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= Welcome to Content Area Literacy Summer 2012 Bangkok = ==Hey Everyone! I am so excited to work with you this summer in Bangkok. I look forward to sharing some of my experience with you as well as learning a lot from your experiences. This wiki is designed to help guide you (and me) through the course, to serve as a reference, and to be a place to share and construct our knowledge about content area literacy. I have no plans to remove the wiki once we are done with the course, so feel free to refer to it after we part ways and to continue to edit it. If there is anything on the wiki that you find valuable for your practice, I recommend making arrangements to download it to your personal files as I am unsure how long Wikispaces will support the content of this site.==

Prior to class:
There are some things I'd like you to try to bring with you to Bangkok to help maximize the potential for this class. If you cannot manage to bring these items, please do not worry. We can make do. However, I want to make the class as useful as possible to you so these things may help. >
 * Laptop and/or iPad - If possible, I'd like you to download the sample textbook //Life on Earth// by E.O. Wilson. If you have iTunes or access to the apps through your iPad you can download this FREE sample to your iBooks library. Go to the category Textbooks to find it. You may also want to consider downloading any other free samples of interest. The //Algebra I// sample is a good one to explore as well. Again, if this is not easy to manage for you, do not worry about it. We can share ;)
 * Go through some of your lessons and units of study you currently teach. Find a couple lessons that you are not thrilled about. A final assignment option is to create a unit using the skills and strategies you have learned in the course. If you bring something, you will have the opportunity to revise something that would be useful to you at your place of work. Try to bring digital copies if you can. Think green!
 * Copy/Scan a chapter from a textbook you currently use or one a colleague may use. If the chapters are extraordinarily long you may want to limit it to about 20 pages. However, within those twenty pages, try to include the conclusion of the chapter. If you have access to a scanner to create PDFs that would be better than carrying a copy with you or wasting paper. If you don't have access, again, we can make do.
 * Try to bring a couple of readings you assign your students. Readings your students find challenging would be best and may include news articles, short stories, historical selections, science articles, math word problems, etc. Again, it might be easier for you to have electronic copies. Bring up to three. The idea is that you may be able to work with a couple of these readings to help you present them to your students.