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Article on using "back channels" in class via Twitter-like apps

Ideas for why you might want to use Twitter for class...

Little is known about the population of educators who teach online, especially with relationship to preparation from their teacher education programs. This article discusses the results of a national survey of K-12 online teachers from across the nation to ascertain how prepared they felt they were with regard to three key areas: technology, pedagogy, and content, including combinations of these domains, as described by the technological pedagogical content knowledge framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). Overall, K-12 online teachers indicated that they felt the most prepared in the areas of pedagogy, content, and pedagogical content. They felt least prepared in the areas of technology, including technological pedagogical knowledge, technological content knowledge, and technological pedagogical content knowledge. Implications for the field of teacher education are discussed, including the need to more fully integrate technology within the coursework and field experiences of teacher candidates, and the need to create courses, or specific modules within existing courses, to address topics of importance to virtual teaching.

Abstract "Digital storytelling is a compelling activity for the language classroom. Easy to use for both writing and speaking practice, digital storytelling can be a good way to motivate students to use the language both inside and outside the classroom. Many teachers report high motivation levels, and not only for their students! In this practical article I will briefly outline what digital storytelling is and give some tips on how to get started."

This gets talked about all the time - here's another article that is supposed to help make things clearer...

There are many ideas in this article that would help a language teacher thinking about having online students do oral presentations.

From the article:  The new teachers site is part one of two big initiatives on the part of YouTube geared towards educators. In the next couple of weeks, a bigger announcement will be made about huge changes that will address many of the concerns teachers have had about using YouTube videos (you know what they are). Stay tuned for more news in two weeks.

background articles and a list of lesson plans to deal with cyberbulling

and there's a link for "language exchange programs" near the bottom of this article

article also contains links to learning twitter and understand terminology

List includes suggestions for classroom mgmt, parent/student communication, and uses to extend class discussions. 

Click on the Adobe PDF icon to open the document.  FYI the "7 things you should know about ..." is a fantastic resource. Be sure to check out the Twitter article

I like the whole series of "7 things you should know about...". They are always very clear, to the point and useful. Thanks for the link!

The advantages of using VoiceThread

nice little article on VoiceThread, particularly the part on its advantages is really helpful for people who are new to this kind of technology.

It is a helpful introduction to VoiceThread. In Higher Education we could also give it to the students as an introduction.

Article in Edutopia

An interesting article on blended learning and successful characteristics by Nicky Hockly 

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.

Unfortunately, unless you are a subscriber to the journal, you can't access this article, but if anybody is interested just let me know!

Article about facebook and academia