Meadow Brook Writing Project

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MBWP partners Oakland University with local schools, including Detroit Public Schools, Macomb County, and Oakland Community College.

Members

  • Laura
  • Cornelia Pokrzywa
  • Lori Ostergaard
  • Kathy Lawson
  • John Callaghan
  • Toni Gibson
  • Meadow Brook Writing Project
  • Desiree
  • Rebecca Rivard
  • John Callaghan
  • Marshall Kitchens
  • Cyndi Nickel
  • Rebecca Rivard
  • Kathleen Reddy-Butkovich
  • Mary Cox
  • Laura Gabrion

Blog Posts

Laura

Side by Side: Writing to Learn - May 2 - Please Comment

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

Posted by Laura on February 27, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Cornelia Pokrzywa

The "Copycats"

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!

Posted by Cornelia Pokrzywa on December 19, 2008 at 7:48pm

Cornelia Pokrzywa

Plagiarism Video

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

Posted by Cornelia Pokrzywa on December 15, 2008 at 12:40pm — 1 Comment

Cornelia Pokrzywa

Blogging, ninging, twittering, facebooking, GoogleTalking . . .

...this isn't writing, is it?

Posted by Cornelia Pokrzywa on December 11, 2008 at 7:27pm — 3 Comments

Laura

Side by Side Ideas

I am asking for people to commit to Side by Side ASAP.
The date is May 2nd and it is at MISD.

We are looking for breakout sessions that will be approximately 45 minutes.

If we can get your workshop titles and catchy summaries soon I think we
could expand our horizons.

Also let's look into the SBCEU dealio and try to make that happen.

Hot, HOt, HOT (I don't care how "funky" it is I love this song!)
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Posted by Laura on December 6, 2008 at 10:00pm — 10 Comments

 

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Toni Gibson added a discussion
An irrespressible man...Dr. Tom Owen led a walking tour of Louisville to kick off the conference. He's a librarian, archivist, and city councilman and all around Louisville cheerleader. We saw buildings that were once comatose and now beautifully...
May 15
Meadow Brook Writing Project is now a member of Meadow Brook Writing Project
April 21
John Callaghan is now a member of Meadow Brook Writing Project
April 13
Kathy Lawson is attending Lori Ostergaard's event
Side By Side Symposium at MISD Educational Service Center
May 2, 2009 from 9am to 2:30pm
The symposium is open to teachers in all content areas, K-12+. Join Laura A's blog discussion about this year's symposium.
April 7
March 7
March 7
Advanced Institute: Podcasting March 7, 2009 9:00 am - 12:00 pm 400 Wilson Hall Oakland University Podcasting (Audacity) instructions: http://tinyurl.com/c6toha Facilitator: Lori Ostergaard Participants: 1. Robert Lamphear, TC 200?, Oakland Co...
March 7
Just a quick note: bring both some piece of writing to record (could be multiple short pieces or poems) and headphones to facilitate editing your works. See you Saturday morning in 400 Wilson!
March 5

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Lori Ostergaard

The Podcast from the 2008 Summer Institute: This Writing Project LIfe 6 Replies

Started by Lori Ostergaard. Last reply by Marshall Kitchens Mar 7.

Lori Ostergaard

Newsletter and Brochure Drafts for Meeting 4 Replies

Started by Lori Ostergaard. Last reply by Lori Ostergaard Dec. 7, 2008.

 
 

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