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Amy Uribe

Okay, I'm connected. Now what? | My Island View - 0 views

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  • a connected educator is one who uses technology and social media to personalize learning for both personal and professional growth.
  • The big picture in being a connected educator is the idea that you as the educator are first connected to the general flow of information, and then secondly, focused on specific connections to drill down to the detailed needs specific to you, or your students’ needs.
  • Approving or disapproving of the application is like approving or disapproving of a hammer or screwdriver
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  • . You can hate them all you want, but try building a house without them.
  • Convince a colleague to connect and we all benefit.
  • Amy Uribe on 08 Aug 13
     
    I think we are connected, but we could probably share this article with our "unconnected" colleagues!
olso2135

Connecting a Classroom: Reflections on Using Social Media With My Students - Education ... - 2 views

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  • Social media can expand our thoughts and ideas and connect us to what is going on in the rest of the world. It would be cool getting ideas that are actually present outside our community.”
  • sk students to help develop ways to use that platform to connect within and beyond your classroom. Co-create virtual community with students rather than for them. This obviously looks different for elementary classrooms than for secondary, but all students should feel a sense of ownership over the classroom accounts.
    • moramichal
      moramichal on 27 Jul 16
       
      " ask students to help develop ways to use that platform to connect within and beyond your classroom. Co-create virtual community with students rather than for them. This obviously looks different for elementary classrooms than for secondary, but all students should feel a sense of ownership over the classroom accounts". i think that this is the key - not building for them but with them
    • Kimberly Jaeger
      Kimberly Jaeger on 27 Jul 16
       
      That's a great statement to highlight. This applies to higher ed as well. (Kim, Group 3)
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    • olso2135
      olso2135 on 31 Jul 16
       
      I like this idea, but wonder how it would look in a classroom where some students have extremely limited tech knowledge. Maybe pairing them up with other students and having them teach each other?
Marlene Johnshoy

10 ways to find global connections for your class | Ditch That Textbook - 2 views

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Twitter global connections mattmiller hangouts

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 27 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 27 Feb 15
     
    If you don't know this blog yet, you might want to watch it - he has a lot of interesting ideas.  Here is his list of places to look for global connections for your class.
Alyssa Ruesch

Education Update:Role Models:Teachers Show Their Skypes - 1 views

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skype twitter lessonplans

shared by Alyssa Ruesch on 14 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Alyssa Ruesch on 14 Jul 11
     
    This article talks about the ways in which a PLN helped educators eventually connect their classes via Skype. Students might not use Twitter, but Twitter connected educators.
Marlene Johnshoy

Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect | Edutopia - 1 views

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PLN tools NetNewsWire Flipboard Feedly Diigo Pinterest Evernote Edutopia

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 22 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 22 Oct 15
     
    " I realized that to effectively engage in professional learning, I needed tools in place to curate content, save what I found, and connect to other educators."
Marlene Johnshoy

Should We Ask Students to Tweet? Perceptions, Patterns, and Problems of Assigned Social... - 0 views

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tweet Twitter social media assigned Krutka Damico CITEjournal

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 18 May 20 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 18 May 20
     
    Abstract - "Teacher educators have increasingly integrated social media into their education courses with aims including improving instruction and preparing students for a connected world. In this study, the authors sought to better understand the possibilities and challenges of scaffolding 60 pre- and in-service teachers across two universities into professional learning networks (PLNs) through a social media assignment. Participants analyzed educator practices, participated in, and envisioned future uses of teacher Twitter. Consistent with previous studies, education students were positive about the relational and relevant aspects of Twitter use. However, students' participation did not mimic the participatory cultures of affinity spaces often reported by connected educators in the literature. Instead, participants tweeted around deadlines and quit using their accounts for professional education purposes once the class ended. In contrast to recent literature, this article argues that social media integration for education students should focus on relational and relevant engagements and content, as opposed to attempting to build social media augmented PLNs for unknown futures."
Lorraine Effler

Skype Other Classrooms! | The Edublogger - 1 views

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CARLA week6 skype socialnetworking

shared by Lorraine Effler on 26 Jul 11 - Cached
  • This page has been set up to help you make connections with classes who are interesting in having Skype conversations with other classes.
    • Lorraine Effler
      Lorraine Effler on 26 Jul 11
       
      Hooking up with other classrooms is sometimes the tricky part of using Skype
  • Lorraine Effler on 26 Jul 11
     
    This page has been set up to help you make connections with classes who are interesting in having Skype conversations with other classes. It's be sorted by time zone, Grade level and subjects.
Marlene Johnshoy

3 Tips to Connect with Your Online Students - 4 views

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teacher students presence online connect tips

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 03 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 03 Jan 13
     
