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Claire I

Integrating Intercultural competence into language learning through technology - 2 views

llt.msu.edu/...emerging.pdf

CARLA Group C Intercultural competence technology

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  • in which technology can support teachers and learners as they seek to understand language through culture and culture through language
    • Claire I
      Claire I on 07 Aug 13
       
      different definition from Byram's?
  • Claire I on 07 Aug 13
     
    from teaching culture to intercultural communication competence
  • Claire I on 07 Aug 13
     
    oh, well, highlight somehow did not stay when submitted... ;-(
mpozangrist

Evernote's Penultimate for iPad now behaves more like a real notebook - 2 views

www.engadget.com/...penultimate-ipad-update

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  • mpozangrist on 19 Jul 14
     
    I have been using this app as a smart board. The advantages are: you can add/edit notes as you teach, highlight vocabulary or grammar elemen, you can also use notes from previous lessons and you could also email the presented material on the Ipad to students. Students love it and it makes learning more interactive.
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  • Marlene Johnshoy on 20 Jul 14
     
    Oh, I'm happy to hear how you've been using this! I've just recently downloaded Evernote to my tablet, but haven't done much with it yet.
  • yflanders on 20 Jul 14
     
    This sounds cool, my husband has been really happy with using the evernote. I'm going to try this out too. :D
  • kjjsk8 on 21 Jul 14
     
    I use evernote all of the time for a personal "to-do" list but I never thought of using it for class. Thanks for the great ideas!
anonymous

Die Engelsgeduld | Wort der Woche | DW.COM | 20.07.2015 - 2 views

www.dw.com/...a-18389293

CARLA language week 3 Group C

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  • dass man sich durch nichts aus der Ruhe bringen lässt
  • dass sie Frühstück für ihn mach
  • Als er die ganze Nacht feiern war und morgens verlangt,
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 23 Jul 15
       
      A great warm-up for students to find the "Nebensätze" in this short read that is also an insight into having "the patience of an angel."
  • anonymous on 23 Jul 15
     
    Word of the Week from DW.de. Highlighting & annotating for creating a lesson based on this material.
rillia

5.1 Dogoriti.pdf - 1 views

diigo.com/07u1lw

shared by rillia on 27 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Twitter is used as an ongoing public channel of communication for academic and co-curricular discussions
  • English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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  • The use of the Web2 can provide opportunities for collaboration, authentic communication in a discourse community and provide what Warschauer and Kern (2000) termedas networked-based language teaching. Some ofthe general benefits of using technology in ESP are the use of authentic tasks, tools, and context (Bremner, 2010; Evans, 2012).It provides interaction and communication among learners, uses collaborative learning, focuses on socio-
  • do not provide motivation, enthusiasm or personalization
  • earning management systems (LMSs)
  • ave generally been used as static sources of content with no social appeal like social networks, such as Facebook or YouTube
  • while also impeding general pedagogical support with their default settings and familiar features
  • social networking platforms have been acclaimed to provide learners social communication, autonomy,fluid online discussions, and identity management
  • ease interaction, e-discussions by focusing on the use of technology to support education
  • informal and relaxing atmosphere and make learning effective (Dalton, 2009). Social networking allows students and teachers to build a rapport and overcome inhibitions
  • Integrating social software with LMS aims at active participation, interaction and collaborationbetween the members of an academic community
  • Web 2.0 tools consist of blogs, microblogs, wikis, podcasts, virtual worlds and social networks
  • he benefits of using Web 2.0 in education are the new interaction styles between students and teachers, immediacy of information, access to authentic learning environments, content sharing, collaboration and enhancement of learning experience
  • a service offering language learning quizzes via Twitter hasbeen established (TwitterLearn, 2008)
    • rillia
      rillia on 27 Jul 15
       
      I couldn't locate this service in a search; I suppose it went defunct?
  • Twitter, Edmodo, and Ning
  • On the whole, the reasons language instructors may opt to choose Edmodo in class are that teachers and students connect, assignments, back channeling, a paperless learning environment, its backpack feature,the library feature, Apps, homework, badges, learning continues outside the classroom, assessments, interface, sharing, and its private and safe learning environment
  • the use of Twitter facilitated collaboration, communication and data exchange among students in real time.The role of the instructor is underscored as she/he acts as a mediator, supporting the content, organizing the activities, and clarifying the use of the educational tool
  • Facebook
  • Twitter has been studied in context with other social media and has proven to have a significant influence on academic activity
  • microblogging and inferred that it enhanced students’ achievement, motivation and participation in class.
  • Edudemic
    • rillia
      rillia on 27 Jul 15
       
