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Learning Never Stops: Word Draw - Free newsletter templates for MS Word - 2 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...e-newletter-templates-for.html

MS-Word project-based writing tools VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Mar 13
     
    "The site's newsletter templates are categorized for education, business, family, holidays, and by month. The templates must be downloaded and are compatible for all versions of Microsoft Word. These templates can also be utilized for a class newspaper, projects or even reports. " Looks like a useful tool for classroom projects, if you are still using MS Word.
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Wink - [Homepage] - 3 views

www.debugmode.com/wink

tools CALL_Environments teachers teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12 - Cached
  • Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink. Click the green arrow button to start viewing it. --------> (More tutorials created by Wink users and companies can be found at the User Forums.) This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation. It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features. So spread the word about Wink to your friends.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12
     
    "Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Here is a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink "
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How to Make Google Drive Work Like a Desktop Suite - 0 views

lifehacker.com/ike-a-desktop-suite-1557341520

Google-Drive mobile-tech MS-Word tools young-learners adult-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Apr 14
     
    This is an incredibly thorough article that gives one a lot of ideas for using Google Drive on your own desktop or tablet. Apps and add-ons make some of the neat features of MS Word available, with the added advantage of picking and choosing which features you really want/need. Thorin Klosowski is most helpful. Just having regular updates of Drive enables work off-line where needed.
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GRCC: ESL Student Projects - Guides for Digital Projects - 2 views

www.instruction.greenriver.edu/...howtoindex.htm

digital_images project-based writing digital_literacy online_lessons teachers adult_learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Aug 11
     
    Tutorials and guides to using common digital programs, such as adding a picture to a word-processed document, using MS Word, save to a USB drive, etc. Some info is for Green River CC students only.
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Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks to Get Things Done Faster - 0 views

www.labnol.org/...28267

online-lessons teacher-training MS-Word writing tools VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Oct 13
     
    I offer this to those still using Word and PCs of some sort. (My personal preference is OpenOffice.) However, a number of these keyboard "shortcuts" seem more complex than just doing them by hand (e.g., Ctl-X to cut, position cursor, and Ctl-V to paste). A nice feature of this blog entry is that each tip is illustrated with a gif animation.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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pedagogy teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • “The data is pretty weak. It’s very difficult when we’re pressed to come up with convincing data,”
  • he said change of a historic magnitude is inevitably coming to classrooms this decade: “It’s one of the three or four biggest things happening in the world today.”
  • schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward
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  • tough financial choices. In Kyrene, for example, even as technology spending has grown, the rest of the district’s budget has shrunk, leading to bigger classes and fewer periods of music, art and physical education.
  • The district leaders’ position is that technology has inspired students and helped them grow, but that there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again. “My gut is telling me we’ve had growth,” said David K. Schauer, the superintendent here. “But we have to have some measure that is valid, and we don’t have that.”
  • Since then, the ambitions of those who champion educational technology have grown — from merely equipping schools with computers and instructional software, to putting technology at the center of the classroom and building the teaching around it.
  • . The district’s pitch was based not on the idea that test scores would rise, but that technology represented the future.
  • For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.
  • “Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,” wrote Bryan Goodwin, spokesman for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a nonpartisan group that did the study, in an essay. Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • Larry Cuban, an education professor emeritus at Stanford University, said the research did not justify big investments by districts. “There is insufficient evidence to spend that kind of money. Period, period, period,” he said. “There is no body of evidence that shows a trend line.”
  • “In places where we’ve had a large implementing of technology and scores are flat, I see that as great,” she said. “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • It was something Ms. Furman doubted would have happened if the students had been using computers. “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.” But, she said, computers play an important role in helping students get their ideas down more easily, edit their work so they can see instant improvement, and share it with the class. She uses a document camera to display a student’s paper at the front of the room for others to dissect. Ms. Furman said the creative and editing tools, by inspiring students to make quick improvements to their writing, pay dividends in the form of higher-quality work. Last year, 14 of her students were chosen as finalists in a statewide essay contest that asked them how literature had affected their lives. “I was running down the hall, weeping, saying, ‘Get these students together. We need to tell them they’ve won!’ ”
  • For him, the best educational uses of computers are those that have no good digital equivalent. As examples, he suggests using digital sensors in a science class to help students observe chemical or physical changes, or using multimedia tools to reach disabled children.
  • engagement is a “fluffy term” that can slide past critical analysis. And Professor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty,
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      Engagement can also mean sustained interest over a long term, e.g., Tiny Zoo.
  • “There is very little valid and reliable research that shows the engagement causes or leads to higher academic achievement,” he said.
  • computers can distract and not instruct.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      Student learns the game, not the concept. But this is "skills-based," not a thinking game. Technology mis-applied?
  • t Xavier is just shooting every target in sight. Over and over. Periodically, the game gives him a message: “Try again.” He tries again. “Even if he doesn’t get it right, it’s getting him to think quicker,” says the teacher, Ms. Asta. She leans down next to him: “Six plus one is seven. Click here.” She helps him shoot the right target. “See, you shot him.”
  • building a blog to write about Shakespeare’
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      These are activities tat can't be measured with a standardized test. Can standardized tests encompass thinking skills beyond the most modest level?
  • classmates used a video camera to film a skit about Woodrow Wilson’s 14-point speech during World War I
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford said research showed that student performance did not improve significantly until classes fell under roughly 15 students, and did not get much worse unless they rose above 30. At the same time, he says bigger classes can frustrate teachers, making it hard to attract and retain talented ones.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      How much incremental improvement is made by having one student more or less? Ed research can't determine that, but it can be felt palpably in a classroom.
  • he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      So it has to be teachers who find the creative uses.
  • . Sales of computer software to schools for classroom use were $1.89 billion in 2010. Spending on hardware is more difficult to measure, researchers say, but some put the figure at five times that amount.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?”
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MS Word 2007 tutorials by Russell Stannard for Teacher Training videos.com - 0 views

