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Paul Beaufait

Tefl-teacher: Wordle. Novelty or useful teaching tool[?] - 17 views

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    "...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).
Paul Beaufait

Educational Leadership:Reading Comprehension:Making Sense of Online Text - 11 views

  • The following strategy lesson invites students to stop, think, and anticipate where important information about a Web site's content might be found
  • To move students beyond simply cutting and pasting their notes directly into their final projects, teachers can provide students with a word-processing document (see fig. 3) that serves as a template to help them organize their research
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    Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. Educational Leadership 62(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx

    "Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here ... [Coiro] pose[s] each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge" (A New Kind of Literacy, ¶3).
Paul Beaufait

News: Tablets, Yes; E-Texts, Maybe - Inside Higher Ed - 5 views

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    "Claims that tablets will revolutionize the learning experience often go hand-in-hand with a push for more digital textbooks, but the Pearson survey showed that students don't often link the two. While most students perceived an educational value to tablets, only 35 percent said they preferred digital editions to print editions, and only about half of those preferred tablets to other digital devices" (Keving Kiley, 2011.05.25, ¶8, retrieved 2011.05.30).
Paul Beaufait

BBC - CBeebies - Story Time: Watch and read along to stories featuring all your favouri... - 11 views

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    Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)
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    Thanks to Jennifer for pointing out this site!
Paul Beaufait

Online Audio Stories - 14 views

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    "Free Downloadable Audio Books ... [:] fairy tales, classics[,] and poems for children" (headline and tagline, 2011.03.15)
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    Thanks to Jennifer for pointing out resources on this site!
Paul Beaufait

I'm Reading! [Starfall] - 9 views

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    Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)
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    Thanks to Jennifer for point out resources on this site (Starfall, Fiction and Non-Fiction)!
Cara Whitehead

Reading Street4 Vocabulary and SpellingCity.com - 0 views

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    Links to Reading Street Spelling and Vocabulary, MacMillan/McGraw Hill Spelling, Abeka Spelling, Harcourt Spelling, Essential Vocabulary, Journeys and Treasures, and Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary are also listed here.
Izzaty P.

7 Online Magazines for Kids That Are Worth a Read - 0 views

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    Children's magazines like their adult counterparts also have accompanying websites. A visitor who drops by won't be able to distinguish between an online magazine and a website (or blog). Most of the online versions of the children's magazines also publish the same content; partly if not all. Here are some that are worth a look and a read.
Izzaty P.

HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works! - 0 views

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    The leading source for clear, reliable explanations of how everything around us actually works.
Yuly Asencion

ZooBurst - 12 views

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    ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
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