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 NearEducation, a platform that brings students, teachers and content together, taking advantage of the best of technology has the best. Take a look and see how the future is near.

It’s refreshing to know how the students perceive the technology in their lives.

The Advantages of Media for Students: Popular media (films, music, YouTube) are a familiar medium to students that helps gain attention and maintain student interest in the theories and concepts under discussion. Students can see the theories and concepts in action. In more than a figurative sense, theories and concepts leap from the screen. Students can hone their analytical skills by analyzing media using the theories and concepts they are studying. The use of media in the classroom enables students to see concepts and new examples when they are watching television, listening to music, or are at the movies with friends. Students can experience worlds beyond their own, especially if the media is sharply different from their local environment.

Using media requires a complete understanding of copyright law, an appreciation of the workload involved, and some skill in recognizing content that will enhance learning, instead of becoming a distraction.

The Summer 2011 Multi-Language Teacher workshop will be an on-site training open to Startalk teachers from around the country with preference given to teachers in our 2011 Startalk programs.

The Summer 2011 Multi-Language Teacher workshop will be an on-site training open to Startalk teachers from around the country with preference given to teachers in our 2011 Startalk programs.

I made sure that they understood why I felt using a translator for work that the students were supposed to do is plagiarism. This has to be the first step.

On one of the very first days, I take the lyrics of a popular song that most students would know and paste it into a translator.

 Still, the students liked it and I was able to get a good sense of where student mastery of the material was and I gleaned which students need to focus where in terms of pronunciation and basic grammar.  I will do this again.

It is good for me to see that even when there is no grade riding on it, students still watch one another’s videos: in other words, they want to watch each other.  I can’t speculate as to what drives that, but as an instructor, I am pleased simply that they do it.

How to use VoiceThread 25 Interesting Ways* to use VoiceThread in the Classroom (*and tips) is a VoiceThread offering ideas for lessons on problem solving, collaboration on artwork, video discussions, revision/review, playwriting, poetry, and more.

"I can basically extend my classroom," he says.

viewers click around a large "mind-map," which can feature text, images, and videos,

equates Prezi to an "infinite whiteboard" wherein the audience can see an overview of a topic, or zoom in to see the relations between topics.

Rich Internet Applications project is to create tools that are informed by language acquisition research, and engage language learners in active learning.

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Rich Internet Applications project is to create tools that are informed by language acquisition research, and engage language learners in active learning.

Abstract: Collaborative social interaction when using Web 2.0 in terms of VoiceThread is investigated in a case study of a Swedish university course in social psychology.

The results show that use of Web 2.0: a) supports students' reflections concerning their own and others' thoughts and emotions, b) supports individual students and integrates them into a work group, and c) develops students' identification and awareness in relation to self, a task and others.

Reflection is a core component of many outdoor education programs with many educators relying on journal writing as a means of facilitating reflection.