http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/ Extensive Reading Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:46:27 GMT Juanarturo P http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4425 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4425 Dear, Mohamed I greatly appreciate your interest in my work but till it is not published you better off without citing my work, the reasons being that this is Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:37:52 GMT Juanarturo P http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4424 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4424 Dear Glen, Perhaps you should read my article on OER here: http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/silva/article.pdf A few quick points: 1. Graded materials are Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:49:20 GMT Glen Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4423 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4423 Dear Juan, Thanks for responding. Your students must be very high level, as mine would be lost with articles from Discover magazine, let alone anything higher. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:57:05 GMT Juanarturo P http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4422 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4422 Hi Glen, I do lots of reading and writing online and hence have something to offer here. I ask students to read scientific articles and write 1. a commentary Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:03:04 GMT Jeremy Taylor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4421 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4421 I agree with Kieran that e.books have a future. I really don't understand why they are so expensive. There are no extra costs to the publisher, no distribution Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:25:32 GMT Glen Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4420 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4420 Hi, Mark. Yes, I have considered some online writing, but I have not yet pieced together any specific lesson plan(s). One major problem with these 3rd year Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:22:27 GMT Mark Brierley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4419 Hi Glen, Have you looked at online writing? Either getting students to create blogs (eg on Google's blog site) or to write in forums means that they are Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:53:12 GMT Glen Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4418 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4418 I have a 3rd-year technical writing course, and although they don't do ER, I've tried to stimulate their writing abilities by requiring weekly journals. Even Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:39:19 GMT Mason Beniko http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4417 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4417 I noticed that there were some questions being asked some time ago on the experiment done in Mason (2004). The folloiwng are the responses: NOTICING GD: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:40:06 GMT Kieran http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4416 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4416 After doing a couple of brief stints for the BBC, I've got the taste for blogging. You can find my new and (hopefully) improved one here: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:26:40 GMT dk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4415 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4415 I'm sorry but I see that the second link I gave in my second message about Top Notch TV is not for WMV video clips but for some other format. The problem is Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:29:28 GMT dk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4414 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4414 The link I posted may not be the best one. It is to download a complete DVD which will probably have to be burned onto a disk or virtual disk or whatever. Here Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:30:39 GMT Thomas N. Robb http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4413 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4413 I agree that the Top Notch videos are excellent. I've incorporated all of them into our Moodle system so that the students can watch the videos while doing a Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:07:02 GMT dk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4412 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4412 I have recently stumbled on some short video lessons by Pearson, Top Notch TV. I don't get enthusiastic about materials very often but I love these. They are Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:08:09 GMT Glen Hill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4411 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExtensiveReading/message/4411 How do I evaluate my ER students? Well, my reading class students are asked to do a very simplified version of ER -- read 5 graded readers per 15-week