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ClassroomQ: A Better Way to Ask and Manage Questions - Nick's Picks For Educational Tec... - 2 views

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classroom-management tools adult-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 28 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Teachers see an ordered list of student requests along with any optional comments that students may have provided. Simply clicking on a student’s name removes them from the list. A Better Workflow ClassroomQ can play an important role in the workflow of the student-centered classroom. Students requesting help no longer have to sit with their hands up, doing nothing for extended periods of time. Teachers can give their full attention to the student(s) they are working with, knowing that other students have been acknowledged. ClassroomQ Accounts Free accounts are limited to a maximum of five students in the queue at one time (which should be plenty for most classrooms). Paid accounts ($19.99/yr.) are unlimited and also offer the ability to view who has checked in to a class along, and the option to download data from each class session. Copyright secured by DigiproveSome Rights ReservedOriginal content here is published under these license terms: X License Type:Non-commercial, Attribution, Share AlikeLicense Summary:You may copy this content, create derivative work from it, and re-publish it for non-commercial purposes, provided you include an overt attribution to the author(s) and the re-publication must itself be under the terms of this license or similar.License URL:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/Don't Miss a Pick - Follow Us http://edtechpicks.org/wp-content/plugins/social-media-feather/synved-social
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 28 Jan 19
     
    "The ease of use and simplicity of design are what really make ClassroomQ stand out. After creating an account, teachers can start a class session with one click. "Students join the session by going to classroomq.com/students, enter their teacher's name and class code. They can then ask for assistance and will be added to the teacher's queue with the push of a button. They can also see how many students are ahead of them at any time."ClassroomQ Assistance Button "Teachers see an ordered list of student requests along with any optional comments that students may have provided. Simply clicking on a student's name removes them from the list." Looks like a cool solution -- but wouldn't working in groups be a help? T/h to Nick LaFave
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Student-Centered Class - 1 views

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curriculum project-based evaluation assessment presentations student-centered pedagogy adult-learners young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Nov 13
     
    "Today the lecture system is the preferred teaching style used by 89% of science professors. Indeed, lecture is a comfortable format for many instructors and a non-threatening one for students. It is low cost, easy to control, and an excellent method for organizing course content. However, many of us are becoming more aware that during lecture students are not actively engaged with the topic, they don�t seem to listen for very long, and their retention of concepts is minimal. Studies show that students are not attentive 40% of the time they are in class and that although attention is high for the first 15 minutes, it declines rapidly until the final 10 minutes of class. " K. Timberlake makes a good case for student-centered strategies, such as group work, and mini-lectures, peer presentations, and formative assessment.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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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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The College Transition Guide for ESL Students - 1 views

www.affordablecollegesonline.org/...nsition-guide-for-esl-students

academic student-exchanges international-students VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Mar 18
     
    "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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Why Teach with Project-Based Learning?: Providing Students With a Well-Rounded Classroo... - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/project-learning-introduction

project-based content-based young_learners adult_learners teachers pedagogy VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 25 Jul 12
     
    "Project learning, also known as project-based learning, is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups. Because project-based learning is filled with active and engaged learning, it inspires students to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they're studying. Research also indicates that students are more likely to retain the knowledge gained through this approach far more readily than through traditional textbook-centered learning. In addition, students develop confidence and self-direction as they move through both team-based and independent work."
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How to Create Nonreaders - 1 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...nonreaders.htm

pedagogy student-centered young-learners adult-learners motivation VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Nov 13
     
    A. Kohn: "it's not really possible to motivate anyone, except perhaps yourself. If you have enough power, sure, you can make people, including students, do things. That's what rewards (e.g., grades) and punishments (e.g., grades) are for. But you can't make them do those things well....The more you rely on coercion and extrinsic inducements, as a matter of fact, the less interest students are likely to have in whatever they were induced to do. "What a teacher can do - all a teacher can do - is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with: to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people. Motivation - at least intrinsic motivation -- is something to be supported, or if necessary revived. It's not something we can instill in students by acting on them in a certain way. You can tap their motivation, in other words, but you can't 'motivate them.'" Another take on the idea of motivation -- it's easier to kill than to foster. Kohn gives some good advice on how to create NON-readers, and then some ways to get around the traditional approaches to teaching and learning that dominate the field of education.
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Learning Never Stops: CK-12.Org - An online learning environment for teachers and students - 0 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...line-learning-environment.html

content-based project-based CMS LMS tools archiving VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Mar 13
     
