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5 Tools That Demystify Text Complexity | Literacy in the Digital Age - 3 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Sep 15
     
    "Research supports the focus on text complexity and vocabulary. "The Baseball Study" by Recht and Leslie (1988) began by identifying the correlation between reading comprehension and student knowledge. Recht and Leslie discovered that students with low reading ability but high knowledge of baseball, outscored students with high reading ability but low knowledge of baseball on tests of comprehension. Landauer and Dumais (1997) took it a step further, finding that students acquire vocabulary up to four times faster when they read a series of related texts. Combined, these studies indicate the immense possibilities when we equip our students with the necessary vocabulary, providing them with sufficient prior knowledge before tackling reading tasks." This blog entry explores 5 terrific tools to help students, including one that makes texts simpler to help lower-level readers.
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The Top 27 Free Tools to collaborate, hold discussions, and Backchannel with Students ~... - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 26 Mar 13
     
    "With the advance of web 2.0 technologies, there emerged a wide range of educational tools that we can use with our students in and outside the classroom.Collaborative web tools is one example. Using such websites, teachers will be able to help in holding online and real-time discussions with their students, help them in their projects and assignments, guide their learning, do backchanneling, and synchronously moderate discussion threads and many more." The focus here is on tools for collaboration. Many are new and interesting, such as virtual whiteboards, searchteam to do online searches together, browse websites together, create online projects collaboratively, create your own chatroom, etc.. Some of these will be gone quickly, but they all appear quite useful. About 30 in the list.
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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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Free Technology for Teachers: Presentation.io - Use Your Phone to Control Presentations... - 0 views

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presentations mobile-tech collaboration VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 02 Dec 13
     
    "To start using Presentation.io upload a PPT or PDF to your free Presentation.io account. Presentation.io then gives you a URL to distribute to your audience. When the members of your audience open that URL they will be able to see and follow along with your presentation. When you're done with your presentation just click "stop presenting" and the synchronization stops. To use your phone as a remote just start your presentation and Presentation.io will send you a text with a link to make your phone a remote. Simply upload your presentation, click "Settings" and then "Use mobile phone as controller." "The free version of Presentation.io keeps your presentation on file for four hours before it expires. " This sounds like a great app to use at conferences. Other links in this blog mention Presefy, which also lets an audience follow your slides remotely.
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Free Technology for Teachers: MoMA Presents Five Tips for Teaching With Works of Art - 0 views

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art art-history project-based content-based adult-learners young-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 07 Aug 15
     
    R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)
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Teaching With Twitter in Higher Education | Digital Is ... - 3 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 Sep 11
     
    "In this video, made while I was Tech Liaison for the Alaska State Writing Consortium, I share some ideas about teaching with Twitter and reflect on using Twitter with both local and distance students at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "This video was created as part of an online presentation I did with, David Wicks, Seattle Pacific University, and Jason Rhode, Northern Illinois University. It was presented online for the Northwest eLearning Community January 27, 2011. We have posted more materials and links to additional videos at their Google site: Twitter in Edu." From Jacquie Cyrus, Guam.
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MERLOT Grapevine - 0 views

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CoP MERLOT teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • MERLOT and TLT Group partner to deliver two faculty development programs 1. Group Webcast – MERLOT: Teaching with Technology In April of 2006, MERLOT and the TLT (Teaching, Learning and Technology) Group will offer the three week, online, participatory workshop, MERLOT: Teaching with Technology. The workshop will focus on how the MERLOT collection and services provide faculty with valuable resources in the design, delivery, and assessment of courses offered face-to-face, entirely online, or in a blended (hybrid) format. The workshop is one of many planned activities in which MERLOT and its partner TLT are cooperating. The first of the three part series begins April 5th and runs from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST. Other session are April 12th and April 19th. Ray Purdom, Editor of MERLOT’s Teaching and Technology discipline, will coordinate the series and conduct the workshops with members of the TLT Board and other MERLOT discipline boards. For more information and to register visit http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm. For information regarding other TLT events click on http://www.tltgroup.org/Events/EventsCalendar/Chronological%20View.htm 2. TLT Group Presents On-Line Events The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (http://www.tltgroup.org/) strives to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with continual change. For a list of scheduled events, go to http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/Schedule.htm.
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    MERLOT has Webcast conferences and online journal now. This very useful resource is sponsored by the California State University consortium, and also has a Second Life venue.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Ways to Digitally Celebrate Your Students' Year - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...-digitally-celebrate-your.html

creativity evaluation assessent tools young-learners adult-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 29 May 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 May 13
     
    Make a video with one of the 3 editors suggested; create a collage importing pictures from your device; create a slideshow with Google Drive; use Silk to create a portfolio that includes docs, video, graphics, and links; invite relatives to virutally attend a graduation ceremony with Skype or Google+. The blog also mentions several other tools for creation and collaboration.
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Common Core and Educational Technology: Hello Slide! Alternative to boring slide shows ... - 0 views

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digital-images storytelling presentations tools young-learners very-young-learners video pedagogy teacher-training VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 21 Apr 13
     
    Explanatory video and description of how students use slideshows/presentations to "go deep": "a very simple tool, with a low 'barrier' to entry (e.g., easy to train students to use), and with a very significant outcome for students - a rich, well, designed presentation with deep written information. Kids will find it 'cool' to have the computer 'speak' their words, so that's a nice hook too."
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http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/print_display.php?id=617382 - 1 views

