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History Journeys: American History Resource - The Denver Post Photo Blog - 0 views

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    A social studies teacher shares American history images. May prove useful for content-based projects and the study of American culture. "American History Resource - The Denver Post Photo Blog "As a social studies teacher I am always looking for new resources to to bring into the classroom. We can no longer rely on notes and a text book as our primary learning tools. The internet has provided teachers with new resources and new opportunities to change the way history is taught and learned. Every month I come across new sources of photographs, documents, and videos that help to enhance the learning experience. One of my favorite recent discoveries has been the The Denver Post photo blog, or Plog as it is called. The Plog is a terrific resource of photographs and information about a wide variety of historical topics which I have covered here, here, and here in my other blog. From the Statue of Liberty, to the inauguration,then the Great Depression, and the Berlin Wall, the Denver Post's Photo Blog is one resource that I highly recommend you explore."
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Learning Never Stops: American Centuries - Interactive Online Museum - 1 views

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    "The Memorial Hall Museum in Deefield, Massachusetts has an tremendously engaging website with a wide variety of interactive exhibits for teachers and students. You can watch colonial tools being used or use the sites "magic lens" and read historical documents. The site has exhibits on colonial clothing and objects and there is a section dedicated to kids activities. The site has sections dedicated to the Civil War, Shay's Rebellion, African American history, and so much more. The Memorial Hall Museum's online exhibits are a great resource for students, teachers, and anyone studying American history."
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This American Life Goes to School | The Spicy Learning Blog - 0 views

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    A collection of stories in podcasts from the NPR show, "This American Life," that relate to school and schooling. Very useful listening activity for the advanced learner, and stories will include local accents and cultural insights.
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Podcast Gallery - The Best Audio and Video Podcasts - 3 views

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    This is truly the best of the best podcasts for the inquisitve mind. Includes links to TED talks, "Stuffy you missed in history class," "This American Life," and even "Wait, Wait..." for fun. Excellent for the teacher who wants to keep up, or the advanced learner who might want lots of listening practice while learning about American culture and interests.
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Mapping History - 1 views

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    Provides interactive and animated presentaions of fundamental history problems and illustrations of historical events and dynamics. Copyrighted, but open to academic users. Based at U of Oregon; includes American, European, Latin American, and African history.
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BYU CORPORA: 37-385 million words each: free online access - 0 views

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    The BYU collection includes Corpus of Contemporary American English, the TIME Corpus of American English, the British National Corpus, the OED, and Corpora in Spanish and Portuguese.
Mandy Egle

Pronuncian American English Pronunciation - 0 views

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    Pronuncian is devoted solely to American English Pronunciation, with free sound drills, lessons on sound, linking, stress, and pitch. Site also includes forums and weekly podcast. Subscribers also have access to additional listening exercises and quizzes. Teacher tools are currently in beta version and available for a reduced fee. Intermediate to Advanced students.
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    Site devoted to American English Pronunciation with free and paid content.
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Darwin | American Museum of Natural History - 0 views

  • Darwin is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the Museum of Science, Boston; The Field Museum, Chicago; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; and the Natural History Museum, London, England. The American Museum of Natural History gratefully acknowledges The Howard Phipps Foundation for its leadership support. Significant support for Darwin has also been provided by Chris and Sharon Davis, Bill and Leslie Miller, the Austin Hearst Foundation, Jack and Susan Rudin, and Rosalind P. Walter. Additional funding provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. Linda K. Jacobs, and The New York Community Trust—Wallace Special Projects Fund.
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    Discussion of the man who founded the concept of evolution.
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BBC News - 30 of your Britishisms used by Americans - 1 views

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    If you were ever asked by your students whether they should learn British or American English, you'll be happy to find that we are getting closer together. There are many more Britishisms, but these were in the news.
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American TESOL Webinars - 2 views

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    " Live TESOL webinars are presented every Friday at 4 PM EST or New York time with Shelly Terrell. TESOL Lectures are open to the public, so feel free to invite a friend. To enter a TESOL Webinar Click Here. Next, click Enter as a Guest, type your name, and click Enter Room. " Looks like a free and easy way to get online professional development live! Not part of the TESOL professional associal--this is the American TESOL Institute.
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Use of voice & Skype for LL - 0 views

