Posts Tagged ‘English’
Go hard, go GRUEN!
Last week I had the pleasure of team-teaching with my wonderful English coordinator Michele. Like myself, Michele is a devoted fan of ABC’s Gruen Transfer, a program about how advertising manipulates our thinking. We used the program’s Consumer’s Revenge feature to access video and audio snippets in order to assemble advertisements around the ficticious “Gruen [...]
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Tags: critical literacy, English, Gruen Transfer, video
Collaborative Writing (part 2)
This morning I was hunting around for ways to integrate multiple editable sections from pages within wikispace all onto the one page, as you would see in a typical wikipedia.org page. Discovering this post on a wikispaces discussion forum, I was easily able to set up a complete essay page which combines all the essay [...]
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Tags: collaborative writing, English, wikispace
Feeling the weight of the HSC world on our shoulders, obstacles in the path of innovation – syllabus dot points, exams, misperceptions of incompetence – all too frequently plague our thoughts and stop us from taking risks where it often matters the most. Sometimes I have to stop and take a deep breath before I [...]
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Tags: Board of Studies, collaborative writing, English, HSC, Standard English, wikispace
