Resources for Educators

Essays by Shalon Sims on education, creative writing and literacy

Resources for Educators

   Uncategorized    6 December, 2010  |  0

Social Media & Collaborative Education

Here is a great blog about professors using Twitter in large lecture halls, to promote collaboration and discourse.

History of Education

This RSA Animate video is an animation of a lecture by Sir __Robinson about the history of education and the need to address education in new ways, in these modern times.  He compares the older ‘industrial’ model of education with one that is more individualized.

English

The University of Purdue Online Writing Lab is an amazing website with university writing lessons and examples of grammar and writing rules of English, including MLA and APA formatting styles.

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You might enjoy reading the top post on my site, The 7 Types of Sentence Fragments and How to Use Them.


This post is used every day by teachers and students around the world to teach and learn the art of building beautiful, advanced sentences in English.

The free pdf download of the lesson in shortened form is free to copy, alter and distribute for non-commercial purposes.
If you are using this lesson, please let me know how you have used it and how it has helped you. I’m curious!

My favourite essays!

Below you’ll find works of art that I lovingly crafted just for you!

FEAR & HORROR IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

In this essay, I discuss why children’s literature is often scary, and why that’s awesome!

DIVERSITY IN COMICS

In this essay I discuss how to use comics to teach Language Arts, and how diversity in comics can help students enrich both their literacy and their life.

FEAR: A CURSE UPON ME

In this essay I discuss my personal journey with anxiety and some of the ways I’ve learned to manage my anxiety.

PLOT YOUR NOVEL WITH M.I.C.E. QUOTIENT 

 

In this post I share what I learned at a writing conference about plotting with Orson Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient, and Mary Robinette Kowal’s adaptations to this technique, including nesting codes and try/fails. All of these techniques help you evaluate whether your plot keeps the promises you made to your readers.

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