Learning in the Teen Years

An interesting article about research into teenagers and learning...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100324/hl_time/08599197353200

Baby Names (and Narcissism)

There's an interesting article on Yahoo news today about unusual baby names, and a possible connection to narcissism.

American Indian Reservation Reaping Oil Benefits

This is good news.

Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India

This is an interesting and sad story about the death of a person and the death of a language.



You can listen to a brief recording of Boa Sr speaking her language, Bo.

Reflective Writing

English Skills and Academic Reading and Writing students,

I've found a good overview of reflective writing. It's long, and is not focused on our particular type of reflective writing, but you should be able to learn something from it. It starts here:

http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/reflect.html

Enjoy!

-Julie

Introduction

This blog is for my students to leave work or links, or discuss topics related to our classes.

Good luck!

-Julie