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Marlene Johnshoy

Free On-line Technology for World Language Classrooms - American Council on the Teachin... - 1 views

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    ACTFL 2012 presentation that provides an overview of the tools available in LiveMocha, Busuu and iTalki and examples of their use in the FL classroom.
Marlene Johnshoy

ISTE Webinar Series - iPad in Elementary Classroom - 1 views

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    Snapshots from an iPad in the Elementary Classroom Program - Camilla Gagliolo, Jamestown Elementary School, Arlington Public Schools.   Presented as a webinar for the Mobile Learning SIG at ISTE.
Beth Kautz

91% of Teachers Have Computer Access [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

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    blog post and nice large infographic with stats about how teachers and students use technology in the classroom
moramichal

The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom | Edutopia - 4 views

    • sarahlbassett
       
      A backchannel could be a really useful adaptation for SPED and EL students in mainstream classes who find themselves left behind in conversation
    • moramichal
       
      just used SLAck in my workshop - it was a great experiment
  • They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class perio
    • sarahlbassett
       
      This solves the "I don't have enough time with my students during class" problem if students have access to conversations beyond the limits of a class period
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  • A face-to-face conversation while simultaneously reading might have been a distraction. However, by typing their thoughts, all students contributed their ideas while each having the autonomy to work at his or her own pace.
    • sarahlbassett
       
      I especially like having an outlet for students to work at their own pace on something while still contributing to a conversation
  • conversations were never los
    • sarahlbassett
       
      "The conversations were never lost" - this is a great point!  Students could read and re-read past conversations.  With a traditional speaking/listening conversation, it isn't possible to read at all, let alone re-read.
  • Backchannel
  • Blended Mobile
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  • Charlie needed an alternative means to participate, and a backchannel would have provided him with that outlet.
  • a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activit
  • TodaysMeet would have let teachers create private chat rooms so that students could ask questions or leave comments during class. A Padlet wall might have fueled students to share their ideas as text, images, videos, and links posted to a digital bulletin board. The open response questions available in a student response system like Socrative or InfuseLearning could have become discussion prompts to give each student an opportunity to share his or her ideas before engaging in class discussion.
    • moramichal
       
      want to try it in my class - to give voice to student how afraid to talk in front of everybody
    • moramichal
       
      i was a fraid to write my thought on the board - imaybe a private channel ?
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    Thanks for sharing this (and for the highlights). It's something I need to explore further.
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    I love this idea.
Marlene Johnshoy

'Flipping' Lessons in a Multi‐Section Spanish Course: Implications for Assign... - 1 views

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    Flipped or inverted classroom (IC) models are promising for foreign language instruction in that they appear to promote well‐regarded practices that bridge both sociocultural and cognitive theoretical...
amychang52

Flipping my Spanish Classroom - 3 views

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    I hope this provides ideas of flipped classroom for all language teachers.
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    Yes, this is great! I am hoping to do more of this in the future.
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    Very interesting! I like the idea of Flipping foreign language class. I think it gives students more opportunities to depend on themselves on learning. This helps them to be better learners.
kschroed12

10 Cool Ways Teachers Use Social Media to Enhance Learning @coolcatteacher - 1 views

  • While Linda Yollis has a fantastic classroom blog, her 366 Project is incredible. She has clear instructions for how students from around the world can submit their photos to be shared. These photos make great writing prompts, conversation starters, and can spur on so many ideas in the classroom.
msdianehahn

Skitch in the Classroom | Reading. Writing. Thinking. Sharing. - 3 views

    • msdianehahn
       
      I recently started exploring this app myself after finding it on the app store.  It is helpful to see someone else's use and get ideas! I think the most difficult part is going to be the part sharing students' work with the teacher.
  • For the “Introduction to Skitch” 2-day lesson, I gave the students a choice board of activities. The students had fun creating treasure maps, Skitch selfies, classroom maps.
    • msdianehahn
       
      Such a good idea.  My students would be able to complete the labeling part of this activity, as they are ESL students just learning vocabulary.
ismaelfranqui

Mix It Up! Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom | Edutopia - 15 views

  • But true authenticity comes from the activities we use during class time, leaving an impact on the communicative skills of our students.
  • Use the language proficiency site developed by UTexas to gain access to native Spanish speakers talking about a variety of themes. These are conveniently divided into proficiency levels.
    • Shereen Elgamal
       
      I tried this activity by having each group research then report about an Arabic speaking country of their choice and the activity was a great success. They seemed to have had a lot of fun, presented short clear sentences (for the most part) that also provided factual and relevant material, and it opened the door for some spontaneous cultural themes and relevant dicussions.
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  • If we make activities genuine, our students will be much more inclined to participate, acquiring new knowledge through the process.
  • Make a fun interactive quiz using Kahoot!
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    • amychang52
       
      Kahoot! is a good tool to create a quiz.
    • czuchnow
       
      I've used some of the videos from UTexas. Some of the novice level videos are still too difficult for my middle schoolers though! I have to give lot's of scaffolding and support.
    • ismaelfranqui
       
