Because eduCanon uses HTML5, rather than Flash, playback works great on an iPad, too.
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edX - online courses and classes from the world's best - 0 views
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EdX offers free online classes and MOOCs from the world's best universities. Topics include business, computer science, finance, history, literature, math, science, statistics and more. Courses are from some of the best universities in the world including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, UT and many other universities.
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Would a Course Syllabus Be Better as an Infographic? - 2 views
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At the college where I teach, professors have the unique opportunity every May to develop a course outside of their typical curriculum. Teachers get to explore their interests in new courses as diverse as "The Chemistry of Cooking" and "Writing a Film Short." -
I just found this article about redesigning the syllabus. Since my students hardly every really read the syllabus, I have to come up with something new. http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/creative-approaches-to-the-syllabus/35621 -
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Very interesting postings, many of them with appealing pictures or other visuals. The topics seem to span a broad area within the area of learning with technology. This is Garett, by the way. -
Hi Garrett, I was following his blog, too: Niks' Learning Technology Blog (via Feedly). He reviews and demos a lot of great tools. One thing I had a problem with is that nothing seems to be dated. One of is blogs had a bunch of great tools on it and I found links that were useful. Then, other links in the same blog were broken or, even for me, seemed way out of date (hasn't everyone already heard of Firefox?). -
One of my friends started up one of these Scoop.it "newsletters" and I get messages weekly from it - automated. I wonder if she even knows it's still running...?
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Make screencasts interactive with eduCanon | Douchy's Blog - 2 views
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This could be an advantage for Apple devices. Flash has occasional issues with Apple products.
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That's good to know. My students have a mixed bag of devices, and several have Ipads.
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The first time students watch a video, they are unable to skip through the video; they have to watch the whole thing from start to finish and attempt every question.
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Love this feature. Like with reading, middle schoolers pick through material to find the answers. We can't glue them to their seats, but they never know where those questions will pop up and they can't look ahead to see what answers they need to find. Love that!
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You paste in the URL of the video, then watch it play
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According to another blog I was reading regarding licensing and sharing, if the "embed" function is operable the owner has endorsed (consciously or thru oversight?) sharing.
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The answers people choose in a public video are not collected by eduCanon.
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Good to know to allay students' fears. Will they even think that their answers would be made public-probably not most MS students.
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You can assign a video to the class, and then eduCanon collects data for you on your class’ completion of the task and their responses to your questions.
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all of those features are 100% free
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Twitter is used as an ongoing public channel of communication for academic and co-curricular discussions
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
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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-
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do not provide motivation, enthusiasm or personalization
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earning management systems (LMSs)
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ave generally been used as static sources of content with no social appeal like social networks, such as Facebook or YouTube
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while also impeding general pedagogical support with their default settings and familiar features
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social networking platforms have been acclaimed to provide learners social communication, autonomy,fluid online discussions, and identity management
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ease interaction, e-discussions by focusing on the use of technology to support education
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informal and relaxing atmosphere and make learning effective (Dalton, 2009). Social networking allows students and teachers to build a rapport and overcome inhibitions
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Integrating social software with LMS aims at active participation, interaction and collaborationbetween the members of an academic community
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Web 2.0 tools consist of blogs, microblogs, wikis, podcasts, virtual worlds and social networks
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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
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Facebook
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Twitter, Edmodo, and Ning
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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
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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
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a service offering language learning quizzes via Twitter hasbeen established (TwitterLearn, 2008)
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Twitter has been studied in context with other social media and has proven to have a significant influence on academic activity
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microblogging and inferred that it enhanced students’ achievement, motivation and participation in class.
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Edudemic
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Check this out--appears to be a comprehensive site about the use of technology for educators and students.
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Different platforms suit different sorts of interactions and appeal tostudents and educators in a diverse manner
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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nstructors could evaluate students’ learning progress by reviewing theirreflections on what they have gained through networked learning
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Excellent collection of reference materials on SNSs in foreign-language (and other) learning.
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Vocaroo: Voice Recording Made Easy - The FLTmag | The FLTmag - 0 views
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get a link to my recordings and then email it to students
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smartphones, have Vocaroo generate a QR code and your students can unlock the message behind the code with any QR code reader
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If your students are in need of extra practice with the past tense, have them email you a Vocaroo recording every Sunday night describing their weekend.
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For homework, ask your students to collaboratively author a story in which they elaborate on the details of the previous recordings and then either post or email the recordings to their classmates
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no account is needed to use this tool
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embedding a Vocaroo recording into a set of instructions
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Tip of the Week: Tumblr in your classroom? Maybe. Just maybe. | History Tech - 2 views
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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10 Social Media Tips for Reaching World Language Learners | Edutopia - 5 views
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The 21st century learner is not wired to memorize; instead, her or she is inclined to create, connect and collaborate. Social media is the perfect medium for us, their teachers, to reach them.
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It is important to remember to reach our students where they are, not where we were when we were students.
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posting a weekly question and having students respond
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It is time to officially gamify education. If we make it fun through gaming, our students will be engaged. For language teachers, Duolingo is the route to student involvement when it comes to reviewing grammatical structures. Available in many languages, this app allows students to compete with one another and "level up."
