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  1. Oct 2017
    1. AboutAcademic Technology Steering CommitteeAcademic Technology InstituteATI 2017ATI 2017 KeynotesATI-17 ResourcesATI Ambassadors-AllPast InstitutesResourcesImage Editing ToolsTechnology Test Kitchen CookbookTwitter IntroWhat are OERsWhat is Open EducationOpen Education InitiativeOpen Educational ResourcesOpen AccessOpen PedagogyUSNH Open Education InitiativeGSC Open EducationKSC Open EducationPSU Open EducationUNH Open EducationBlog
      • About section: should include about pages for all of the major information (the committee, its members, ATI, Op Ed).
      • Resources: should be limited just to resources for teachers and students. The list can grow with the help of professors.
      • Open Education Initiative/ Resources: some of these pages can be condensed into one page about the terms of Op Ed.
    2. Welcome to Camp Open: Open Education: Pedagogy & Scholarship in a Connected Environment

      For future ATI's, I would summarize the event and include the summary here. What was said at the keynotes? What kind of projects were discussed? What were the goals, moving forward. Photos could be included to help summarize the event.

  2. Mar 2016

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  3. Feb 2016
    1. ffective educators know thatthey must interact with all childrenby the end of the lesson and keepall children engaged for maximumlearning to occur.

      ENGAGE ALL STUDENTS

    2. mindstudents to raise their hands, listencarefuUyto classmates'comments,and respect one another's right toself-expression.

      clarify! i've seen this a lot WHEN students are doing these things

    3. Because this instruc-tional strategy dominates classtime, and because students are ac-tive during the lesson, there aremore chances for managementproblems to arise if teachers do notfollow good questioning techniques.

      I am INTRIGUED!

  4. Jan 2016
    1. Assessment of writing occurs for different purposes.

      I approve that assessment is last. I understand that grades are important, but the emphasis on the process of the writing is refreshing.

    2. a journal, notebook, folder, or portfoli

      Students can physically LOOK at the changes in their writing/ how they use conventions.

      It would be a very interesting activity for a student to pick out a sentence out of their work that sounds awkward and to work with that sentence. I think it could also be a peer activity.

    3. This is because their mental energies are focused on the new intellectual challenges

      This makes so much sense. This suggests that regression can be seen as a sign of progress!

    4. Readers expect writing to conform to their expectations

      I like this... however I also think that creative writing should push these conventional boundaries.

    5. collaborative situations

      This is something I rarely see! I would have love to have been taught how to write with others rather than just be expected to do it.

    6. not to say that it should -- or can -- be turned into a formulaic set of steps

      It's not a chemical reaction or a math equation. There may be steps, but they don't have to be taken in the same way.

    7. How to assess while students are writing. How to plan what students need to know in response to ongoing research.

      To me, this seems to be suggesting that assessment and instruction changes should be made as students write, rather than when they are done.

    8. instruction should be geared toward making sense in a life outside of school

      This bit really reminds me about how writing has changed. I would argue that it is more pervasive due to technology advances.

    9. The more people write, the easier it gets

      Practice makes perfect. I just wonder how teachers can make writing interesting so it doesn't seem like busywork!

    10. instruction matters

      Practice/ time for writing + instruction are both important. This reminds me of what I said in class today: students should be learning the basics and then given space to practice those skills.

    11. anyone can get better at writing

      This is an important philosophy to have. The minute a teacher believes some students to be unteachable, they are no longer effective teacher.

  5. Dec 2015
    1. refin’d

      Wow. Don't worry, Christians, black people can be "refined." This is a huge indication of internalized racism-- black people have to be "whitewashed" and "Christianized" in order to be proper humans.