www.teachertrainingvideos.com/...index.html

writing tools teachers adult_learners VSL tutorials

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Jan 11
     
    Microsoft Word 2007 Tutorials include all the basics and many of the more complex features.
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Think Technology: Graphic Organizers - 0 views

www.thinkport.org/...template.tp

writing online-lessons young-learners adult-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Nov 13 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Nov 13
     
    "We offer a collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves. We offer three different formats for your convenience:" in html, pdf, Ms Word. Nice downloadables to brainstorm various types of writing activities.
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A Quick Look at Google's New Add-Ons for Documents - Ed Techsploration - 0 views

www.edtechsplore.com/-quick-look-for-educators.html

Google-Docs tools VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Aug 15
     
    Google is offering Add-ons that will make this online tool more comparable to the features of MS Word or Excel. For example, use Gliffy for charts and diagrams, Track Changes in four colors (without resort to the font formatting toolbar), grammar check, and use templates and bibliography styles. This article highlights and describes some of the apps.
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YouTube - APA Format Citations-Sixth (6th) Edition - 0 views

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writing APA academic adult_learners teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Apr 11 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Apr 11
     
    Although this short video spends a lot of time on formatting, it is helpful, esp. for students just starting to use a computer, MS Word, or APA conventions in academic papers.
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The Easiest Way to Provide Effective Feedback - 4 views

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writing teaching_writing adult-learners young-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Oct 20
     
    "Mote works through a Chrome extension that makes it easy for teachers to leave students voice-recorded feedback in Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Classroom. Students don't need the Mote extension or even an account to listen to recorded feedback. It's a real time-saver and a great way to provide effective feedback. " While Nick is right that voice annotation may be a good way to explain you thoughts on student writing, I think that MS Word has a voice annotation feature. And the written notes to students are still important if for nothing else than a reminder as the student re-writes. Mote requires uploading a document to Google Docs first, though that is no big deal. Worth a try, and Nick explains clearly how to run through the whole process.
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Office 365 Education delivers the next wave of innovation - 0 views

www.microsoft.com/...ive-and-collaborative-learning

MS-Word MS-Office One-Note writing PowerPoint VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Apr 19
     
    "Today's updates to Office 365 Education include enabling students to write a paper using only their voice, thanks to Dictation in Office, the latest feature to join Microsoft Learning Tools, as well as improved access to assignments and class collaboration with the Microsoft Teams iPhone and Android apps. What's more, we are delivering on the number one most requested feature from teachers, page locking in OneNote Class Notebook-allowing teachers to provide students with read-only access-and we will further help teachers save time through assignment and grade integrations with leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS), including Capita SIMS in the U.K. Office 365 Education gives teachers and students the power to unlock limitless learning. And best of all, it's free for teachers and students." Update on new features (2019), including dictation to Office apps.
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