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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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TESOL 2011 | Nigel "Teacher" Caplan - 5 views

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    "The grammar blog is a weekly assignment I use in my high-advanced reading/writing classes for pre-matriculation international graduate students.... Each student chooses a grammar error or interesting/confusing sentence to focus on each week. Students read their classmates' posts and give feedback, and then I answer any remaining questions. The grammar blog is a motivating, student-driven, focus-on-form activity that engages students in important questions of syntax (grammar), semantics (meaning), lexis (vocabulary), and register."
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The College Transition Guide for ESL Students - 1 views

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    "Roughly 4.6 million English language learners attended U.S. public schools in 2014-15 and, while many of these students have the English skills needed for everyday life, some lack the language proficiency to get into college. Or they may have misconceptions about college so aren't even thinking about going. But many of these students have the drive and ability to do well in higher education - they just need the right information, support, and tools to get there. ESL/ELL students can find those resources in this guide. Read on to learn more."
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http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/print_display.php?id=617382 - 1 views

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    How to get students to focus when technology is all too distracting: "A tech break starts with the teacher asking all students to check their texts, the Web, Facebook, whatever, for a minute and then turn the device on silent and place it upside down on the desk in plain sight and "focus" on classroom work for 15 minutes. The upside down device prohibits external distractions from vibrations and flashing alerts and provides a signal to the brain that there is no need to be internally distracted since an opportunity to "check in" will be coming soon. "At the end of the 15-minute focus time the teacher declares a tech break and students take another minute to check in with their virtual worlds followed by more focus times and more tech breaks. The trick is to gradually lengthen the time between tech breaks to teach students how to focus for longer periods of time. I have teachers using this in classrooms, parents using it at the dinner table or at a restaurant, and bosses using tech breaks during meetings with great success. So far, though, the best we can get is about 30 minutes of focus thanks to Steve Jobs for making such alluring, distracting technologies."
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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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Effective Peer Feedback Through Modeling: Part 1 | TESOL Blog - 0 views

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    "Peer review has long been regarded as beneficial practice in the teaching of writing. In North American educational settings, learners are often asked to provide feedback on each other's papers. However, when international students come to study either in intensive English programs or in institutions of higher education, they may encounter difficulties during peer review activities because many of them never had experiences with this kind of practice. As a result, students tend to give each other broad, irrelevant, essentially unhelpful comments." This blog post offers help in training students for giving good feedback.
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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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IXL - Common Core high school math standards - 0 views

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    This site would be useful for international teachers as well as U.S. teachers who work with the Common Core standards. .Each standard is listed with sample activities that students can do to show proficiency in each standard. Content-based.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Hi - Narrative Mapping of the World - 0 views

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    R Byrn's refers to Hi as a mapping service with social network. User geo-locate pictures with short "sketches" or even longer posts about the location. Students in international online classes could use this mapping app in creative ways to introduce themselves or create an online geography project.
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Nik's Daily English Activities: Write a Blues Song in English - 4 views

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    This site, The Blues Maker, as described by Nik Peachey, lets the user create his/her own blues tune, and as Nik points out, is an excellent way to improve listening skills, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The 10 steps are an excellent project to help students begin to learn more about this type of American (and now international) music.
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Engaging Lower Primary Students through Web 2.0 Tools | IATEFL Harrogate Online 2010 - 2 views

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    "In this talk, the presenters, Ozge Karaoglu and Shelly Terrell, will explore the various possibilities of Web 2.0 tools, such as Voicethread, Glogster, Voki, and digital storytelling tools, to engage young language learners. Educators will learn how to effectively collaborate on international classroom projects as the presenters demonstrate the ways their Turkey and Germany lower primary classes connected." Be sure to also check out the site with kids resources: Technology for Kids Website:
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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: "On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction."
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Welcome to De Orilla a Orilla - 1 views

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    "From Shore to Shore, or "De Orilla a Orilla" (in Spanish), is an international teacher-researcher project that has focused on documenting promising classroom practices for intercultural learning over global learning networks. Since 1985, Orillas has employed modern telecommunications to promote and extend an educational networking model first developed by the French educators Cèlestin and Elise Freinet in 1924. Use the menu bar on the left to find out more about De Orilla a Orilla history and projects, get to know some of the teachers and students involved in the network, and join a project if you are interested."
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Edublogs - teacher and student blogs - 0 views

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    This is a great place to have your students blog. You can also supervise their blogs through Edublogs interface. It's free, and many good teachers worldwide are already using it.
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IRRODL: Elements of Effective e-Learning Design - 1 views

  • International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (March - 2005) ISSN: 1492-3831 Andrew R. Brown Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia Bradley D. Voltz St Joseph's Nudgee College Brisbane, Australia Elements of Effective e-Learning Design Abstract Preparing and developing e-learning materials is a costly and time consuming enterprise. This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. We introduce six elements of design and discuss each in some detail. These elements focus on paying attention to the provision of a rich learning activity, situating this activity within an interesting story line, providing meaningful opportunities for student reflection and third party criticism, considering appropriate technologies for delivery, ensuring that the design is suitable for the context in which it will be used, and bearing in mind the personal, social, and environmental impact of the designed activities. Along the way, we describe how these design elements can be effectively utilized by contextualizing them with examples from an e-learning initiative. Keywords: e-learning, educational design, learning resource development
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