      Check this out--appears to be a comprehensive site about the use of technology for educators and students.
  • Different platforms suit different sorts of interactions and appeal tostudents and educators in a diverse manner
  • From the Edmodo platform, two main features are utilized. First, the Edmodo forum is used for both teacher-to-student communication and student-to -student communication. The communication topics include subjects such as assignments, questions, announcements, etc. Second, the Edmodo Assignment Center is used for testing the students on each learning topic and easily collecting their answers
    • rillia
      rillia on 27 Jul 15
       
      Although we have an in-house LMS at Northwest, I created an Edmodo platform for my Intermediate Russian I course for the fall to see how it will work. I'll use it in conjunction with the in-house LMS, which may prove to be cumbersome. We'll see.
  • As far as the assessment of students’ performance goes, the conventional assessment through graded assignments is backed up by students’ social learning activities. Network buildingand self-regulated learning canbe indicative of students’ progress throughout the course.Ongoing assessment or formative assessmentstrategies(integration of performance and feedback and reflection) can facilitate learning and review students’ performance
  • The empirical evaluation of the research highlights the dominanceof intrinsic motivation(students’ intentionsto use Twitter/perceived enjoyment)over extrinsic motivation in explaining the adoption of social media in the class
  • n order to provide assessment, instructors could evaluate students’ learning progress by reviewing their reflections. Communication (teacher-student/student-student)throughout the learning processcan also providefeedback information that may aid assessment
  • nstructors could evaluate students’ learning progress by reviewing theirreflections on what they have gained through networked learning
  • References
    • rillia
      rillia on 27 Jul 15
       
      Excellent collection of reference materials on SNSs in foreign-language (and other) learning.
Carol Petersen

21st Century Fluency Project - 1 views

www.fluency21.com/index.cfm

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  • Carol Petersen on 24 Jul 12
     
    Very good ideas regarding teaching for the digital age
  • Carol Petersen on 24 Jul 12
     
    excellent description about teaching to this generation of digital natives, make sure you check out the article highlighted on "the 12 things you were not taught in school about creativity"
  • Charles Zook on 31 Jul 12
     
    This is great stuff!!!
Caroline Switzer Kelly

tsdwlstandards - Interpretive Reading strategies - 2 views

tsdwlstandards.wikispaces.com/nterpretive+Reading+strategies

interpretive readingstrategies strategies carla15

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  • Reading Steps
    • Caroline Switzer Kelly
      Caroline Switzer Kelly on 25 Jul 15
       
      No - this isn't exactly an article! But I'm glad I found it because s a very helpful summary of how to approach a reading with a view to comprehension. And I have highlighted this heading because it's a reminder that reading can take different forms, and that each one is a process -- and those processes often have to be explicitly taught to our L2 students. We all tend to take reading and comprehending for granted and not realize how variety there can be in how we approach at text. And we tend to forget that it's not at all passive. It's a complex process in our L1. How much more so in an L2.
Lorraine Effler

VoiceThread in the Classroom - 2 views

cnx.org/latest

CARLA voicethread week5

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  • Lorraine Effler on 19 Jul 11
     
    Someone got highlighter happy in the first section but examples of projects and teacher tips are helpful.
Alyssa Rutherford

http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/ijets/journal/V7N2/pdf/Article4-HarrisonThomas.pdf - 1 views

www.swin.edu.au/...Article4-HarrisonThomas.pdf

Week8 livemocha socialnetworking web2.0

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  • Roxana Sandu on 13 Aug 11
     
    Alyssa, could you please tell me how did you manage to bookmark a PDF ? I've been trying to figure it out, but without success.
  • Alyssa Rutherford on 15 Aug 11
     
    This was that article from this week and I just book marked it with the browser tool. I was not, however able to highlight on it. I didn't try sticky notes...
yflanders

Learn Chinese with CSLPOD - 3 views

www.cslpod.com/...Latest.aspx

carlatech14 Week3 learning chinese courses education

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    • yflanders
      yflanders on 25 Jul 14
       
      I like how the video conversation shows the highlightings to guide you which phrase or words they are speaking..
  • yflanders on 25 Jul 14
     
