Students will

1. Synthesize information from a variety of sources and then present this information in a logical, linear written format;
2. Post material on class weblog, click on time stamp, print post only;
3. Construct a mini-research paper with supporting statistics, facts, and expert quotations in proper format;
4. Set up weblog account, taking note of password, url, blog title, and privacy settings;
5. Use sufficient and concrete details to fully support thesis and topic sentences;
6. Upload word file into e-mail; download from e-mail into word file and from PC to mac; from word file to blogger and from PC to blogger; save and publish in appropriate formats;
7. Demonstrate ability to summarize and/or evaluate author’s thesis, major premise and support, avoiding plagiarism at all costs;
8. Set up links effectively, writing code if necessary, and checking to make sure they work, so that references, abstracts, and templates can be linked;
9. Demonstrate active and appropriate use of quotation, paraphrase, and citation conventions, documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism at all costs;
10. Use browsers to best advantage, knowing when browser-computer combination causes problems and when to switch;
11. Incorporate awareness of audience into writing, such that papers speak to all English speakers, as opposed to only the teacher;
12. Manage a computer’s ability to connect to a printer, setting paper size, responding appropriately when jammed or having wrong settings;
13. Effectively utilize a variety of test-taking strategies, including preparing and writing full-length supported essays with a time deadline;
14. Put essays and research papers online, formatting and linking references to sources; put all work in portfolio format, making best of work available on front page, presenting header information appropriately;
15. Demonstrate awareness and active successful use of writing conventions, i.e. thesis, topic sentences, introduction, and conclusion;
16. Use clues such as URL trunks, logos and links to determine site owners, publication dates, etc.
17. Refer to sources appropriately, finding author's name; putting it in order; distinguishing publication date from retrieval date; finding publication name and including volume and issue when appropriate; including URL only when necessary;
18. Use Google and databases appropriately; choose online sources effectively, distinguishing and discriminating among kinds of articles found in Google, databases, etc.;
19. Demonstrate ability to use grammatical forms correctly and effectively, combining sentences to best advantage;
20. Manage weblog accounts to best advantage, using privacy settings, notification features, aggregation, etc.;
21. Understand and respond to class-specific paper requirements including margins, headers, titles, page numbers, titles, fonts, etc.
22. Use Google and Wikipedia effectively, culling best sources from each, yet knowing when certain sources, reference or information is inappropriate;
23. Find author, title, subtitle, publication name and date among other necessary reference information; put it in appropriate format, demonstrating awareness of difference between APA and other convention systems, for example;
24. Incorporate awareness of online audience into writing, so that the possibility of exchange on a given topic becomes a prevalent concern;
25. Internalize editing processes, in order to be able to check and edit all writing in high-pressure situations; use spell-check effectively;
26. Demonstrate awareness of self-protecting strategies for dealing with e-mail, weblogs, social networking sites, and chats effectively;

Portfolio Showcase 2008

This site is still being improved. Some of these links may move or change.

As part of TESOL 2008, this post shows some student portfolios that I am proud of, and is a gateway to other student work on weblogs in the CESL system and in others.

I have taught our highest-level writing class many times. I'll start with portfolios that show well-formatted (in my view) research papers.

RESEARCH PAPERS:
(abstracts lead to research papers)

(abstracts included)
Yuii- Wal-Mart and Women, CESL EAP2
Sosuke- Magnetism's change and the effect on life- CESL EAP2
Raeed- Nene Bird, CESL EAP2
MinHo- WalMart and a Bank, CESL EAP2
Awni- Transportation pollution in New York City, CESL EAP2

SURVEY REPORTS (QUANTITATIVE)

http://lalidaphan.blogspot.com/2008/03/internet-dating-survey.html
Internet Dating Survey - Lalida

http://rachel-dhi.blogspot.com/2008/03/drinking-survey.html
Drinking Survey- Dhay

http://www.peanutskippy.blogspot.com
Airplanes, Dominic, CED, Quebec

GROUP PROJECTS

Starbucks business plan, CESL Newstalk 075
Presidential Election, CESL Newstalk 081 Feb.-March 2008
Saluki Way, CESL Newstalk 081 Feb.-March 2008
Divorce in the USA, CESL Newstalk 081
Violent Deer, CESL Newstalk 054
New Wal-Mart, CESL Newstalk 054
University drinking culture, CESL Newstalk 065
Newstalk site: index to groups
A Look at Bullying (not SIUC, excellent, but unidentified, in terms of which class & where. Note: Student work is in the comments)

WEBLOGGING

Sub, CESL AE2
Bright, CESL AE2
Andre, CESL AE2
Faisal, CESL AE2
Hussain, CESL AE2

http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=1426&DID=10780.

