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= Welcome to the UMdWP Advanced Institute, 2010 = We will be exploring a wide variety of learning and compositional topics this summer. Try some of the links below to get a peak at some of our exploration.

Workshops

 * **Structuring Play for Learning in Digital Environments**: Exploration of the effects on student engagement, learning, and writing of integrating play-leading-to-publication into the classroom and reflection on the most effective strategies for implementing such play and publication, especially using modern, digital tools. //(This is most certainly a mouthful and fairly confusing. The refining and clearing up of these ideas will constitute a major objective of the workshop, itself.)//
 * **Notice, Focus, Practice, Flow**
 * **Perspective and Change in the Social Studies Classroom**
 * **Banish Boring Words: A Lesson on Word Choice**

Other Resources

 * **Picture Book Resources:** Titles of picture books that provide excellent prompts, reading/writing analysis, play with language/plot/character, etc.