Academic+Language+Interaction

= Hello and WELCOME! :) = toc All of our pre-conference and breakout sessions resources are here on our wiki: http://earcosjbromen.wikispaces.com  You are welcome to join the wiki & have editing rights! (Let's work together, yeah, yeah, yeah!)

**Google doc-ers:**Our joint notes page is: http://bit.ly/ELLpreconfnotes Please let me know if you're wiling to be a notetaker for part of the day! **All of us...**Please join our backchannel conversation: http://todaysmeet.com/EARCOS12ELL A welcome message is posted!
 * Tweeters: ** The conference hashtag is #earcos12 I'm at @jillbromen

Thanks to Anna for taking some pics! http://min.us/mEARCOS12

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Discussion & Accountable Talk
Visual Thinking- core routines Teaching Students How to Discuss Jeff Zwiers Slides: structures for building academic conversations As I Was Saying: How and Why to Teach Discourse Markers Questions to ask during Guided Reading Higher Order Thinking Sentence Stems Reading Journal Response Questions Accountable Talk Discussion Phrases Accountable Talk & Stems Discussion Sentence Starters (foldable booklet) Additional Oral Language & Discussion resources (including how to fold the booklet!) Google Doc of sentence stems related to lang tasks Collection of Sites: Higher Order Thinking & Engagement Kate Kinsella's forms for structured discussion Standards-aligned discussion stems with I can statements for ELA JillBromen's Quiz-Quiz Trade Template with HOTS questions



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Designing Academic Conversations
Content Area Conversations for Diverse Language Learners (The Green Book) Content Area Conversations: Chapter 5 with Language Posters Edublogs: Team Teaching the First Academic Conversation

Visible Thinking/Thinking Routines
Visible Thinking Wikispace Visible Thinking described Thinking Routines Applying 3 routines

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Logging Learning
Double Entry Journals (suggestion: adapt with Google docs for a collaborative journal) More about double-entry journals Reader's Response Journals Apps & sites to use as learning logs: Zapd, Storyrobe, SonicPics, Kidblog, Edmodo, Schoology, GoAnimate, Xtranormal.. Middle School examples: using Xtranormal to summarize learning Kidblogs examples- with requests for comments!

Cooperative Learning
Collection of Sites: Student Engagement & Cooperative Learning Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age: Icebreakers page [|Differentiation Techniques- ELLs in Mainstream classrooms] PIES concept for cooperative learning [|Coop Structure: Fan & Pick Youtube] [|Coop Structure: Travelling Quiz and Show Youtube] [|Coop Structure: Numbered Heads Together: Youtube] [|Coop Structure: Showdown Youtube] [|44 benefits of collaborative learning]

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Collection of Sites

 * Student Engagement
 * Collaborative Tools
 * Higher Order Thinking & Engagement

Collaborative Spaces & Online Sticky Boards (backchannels!)
Wallwisher Linoit Primary Wall typewith.me todaysmeet http://www.chatzy.com/ http://typewith.me Blank notepad! Twitter [|Shakespeak] Poll Everywhere socrative

Primary Wall... Give it a try! Feel free to leave a note, share a link or just say hello! media type="custom" key="13549560"

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