    Here, native Mandarin speakers teach you Chinese as a second language. Audio and transcripts are available on the website. The lessons also place an emphasis on understanding Chinese culture.
mauritzenj

Why Diigo Rocks for Educators! | TeachHUB - 7 views

www.teachhub.com/why-diigo-rocks-educators

diigolet

shared by mauritzenj on 26 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • Once the group is created, you can create student accounts. No email addresses needed. You create the username and password.
  • There are groups for all these where members can share their saves to not only their inventory but to the group as well. Diigo will email you once a week with all the new content. Pretty neat, huh? 
  • There are loads of other features as well, like highlighting on a webpage, adding sticky notes to pages, saving pages to read later without actually adding them to your collection and so much more.
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  • When you save to Diigo your saves go anywhere because they are saved to the cloud. Sounds mystical doesn't it?
    • mauritzenj
      mauritzenj on 28 Jul 18
       
      I am so mad I never used this earlier! It is really fantastic.
  • One of the most powerful features is the tagging. Basically, if I save Google.com and don't tag it, I will have to remember the name of the site or something in the address
  • your saves don't travel with you from computer to computer and device to device.
  • So if students are working on a group project they can share their saves together, automatically. Or as a class, if you are working on something everyone can contribute information they find.
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 27 Jul 18
       
      I love this concept--in level 3 I sometimes have the students do peer-editing of papers or projects, and I think Diigo could pair well with a pre-editing phase where they could collaborate on research as well as composition!
    • tkozhanova
      tkozhanova on 28 Jul 18
       
      I agree. i like this idea too!
  • hen visit the Educator Area and apply for the Educator upgrade.
  • claire_mitchell on 29 Jul 18
     
    I love that you can use this with students! I had no clue. Thanks for sharing.
  • hharb01 on 29 Jul 18
     
    As I am still trying to understand the full benefits of using Diigo, I found this article of tremendous help. Thank you for sharing!
  • barichetti on 29 Jul 18
     
    This seems really useful. I'm excited about Diigo for my own use, hadn't thought about using it with students yet.
cwelton

I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...heres-why-its-actually-amazing

carlatech18 resources web2.0

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  • I kept hearing how awesome Evernote was
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 09 Aug 18
       
      My school has Evernote premium available to all teachers--it's basically just like Diigo, so I'm excited to try and figure it out this year.
  • Archive whiteboard notes
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 09 Aug 18
       
      I have colleagues who use Evernote to keep logs of their chalkboard notes, so they can send them to students who missed class for example.
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  • all of which become searchable
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 09 Aug 18
       
      because Evernote can read handwriting! so cool.
  • You can share any note in Evernote with other people—even if they aren't Evernote users! So it's actually great for this.
  • The second type of bookmark is the one I use for Evernote. It's bookmarking stuff that you want to reference later, but not the kind of stuff you visit every day. Does that make a little more sense?
  • Forgot to mention my third type of bookmark, which are full articles I send to Readability/Pocket/Instapepr for reading later. That's more for pleasure reading than reference, which is what I use Evernote for.
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 09 Aug 18
       
      I have colleagues who use Evernote for this 'pleasure reading' feature as well.
  • afarachnps on 12 Aug 18
     
    I used to use Evernote a while ago for a staff writer/communications job I held in grad school. It helped a great deal with keeping my boss informed on my progress on news stories and for making suggestions. After reading this, I want to go back to it. I remember how organized it made me feel-- I'm sure I could use a lot more of that as a teacher! Thanks for sharing. Glad that Evernote is back on my radar-- with so much more to it than I remember!
Agustin Vizcaino

Media Use in the Classroom - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...achers-technology-social-media

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  • Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
  • The use of social media has allowed colleagues to get to know each other as real people not just teachers and this has strengthened the sense of cohesion, solidarity and collective confidence.
  • gy suited to MFL? Well, one of the fundamentals of language learning is re
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  • communication and new technologies can certainly facilitate this essential aspect through, for example, videoconferencing and blogging. There are also lots of ways of recording and editing audio as a method of improving pronunciation, boosting learner confidence, extending speaking skills and deepening understanding. Filmmaking and animation also draw on a variety of useful skills and promote creativity, collaboration and personalised learning.
  • Technology is not going away and language teachers need to embrace its full potential to engage our 21st century learners.
  • Agustin Vizcaino on 27 Jul 13
     
