Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments.
Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond
Within a context of rapid growth and diversification in higher degree research programs, there is increasing pressure for the results of doctoral research to be made public. Doctoral students are now being encouraged to publish not only after completion of the doctorate, but also during, and even as part of their research program. For many this is a new and challenging feature of their experience of doctoral education. PublishingPedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond is a timely and informative collection of practical and theorised examples of innovative pedagogies that encourage doctoral student publishing.
Spirals Series Circle: Developing Language and Communication Skills through Effective Small Group Work: SPIRALS: From 3-8
Poor language and communication skills have been shown to have profound effect on the life chances of children and young people. Research tells us this consistently over the years. Now in its third edition, Developing Language and Communication Skills through Small Group Work provides essential information for practitioners working with linguistically vulnerable children. It is underpinned by an approach based on developmental psychology and brain based research. The book provides clarity and repetition of key concepts at a level that this particular cohort of children require. The book now includes a section on using the power of puppets to support communication.
"Happy English-2" ("Счастливый английский-2") является авторским продолжением учебника "Happy English-1" Т.Б.Клементьевой и совместным трудом российско-американского авторского коллектива. В издании содержится много занимательных текстов об истории Америки, жизни, учебе, традициях, развлечениях американцев. Таблицы, упражнения, иллюстрации издания служат одной задаче - создать целостное представление об английском языке. Книга полностью соответствует своему названию - счастливый, так как ученикам предлагаются только посильные задания, снабженные ключами, что создает возможность самостоятельного изучения языка.