Best of weblogs 081

http://thisisyourbrainonweblogs.blogspot.com/2007/03/portfolio-showcase.html
Portfolio showcase 2007

http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/agelit.htm
21st century skills

http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196604068
TechLearning

http://bestpracticescenter.org/21stcentury.htm
21st century learning project, Alabama Best Practices Center

http://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/difcore/index.html
Information fluency

http://21learn.org/
21st century learning initiative

http://123elearning.blogspot.com/
Julie Lindsay, elearning

http://123elearning.blogspot.com/2008/03/adventures-in-online-synchronous.html
Adventures in online synchronous communication, e-learning

http://teachustech.ning.com/
teach us tech ning

http://kolea.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/presentations/margalit2_p.html
chat research

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03social.html?ex=1330578000&en=f718f182170673a4&ei=5088
Social networking's next phase

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4bdbaa60-f1a3-11dc-9b45-0000779fd2ac.html
better interactivity in business class delivery

http://www.yakkle.com/
yakkie

teachers who start blogs (baW08)

http://redcamarocruiser.blogspot.com/
mary ziller, PA, USA

http://callrevolution.blogspot.com/
jeremy robinson, monterrey CA USA

http://lunas994.blogspot.com/
natasa grojic, serbia

http://callsandbox.blogspot.com/
bob cole, monterrey

http://endelvallesi.blogspot.com/
susana canelo, argentina

portfolio related

http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/02/29/ple-postures/
What "postures" make up your personal learning environment- Feb. 29, EdTechPost

http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen/
Making the shift happen- Kim Cofino

Stevens, V. (2008, Mar. 9). New millenium professional development. adVancEducation weblog.
http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/03/ive-been-asked-to-propose-task-force-to.html. Accessed 3-08.

Aune, S. (2008, Feb. 3). 13 tools for tracking discussions in the blogosphere. Mashable.com.
http://mashable.com/2008/02/03/13-tools-for-tracking-discussions-in-the-blogosphere/. Accessed 3-08.

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dr22kn2_24dpqdgg
Writing matrix for learning w/computers

http://englisheight.edublogs.org/
intrepid classroom

http://blog.garethl.com/
Gareth Long

http://englishvirtualcommunity.blogspot.com/
Nelba Quintana- Argentina

http://www.doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/
Doris Molero- Venezuela

http://voicethread.com/
voicethreads

http://waoe.org/steve/tlt/sl.html
web 2.0 in 3D for language learning - Steve McC does Second Life

http://eflclassroom.ning.com/
efl classroom 2.0- ning

http://mashable.com/2007/04/22/facebook-twitter/
facebook & twitter

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/
webheads

http://blended-learning.learnhub.com/
blended learning and instruction

http://www.hyperwords.net/
hyperwords project

http://educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/
edblogger praxis

Laningham (2006). developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee. IBM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
The Long Tail

http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
ICT in my classroom

best of the weblogs 081

best of the fluency exercises

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-are-teenagers-different-in-us-and.html
difference between American and Japanese teenagers- Erika

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/chating-online-with-my-friends.html
Chatting online- Suliman

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/difference-between-weather-in-us-and-in.html
weather in USA & KSA- Dhay

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/teenagers-are-different-in-us-and.html
Teenagers in the USA & Thailand

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/toefl-stressful.html
TOEFL! Stressful! -Botian

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-city-in-world-to-live.html
Tokyo- the best city- Kim

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-city-in-world.html
Chiang Mai- best city - Lalida

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/way-to-talk-with-our-friends.html
The way to talk with our friends- Erika

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/drink.html
drink- Kim

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/02/drinking.html
drinking- GilJae