    The article describes how technology (I took it as one of the terms for media) is important in the foreign language classroom.
  • Agustin Vizcaino on 27 Jul 13
     
    I am opening the article and is not showing the highlights. Hopefully it will when I share the article.
atsukofrederick

Facilitating a Class Twitter Chat | Edutopia - 3 views

www.edutopia.org/...acilitating-class-twitter-chat

carlatech18 technology twitter socialnetworking

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  • Communicate the public nature of Twitter to parents. Consider an opt-out alternative for students or parents who are uncomfortable with participating in the classroom chat.
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 26 Jul 18
       
      I've also used my school's platform "discussion board" as if it were a twitter chat feed--some students got really into it, and I think I could implement some of these suggestions to make it more universally engaging
  • assist students in moving back and forth between their own words and technical or course-specific terms. And help highlight particular content with the use of sentence starters.
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 26 Jul 18
       
      perhaps for a language class this would look like a vocab list, or a list of social media abbreviations that are language-specific.
  • Do you feel the chat’s objective was reached? What was the most useful part of the chat? How might we improve the chat?
    • cwelton
      cwelton on 26 Jul 18
       
      i've do this, at some level, for almost every new project or activity I do in my classroom--the students feel so empowered when I ask them to share their opinions and reactions to the structures of the course.
  • vaguevara on 26 Jul 18
     
    Thanks for sharing, Carmen-- I am also considering students who do not have Twitter, or parent concerns, and I wonder if small group work might be a solution- Using the twitter account of one student, another student or group of students help to compose responses, stay hidden from their online contributions.
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  • cwelton on 27 Jul 18
     
    Hi Veronica--you could also consider making a class handle. I did that with an Adv. class once, and simply gave all the students the info to log in. They could all post from that handle, and sign tweets with their initials.
  • hharb01 on 29 Jul 18
     
    This is a helpful article. I like how it gives us step-by-step of how to host a twitter chat.
  • vaguevara on 29 Jul 18
     
    Thanks for this suggestions, Carmen-- will use it!
  • atsukofrederick on 29 Jul 18
     
    Especially middle/high school parents/students may feel more comfortable using a platform provided by the district. I am also planning to use the discussion board in the district's platform. I can definitely use the tips in this article.
Robert Steen

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

calicospanish.com/-interpretive-listening-skills

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  • “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.”
  • anonymous on 31 Jul 17
     
    I was searching for your highlight, as I am still very rusty in this Diigo skill. Could not find how to see it.
lars3969

Mirroring Project - 2 views

carlatech carlatech17 groupb group b pronunciation intonation stress presentation video

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  • Mirroring Project:
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Colleen has presented on the Mirroring Project in some of my classes. It seems to have impressive results for international students' pronunciation and presentation skills.
  • Step 1: Identify major pronunciation challenge
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      This is the "before" video for an international graduate teaching assistant.
  • Step 2: Choose appropriate model
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Typically, students choose a TED speaker whose style they want to emulate.
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  • Step 4: Mirror the original recording.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      The goal here is for the international student to copy the TED speaker as much as possible. They should think about pronunciation, intonation, stress, and gesture.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I don't know how to un-highlight. Oh well!
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
  • speaker with strong non-native rhythm and intonation patterns.
jenniferacarr

Why Teachers And Students Should Blog: 18 Benefits of Educational Blogging - 3 views

www.kathleenamorris.com/...benefits-blogging

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  • let’s explore why blogging has lasted while other tools have come and gone.The simple reason is, a blog is more than a tool. It’s anything you want it to be. A blog is a blank canvas and a virtual home for you to set up however you like.Blogs are simply websites. The only real difference between a blog and a traditional website is that it is generally updated more frequently and usually offers interaction in the form of comments.
    • jenniferacarr
      jenniferacarr on 22 Jul 19
       
      Morris highlights an interesting tech tradeoff: the simpler a tool is, the more versatile it can be. As she points out, blogs are just frequently-updated websites, and yet they've managed to outlast other online tools because of their relative flexibility.
  • jenniferacarr on 22 Jul 19
     
    A blog post about blogs. Kathleen Morris lists no fewer than 18 educational benefits of using sites like WordPress and Blogger in the classroom. These include allowing students to develop new literacies and exercise their creativity.
vallb001

