Welcome to the new Ning members! Summer 2009 TCs, I am looking for researchers who want to participate in my Rochester Oral History Archive project. I will have WRT 160 students working on the project as part of their community engagement component. If you are seeking a community engagement component for your students, please contact me so we can discuss details.

The Rochester Oral History Archive:
Project to Preserve Oral Histories of Rochester Residents

In partnership with the Meadow Brook W… Continue

Here is an idea generated at NWP Inside Inquiry...

Teacher Inquiry Community

Each Wednesday teacher consultants that are interested would commit to checking in on the MBMP NING
and submit their teacher "wonderings."

These wonderings would lead us to group or individual inquiry work.

What are the thoughts on this?

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8:00 - 8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast- Check out Heinemann book display

8:45 - 9:00 Greeting Introductions

9:00 Keynote (Kathleen - hand out copies of her publication , Toni could do her Memoirizing session -she is a published author- we coudl sell her books)

10:10 - 11:00 BREAKOUTS

Robert Lamphear, Oakland Community College, Mary Cox, and Kathleen Lawson- anyone interested in building a session such as you did last year???


Kathy Hribar - Library Media Specialist, Westwood Ele… Continue

As I gather K-12 plagiarism sources and begin interviewing students, my own kids wanted in on the action. I'm not planning to put them in my "real" research, so we worked on this video just for fun. Enjoy!

I gathered student interviews on the topic of plagiarism and found that many students can easily define the basic concepts, but still have difficulty understanding that definitions can shift depending on context. For example, the definition of common knowledge varies widely between handbooks, electronic resources, and instructors. It's not unusual for a student to be told that common knowledge is anything you "already know" -- without realizing that this writer-oriented definition may leave the… Continue