    Good ideas - I could see Tip #2 as a great starter project in language for level 2 and above.  Alyssa and I do the weekly video updates, pretty much just like three points listed here - and we've also gotten good feedback on those.
Marlene Johnshoy

50 people and hashtags you MUST check out on Twitter | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views

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shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 27 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 27 Oct 16
     
    "Getting connected professionally on Twitter was the single most important, most powerful thing I ever did as an educator." - Matt Miller
Marlene Johnshoy

Nik's QuickShout: AudioBoo to Posterous: Audio Podcasting from the Classroom - 2 views

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AudioBoo posterous Podcasts blog socialnetworking carla12sn4

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 01 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 01 Aug 12
     
    Nik connects AudioBoo with Posterous (a blog-type format).
Marisa Blachy

Celly in the classroom | NWP Connect - 1 views

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shared by Marisa Blachy on 06 Aug 12 - No Cached
    • Marisa Blachy
      Marisa Blachy on 06 Aug 12
       
      I like the fact that I can have control over the discussion and can edit student responses. Also, the fact that student's privacy is protected is great. If I wanted to, I could project my computer screen and the students could see their comments being posted in real time.
Amy Uribe

Media Examples for the Classroom - TEACHING MEDIA - 1 views

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shared by Amy Uribe on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Some of the most productive parts of the class were the weekly take-home assignments that asked the students to post comments on their social networking sites while using connected viewing technology
  • While the students learned a lot from the class assignments, they were initially anxious about letting an instructor into their social network. I felt it was necessary to preserve the anonymity of the students for the study so I wanted to keep their comments about the connected viewing private.
  • Unfortunately, the only way to ensure this anonymity was to create a “secret” Facebook group. “Secret” Facebook groups are one of three categories of groups that allow members of the social network to collaborate on a project. Though this setting allows all posts and members to remain confidential it also required me, as the creator of the “secret” Facebook group, to “friend” all of my students so that I could then add them to the group.
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  •   “Friending” the students raised some privacy concerns for me and for my students. Suddenly, we could see the everyday things that we were posting to Facebook. According to a survey conducted by Tammy Swenson Lepper, students are uncomfortable with authority figures making judgments about them based on their “private” Facebook communications, regardless of the pubic availability of this information (183-184)
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      I thought to create a group you do not need to friend the members, do you?
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      Here comes the factor of the Net generation and their "comfort zone"
  • Facebook and Twitter are easier to manage on mobile devices and are familiar interfaces.
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
      Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
       
      very good point
    • Amy Uribe
      Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
       
      I agree!
  • This makes the class more student-centered and gives those struggling to follow lectures and readings an additional platform to work through course concepts.
    • Amy Uribe
      Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
       
      This just re-emphasizes what we were talking about the first couple weeks of class.
  • Hasmik Tovmasyan on 28 Jul 13
     
    several examples of SNS use in the FL classroom
  • Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
     
    inding productive media examples to use in the classroom can be time-consuming and challenging. Here are media examples other teachers have found useful along with descriptions and information about the teaching contexts in which they were used.
Amy Uribe

Revisiting Twitter as an Educational Tool « Teaching Effectiveness Program - 3 views

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shared by Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • have used Twitter to facilitate class discussion and to gauge and deepen students’ interest and level of understanding.
  • raising awareness of personal branding. “I think it’s really important for students to think about the content of their accounts and the pictures they use,” which form part of a lasting “digital footprint,” she says. Faculty members often must remind students of the permanence of the Internet and its long-term effect on their professional image.
    • Edward Eiffler
      Edward Eiffler on 29 Jul 13
       
      Many students do not understand the danger of just posting anything
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  • “Our students don’t really need to be taught how to connect to each other online, but teaching them to be aware of their online environments, their roles in those environments, and what their roles could be in those environments is part of encouraging their cultural awareness. I think that we do a disservice to our students when we try to keep the internet out of our classrooms, and that we should instead be encouraging them to engage as much as possible (and as critically as possible) with the endless resources that the internet places at their fingertips.”
    • Amy Uribe
      Amy Uribe on 29 Jul 13
       
      I still have colleagues who will not allow laptops or smartphones in the classroom.  I like the idea of teaching students how to act in different online environments.  It is a useful tool.
  • Edward Eiffler on 29 Jul 13
     
    Twitter, the popular microblogging site that allows users to post 140-character "tweets," both intrigues and irritates faculty, according to a Faculty Focus survey. Some embrace it as a clever way to teach concision and get students writing, thinking, and connecting with the course material and one another.
ncsargo

Skype and Skype in the Classroom: Options for Language Teaching and Learning - 4 views