New Tools for the Flipped School: Interactive Visual Media in Remote Learning - 4 views

www.thinglink.com/...isual-media-in-remote-learning

ThingLink interactive media remote learning Carlatech20

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  • This article focuses on the use, potential benefits, and best practices of interactive visual media in online education and remote learning. We will discuss: What are the main arguments for interactive visual media in online learning? What are some examples and best practices for creating visual learning materials for students? How can students use interactive visual media for documenting and sharing their learning?
  • Interactive images, videos, and virtual tours can support online learning by providing an alternative to text-based communication. Here are three arguments for why this is the case.
    • vallb001
      vallb001 on 19 Jul 20
       
      Agreed. I think we must keep in mind the Internet goes beyond text and video. If we use online tools just as we used books and VCRs in the bast, we are wasting the potential of the Internet.
  • Humans remember pictures better than words (the “picture superiority effect”)
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  • Multisensory experience triggers simultaneous associations.
  • Pictures, sounds, and words together with a contextual experience of a place can create memorable learning experiences more efficiently than plain images or written words alone that are not associated with anything real
  • Seeing a new word written under a picture and hearing how it is pronounced, helps us understand and remember what we are looking at.
  • Virtual tours expand our fields of perception from physical to digital.
  • We can remember and learn on a virtual field trip the same way as we learn on a physical field trip.
  • Interactive videos, audio posters, narrated screenshots, and virtual tours can be effective tools for online education that help educators and learners work together using not only text-based communication, but also voice, video, and images.
  • A great way for giving assignments or sharing projects is adding voice instructions to various areas of a photo, poster or a screenshot.
  • Equipment: The good news is, you only need your phone or laptop, so there is no need to invest in additional hardware unless you want to
  • Setup: A video lesson can be very similar to your lesson in the classroom.
  • Recording: Find a place with natural light where you feel comfortable, and start recording. The audience is your students so picture them in front of you, and address them as you would in the class. You may even mention some of them by name to keep their attention!
  • Duration: Our recommendation is you look at the lesson as a whole and divide it into parts, max 10-15 minutes and ideally 6 minutes each.
  • Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students
  • 1. Explain visuals with text labels
  • 2. Explain abstract concepts with detailed descriptions
  • 3. Explain assignments using your voice
  • 4. Art history: Introduce a masterpiece
  • 5. Literature: Interpret a masterpiece
  • 6. Read to your students
  • 7. Learn vocabulary in new places
  • 8. Narrate your own virtual lesson
  • 9. Create a virtual field trip with assignment
  • 10. Ask students to narrate a virtual audio tour
  • Supporting student-centered learning with interactive visual media
  • Project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and problem-based learning are constructivist approaches to education that develop the learners skills for research, problem-solving and collaboration. The process is based on authentic questions and problems identified by students, and finding information and explanation models to research and solve them.
  • An important aspect of student-centered learning is documenting the various phases and aspects of the learning process.
  • The following examples will show how students can use mixed media for completing various kinds of creative assignments and sharing them with their teacher and fellow students.
  • In the following, we summarize 10 easy project ideas for remote learning that encourage students to 1) make handwritten, visual and pictorial notes, collages and artwork, and 2) enhance and explain their work using digital audio/text notes, photos and video. Each of the examples provide a mix of learning opportunities combining traditional student work in the classroom with digital storytelling at home. The projects can be shared to a learning management system or collaboration platform such as Canvas, Schoology, Google Education or Microsoft Teams.
  • 1. Make an interactive greeting card
  • 2. Create an interactive book report
  • 3. Make a vocabulary poster in a foreign language
  • 4. Introduce yourself
  • 5. Create an interactive herbarium
  • 6. Make your own comic strips
  • 7. Create an interactive timeline
  • 8. Explain details of a painting
  • 9. Create an interactive map
  • 10. Build a diorama
  • Hotspots, what are they and how do they work? The purpose of the clickable hotspots is to give the viewer further information and resources on the topic they are learning about. Teachers and students can add various types of content in the hotspots, such as text, additional closeup images, video, sound, links and embedded web content such as maps or forms. These resources can serve any of the following functions: Building perspective by linking to related materials Improving comprehension of the topic by highlighting key concepts and vocabulary Zooming into details in a scene Creating a feedback loop by including a call to action
    • pamh6832
      pamh6832 on 17 Jul 20
       
