Netiquette Guidelines for High Schoolers.

Netiquette
Or "How to not look like an absolute tool on the Internet"

1. Srsly, don't rokk teh l33t-sp3@k 2 hard. OR YELL.

2. Be polite and classy- be respectful of other denizens of the 'net. Avoid sarcasm, excessive slang, and jokes - they're easy to misunderstand.

3. Don't share personal information - passwords, your location, etc. Basic safety.

4. Show your sources. If you respond to a particualr passage, quote it in your reply. Don't talk out of your hat.

Shell Game

Ha! Awesome! Turn on the noise for your prize.

Slideshare/ Making a good presentation

So these people seem to never want to TALK to their students. It's all text, with nothing to do but just read them aloud to the punters.

But then there's this one, a simple series of images of Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot". Waterhouse, Rossetti, even some non-Pre-Raphaelite artists.


The curse is come upon me! cried the Lady of Shallot.

Lady of Shallot

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HA!

Death by PowerPoint

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So more or less, write what you want to SAY in the notes bit, and then really enhance that rather than vomit it all up onto the screen. Words should be things that really need to pop, or are hard to spell, etc. How much better does it place people in history to see pictures of them, and life at this time? Think of Ken Burns' documentaries - still pictures which seem to come to life when there's music and speech over them. Suppose, while teaching a segment on nineteenth-c American poets, you include pictures of the Civil War (when appropriate), or cozy, Longfellow-y etchings. Or the illustrations of Abolitionist tracts, or stills for Gone With The Wind? Or haunting fiddle music playing? Or Sacred Harp music, the rawest thing to come out of the 19th century except for Crimea and Jack the Ripper.

Warning: Sacred Harp music. Turn down the sound a bit. Srsly.