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I recommend Edublogs
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It sounds like a fun way to get students interact and use the language in an interactive way.
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I like what srafuller says about not expecting students to be like we were when we were students. I struggle with that in all the classes I teach, not just the foreign language. I work to be conscious of reaching students "where they are" every day. Not only that, but we need to be conscious (at least older teachers like me) of not teaching the way we were taught!
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I really like this article! Simple, to-the-point, useful suggestions for several on-line applications. I tried out Duolingo but was chagrined to find out they don't offer Russian (Ukrainian and Esperanto but not Russian?!). I could, however, study English from Russian, which has several activities (especially translation) that my students can use. Thanks for posting this article!
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12 Top Tips for Teaching on Skype - Lindsay Does Languages - 2 views
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My absolute essential for “real life” teaching is a whiteboard. Obviously, this is tricky to use via Skype. Thankfully, I discovered Twiddla! It’s an online whiteboard tool that you and anyone who you share the link with can see and edit at the same time. Perfect for awkward explanations you just can’t do with words and emoticons!
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It would be a great tool if you teach on Skype. But after having learned about Zoom, I would forget about Skype. Zoom has so much more to offer and it can be free if you use it in 40 minute increments.
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Screencasting Tools: Camtasia vs. Screencast-O-Matic - Instructional Technology Blog | ... - 2 views
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Whenever I ask my students to use a new web app I go record myself signing in and doing an example.
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Recording your computer screens into a digital video (screencasting) for class tutorials can come in handy when flipping the classroom. You can record yourself using an online tool, reciting a presentation, or guide students through a website. You can even record streaming video online – though you will still have to follow copyright rules when recording online video. This post will compare two popular screencasting tools: Camtasia (which cost money) and Screencast-O-Matic (free).
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100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom - OnlineUniversities.com - 5 views
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Ideas for K-12 Classrooms
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All of these are great ideas for a content-based language classroom!!! I already plan to do a few of them. Now if only our school would unblock these sites, at least for teachers...
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This could be really helpful for my linguistics students, who often have no idea how to find literature!
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Find scientific research papers
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Have fun at conferences. If you are attending a conference, give BackChatter a try–a game that uses Twitter and makes attendees interactive participants.
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I've done this at conferences - a great way to get notes from one session while you're in another. And a way to plan where to meet up for dinner! Teachers in lecture classes use Twitter as a "back channel" for students to use to ask questions and discuss while the lecture is in progress. Oh, I see this is mentioned in the "Community" section below...
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I think this Blog is rich with possibility for utilizing social media for the teaching of a second language. Students so much into social media and they also get motivated by change in ideas and activities. The variety of possibilities that this blog offers provides a teacher with a good resource that would work for various language levels.
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15 Characteristics of a 21st-Century Teacher | Edutopia - 6 views
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the value of writing for real audience and establishing their digital presence.
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Do you blog? Personally or professionally? Do you think we all should be blogging?
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Participating in Twitter chat is the cheapest and most efficient way to organize one's own PD
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What do you think about Twitter for PD or your PLN after your experiences with it last week?
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Coding is very interesting to learn
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I like coding, but I'm a webmaster and need it. Do regular teachers? or do we have enough WYSIWYG applications now that teachers don't need to learn to code?
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What do you think of these 15 characteristics? Do you agree? Add a note to the ones you question - and tell us why. Don't forget to look at the responses after the article!
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They're fine...but huge to implement on a consistent basis: by 'huge' I mean both in terms of time, and space - to get one's head around them all conceptually. And it can also be a challenge for students to buy into the responsibility for their own leaning. HTML...yes, sometimes, in designing activities writhing my LMS. Blogging...no! Takes too much thought and self- confidence! Tweeting...yes! I love passing on items that have been helpful to me. And yes...II guess tweeting is providing glimpses of great PD resources. Now all I have to do is to go back to them in more depth.
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Practicing What We Preach - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views
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Still not sure about the relationship of all of these social networking tools to FERPA. Can you require students to post work on a site not run by the school ... and if so, what happens if there is a security compromise? These are all tools that I would use personally, but am uncomfortable advocating their use to a wider audience without explicit permission ... which is an incredibly time consuming process.
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"they" would say no without even reading/listening to my reasons. Better to ask forgiveness than permission but it may not be worth your job and it's definitely not worth the safety of students.
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Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child ... - 3 views
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I don't think that the facebook craze has effected us THAT much, goodness!!! I am 22 and am part of this generation, and I can say that most of my friends and I have grown out of the facebook phase, we aren't obsessed like we were at the end of high school and start of college. -
An amusing article ... and perhaps with some degree of truth to it ... but I am unsure why the opinion professor of pharmacology who has done no research on the topic warrants an article.
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Questioning Facebook in School | MindShift - 0 views
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Facebook is blocked at my school, and an educator there (not me, thank heavens) just had their (sorry about this pronoun) FB page hacked w/a very graphic sex video seen by all the kids and parents who were person's friend, but nonetheless there are reasons to use it with students.
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