    "CK-12.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to education. Their website offers a large collection of resources for students and teachers like Brain Genie which I previously shared. The bulk of their resources are math and science centered where students can learn about chemistry, physics, algebra, and geometry just to name four. They also offer resources for other content areas as well including history, English, and SAT prep. Their website is free to join and offers a wealth of learning resources and activities. Their site offers articles, quizzes, interactive lessons, videos and students can keep track of their learning as they complete lessons and activities and members can upload their own resources to the site as well. " This looks like a good attempt to crowd-source materials for K-12 in the U.S. Could have uses for ESL/EFL, particularly with content- and project-based learning.
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Preparing Students For Tests: Have Students Generate Questions - 5 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...preparing-students-for-tests

teachers teacher-training video pedagogy VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Jul 12
     
    The TeachingChannel has some beautiful, professionally edited videos on how to teach different things (not specific to ESL/EFL) - the techniques are what is important. Each video has discussions by the teacher, classroom shots showing the students at work, and excellent Lesson Objective and Questions to Consider in the sidebar. Very valuable for teaching training in techniques, classroom management, and ways to approach subject matter in a student-centered approach. These would all be very adaptable to ESL/EFL environments.
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Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction - 0 views

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pedagogy teachers VSL

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  • http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring81/yang81.htm Preparing Instructors for Quality Online Instruction Yi Yang Ph.D. Candidate Department of Instructional Systems, Leadership, and Workforce Development Mississippi State University yy47@colled.msstate.edu Linda F. Cornelious, Ph.D. Professor Department of Instructional Systems, Leadership, and Workforce Development Mississippi State University lcornelious@colled.msstate.edu Abstract With a growing number of courses offered online and degrees offered through the Internet, there is a considerable interest in online education, particularly as it relates to the quality of online instruction. The major concerns are centering on the following questions: What will be the new role for instructors in online education? How will students' learning outcomes be assured and improved in online learning environment? How will effective communication and interaction be established with students in the absence of face-to-face instruction? How will instructors motivate students to learn in the online learning environment? This paper will examine new challenges and barriers for online instructors, highlight major themes prevalent in the literature related to “quality control or assurance” in online education, and provide practical strategies for instructors to design and deliver effective online instruction. Recommendations will be made on how to prepare instructors for quality online instruction.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12
     
    What is the new role for instructions in online learning environments? How will students communicate and interact? How will students be motivated? We are still wrestling with these questions.
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http://www.champlain.edu/Documents/cip/studentcentered.pdf - 0 views

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pedagogy student-centered assessment adult-learners young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Nov 13
     
    This article (pdf file) considers three styles of motivation: goal-, relationship, and learning-oriented. It then offers strategies for engaging students in their own education. Includes a nice table comparing teaching-centered vs learning-centered classrooms.
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HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY GAMES FOR LITERACY CENTERS - TeachersPayTeachers.com - 5 views

www.teacherspayteachers.com/...es-for-Literacy-Centers-921030

games vocabulary literacy reading flashcards young-learners very-young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Nov 13
     
    "Students will practice syllabification, reading, storytelling, and vocabulary when playing these games! This product contains directions and material for four different types of games to use during literacy centers: clapping out the syllables, vocabulary battle game, vocabulary flashcards, and storytelling. The games focus on the daily five activities pertaining to word work and writing. Each game would last 30 minutes."
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Nov 13
     
    "Students will practice syllabification, reading, storytelling, and vocabulary when playing these games! This product contains directions and material for four different types of games to use during literacy centers: clapping out the syllables, vocabulary battle game, vocabulary flashcards, and storytelling. The games focus on the daily five activities pertaining to word work and writing. Each game would last 30 minutes."
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Welcome to Writing@CSU - 7 views

writing.colostate.edu

writing online_lessons adult_learners academic teachers VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 17 Mar 10
     
