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Barbara Garbin

Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club - The Digital Campus 2011 - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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

Views: Myths About Fair Use - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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

ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Synchronous asynchronous discussions
Marlene Johnshoy

International Online Conference 2011 | Program - 0 views

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    All about mobile learning - online conference. Very reasonably priced for a full-day conference - $79
Maria Nikiforou

Using VoiceThread to Build Student Engagement | Faculty Focus - 3 views

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    The advantages of using VoiceThread
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    nice little article on VoiceThread, particularly the part on its advantages is really helpful for people who are new to this kind of technology.
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    It is a helpful introduction to VoiceThread. In Higher Education we could also give it to the students as an introduction.
Marlene Johnshoy

Tools and tips for creating high-quality online doctoral programs - 0 views

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    Many of the things they did would apply to building a quality online course as well as a whole program.
vaguevara

Error correction and repair moves in synchronous learning activities | International Jo... - 2 views

  • This study explores the deployment of correction strategies and repair moves in synchronous learning activities in an online English course.
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      This article looks at the question from a more theoretical standpoint.
  • When asked to identify the benefits of the synchronous learning activities concerning the correction of errors, the participants point out that events and actions are unpredictable in the online lessons and the online interviews, which provide students with an opportunity to stretch their command of the language.
  • The results from the present study show that the preferred correction strategies are explicit corrections and recast.
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      Recasting during synchronous activities as a way to correct errors or misunderstandings from asynchronous activities.
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      Yes- the way it happens in the real world!
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    I appreciate the data around this-- Will be helpful with my student/ family communications about the 'how, why and when' of corrections.
Marlene Johnshoy

Multiple Choice Exam Theory (Just In Time For The New Term) - ProfHacker - The Chronicl... - 2 views

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    This doesn't really apply to language level exams, but for those of you who are interested in the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) and how to get beyond Bloom's level 1 in testing, this article has an interesting idea for multiple choice tests.
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    thanks for the article link, Marlene. I am collecting articles/info about assessment and testing for a board I have going on Pinterest and for a Diigo group I have set up for my students here at my school in Chicago. It's a private group, but I am happy to invite you in if you are interested.
Marlene Johnshoy

Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

  • The University System of Maryland now requires undergraduates to take 12 credits in alternative learning modes, including online. Texas has proposed a similar rule. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is pushing to have 25 percent of credits earned online by 2015.
  • In a test, there's no one telling you that you can't look at the book, says Ariel Hatten, 20, a junior and nursing major who considers her online class an easy A. "No one enforces you to do the right thing" in an online course, Ms. Hatten says. "It's at your discretion. I care about my grade, so if I don't know the answer, I'm not gonna let myself fail when I have an opportunity to look in the book."
  • When Central Florida began experimenting with online courses in the mid-1990s, it didn't expect demand from on-campus students like Ms. Black. Officials figured they'd get students who lived far away. But early on, about 75 percent of online students were already on the campus or lived nearby.
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  • The university has a severe shortage of classroom space.
  • The university remains 40 percent short on classroom space. One of its coping strategies is invisible on a campus dotted with new buildings—football stadium, basketball arena, pastel dorms—that scream Traditional State U. UCF has become a hybrid university.
  • Blended classes generate the highest student evaluations of any learning mode at Central Florida, and, like her classmates, Ms. Black is a fan.
  • One of her mixed-mode professors, Youngsoo Choi, likes the online component for another reason: It makes students grapple with material before they meet for class.
  • ther students customize their own unofficial blends
  • Some students show up more than an hour early for a seat, but attendance isn't mandatory. Students can also watch online videos of the lectures any time. Mr. Harrison catches some lectures and skips others. He likes the freedom of these video classes.
  • There's a lot of distractions that come with putting courses on the Internet."
  • His first experience with an online course was a struggle. He got lazy. He'd tell himself, I'll watch the lecture between 2 and 4 p.m. Something would come up. He'd say, I'll watch two tomorrow. He fell behind. There was no help. He got a C.
  • "I tell them, 'Listen, I don't want you to think that I'm stalking you or anything, but I will certainly try to get ahold of you if you're not turning in work and participating,'" she says. Some are adolescents, she notes. Most don't have online experience.
Robert Steen

The Best Ways to Build Student's Interpretive Listening Skills | Calico Spanish - 6 views

  • “Students should practice picking up key words and extrapolating main ideas using the context of what they hear.” @ChristeyHughes responded, “En français, we often refer to ‘la tolérance de l’ambiguité’ to be able to work through, perhaps not getting each word.”
  • “…Make sure that you select an appropriate length for novices–small doses of ‘anything.’”
  • “Multiple choice requires no production of any kind. Really, it’s only good for finding out what they don’t know.” @LauraJaneBarber said, “I like to do listening as input for a writing or speaking task. Can show true comprehension better than multiple choice.”
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  • “Multiple choice helps lower the affective filter–the interpretation in itself is a higher order skill.” She went on to say, “Multiple choice shouldn’t be end goal, though.” @AMor3liana said, “I think multiple choice is an ok option at the beginning of the school year. It gives some students that extra boost of confidence in the target language.”
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    I was searching for your highlight, as I am still very rusty in this Diigo skill. Could not find how to see it.
Marlene Johnshoy

3 Easy-to-Use Digital Tools that Engage Learners - 1 views

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    Screencastify, WeVideo (editing), Google+ Communities
Marlene Johnshoy

Online Learning for Whom? Experts Weigh In - 0 views

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    A report and then a discussion of the report by various experts.
Marlene Johnshoy

Texting to New Perspectives (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    In their study of 10 multilingual undergraduate students, they say they expected texting to be a regular practice, but "what we had not anticipated was the range of valuable uses and substantive gains afforded by texting."
rfrisch125

Criteria for identifying tasks for TBL | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC - 1 views

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    " 'The basis of a task-based approach'"
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    After reading how much material I could flip and have students do outside of class, I thought it would be good to start looking for more templates for meaning bearing and higher order thinking tasks that could be done in the classroom. Here is some really good stuff Jane Willis.
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