    1. celebrate this Feast of St. John’s, and the next week we might be called upon to attend a funeral of someone here

      Life is full of both celebration and hardship... I just think it is interesting that he used "black and white" to mean evil and good. It seems interesting because he speaks in the context of race

    1. He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn’t stir hand or foot.

      In Twain's stories, people are always frightened/ awed by money

    1. renowned joke was emptied upon a single head, and with calamitous effect.  It revived the recent vast laugh and concentrated it upon Pinkerton; and Harkness’s election was a walk-over.

      used for an election

  6. Nov 2015
    1. Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island, Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,

      reminds me of that American folktale that we all learned in school: This Land is Your Land

    2. And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

      I've already pointed it out, but he focuses on the small things in life and make them glamorous and important

    3. I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals. I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,

      Celebrating the natural and the human

    4. I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

      again, there is this celebration in the simplistic

    5. What groans of over-fed or half-starv’d who fall sunstruck or in fits, What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,

      The sorrows of death and the joys of life

    6. How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn’d over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,

      There are definitely some sexual undertones here. I am just trying to figure out if he is definitely talking about a lover or something more abstract?

    7. The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;

      "They are not the Me myself." These negative things happen, but they do not define him

    8. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

      The line breaks and structure of this poem is sooo different than what we have seen from other poets in the course. Makes sense though, we consider Whitman to be one of the founders of free verse.

    9. The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color’d sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn

      So much body imagery mixed with natural imagery!

    1. Herein did the Shape of Evil dip his hand, and prepare to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads, that they might be partakers of the mystery of sin, more conscious of the secret guilt of others, both in deed and thought, than they could now be of their ow

      sounds so much like a creepy cult

    2. but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness, pealing in awful harmony together

      There's definitely a "natural" element and a "human" element in this story. Usually the wilderness is characterized as frightening and evil....

    1. cold fingers quivered in the tremulous hand of the bridegroom, and her deathlike paleness caused a whisper that the maiden who had been buried a few hours before was come from her grave to be married

      Calm down guys, she's nervous!

    2. it covers only our pastor’s face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot

      While their reaction, is over the top, there is something creepy about not being able to see someone's face. Has anyone ever seen those plague doctors with the creepy masks?

    1. The sight of blood inflamed its anger into phrenzy. Gnashing its teeth, and flashing fire from its eyes, it flew upon the body of the girl, and imbedded its fearful talons in her throat, retaining its grasp until she expired.

      Can you imagine enjoying a quiet evening and suddenly BEING ATTACKED BY A DAMN APE

    2. The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.

      Not thinking very highly of the police... definitely reminds me of Sherlock Holmes

    3. What I have described in the Frenchman, was merely the result of an excited, or perhaps of a diseased intelligence.

      Keep telling yourself that! Methinks thou dost protest too loudly!

    4. Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen—although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.

      Sounds like an allusion to homophobia

    5. Our seclusion was perfect. We admitted no visitors. Indeed the locality of our retirement had been carefully kept a secret from my own former associates;

      Has anyone argued for a queer reading of this story? Because I think I can...

    1. and closely resembling him in every respect but one. Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast.

      How curious... almost like your old cat CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD.

      Too far?

    2. ome intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.

      wants someone else to determine the reasonable cause for the weird events... very enlightenment-y

    3. Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

      I find this interesting because, in my Philosophy class, we are talking about how the Enlightenment brought about changes on how we viewed human nature. Here, Poe seems to be suggested that we have naturally evil inclinations.

    1. she died, a striking example that vice, however prosperous in the beginning, in the end leads only to misery and shame.

      It is interesting that La Rue and Belcour died but Montraville didn't.

    2. but to the end of his life was subject to severe fits of melancholy, and while he remained at New-York frequently retired to the church-yard, where he would weep over the grave, and regret the untimely fate of the lovely Charlotte Temple

      Revenge by guilt

    3. tis a poor girl that was brought from her friends by a cruel man, who left her when she was big with child, and married another.

      This is like an objective condemnation

    4. a sudden beam of joy passed across her languid features, she raised her eyes to heaven—and then closed them for ever.

      Just as she was reunited with her father, she died

    5. t was a fine evening in the beginning of autumn; the last remains of day-light faintly streaked the western sky, while the moon, with pale and virgin lustre in the room of gorgeous gold and purple, ornamented the canopy of heaven with silver, fleecy clouds,

      Side note, this is GORGEOUS