    "Use this site to write, learn to write, take writing classes, learn about our campus writing center, and access resources for writing teachers. ToolsLearn to Write. View our extensive collection of instructional resources for writers, including writing guides, writing activities, and writing links. FeedbackGet Feedback on Your Writing. Learn how you can get help and feedback on your writing. SitesVisit Related Sites. Visit other Web sites that support the teaching and learning of writing. ToolsWork on Your Writing. Learn how the Writing Studio's tools - blogs, wikis, ePortfolios, bibliography, among others - can help you work on a writing project. ClassesView Your Writing Studio Classes. More than 5,000 classes have been created to support writers. Is your school using the Studio? TeachingTeach Writing. Learn how the Writing Studio and our other teaching resources can help you and your students. Writing CenterVisit CSU's Campus Writing Center. Visit our campus writing center, located in beautiful Eddy Hall, Room 6 (in the basement along the north side of the building). Our writing consultants will provide feedback on your drafts and help you with your writing and research strategies."
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Use of voice & Skype for LL - 0 views

www.oberlin.edu/...language.html

mobile_tech multimedia CALL_Environments Skype listening speaking pedagogy teachers teacher-training VSL

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  • 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.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12
     
    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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Free Technology for Teachers: Close Reading Strategies, Rubrics, and Sample Assessments... - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...ng-strategies-rubrics-and.html

history tools content-based ESP adult-learners young-learners rubrics VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Aug 14
     
    "The UMBC Assessment Resource Center for History offers sample assessments based on readings from six eras in U.S. history. The assessments include multiple choice question and performance tasks based on close reading exercises. The performance task assessments include scoring rubrics, sample responses from students, and the documents that students need in order to complete the performance tasks." T/H R. Byrne
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ARTSEDGE: Rhythm & Improv, Jazz & Poetry - 2 views

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music jazz content-based poetry online_lessons writing literature teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Sep 12 - Cached
  • The musicality of words is an important element of poetry, and many poets carefully consider the sound of the words on the page. Students will listen to and analyze jazz music, specifically considering sound, rhythm, and improvisation. Students will identify jazz characteristics in poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, and Langston Hughes, and will incorporate these elements in their own original poetry.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Sep 12
     
    Online lessons for students 9-12 using jazz to learn poetic concepts
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JST VIRTUAL SCIENCE CENTER - 0 views

jvsc.jst.go.jp/english.php

video online-lessons JST ESP science young-learners very-young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Nov 13
     
    The Japan Virtual Science Center has Webby Award winning science videos and trials where students can experience phenomena. A great place to support ESP learning and STEMs in your classroom. Some videos are animations for younger learners.
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W&M School of Education - Effective Teaching Practices for Students in Inclus... - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 30 Nov 13
     
    This is a good, very short article on how to co-teach with learners with disabilities. But the advice is good on creating groups and managing your classroom, regardless of whether you have students with disabilites. Article by S. Land.
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Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning - 4 views

clear.msu.edu/...ria

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Feb 13
     
    "The goal of the Rich Internet Applications project is to create tools that are informed by language acquisition research, and engage language learners in active learning. "Using our Rich Internet Applications toolset, incorporating speaking and listening into your language class is easier and more flexible than ever! The tools can be used in many different ways: for in-class activities, student projects, homework, or assessment. Because they are tools, not completed materials, they will work with your textbook, language, and level. RIA is a way to help you easily integrate technology into your language class. "The programs are free to use. The project is funded by a US Department of Education grant, and managed by the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University." These applications run in your browser and require only Flash player. Well worth exploring and free.
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PresentationTube: Record PowerPoint Presentations - 2 views

presentationtube.com

adult-learners young-learners tools PowerPoint presentations VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 03 Feb 15
     
    "PresentationTube is a free service that teachers can add narration to their PowerPoint presentations. In addition to adding narration to your slides, PresentationTube can be used to add whiteboard drawings, webcam images, and webpages to your presentations. Completed presentations are displayed with a slide in the center of the screen and the slide navigator to the right. The slide navigator allows you to skip forward or backward in presentations with the narration in sync." Seems to be rather more sophisticated than PowerPoint alone, and might be very useful for ESL students since they can control the slide they see. T/H to R. Byrne.
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How to Make an Infographic: Free Visual E-Book for Beginners | Visual Learning Center b... - 5 views

blog.visme.co/how-to-make-an-infographic

data infographics adult-learners digital-literacy VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Apr 17
     
    Download the free book, or follow the 10-step synopsis provided in this article. We are awash in a sea of information; help your students figure out how to use data. Rec by Nick Peachy.
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