      These would be very helpful in a flipped classroom or with distance teaching.
  • Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students
  • Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students
  • Examples and best practices for creating remote learning materials for students
  • Best practices for developing students' creativity and digital storytelling skills at home
  • School teachers
  • School teachers
    • pamh6832
      pamh6832 on 17 Jul 20
       
      10 creative ideas for students to use ThingLink while remote learning and in traditional classroom. I could see doing #3 (vocabulary poster) and #4 (introduce yourself) during first quarter.
  • pamh6832 on 17 Jul 20
     
    An article written by the founder and CEO of ThingLink in which she discusses the main arguments for interactive visual media in online learning, examples and best practices for creating visual learning materials for students, and ways students can use interactive visual media (ThingLink) to document and share their learning. She shares numerous ways teachers and students could use ThingLink with examples.
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  • cbbbcb on 18 Jul 20
     
    I have been thinking of what makes Thinglink different from the Microsoft Power Point? PPT also enables you to add recording on a slide. Later, I realized that Thinglink enables multiple layers to one picture/screen. Users can opt to access to other media or information when necessary. It would be useful to provide scaffolding only when it is necessary (e.g., students click links to get hint only when they cannot complete the task by themselves). Thinglink also condense information within one page/slide/screen without having to scroll down. However, we may be economical when we decide how many links we want to put on one screen.
  • vallb001 on 19 Jul 20
     
    Whether we like it or not, it looks like we're going to consider some of this information in the upcoming school year. As I browsed the article, I realize options are almost unlimited but of course it requires time to figure out and prepare materials. Last spring I felt a bit like a Youtuber and I see how that is not actually an easy job!
  • vallb001 on 19 Jul 20
     
    An article written by the founder and CEO of ThingLink in which she discusses the main arguments for interactive visual media in online learning, examples and best practices for creating visual learning materials for students, and ways students can use interactive visual media (ThingLink) to document and share their learning. She shares numerous ways teachers and students could use ThingLink with examples.
  • tamieegge on 19 Jul 20
     
    A very complete article about the advantages of using images and learning. I really want to learn how to use thinglink now.
Francisco Dumanig

https://tophat.com/blog/synchronous-teaching-tools/ - 2 views

Highlighting the importance of building connections with students, strengthening support systems and assessing learners with a multitude of options in your synchronous online course

technology education CARLA language resources carlatech20

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marispi

The Elephant in the Language Classroom | Edutopia - 3 views

www.edutopia.org/...language-classroom-peter-smith

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  • Studies
  • have concluded that collaborative and cooperative learning methods improve students' time on tasks and motivation to learn. Language teachers are finding that group activities and conversational pairing have distinct advantages over individualised tasks. Students enjoy interacting with each other, particularly in speaking activities, and opportunities to do so are relished. The prospect of school exchanges, making new social links abroad, and exploring new cultures is another powerful motivator. The pairing of language students with counterparts abroad is the next logical step. Working effectively online with native speakers is a challenging and alluring proposition.
  • Assessment is more difficult
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  • The evidence to show individual progression achieved directly from paired or group interactions is hard to quantify. Monitoring, recording, and properly assessing individuals' performances in collaborative tasks is more difficult to achieve than the correction and grading of individual tests.
  • The pairing of language students with counterparts abroad is the next logical step. Working effectively online with native speakers is a challenging and alluring proposition.
    • danielhkarvonen
      danielhkarvonen on 03 Aug 15
       
      I am very interested in getting my students paired up with native speakers, but haven't been successful in doing so yet.
    • marispi
      marispi on 07 Aug 15
       
      I'm going to make a more concerted effort, I think.
  • Shereen Elgamal on 03 Aug 15
     
    The article highlights the effectiveness of collaborative and cooperative language learning activities such as school exchanges and pairing students with counterparts abroad. It also bring up the issue of difficult assessment gets in the way and brings to the front solo performances and summative examinations.
  • Michelle Burnside on 04 Aug 15
     
    I certainly agree with this as being an effective way to language learning. We in the military community use the group/pair work approach for many reasons. Pair work keeps them interested and motivated to learn. It also makes better use of class time. I also think that when the students are ready for the OPI, they generally do better than if they were in a traditional classroom. As for assessment, yes it is more difficult, but it is up to us as instructors to find ways to measure the students' performance based on the interaction. Once the student is in country, it will be up to him/her to communicate with others. That will be the true test.
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