      These are great resources!
  • remember these rules when selecting activities: They must be authentic. They should always be engaging. Activities should be varied. They need to be focused around the unit theme. Perhaps most importantly, they should force students to use the target language.
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    Authentic activities for the 3 modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, presentational. Great technology tools mentioned.
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    Amazing resource! I love how this article offers ways to integrate technology through accessing each mode in several ways!
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    It carries over well into the German classroom too!
buskokov

Top Five Ways to Use Screencasting in the Classroom - 4 views

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      This sentence describes why we need to use screencasts. I like this article because we can get more information about different ways how to use screencasting.
  • Screencasting is one of the most dynamic tools educators can use to transform their classroom in a dramatic fashion without investing a tremendous amount of time learning a new software piece or app.
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    This is awesome- I really like how they give some samples too! Thanks for posting it.
anonymous

The Flipped Classroom Provides Foreign Language Students Time to Speak the Language - 1 views

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    I vividly recall sitting in my son's Spanish classroom during an Open House back in 2011, listening to the teacher explain how they reviewed vocabulary and grammar during class. She reminded us of the importance of finding opportunities for students to listen to, and even better, speak the language outside of class.
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    Interesting comment promoting the discussed topic applied to Spanish.
anonymous

The Flipped Classroom Advances: Developments in Reverse Learning and Instruction - 1 views

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    re-posted here from Connected Principals.] Steven B. Johnson writes in Where Good Ideas Come From about the revolutionary power of social media such as Twitter to advance ideas and innovation in a myriad of fields, and it has been fascinating to see this concept in action in the swift spread over the past six months of the practice of flipping classrooms, which is also known as reverse instruction or learning, and is closely related to (or often synonymous with) teacher vodcasting.
jennifer moreno

Wallwisher in the Foreign Language Classroom - 0 views

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    Great ideas for using Wallwisher with language students. To name just a few, you could use it for collaborative homework, vocab practice or daily sentences.
Jessica Rojas

Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition - Howard Pitler, El... - 4 views

    • Jessica Rojas
       
      A book about technology in the classroom: samples of instruments, appllications, sites. all of them more or less organized.
    • MariaEmicle Lopez
       
      Besides the sample instruments and applications, I find it refreshing the connection made with theory and new practices.
Amy Uribe

Media Examples for the Classroom - TEACHING MEDIA - 1 views

  • 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
       
      I thought to create a group you do not need to friend the members, do you?
    • Hasmik Tovmasyan
       
      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
       
      very good point
    • Amy Uribe
       
      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
       
      This just re-emphasizes what we were talking about the first couple weeks of class.
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    several examples of SNS use in the FL classroom
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    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.
Jessica Rojas

Voki blog - 1 views

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    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.
Marlene Johnshoy

Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos, utilizando herramientas Google | The Flipped Classroom - 0 views

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    Using Google tools for broject-based learning, and flipped classroom
ncsargo

Tip of the Week: Tumblr in your classroom? Maybe. Just maybe. | History Tech - 2 views

  • The truth is, every platform has its strengths and weaknesses. My argument here is pretty simple–there is no perfect platform for student blogging because everything that does exactly what a teacher wants sucks for students, and anything that is exactly what a student wants will probably get a teacher fired.
    • ncsargo
       
      Tumblr was a bit hard to navigate for me but it allowed for a lot for creativity, I can see why students would like it.
  • seven quick reasons why Tumblr may be perfect for the writing / blogging / posting / literacy piece in your room: Students can post by email. There’s an “ask” system. It’s social-by-design. Hashtags, sharing, reblogging, tweeting–it operates both as social media and a blogging system. It’s flexible. It can be visual or textual; video or gifs; audio or links; conversational or one-sided. It’s already on their phones. Well, most of them. Though they may delete it when they found out that you know. It’s dead simple to use. Reblogging is an interesting way to share thinking–and simple too. Maybe too simple to be considered cognitive heavy lifting, but that’s all in how you use it. Liking posts, using hashtags, posting new blogs–all simple to do from a tablet, phone, laptop, or desktop. It’s platform-agnostic. It works (almost) equally well across operating systems, much like Evernote. In fact, it can be thought of as the Evernote of blogging platforms.
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    • ncsargo
       
      All of these functions are pretty impressive, I feel like tumblr is a little more flexible than other blogs in what content you can add to the blog such as gifs, audio, video, links etc. 
  • Tumblr is microblogging and social networking website that many of your students are using. As of last week, there were over 200 million Tumblr blogs out there. Think of a cross between Twitter and Facebook and you start to get a sense of what it looks like. It’s not really a tweet. It’s not really a blog. It’s not really a website
Diane Nordin

Tips for Teachers Who Wish to Use YouTube in Classroom - EdTechReview™ (ETR) - 1 views

  • YouTube is the greatest video hub.
    • Diane Nordin
       
      This is the major reason for me to want to share videos on YouTube instead of other video sharing sites.
  • Never Set Students Free to Access it without Proper Guidance:
    • Diane Nordin
       
      Very important!!
  • While copying the embed code, make sure you’ve unmarked “Show suggested videos when the video finishes”. This helps you expose your students to YouTube videos in a safe and secured manner.
    • Diane Nordin
       
      Good tip on sharing the video link.
Lorraine Effler

Skype Other Classrooms! | The Edublogger - 1 views

  • 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
       
      Hooking up with other classrooms is sometimes the tricky part of using Skype
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    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.
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