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first f2f Feb2015 - ThingLink - 3 views

www.thinglink.com/...623916819559743490

Thinglink teacher-training pedagogy tools IWB mobile-tech VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Mar 15
     
    An excellent way to use ThingLink in class/in a flipped class. This particular example is a picture of a whiteboard. Read all about it at ThingLink.
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Tech Tools by Subject and Skills - EdTechTeacher - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 18 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 18 Nov 14
     
    Though I don't usually recommend lists, this is an excellent collaboration and is at least partially organized into categories by academic subject, and in some cases types of work, e.g., publish your own writing, create books and posters, use a whiteboard, connect with other classes, etc. EdTechTeachers are a group of prominent teacher educators that consult with and train teachers on a paid basis.
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Educreations - 4 views

www.educreations.com

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Mar 20
     
    "Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser." This is a great tool for getting students talking, or for creating a lively presentation. You can upload a picture, or draw from scratch, as on a blackboard or whiteboard. Easy to use, free download, and available from the App Store for smart phone or iPad.
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Response: Ways to Cultivate 'Whole-Class Engagement' - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazz... - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 06 Dec 19 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 06 Dec 19
     
    "Of course, since we all live in the real world, it's unlikely that we will be successful in getting all our students participating -- particularly in a cognitive way -- all the time. However, there are a number of actions we can take to increase the odds of as many as our students being active learners and co-creators of what is happening in the classroom.... These techniques can include use of individual whiteboards for students to use for writing and sharing responses; not having students raise hands and, instead, having teachers call on students (especially if they are given thinking and partner-sharing time for preliminary processing); and asking students reflective questions at the end of class for use as exit slips. "It's also important to remember that the effectiveness of these kinds of techniques will always be constrained or expanded by the quality of the relationships and the culture in any classroom." T/h L Ferlazzo
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PresentationTube: Record PowerPoint Presentations - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 03 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • 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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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint and educational games.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said 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.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13
     
    Article poses question of whether technology is worth the cost in the schools. Research seems to suggest not, but the article doesn't deal with peripheral issues, such as whether the digital divide will widen.
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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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6 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Scree - Learning in Hand - 1 views

learninginhand.com/...pad-on-a-projector-screen.html

whiteboard iPad tools mobile-tech teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 27 Oct 13
     
    This article has tons of information. Just pick the way that works best for you. Towards the bottom of the screen is a charge with features and pricing (some are free - there's an app for that).
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Tools for Hosting Collaborative Brainstorming Sessions ... - 0 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...for-hosting-collaborative.html

brainstorming online-teaching tools collaboration whiteboard mobile-tech VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Jul 15
     
    "Whether it is to solve a problem, plan a project, or develop new story ideas there are plenty of occasions in the course of a school year for students to brainstorm together. I still believe that nothing beats getting together in a room to swap ideas in person, but that's not always practical or possible. For those times when in-person brainstorming sessions are not possible, the following five tools offer a good way to host brainstorming sessions online." t/h R. Byrne
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Free Online Whiteboard and Collaboration Tool - Scribblar.com - 2 views

www.scribblar.com

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 10
     
    No downloads, no user limits; only initiator needs to sign in. Can be used for online training/tutoring or brainstorming for student projects.
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7 Sources of Creative Commons Audio For Podcasts | The Whiteboard Blog - 2 views

www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/...ive-commons-audio-for-podcasts

audio project-based adult_learners podcasting listening VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Jan 11
     
    "A podcast sounds better with a bit of music in it. " This blog also has links to the Creative Commons search engine.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Thinking Blocks - Model Math Problems on iPads, Interacti... - 0 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...ks-model-math-problems-on.html

math content-based online-lessons young-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 11 Aug 14
     
    "Thinking Blocks is a nice site for elementary and middle school mathematics teachers. Thinking Blocks provides interactive templates in which students use brightly colored blocks to model and solve problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, multiplication, fractions, and ratios. You can also develop your own problems using the modeling tool." T/H to R. Byrne
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