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WizIQ's free teacher accounts give educators at accredited institutions access to a range of teaching tools. To many educators, the virtual classroom for which WizIQ is best known only means live classes, which they might not need considering they see their students in person every day.
But with the WizIQ Virtual Classroom teachers can also:
Offer online courses for their school
Run virtual office hours and homework help
Run summer school online to address transportation and facilities issues
Give AP students a jumpstart with virtual summer class sessions
Let athletes or homebound students work with their classes, live, even if they can't be there
Easily set up classes - without IT help
Bring subject matter experts into their classrooms virtually
Support group and project-based learning
Engage hard-to-reach parents with:
Virtual parents' nights
Virtual conferences
Adult education and community outreach
Virtual math and literacy nights
Broadcast live school committee meetings on the web
Record lectures or flip their classrooms
Conduct virtual field trips
Run professional development when and where staff are available
Share teaching resources among schools
Teachers can take full advantage of every WizIQ feature, including screen-sharing, polling, video-confe
The annual list of the top 100 tools for learning - a good place to check out some new tools, if you're looking. The analysis page is interesting, too - see what's moving up or down, in or out - http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/analysis-2013/
Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he's here to talk MOOCs, those "massively open online courses" that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago.
Larry Ferlazzo writes a column for the New York Times about using the NYT for ELLs - but these ideas could easily be adapted for FL teachers using news sites, too. You should also check out Ferlazzo's blog.
Get around firewalls by using Google Translate - does this really work? Those of you who have blocked access to YouTube movies at school - let us know!
I was in this class - wanting to see how things were handled along with what the content was - it was really a mess! I'll be interested to see what changes they make if they offer it again.
Flipping the Classroom. By Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director Printable Version Cite this guide: Brame, C., (2013). Flipping the classroom. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/flipping-the-classroom/. "Flipping the classroom" has become something of a buzzword in the last several years, driven in part by high profile publications in The New York Times (Fitzpatrick,...
A very recent article, published August 2016. from Vanderbilt University website. This paper praises on the idea of the benefits of the flipping classroom across disciplines (humanities, economics, sciences, etc.)
This article can lead to think beyond those disciplines and to deepen into the already going research on this subject applied to World Languages.
Language learning supreme guru. Also has a tweeter account:
http://t.co/FOlLwQyeCO He's a serious and influential language researcher and theorist whom you may know.
There was a hyperlink to an article about whether we should still teach cursive. Apparently high schools are not doing it any more. My son stopped cursive in about the 5th grade and didn't have to use it and now he is struggling at the university because he can't read when the professor uses cursive in anything, like comments on his papers. I have to print when I leave him a note. Wow, technology is wiping out one of the long-standing activities that took humans decades to develop.
I have to wonder if kids can write notes well without using cursive. I'd struggle and I still write by hand quicker than I can peck things out on a keyboard. Spell/grammar check are helpful, but I still wonder if the student pays any attention to corrections and can't write well without this automated help.
I like the balanced way this piece presents some of the pros and cons of technology in education. Just this week I had a conversation with another educator who has encountered recent studies suggesting a link between handwriting (of any kind) and certain cognitive development. Some schools are now emphasizing handwriting instruction because it helps boost students' academic achievement.
My daughter is 8 years old and she started learning cursive this year. So it must be back! I'm not sure if will help boost her achievement or not, but I'm glad she is learning it. I think the article made a good point about how students today have a short attention span and easily get off track. If they are typing a paper on the computer, for example, they can open a browser and start surfing the web. They don't necessarily stay focused on the task at hand. It is even hard for me sometimes. If I don't ignore email (just put it off until later, I mean), I would never get anything done!
I will share these resources with my students for them to explore for their final presentation on work with Community.
Somewhere between a PowerPoint presentation and a full-fledged video is the audio slideshow.
To create an audio slideshow on Narrable
start by uploading some pictures that you either want to talk about or
have music played behind. After the pictures are uploaded you can record
a narration for each picture through your computer's microphone or by
calling into your Narrable's access phone number.
UtellStory is a service for creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and
share your story through UtellStory you can upload pictures, add text
captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to
support your entire story.
a good tool for students to use to bridge the gap between slideshows and videos. Animoto makes it possible to quickly
create a video using still images, music, and text. In the last year
Animoto has added the option to include video clips in your videos too.
Hello Slide is a tool that you can use to add voice narration to slides that you display online.Hello Slide is different from services like Slideshare's Zipcast
(which requires a paid subscription) because instead of recording your voice you type what you want the
narrator to say.
Present.me is a handy service for
recording video and or audio to accompany your slides.
Animoto's free service limits you to 30 second videos.
I do audio slideshows as an end-of-semester project in my level 2 class, but I have only ever used PhotoStory. PhotoStory is loaded on our language lab computers so that students do not have to register or create any types of accounts. These resources seem to be just as easy, however
Isis, I wanted to comment on this tool, stating I like the fact that is free and one does not need an account. Anyways, I wanted to add sticky note but I accidentally clicked on Vocaroo and the page popped up on my screen ready for me to provide my voice. Pretty cool!
Vocaroo is a free service that allows
users to create audio recordings without the need to install any
software. You don't even have to create an account to use Vocaroo. All
you need to provide is a microphone. I used the microphone built into
my MacBook to make the recording below. To create a recording just go
to Vocaroo.com, click record, grant Voca
roo access to your mic, and
start talking. After completing your recording, Vocaroo gives you the choice to publish it or to scrap it and try again. Vocaroo provides
the option to embed the recording anywhere.
I think my brain just went into overload. This is incredible!
This
means that you can ask a short answer question and send respondents to a
new question based upon their responses.
Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that you can use to create video-based quizzes.
Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on
YouTube clips.
I wanted to highlight a phrase but couldn't. I really enjoy the possibility to add a video clip, pretty neat!
The best feature of Quizdini is
that you can create explanations of the correct answer for your students
to view immediately after trying each question in your quiz.
ImageQuiz is a free service that allows you to create quizzes based on any images that
you own or find online. When people take your quizzes on ImageQuiz they
answer your questions by clicking on the part of the picture that
answers each question.
Socrative allows me to create single question and multiple question quizzes with multiple choice and or open-ended responses.
First, Infuse Learning allows you to create multiple rooms within your account. That means you can create a different Infuse Learning room for each of your classes rather than re-using the same room for all of your classes. Second, Infuse Learning allows you create questions that your students draw responses to.
Using Google Forms you can create multiple choice, true/false, and free response questions quizzes. The latest version of Google Forms allows you to include pictures in your quizzes.
Voki speaking avatars are great tools for the classroom. Teachers and students alike can create avatars and use them in a number of ways to make learning fun and more accessible.