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Marlene Johnshoy

Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S. | National Education Policy Center - 0 views

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    Abstract: Over just the past decade, online learning at the K-12 level has grown from a novelty to a movement. Often using the authority and mechanism of state charters, and in league with home schoolers and other allies, private companies and some state entities are now providing full-time online schooling to a rapidly increasing number of students in the U.S. Yet little or no research is available on the outcomes of such full-time virtual schooling. The rapid growth of virtual schooling raises several immediate, critical questions for legislators regarding matters such as cost, funding, and quality. This policy brief offers recommendations in these and other areas, and the accompanying legal brief offers legislative language to implement the recommendations.
Marlene Johnshoy

Innovating Language Education - NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief - 3 views

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    Commissioned by the Language Flagship in Hawaii about technology use
Kimberly Jaeger

Top 10 Education Tech Blogs | Brainscape Blog - 1 views

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    Brief overview of good ed tech blogs.
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    Thank you for this list. I just started following a couple of these through Feedly, glad to see that they are in the "top ten" :)
Waka S

Overview of Synchronous Online Learning - YouTube - 1 views

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    "This video is a brief introduction to synchronous online learning. The following items are discussed: advantages, disadvantages, facilitation strategies, and tools that enhance student learning."
Marlene Johnshoy

Getting More From What You Have: Making Powerful Points - 1 views

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    A brief overview of using PowerPoint for telling stories, including sites for free images, and ways to add audio.
Marlene Johnshoy

Purposes - CALL Principles and Practices - 0 views

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    From the book: "Since the first version of this book came out in 2005, the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has grown and changed. This update is the result of some of those changes. Our intent is to place pedagogical goals before technologies, as the literature advises but is not always followed in classrooms. In revising this book, as in the original, we assume that good teachers teach well because they bear in mind certain principles about how they can best help learners to learn language. Placing these principles at the center of attention makes it much easier for teachers to concentrate on the question of what constitutes effective computer-enhanced pedagogy and why. This book takes as its organizing principles both the system of conditions that are known to support effective language learning and the goals that a variety of standards in the field have set out for us and our students. Examples throughout the book underscore the need to consider theory in every aspect of the teaching and learning process. Some of the points in this book we have made in other places; other we discovered during the revision process. All told, this text provides a brief picture of what CALL classrooms can be like today. Of course, that could change tomorrow."
Marlene Johnshoy

Elearning Best Practices - elearningindustry - 1 views

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    A collection of articles with eLearning best practices
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    After bookmarking many of these sites, I started to wonder if I would actually go back and read any of them beyond the brief overviews I've already done. If I am spending time bookmarking, I would hope I would use them later. Does anyone else find this?
Abby Bajuniemi

Google+ Pages and Higher Education - 0 views

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    This article gives a brief overview about why Google+ is useful to educators, and has some links to related articles at the bottom with more information on how educators can and should be using G+ in their classrooms.
Amy Pierce

Fluent in 3 months - Language Hacking and Travel Tips - Unconventional language hacking... - 2 views

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    This Web site by the Irish polyglot who gave a TED talk about speaking from day one is billed as foreign language and travel hacks. Any brief perusal of social media sites like Pinterest or Tumblr will show that hacks are a popular topic -- life hacks, cleaning hacks, Disney hacks, etc.
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    Very interesting. thanks for sharing. :)
Daniel Castaneda

How to use twitter in the classroom - 2 views

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    This article provides brief ideas about how to use twitter for classroom activities.
klmcguinness

Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators | Technology Enhanced Learning Blog - 1 views

    • klmcguinness
       
      Does anyone know anything more about applications for shortening URLs? Any use for them other than for Twitter use?
    • srafuller
       
      I've used goo.gl which is Google's URL shortener. I like it because it also generates a QR code. The code can then be printed out and used for listening practice (the project that I used it with was a recorded dialogue uploaded to YouTube).
  • automated accounts that don’t have any visible purpose, someone who has nothing in common with you
  • looking at their follower/updates list; if they are following 10,000 people, have 20 followers, and only 1 update then I’d safely say it’s an automated account and can be ignored!
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  • manage your Twitter
  • pull conferences and/or training together
    • klmcguinness
       
      Pull classrooms, class periods, departments, etc. More centralized than a shared Google doc? I'm thinking yes and participants will be forced to be brief.
  • engaging your followers on their content
  • No one likes a smart-arse
  • this means you can easily collate tweets together
  • you’ll end up learning from your learners.
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    Karen, I use a shortener when I have a very long URL - even to include in an email, or to advertise something I want people to go to (a survey I did) and some shorteners will let you pick your own ending so it can be something recognizable rather than random letters. I think Twitter does this automatically for you now.
Marlene Johnshoy

3playmedia | Do-It-Yourself Closed Captions - 1 views

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    As we put more and more videos online, we need to be aware of accessibility guidelines - and subtitles or closed captions are one of them.
anaylor12

Listen to Spanish and learn Spanish with podcasts in Spanish: real conversations in spa... - 2 views

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    I like that these are just a couple of minutes long - they are great input for a brief authentic listening practice
claire_mitchell

Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy | Harvard Initiative for Learn... - 0 views

  • The video project allowed students to engage in four brief VR tours of Parisian quarters.
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      I think this is a great idea for using virtual reality in the classroom and can be adapted for any language.
  • The team will expand upon the initial pilot by hiring five Parisians from different neighborhoods to document and share their lives with a VR camera over the course of one to two months.
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      I'm trying to figure out how to do this for my own classroom; I wonder if one day we could develop an exchange where we work with partners in other countries to gather video for each other for these types of projects.
  • Awardees hypothesize that virtual reality will allow language learners to have perceptual, empathetic, and culturally immersive experiences in multiple sensory modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) that will enhance their vision, perceived value of language and culture learning, and willingness to communicate.
    • claire_mitchell
       
      This is really exciting to me as a way to use VR!
Marlene Johnshoy

SmartBrief honors education bloggers | SmartBrief - 1 views

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    The Award recognizes content written by educators, for educators, that inspires readers to engage, innovate, and discuss.
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