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pedagogy research young-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 24 Jun 13
     
    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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Teacher Training Videos | Blogging lecture | Lecture Series - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Apr 16
     
    R. Stannard on blogging and what to do with it. You may be surprised at some of the things you can do with blogs, even though it may be considered an "old" technology. As a writing tool, blog entries are extremely useful and can even be used as a record of revisioins of an essay. You can also create a community of joint writing with multiple authors. The search function is more powerful than a website, and it can hold all sorts of media.
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4 Tools to Teach About Climate Change | graphite Blog - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 10 Jul 16
     
    "As part of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), students need to "ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century." Many teachers have little to no formal training on how to teach about climate change. Along with the ever-changing research and the controversy that comes with it, some teachers inevitably shy away or even prevent students from digging deep into the content. Some suggest that teachers might be getting climate change all wrong. Since teachers can't rely on books to stay current with all the new research, digital resources are the only effective way to stay on top of such a dynamic field. Consider these practices when using technology to teach about climate change:" Sites include NASA Global Climate Change, Climate Kids for younger learners, Global Oneness Project, and Earth-Now to analyze realtime data.
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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 1 views

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    "Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. " Really simple, easy to use. Create from a URL or type/paste in text. Can be a useful way for students to think about important new vocabulary they are learning, the meaning of a book or essay they have read, etc.
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digitalcommunication1: Voicethread: Physical Characteristics - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 19 Feb 12
     
    Wiki ,with link to other activities and blog by Dani Lyra, has ideas for lessons with young learners using a variety of online tools. Great for ideas, with RLOs. This particular page shows how to use VoiceThread to discuss differences in people.
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@Ignatia Webs: Designing #mLearning for people with #disabilities or learning difficulties - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Sep 12
     
    Ignatia suggests using a private wiki because of text-to-speech options, and secure social media-driven learning locations, such as a movie archive on Facebook. Subtitle options may be difficult with, e.g., YouTube, if you have an accent, but it can be done with an audio recorder (though it is labor intensive). This might be a good blog to follow further.
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The BBC Learning Experience | Learnist - 5 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 20 Jul 12
     
    "As one of the largest producers and owners of educational content in the world, the BBC has created a global classroom for teachers, students, and passionate life-long learners. " This is really an eye-catching site with wonderful resources from the BBC laid out with visual links. Too many different ideas to even begin to catalog them. Give it a try. Learnist, the host site, is like Facebook but with a more serious leaning (almost wrote "learning" there...)
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8 ways to use Learnist, a Pinterest-like education site | Education Dive - 4 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 20 Jul 12
     
    "8 ways to use Learnist, a Pinterest-like education sit By Lindsey Smith Learnist bears a striking similarity to Pinterest by way of Wikipedia, and the busy knowledge-sharing site is bursting at the seams with content. "Want to know how to write objectively, use Photoshop, or experiment with the "flipped classroom"? Now you can with Learnist boards. Experts create pages or "boards," which serve as informative or instructional layouts where external sources are used to support any given topic. "Education Dive compiled a list of 8 ways that education-focused Learnist boards present trends, tips, and resources to help you learn and eventually share what you know:" This is an informative list that shows how to use a technology in ways that can expand the mind to other applications/format. Good links!
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Tom's ESL closet: Weblog portfolios in an intensive English program - 4 views

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      A good definition of e-portfolios.
  • The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. Traditional portfolios were glossy notebooks full of typed papers, some with cover pages, that people would thumb through at our end-of-term exhibits; they would then often go home with the student, to be buried at the bottom of some drawer somewhere, having very little practical influence in terms of what the papers said, or in terms of their influence on the presumed audience of English speakers in the community.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Aug 12
     
    "The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. Traditional portfolios were glossy notebooks full of typed papers, some with cover pages, that people would thumb through at our end-of-term exhibits; they would then often go home with the student, to be buried at the bottom of some drawer somewhere, having very little practical influence in terms of what the papers said, or in terms of their influence on the presumed audience of English speakers in the community."
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Animations for PowerPoint | PowerPoint Presentation - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 12 Feb 12
     
    Free PowerPoint templates to make your own animated slides. "There are many transitions that you can also make in your own PowerPoint presentation but starting with an animated PowerPoint template lets you avoid spending so much time creating the animated templates from scratch." In PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 there are many already defined animated effects that you can use. For example, you may choose to use cool animations for PowerPoint like Cover effects, Blinds effect, Shape Diamond effect, Wheel effect and even more. Usually you start with your PowerPoint presentation file with no effects. Once you start building your slides you can add new effects to the slide transitions. When playing the presentation then your audience will see a transition between the slides."
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EducationGuardian.co.uk | Advertisement feature | How blogs can make the link - 1 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12 - Cached
  • How blogs can make the link Blogs offer connection - between pupils and between schools, and sometimes with surprising results. Chris Alden looks at how some schools work with the medium, and wonders why more don't When children from Sandaig primary school, Glasgow, each wrote a poem for National Poetry Day last autumn, they could scarcely have imagined that their work would become the basis of a drama project at a school in the American south. But after class teacher John Johnston published all 150 poems on the Glasgow school's blog - an easy-to-use online journal for children and staff - the feedback they received was immediate and global.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 May 12
     
    blogging - "Blogs offer connection - between pupils and between schools, and sometimes with surprising results. Chris Alden looks at how some schools work with the medium, and wonders why more don't ."
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