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R. Byrne: "Wikispaces recently added a Quizlet widget to the library of widgets that you can embed into your Wikispaces pages. Quizlet is a free flashcard service that anyone can use to create and share flashcards. Quizlet offers a massive library of flashcard sets created and shared by other users of the service. And now you can search for Quizlet flashcards, embed them into your wiki, and use four different study modes while those cards are embedded into your wiki. The screenshots below provide directions for adding Quizlet to your Wikispaces wiki." Quizlet can handle various types of media, so it makes for interesting flashcards. This step-by-step visual explanation makes the embedding task easy; creating the flashcards at Quizlet takes some work and thought.

A presentation for the 25th Anniversary of CALL IS Colloquium\nTESOL Denver, March 26, 2009, by Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, a Past Chair of the CALL Interest Section.\n\nThis wiki: \n\nFor the full text of these remarks, see\n\n\nReferences:\n

A place to share educational uses of wikis. Good examples: "The educational wikis on this page are listed in alphabetical order. They are awesome and we invite you to add your educational wiki to our list! You may also add the name of your country and a mini flag. Thank you! You may view visitor statistics here."

This is a magic place where students can add to a drawing and write about it. One additional activity might be to explore some of the cultural assumptions expressed in the drawings. You will probably need Google Chrome to use all the parts of this wonderful creative site. See also http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Art%2C+Craft+%26+Design for similar creative art sites. Thanks to Martin Burrett at Diigo in Education.

Simultaneous real-time collaborative writing tool. Here is a list of ways teachers have suggested using the tool with ELLs. http://worldlanguagelab.wikispaces.com/EtherPad Am trying this tool out with a group of Russian English teachers this week and will see what new ideas come out of it.

Thanx, Michael--you can add a comment right here to the bookmark! --Elizabeth

"Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what." A most interesting site that tells us what the learner needs to know. [Thanks to Bee.]

This blog page describes two cartoon software sites for students to use in creating animated stories. Good for writing and thinking processes. GoAnimate is for middle school- high school students (ages 11-17) and DomoAnimate is for young students.

wiki for the AALPD discussion

This is a good article about how to use rubrics appropriately. It suggests that you not use the Bloom taxonomy in rubrics just as a checklist, but to ensure rigor and relevance. A good resource.

This is a wiki to help educators become knowledgeable with curriculum issues, pedagogy, and technology. Ceck out the sidebar for such topics as "21st century skills," "assessment," and "activities, projects," "technology," etc. You can join the wiki and help contribute.

A lengthy paper by A.Churches on using tools to facilitate the various levels of Bloom's taxonomy/

Using tools that are appropriate for the task is one theme of this blog post, but it is also a good explanation of SAMR and how to "walk up" to teaching beyond repetition and substitution. Uses an American history lesson as an example

"This Twitter Wiki has been designed with the needs of individual teachers in mind and can be used in a number of ways: * ...present all or part of this ... to staff * ... powerpoint document can be saved and used at any time * ... individual learning ... " Professional development--how do you use Twitter for educational purposes?

Reflections by Carla Arena on using Twitter (for over a year), including videos, links, etc.

""A glog is like a poster, only better. A glog is an online poster that allows students to add images, video files, sound files, text, and hyperlinks. Glogs address multiple learning styles and easily incorporate student research and educational content into a web publication. They are free, use no ink, and are fun!"Jan McGeeWhy Glog? - How about Glogster EDUfor a starter?! Glogster developers, much like VoiceThread, have made a commitment to provide teachers and their students with a tool for 21st century teaching and learning."

Slideshow on 100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education

"This wiki is a collaborative learning space. If you want to contribute to this e-portfolio or digital portfolio page, please join the wiki and then add your thoughts, your notes or describe how you created digital portfolios for your students." This wiki has everything about wikis and much more: using blogs, words clouds, comics, Vacebook HTML, online collaboration, etc., etc. Join and contribute

ongoing student work/collaborations: This wiki contains resources for educators interested in podcasting and language learning and teaching. Although the primary focus is on English Language Teaching (EFL & ESL), it also applies to (and contains examples of) podcasting and MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) teaching and learning.

ongoing student work/collaborations