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What makes Argentineans special? | People of the world - 3 views

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    This is one of a long series of "pocket culture" snapshots of peoples of the world. This site would be great for students, both for learning about other cultures, and for participating in a project about their own region. Places and topics are listed, as well as blogs about culture.
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CAE 2005: August 2005 - 0 views

  • Monday, August 22, 2005 Hello! First of all, thank you very much Buth for listening and aswering all our quetions even though they may not have been for you of an easy issue to talk about. As I couldn't attend the first session, it was my first skype's experience, and I must say that I really enjoyed it. (I have to admit that I was a little bit shy at first). I was really amazed at the many cultural differences between our countries even though I already knew they were really different. It happens that many times we see things about our culture as something so common to us that we can't think of them in a different way or it's difficult for us to imagine people living without them. I believe that the good thing about it, it's trying to get to know another ways of livng and respect them, even they aren't exactly like ours. posted by Laura at 7:28 PM
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    A communal blog on the topic "Freedom & Future Dreams in Different Cultures" "Rita Zeinstejer" View Contact Details View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert To: "Barbara Dieu" , Send an Instant Message "Dafne"
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Free Technology for Teachers: Find Primary Sources from All Over the World on the World... - 0 views

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    "The World Digital Library hosts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. " This looks like a fabulous resource and it is map driven, with content described in seven languages.
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LLT 10(1) Digital Dante - 0 views

  • Great works continue to draw new specialists into the field and serve to bring the history of a language, its people, and their culture to life. Literary works serve as examples of the power and beauty of language at its best. Helping to make such texts more accessible to learners, the Web can make use of hypertext and multimedia to provide context that is so often lacking for those without the general background knowledge that a good reader is assumed to possess.
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    Review of Digital Dante Website. "Great works continue to draw new specialists into the field and serve to bring the history of a language, its people, and their culture to life. Literary works serve as examples of the power and beauty of language at its best. Helping to make such texts more accessible to learners, the Web can make use of hypertext and multimedia to provide context that is so often lacking for those without the general background knowledge that a good reader is assumed to possess. "
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40 iPad Apps For Language Learners - 0 views

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    While these are mostly translation tools, there are a number of interesting apps on culture as well: French and Italian cuisine, world customs and cultures in gestures and pesonal space, flash cards and tutoring, and "addictive gaming."
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How To Build A Culture Of Learning - 0 views

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    The teacher uses questions and activities to build a "Culture of Learning" that empowers students to ask questions, not just fulfill a task. Video of real classes with sidebar food for thought. From the Teaching Channel.
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absolutely intercultural 136 +++ storytelling +++ grammar of culture +++ Herrasti +++ O... - 1 views

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    "Welcome to the first ever intercultural podcast. 'absolutely intercultural!' is its name and, as far as we know, this is the first podcast in the world to deal with intercultural issues. We'll be releasing a new episode every second Friday evening, looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For example, we'll be hearing from students on foreign work placements, asking how teachers can make use of intercultural exercises and simulations in their classroom and sharing with you any intercultural gossip we come across. 'absolutely intercultural!' won't be so much about passing on information but more about starting an intercultural dialogue between the makers, and you, the contributors and listeners." Award-winning podcast/blog by Anne Fox. Really professionally produced and great for professional development. A placed to find ways to intrigue your students with cross-cultural activities and stories.
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BBC videos on British language and culture - 5 views

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    So far there are 20 videos concerning British language and culture. Looks like it would have high appeal to secondary students and mor advanced learners.
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CALL IS Virtual Software List - 47 views

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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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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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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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4 surprising lessons about education from data collected around the world | TED Blog - 3 views

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    In this TED talk, Andreas Schleicher describes a new scale, "PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment), an initiative of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). PISA not only tests students on their mathematical understanding, reading level and ability to apply learning to new problems, but also looks at what teachers get paid, how long the school day is, what the average class size is and whether quality of education is uniform across schools and social stratifications. It even measures cultural attitudes, like whether people in the country expect all students to achieve or only a small segment of them to. It's this broad approach to data collection that makes PISA so powerful, says Schleicher." An interesting way for a country to compare where it is and how it compares globally.
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Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog: Video: The Benefits of Blogging! - 0 views

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    How a classroom blog with 2-3rd grades (ages7-9) can "flatten" the classroom walls. The teacher starts by teaching how to write a quality blog. The video includes comments in a video made by the students themselves. (Very cute.) Students also learned about Internet safety practices. Learning goes on well beyond the class hours and the local culture. Students also Skype with students in other countries.
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RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - YouTube - 2 views

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    How do we educate our children to meet the needs of the new economies of the 21st century, and retain local cultures while recognizing globalization? The current system of public education was conceived and designed for the 19th century period of industrialization with the social and economic imperatives of the Enlightenment: academic vs non-academic views of the mind. The result is kids being medicated to sit still in school while besieged with the information overload of the digital age. How do we allow divergent thinking and creativity?
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Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids - 2 views

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    Free audio stories/audiobooks for kids. Usually features a holiday-related story on the frontpage, but includes classic English fairytales like Snow White and The Three Little Pigs. Not specifically ESL/EFL, but looks very useful for listening and culture activities.\n--EHS
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eTwinning - Homepage - 1 views

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    The place where schools in Europe can create community bonds in school-to-school and class-to-class projects, encompassing many subjects, including culture, current events, languages, and literature. If you are in Europe, don't miss these exciting projects.
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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 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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Free Technology for Teachers: 18 Google Earth & Maps Lessons for K-12 - 0 views

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    Great links for using Google Earth for science classes, as well as for English/Language Arts (see "Lit Trips"), math, culture and history, etc. Pre-made lessons. Also links to "How to create Placemarks and Tours," "To Geography and Beyond," etc.
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