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              Investigative Reading, the 2012 Election, and My Freshmen: A True Story 
            
			            By Melissa Camilleri on March 11, 2013        
 
I’m pretty passionate about teaching literacy skills. But it’s not just because of the warm, fuzzy feelings it gives me to know I’m impacting the learning of my students. If I’m gonna be real, one of the main reasons I’m so focused on having my students read widely and think critically about texts is so they grow up to be informed voters.
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              Facilitating On-line Collaboration and Argument Analysis with Google+ Hangout
            
			            By Jose Lucero on March 3, 2013        
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The day of graduation I reflected on my experience as an Educational Technology graduate student at San Diego State University. I asked myself, “What skills and tools did I have to master in order to successfully complete this program?” I quickly concluded that an essential skill was collaboration, and a tool that helped me do this was Google+.        	
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              Scaffolded student collaboration using strategic groups
            
			            By Rick Millican on February 22, 2013        
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No wonder many teachers do little or no collaborative work at all. Facilitating collaborative groups effectively is hard. Even some of our very best students take a collaborative grouping as an invitation to talk, but not necessarily about what you want them to talk about.        	
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              Rubrics Require Explicit Instruction, Too
            
			            By Jonathan LeMaster on February 21, 2013        
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All teachers struggle with the "ticking clock." That is, we all feel the pressure of time. We don't have time to teach everything. We are expected to "cover" material as fast as we can. At least, that was before the Common Core.        	
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              Browser Power
            
			            By Lee Ramsey on February 1, 2013        
 
Your web browser is the number one most used program on your computer. It gives you access to all your favorite websites and tools that help you with your work. The web browser is the #1 tool we use in the office and will be one of your most important tools in education.
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