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USDLC STAR TEACHER SERIES

Melinda Awards: The Oscars for Young Adult Literature

The award-winning Eva Perry Teen Book Club (American Library Association’s 2009 Best Teen Literature Program in the Country) joins NC State’s graduate Young Adult Literature Class to discuss their picks for the books most distinguished for literary quality published in 2009.

Contact Cris Crissman at decrissm at unity.ncsu.edu

ECI521 Class Meeting 04

Archived March 8, 2010

ECI521 Class Meeting 03

Archived March 1, 2010

ECI 521 Class Meeting 02

Archived Feb. 15, 2010

ECI 521 Class Meeting 01

Archived Feb. 01, 2010

Thank You, Laurie Halse Anderson: Virtual Authors Study Continues

We’re thanking Laurie Halse Anderson for two exceptional books: THANK YOU, SARAH, perfect for upper elementary and middle school, and CATALYST, a great read for older teens.

John C. Wood, an English teacher at Clayton High School, will share his experience of teaching with THANK YOU, SARAH with sixth graders. Our CATALYST discussion leader will be Lauren Nicholson, a founding member of the award-winning Eva Perry Regional Library’s Mock Printz Award Club (2009 winner of ALA’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Best Teen Literature Program) who has grown up to become a librarian (Wake Forest Library).

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The Great Conversation Goes Virtual:
Exploring the Paideia Seminar in 3D Web

Can the Paideia seminar be effective in an online 3D virtual world? What do we lose, what do we gain when we take the Paideia seminar virtual? Join Terry Roberts aka Paideia Maven, Executive Director of the National Paideia Institute in the Temple of Learning on USDLC’s beautiful Star Island in the online 3D virtual world of Second Life for a critical inquiry and seminar.

To join The Great Conversation Ning and the Paideia Virtual Group, write to Cris Crissman at cris@writinglife.org
Our seminar text will be Vonnegut's EPICAC. Please read ahead of time. Check the Ning for details.

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SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson!
SPEAK is the kind of book that comes but once in a decade -- perhaps once in a lifetime when the right reader finds it at the right time.
Celebrate the tenth-year anniversary of this certain-to-be-a classic in young adult literature. Leading our discussion will be Frances Bradburn, Chair of the first-ever Printz Award Committee ten years ago that selected SPEAK as an Honor Book, and Michael Cook, a young teacher who made the bold choice to teach with the book and struck gold.

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The Bookosphere Presents:
New Author Study with Laurie Halse Anderson!
This school year we’ll study the books of Laurie Halse Anderson, winner of the American Library Assoiciation’s 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults . And we’ll cap off the study when we meet with Laurie on April 26th – online and inworld (live, interactive audio stream and in Second Life).
Fever 1793, Laurie’s historical fiction title, will be our first book.
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BANNED in the Bookhenge! Intellectual Freedom and Censorship in a Participatory Culture!
Join Frances Bradburn, long-time advocate for Young Adult Literature and now Project Director for the New Schools Project in North Carolina, in a discussion of how our participatory culture is challenging us to think in new ways about intellectual freedom and censorship.
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The 2009 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature – Live in the Bookhenge!
The award-winning Eva Perry Public Library Mock Printz Club (just recognized with YALSA’s MAE Award for Best Teen Literature Program) and the NC State University Young Adult Literature graduate class held their awards ceremony virtually in Second Life and Teen SL.
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Podcasting with the Tempered Radical
Bill Ferriter, whose blog The Tempered Radical was named the 2007 Edublog Teacher Blog of the Year, is an incredibly thoughtful middle grades teacher who has created compelling ways for students to use Web 2.0 tools, particularly podcasting, as tools for curriculum learning and critical thinking.
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We’re Disrupting Class Again: A Conversation with Michael Horn
We enjoyed discussing the important book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, so much in September that we’ve invited Michael Horn, co-author, to join us to continue the conversation.
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Star Book Club Reads PRESENTATION ZEN by Garr Reynolds
A discussion of the book led by Amanda Robertson aka Suni Homewood, director of NC State’s Wolflands Project in Second Life.
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Hands-On, Minds-On Learning and Teaching: Project-Based Learning Meets Digital Tools
Join Joselyn Todd -- a middle school science teacher who knows how to turn kids on to learning using project-based learning, robotics, and Web 2.0 tools in a 1:1 laptop classroom. There's something for everybody!
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Virtual School Leader to Lead Book Club in Virtual World
Bryan Setser, CEO of the North Carolina Virtual Public School, discusses Christensen’s important new book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.
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New School Year -- Cool Tools Here:
Cool Cat Teacher Vicki Davis Shares the Tools She’ll Bring to Her Classroom
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Literacy to Learn (L2L)
Literacy to Learn (L2L): Professional Development for 21st Century Educators takes on an added dimension in Second Life.
Now you have a virtual meeting place for your professional development. Join us for special events or meet your colleagues at USDLC Star Island for mentoring activities and project collaboration. If you are a non-Second Life citizen, listen to Internet radio streamed events and participate via chatroom. The USDLC Star Island welcomes everyone.