Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0GH8Z005361; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:08:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:08:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5DCA49BDD2B0D41186CE00508B6BEBD007E976A8@wdcrobexc01.ed.gov> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Spacone, Ronna (Contractor)" <Ronna.Spacone@ed.gov> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:1968] EFF/Crossroads Cafe X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 2376 Lines: 48 Hi everyone, The EFF/Crossroads Cafe crosswalk that Sondra mentioned in NIFL-4EFF:1963 isn't up on our website...yet. It will be in the near future. INTELECOM, the publisher of Crossroads Cafe, is putting it on their website as well. When it's launched, I'll post a message here. (Look for the EFF/On Common Ground crosswalk along with it.) The Crossroads Cafe crosswalk connects the EFF common activities, skill categories, and role maps (key activities) to the stories and characters in the TV episodes, which in the words of the publisher, "portray challenges, struggles, conflicts and victories typical of everyday life." It was easy for me, as I analyzed the content in the video series, to connect the EFF roles, skills and activities. I thought at the time that teachers and students could also analyze the various episodes to differentiate the roles and responsibilities at play and the applicable standards. My crosswalk focused only on the videos (not the printed materials) and while I haven't used Crossroad Cafe in a classroom, I imagined using the videos to ground group discussions and individual reflections, writing, etc. to focus and determine instructional directions. I saw the videos as a resource I could use to help facilitate a discovery process by which a group/individuals would first see what was happening on the TV screen as a way of potentially then examining was happening in their own lives, as that related to setting goals and designing instruction. The conceptual framework for the process would be the EFF roles/responsibilities, activities and standards. Some questions I might use to guide this process include: What did you observe? How do you feel about this? Who else has had the same experience? different experience? How do you account for the fact that ______? How was this significant? What do you understand better? What does this suggest to you about yourself/group? These questions come from one of my favorite and most frequently used books, "Teacher as Learner: A Sourcebook for Participatory Staff Development" by Beth Bingman and Brenda Bell. Earlier this month we were sharing resources that are EFF friendly. I'd include this. It's available from the Center for Literacy Studies website at: http://cls.coe.utk.edu/. Ronna Ronna G. Spacone EFF Special Collection Coordinator Ronna.Spacone@ed.gov (202) 233-8767
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