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Barbara Lindsey

News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
  • But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
  • At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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  • Language content makes up about 95 percent of the downloads from the Emory iTunes U site.
  • the most popular content is audio and video files that were originally developed not for a general audience, but by professors as supplements to college-level coursework,
  • Because language demonstrations often require audio and sometimes video components (e.g., tutorials on how to write in a character-based alphabet), and students often like to practice while on the move, iTunes is in many ways an ideal vehicle for language-based instructional content.
  • what we do offer is an online supplement that enhances what happens both in the classroom and in foreign study in the culture — and it is always there as a resource for our students, because it’s online.”
Barbara Lindsey

Langwitches Blog » Framing a Field Trip with Google Earth - 0 views

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    Silvia provides an excellent step-by-step guide to using Google Earth as a pre-field trip activity. This is great for those who are comfortable using GE.  
Barbara Lindsey

The Gwigle Game - 0 views

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    an educational game to help you use Google more effectively
Barbara Lindsey

Elluminated's Channel - YouTube - 0 views

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    Elluminate Live! Moderator Training Video
Barbara Lindsey

Mightybell - 0 views

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    Take it Step by Step, Day by Day On Mightybell, you layout a series of steps people can do towards a goal or around a topic they care about. What they do with it is up to them. Wonder how this could be used for learning, esp. languages.
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