students can bothare able to access and share creation of the same text. In working collaboratively, students are then exposed toinformation or text, learning from - and hopefully acquiring - each other’s particularothers' literacy practices, resulting in their acquisition of those practices"practices (Beach, 2012).
"Technology alone is not Having created this wiki, I am now able to integrate this technology into my classroom. I could do this by giving my students the answer, but the purposeful integrationURL address of technologythis wiki and encouraging them to search it for resources. As I progress through each unit of study, I can link or upload pertinent websites, blogs, and documents that they can then access. Polls or quizzes are also a fun thing to incorporate on the wiki. The students would love those. I can also teach students how to edit and upload documents so that they, too, can be a participant in literacy instruction is an innovation whose time has come!" (Andes & Claggett).the creation of this wiki.
Beach, R. (2012). Uses of digital tools and literacies in the English Language Arts classroom. Research in the Schools, 19 (1). 45-59.
Andes, L. & Claggett, E. (2011). Wiki writers: Students and teachers making connections across communities. The Reading Teacher, 64 (5). 345-350.

There are some schools where using technology is the goal of the instruction. At my school, however, learning is the goal of the instruction, and technology is simply a tool for learning. With that in mind, I aim to include the use of more technology in my classes - namely a wiki - because I believe authentic learning can happen through the use of technology. A wiki allows students to work collaboratively, learn new digital literacies, and become motivated to participate in their own education.
Beach states, "One key affordance of digital tools for collaborative construction of knowledge is that students can both access and share creation of the same text. In working collaboratively, students are then exposed to each other’s particular literacy practices, resulting in their acquisition of those practices" (Beach, 2012).
"Technology alone is not the answer, but the purposeful integration of technology in literacy instruction is an innovation whose time has come!" (Andes & Claggett).