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2474	Excellent suggestions for a reading list, Eric. There are a couple of different formulae for assessing reading difficulty (or "readability index" -- how...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 11:48 am
2475	Orson Scott Card's books about Ender (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, others?) might work with that age group. If you can expand from books, the film...	David Rask Behling dbehling@...	Dec 1, 2000 11:58 am
2476	When I spoke with Fred Kemp at the recent ESU conference he said that ACW was pretty much defunct. He doesn't have the time or energy to keep the organization...	Carl E. Seiple seiple@...	Dec 1, 2000 2:19 pm
2477	I can't get thro to the site, Elizabeth. Could be our brand of gremlins, of course -- JohnMcL...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 2:37 pm
2478	Hi All: (sorry for the cross-posting if you're a Humanist Lister) I'm interested in any and all information regarding students' evaluation of each others work,...	Christian Nelson cnelson@...	Dec 1, 2000 2:40 pm
2479	Perhaps someone could talk to the Powers That Be and have the CC discount applied to this organization. http://www.louisville.edu/~mecran01 ... When I spoke...	Mark E. Crane mark@...	Dec 1, 2000 4:13 pm
2480	I have students fill out this form at the end of the semester (for my eyes only). Students seem to appreciate the opportunity to commend students who did...	Virginia Montecino vmontecino@...	Dec 1, 2000 4:25 pm
2481	Thanks, Virginia. I would like to note, though, that I'm actually interested in research and practical experience with students serving as graders for each...	Christian Nelson cnelson@...	Dec 1, 2000 4:40 pm
2482	This is not on the net, but I have to say that I've had pretty disastrous experience with peer evaluation recently. It's as if the grade-obsession makes it...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 4:57 pm
2483	Hi John: I greatly appreciate your sharing. I'm just wondering if net mechanisms might help this. I'm envisioning a system in which checks might be...	Christian Nelson cnelson@...	Dec 1, 2000 5:31 pm
2484	... That's certainly possible-- what I was referring to as the "reins," in fact. How long do you keep those on until the students internalize the value of the...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:01 pm
2485	Fiction? Non-fiction? Both? Long? Short? What are you trying to do with these readings? That'll help. You probably should check out Ted Nellen's website for...	Nancy Tucker ntucker@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:07 pm
2486	The problem with readability formulas is that they have very little to do with the actual human being who has a life and brings experience to the text....	Nancy Patterson patter@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:13 pm
2487	****************************************************************************** Dr. Janice R. Walker jwalker@... Dept. of...	Janice R. Walker JWALKER@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:24 pm
2488	... 10% of my students final grade is based upon the peer rveiews they receive. They work in groups of 3, so everyone gets 2 peer reviews on their first...	ronan ronan@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:29 pm
2489	... I had this problem as well, when I was teaching in a face-to-face environment. I haven't been teaching composition for awhile, but this past semester I've...	Douglas Eyman eymand@...	Dec 1, 2000 6:42 pm
2490	This is what I've got about Ted, as of last July. One door closes, another door opens -- JohnMcL ... Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:43:40 -0500 (CDT) From:...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 7:07 pm
2491	... Oh, theyt take it seriously enough, ronan. Seriously enough to hand one another A's to skew the final result -- that's the problem. Masters of the silly...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 7:12 pm
2492	... I seem to remember some of Ben Bova's science fiction being awfully easy reading-level wise while still being pretty interesting. I don't have any of it...	Tari Fanderclai tari@...	Dec 1, 2000 7:14 pm
2493	Sounds about right, Doug -- which may be why asking about it as a net- experience was an interesting tack to take. Do students in f2f experiences feel more...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 1, 2000 7:45 pm
2494	I had some success asking students to make up their own peer review questions, tailored to their papers, to give their readers. We did some examples first,...	Tari Fanderclai tari@...	Dec 1, 2000 8:22 pm
2495	Hi John, Sorry 'bout that. I was checking links and gave you an inner link. Here's the Real Thing: http://www.sfsu.edu/~humanity/helpsite/ I checked from here...	Elizabeth Sommers esommers@...	Dec 1, 2000 8:57 pm
2496	Victor Villanueva (my Department Chair) asked me to post this notice: Imagine being a specialist in composition studies and rhetoric where your chair and your...	Bill Condon bcondon@...	Dec 1, 2000 10:31 pm
2497	Got it this time, Elizabeth -- thank you. Quick scan thro -- looks really excellent as a guide to computer use -- wish there had been more on Chaucer, but you...	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 2, 2000 2:11 pm
2498	We have seven (!!!) English positions of various sorts open for Fall 2001. Full postion descriptions available at ...	Kafkaz kafkaz@...	Dec 2, 2000 11:00 pm
2499	Hi, I am scurrying all over the Internet to prepare a workshop for Monday afternoon about interactive tools for K-12 teachers -- thought it was NEXT Monday...	Judy Williamson Judy_Williamson@...	Dec 3, 2000 3:26 am
2500	I read this over several times, because I agree that there are ways of measuring readability, but if one can't read well, those indexes don't help. I agree...	Judy Williamson Judy_Williamson@...	Dec 3, 2000 3:26 am
2501	Elizabeth, a whole series called "Writers Writing" was video-taped. Judy ... Judy Williamson <Judy_Williamson@...> Brown University, Institute for...	Judy Williamson Judy_Williamson@...	Dec 3, 2000 3:28 am
2502	... Cannot think of any now. Have you written to the ncte-talk or ncte-hs, middle school and so on? I know that my students are put off by the new format...	The Teach ababion@...	Dec 3, 2000 3:39 am
2503	One retirement, seven positions? That poor bastert needs a rest. John johnmc@......	John McLaughlin johnmc@...	Dec 3, 2000 3:50 am

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