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/01/awareness-on-road.html
Awareness on the road- Lalida

http://eap1.blogspot.com/2008/01/writing-f2.html
Dealing with stress- Botian

Quantitative reports

http://lalidaphan.blogspot.com/2008/03/internet-dating-survey.html
Internet Dating Survey - Lalida

http://rachel-dhi.blogspot.com/2008/03/drinking-survey.html
Drinking Survey- Dhay

Essays

http://lalidaphan.blogspot.com/2008/02/lowering-drinking-age-is-not-solution.html
Lowering drinking age is not the solution- Lalida

http://junddis.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-order-to-our-security-on-road.html
In order for our security on the road- Jun Dong

http://paredais2.blogspot.com/2008/02/educate-children.html
Educate children- Jinshu

Newstalk weblog entries

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/cities-trying-to-rejuvenate-recycling.html
Recycling in the US - Jeremy

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/homosexual-issue.html
"Homosexual" issue - Yao

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/nurse-contracting-hiv-from-patient.html
Nurse contracting HIV from patient- Fahad

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/gunman-opens-fire-at-nourthern-illinois.html
Gunman opens fire at NIU - Asuka

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/exercise-aids-depression-say-gps.html
Exercise aids depression - Mohammad A.

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/south-korea-probes-cell-phone-death.html
South Korea probes cell-phone death - Tez

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/terrible-tornado-twisters.html
Terrible tornado twisters - Yao

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/sniffling-mice-raise-therapy-hope.html
Sniffling mice raise therapy hope - Hsin Yi

http://siucceslnewstalk.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-companies-need-female-managers.html
Why companies need female managers

Newstalk groups- survey/interview

http://cesleconomy.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-economy-problem.html
US Economy problem (interview)- K

http://ceslpreselect.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-was-really-happy-to-have-chance-to.html
Presidential election (survey) - Mohammad A.

http://ceslsalukiway.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-about-sluki-way_01.html
Saluki Way (survey)- Young ho

http://ceslsalukiway.blogspot.com/2008/02/saluki-way-is-not-thing-that-people.html
Saluki Way- Hsin Yi

http://baw08participants.pbwiki.com/#MarshaChan
BaW08

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/309855
facebook consequences

http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/losing-my-facebook/
Losing my facebook

http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/blogging
vance's blog tags

http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/2007/basque1.htm
Writing in a multiliterate flat world- Vance

http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html
Vance in EJ

http://tesl-ej.org/ej34/int.html
same but earlier

http://listeningplus.ning.com/
ning site

http://blena.wordpress.com/
Nelba's blog

http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/
intrepid teacher

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Weblogs/
Google's blogging educators' directory

http://www.elearnspace.org/resources/research.htm
elearning- everything elearning

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/cll.shtml
community language learning

http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/yet-another-reason-we-should-be-teaching-not-blocking-wikipedia/
teaching wikipedia

http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/blog-commenting-evolves/
Blog commenting evolves

the blurb- students in cyberspace

http://www.kottke.org/07/12/feed-reading
kottke-feed reading

http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/reading-ideas-instead-of-people-take-22/#comments
reading ideas instead of people- take 22

http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory/?cat=1
GAM3R 7H30RY- MacKenzie Wark

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09blog.html?ex=1333771200&en=52ed112ca37ec909&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Call for manners in the world of nasty blogs

http://blogshop.blogspot.com/
bloggershop

edtech community
http://incsub.org/blog/
incorporated subversion- J. Farmer

http://quickshout.blogspot.com/
QuickShout, Nik Peachey

http://mfeldstein.com/
michael feldstein

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/
dennis jerz

http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/index.php
EdTechPost, Scott Leslie

http://www.teachinghacks.com/
Teaching Hacks.com, Quentin D'Souza

Portfolios

http://www.kottke.org/portfolio/portfolio.html
jason kottke- web design portfolio

http://blogshop.blogspot.com/2004/08/blogeducating-blogs-place-in-education.html
BlogEducating

http://eport2.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/w/ea/weaver/home/1/index.shtml
David Weaver

http://www.msu.edu/~ebyryan/teportfolio/index.html
Ryan Eby