If you haven't already heard about it, there is a site called Project Gutenberg. This site gives you access to over 20,000 free e-books. They even have software that you can download, so you can read the books on your smartphone or Palm organizer. The search engine is very robust, and things are easy to find. Go take a look. The link has been added to the link section of this site.
You have found xopc29.org. Although the college is recommending that we use ANGEL to manage our courses, I will be using this site quite a bit still.
It has some unique ways to contact me.
I will post interesting links to articles, websites, and so on. You can do that too.
I will post some School of Education announcements.
You can find links to the blogs and wiki here.
We can have some good discussions.
Just reigister and have at it.
I have a few links that focus on literature (very broadly defined) in the links section of this site. Do you know of any I can add?
There is a free textbook available online here. It is called The Process of Writing Research. I wish I had seen it when I was in college or writing my high school senior thesis.
As always, this link has been added to the links section of this site.
The Verizon Foundation is the lead corporate sponsor of a site which provides -among other things- 50,000 standards based K-12 lesson plans. Click on Thinkfinity to access this resource. While I am not supportive of corporate intrusion into schools, this site seems to very good. The link has been added to the links section of this site.
If you want to use meebo (in the right sidebar) to contact me, check to see if I am on-line. When I am on-line, I will be contacted immediately. If I am not, it will leave a message for which you will have to return.
If you need a place to discuss something or ask a question of your colleagues, you can use Thinking about . . . . The link is in the left sidebar of this site. There are some interesting discussions going on already.
The Orbis Pictus Award is given each year to the best non-fiction children's books. The Orbis Pictus Award Winners can be seen if you click on that link. These books are of use at any age or in any grade.
Question: Where does the name of the award (Orbis Pictus) come from? Leave your answer in the comments.
I have added the following link to the right sidebar:
Writing CoLab