  • On a Sunday morning in November, six students studying Arabicare crowded around a television set in the Paul and Edith Cooper International Learning Center (ILC), waiting for a video conference with students in Saudi Arabia to begin. The conference, which was organized by Barbara Sawhill, director of the ILC, and Wafa Hameedi, director of technology at Effat College, is just one example of the way faculty members are using technology to revolutionize the teaching of foreign languages at Oberlin. “This is just one example of how technology can create bridges between schools, cultures, countries,and languages,” Sawhill says. “It is extremely difficult for an American to travel Saudi Arabia, but technology can take us there – and once we are connected, we are able to experience an entirely different world.” Sawhill has also started using Skype, a free, voice-over IP tool that makes computer-to-computer long-distance “telephone calls,” as a way to bring additional native speakers to the students. She recently organized a conference call between Buthaina Al-Othman, a native speaker of Arabic and a professor of English as a Second Language (ESL) at Kuwait University, and the Oberlin students who are studying Arabic with Assistant Professor of French Ali Yedes, also a native speaker of Arabic.
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    Examples "of the way faculty members are using technology to revolutionize the teaching of foreign languages at Oberlin. "This is just one example of how technology can create bridges between schools, cultures, countries,and languages," Sawhill says. "It is extremely difficult for an American to travel Saudi Arabia, but technology can take us there - and once we are connected, we are able to experience an entirely different world." Sawhill has also started using Skype, a free, voice-over IP tool that makes computer-to-computer long-distance "telephone calls," as a way to bring additional native speakers to the students.
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The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools | P... - 2 views

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    "A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and high school students finds that digital technologies are impacting student writing in myriad ways and there are significant advantages from tech-based learning." An interesting study showing that teachers gave students lowest ratings on issues of fair use and copyright.
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DLIST - A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature - 0 views

  • This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature; and to identify the prevailing concerns of specialists in the field as expressed during interviews conducted between July 2004 and May 2005. Part two of the report consolidates the results of these interviews with an exploration of resources currently available. Part three examines six categories of digital work in progress: (1) quality-controlled subject gateways, (2) author studies, (3) public domain e-book collections and alternative publishing models, (4) proprietary reference resources and full-text primary source collections, (5) collections by design, and (6) teaching applications. This survey is informed by a selective review of the recent literature. Daphnée Rentfrow assisted in writing and editing the report. This 176 page report is also available from purchase for $30 from CLIR or the DLF. It is freely available in html or pdf formats from their web sites. This publication was deposited with permission of the publisher who holds copyright (Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, DC.).
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    Excellent online bibliography! DLIST is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures.
Susan Ryan

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - For ESL/EFL Students - 2 views

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    Here are all of Randall's sites for American English listening and pronunciation on one easy to use web site.
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A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS - 2 views

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    This is an exceptional experiment in teaching children about bigotry and racism. At times it is difficult to watch, but it explains a great deal about American society -- or any society where discrimination exists.
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Impact and Numbers from Uruguay's One Laptop per Child Program - 0 views

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    "Uruguay may only have 3.3 million inhabitants, but this South American country has distributed more than half a million free laptops to its students and teachers over the last five years. This achievement is one of the results of Plan Ceibal, a highly ambitious initiative inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit project, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)."
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CORPORA: 1.9 billion - 45 million words each: free online access - 7 views

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    This is a BYU-sponsored archive of a wide variety of copora. May be of use in vocabulary work. Includes a Wikipedia corpus, TIME Magazine, Google Books in American and British English, as well as Spanish.
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The power of connecting with international students | ICEF Monitor - Market intelligenc... - 0 views

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    This article contains some very good ideas for getting visiting international students comfortable with their new American setting. However, the ideas apply to many other settings, such as online cross-cultural projects.
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Using SAMR to Teach Above the Line - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad - 1:1 program, Appl... - 2 views

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    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
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Citizens in the Making: Inspiring Students to Engage in Transformative Civic Learning |... - 0 views

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    Video with 6 speakers talking about various ways to engage students in civic life. American perspective.
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