September+14

=Tentative Agenda for September 14, 2007=

//Nominate items for class discussion under #4. Please sign your posts by typing ~ three times, then clicking the "Save" button.//

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1) **Learning Logs**: Everyone's Favorite Activity

2) **Housekeeping:**


 * Roll
 * Contact Information Sheets - Is your contact info. correct?
 * Syllabus - Questions?

3) **Course Wiki**:


 * A community of practitioners, a professional network, a worldwide audience
 * Is everyone logged on?
 * Does Cherice have your wiki username?
 * Does everyone know how to post text? (Do it in the Sandbox and SIGN YOUR POST)
 * Does everyone know how to post a link? (Hotlinking titles instead of looooong links - See discussion forum)
 * Does everyone know how to post a new discussion thread? (Post one question you have)
 * How can you tell what has recently been posted on pages or in discussion forums without checking every page?
 * How do we create a new page (and what about naming them)?
 * How can we make sure we get things in the right spots?
 * How can we make sure we can find links from the discussion forums in the future? (The recent changes expire after 30 days)
 * How can we make sure our posts are professional? (Professionalism--naming and representing schools, etc.--Copyright, getting permission before posting activities from mentors, internet safety, privacy laws, worldwide audience)
 * How well do you know your way around the wiki? (Wiki Scavenger Hunt)
 * Mentoring: How do we teach our mentor teachers to use this?

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4) **Research & Reflection**

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 * [[msugrads:Locating Information|Locating Information - Searching

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5) **Insights & Issues:** Nominate questions for discussion in class here. Be sure to sign your post (Type ~ three times, then click "Save")

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 * Mentors
 * Working with chatty classes user:decortem
 * Blocking websites that contain your name from searches user:amandabainbridge
 * Humor in the classroom (Gaby)
 * Here are some places you could begin to explore this issue:
 * Comics (Lots of practical resources and tools you can try)
 * [|Creating a Low-Anxiety Classroom Environment: What Does the Language Anxiety Research Suggest?] (Requires MSU access) user:chericem1
 * [|Effects of Humor in the Language Classroom: Humor as a Pedagogical Tool in Theory & Practice] (A GREAT place to start) user:chericem1
 * [|Humor in the Classroom] (A one-pager that briefly discusses the whats, whys, and hows of using humor. Not FL-specific, but some SUPER strategies such as "high fives" and "reframing time-outs") user:chericem1
 * [|Ten Specific Techniques for Developing Humor in the Classroom] (Not FL-specific, but very practical) user:chericem1
 * [|Using Humor in the Second Language Classroom] user:chericem1
 * SB-CEUs (See info. at the bottom of this page) (Melissa)
 * [|Information on SB-CEUs from MiWLA (See p. 16)] (Minimum of 2 workshops, no more than 3) user:chericem1
 * [|State Board Continuing Education Units (SB-CEUs)] user:chericem1
 * Converting/editing .swf (Gretchen)mllegibbs
 * Here are the [|conversion tools] I've explored--perhaps one of them can do it? I've also e-mailed several colleagues to see if any of them know. user:chericem1
 * [|SWF AVI Convert] - Free converter user:ckendall
 * [|Livetronix] - $19.99 converter, don't know if it works (Courtesy of Akesha)

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6) **Professionalizing Our Practice:** **Teaching in the 21st Century**


 * Designing for Learning
 * [|We're Not in Kansas Anymore!]

7) **Assignments for** **the Week of 9/14/07**
 * **Agenda -** Add items for next week's class to the Insights & Issues section above (only if you have something you want/need to discuss)
 * **Conference Registration** - Pre-register for [|MiWLA] or [|ACTFL]. If you go to MiWLA, apply for a [|minigrant]. It will pay your conference registration, a workshop, the awards luncheon, and membership. Submit [|"proof" that you are a full time student] so that you can enroll at the student rates to Daryl Biallas
 * **Discussion Forum -** Post at least one insight or issue to the [|Discussion Forum on the September 14 page]. Please start a new thread if your topic is substantially different from what has already been posted and be clear and specific in your title. If you don't have anything to post, respond to someone else's posting.
 * **[|Mentor-Intern Handbook] -** Read it
 * **Syllabus** - Read it and come prepared to ask any questions you have [[file:802 Syllabus 2007.doc]]