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  • Skype in the classroom Skype in the classroom, launched in March 2011, is a website especially designed for educational purposes. It is a platform where teachers and students can disseminate information about their classes, share educational resources, and find partners to start classroom projects.
  • Language teachers and learners may find the “Languages” category especially useful because they can search for Skype language lessons that meet their needs (see Figure 4 for some examples of Skype language lessons). These lessons provide opportunities for learning another language or practicing language via language exchanges.
  • Language teachers and learners can enroll in any language lesson according to their needs and interests
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    • ncsargo
      ncsargo on 05 Aug 15
       
      This seems like a great way to expand your PLN and collaborate with other language teachers
  • advanced features, such as group video calls, require users to pay a fee and upgrade to a premium account to get the service. Calling fees vary depending on the countries the user calls and the amount of time spent on calls. Subscribing to a premium account, which will allow users to use services such as group video chats, currently costs US$59.88 for 12 months. US$4.99 per month is not very expensive.
    • ncsargo
      ncsargo on 05 Aug 15
       
      There is a cost for premium features.
  • Limitations Although Skype and Skype in the classroom provide an intriguing option for language teaching and learning, there are some limitations as well. First, there are minimum download/upload speeds required for using Skype. For example, video calling and screen sharing require 128kbps/128kbps as the minimum download/upload speed; group video calling requires 4Mbps/128kbps as the minimum download/upload speed. Therefore, Skype users need to check whether their Internet connection meets such requirements to avoid video and audio lag during Skype lessons.
    • ncsargo
      ncsargo on 05 Aug 15
       
      It is important to keep these limitations in line for any web based interpersonal activity.
  • Second, Skype and Skype in the classroom promote authentic learning. According to Lombardi (2007), authentic learning emphasizes “real-world, complex problems and their solutions, using role-playing exercises, problem-based activities, case studies, and participation in a virtual community of practice” (p.2). Thus, authentic learning happens as learners participate in real-world relevant tasks that require their judgment to distinguish information, patience to participate, ability to adapt themselves to unfamiliar contexts, and flexibility to work with people from different cultures. In this view, Skype and Skype in the classroom allow language teachers and learners to participate in a context of authentic learning.
    • ncsargo
      ncsargo on 05 Aug 15
       
      As we saw in our synchronous class session Skype just like Adobe Connect can be used to deal with problem-based activities.  Through creating contexts in which certain language is required we can simulate an immersion environment for students online.
  • The ACTIONS model, proposed by Bates (1995), is a practical guide for educators and policymakers to select and evaluate the use of technologies for teaching and learning. The ACTIONS model involves the following criteria: Access: How accessible is a particular technology for learners? Costs: What is the cost structure of a particular technology? Teaching and learning: How does a particular technology support teaching and learning? Interactivity and user-friendliness: How does a particular technology facilitate interaction among learners? How easy is a particular technology to use? Organizational issues: Are any class organizational changes needed? Novelty: How new is this particular technology? Speed: How quickly can courses be taught and learned via this particular technology?
Marlene Johnshoy

Wikis: Pulling It All Together Online -- THE Journal - 1 views

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wikis elementary ideas portfolio

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  • Marlene Johnshoy on 21 Oct 10
     
    Elementary teachers using wikis for showcasing student work, portfolios, and connecting with a larger audience outside the classroom.
Dan Soneson

BigBlueButton -- Open Source Web Conferencing | www.bigbluebutton.org - 0 views

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lab computer opensource conferencing

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  • Dan Soneson on 02 Feb 11
     
    Free and open source alternative to Adobe Connect and / or Wimba
Marlene Johnshoy

Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype - 1 views

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skype education videoconferencing collaboration

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  • Marlene Johnshoy on 09 Feb 11
     
    Educators are now using the videoconferencing tool to connect foreign-language students to native speakers, hold virtual field trips and host conversations with scientists and other experts
Leslie Phillips

How to Connect Your Foreign Language Students with the World | Edutopia - 1 views

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CARLA6 Skype globaleducation ACTFL epals twitter wikis voxopop

shared by Leslie Phillips on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Leslie Phillips on 26 Jul 11
     
    If you're looking for a school or classroom for your students to partner with, there's no place like the World Wide Web. "People need to get out there and form an online presence," says high school French teacher Toni Theisen. There are online communities everywhere just waiting to be blasted with your callout for a sister classroom.
senora heebsh

Free Technology for Teachers: 3 Ways, Other Than Skype, to Bring Experts Into Class - 2 views

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carla web2.0 week6

shared by senora heebsh on 28 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • senora heebsh on 28 Jul 11
     
    Bringing experts into your classroom via video conferencing can be an excellent enhancement to your students' learning experiences. Video conferencing can also be used to connect classrooms in a 21st century version of penpal exchanges. Skype is the most common tool for making these connections and for good reason Skype is the most popular video conferencing application.
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