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claire_mitchell

FlipGrid Tutorial - YouTube - 2 views

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  • claire_mitchell on 05 Aug 18
     
    FlipGrid tutorial that helped to walk me through setting up different topics for students to participate in.
  • afarachnps on 06 Aug 18
     
    I so needed this!
  • afarachnps on 06 Aug 18
     
    It seems somewhat self-explanatory, but by watching the tutorial I came up with a few ideas that would not have otherwise come up. Among them, I can use FG as a scaffolding activity to match student progress over the course of a quarter or semester. It offers a few features that could appropriately match this growth-- I can write a prompt with an image, video, video + link. Anyway, I can see now more clearly how to FG can be a great resource for my classroom.
norikofujiokaito

VoiceThread - About - Digital Library - 2 views

voicethread.com/...bilingualdictionary

shared by norikofujiokaito on 04 Aug 18 - No Cached
  • Interactive tutorials made with VoiceThread ask students to practice what they learn outside of class, so the instructor can observe their practice, respond with feedback, or modify classroom teaching to address students' needs.
    • atsukofrederick
      atsukofrederick on 04 Aug 18
       
      This is a good example activity that I can adapt to use VT in a flipped classroom. I have started to see lots of potential in this tool.
  • Using a bilingual dictionary correctly is an important skill for nearly all language students, and this tutorial aims to help students understand how to use a dictionary well.
    • norikofujiokaito
      norikofujiokaito on 04 Aug 18
       
      This is a good idea!
afarachnps

Inside VIPKID, Cindy Mi, and $3 billion startup's teacher community - Business Insider - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/rtups-teacher-community-2018-8

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  • But, she said, she and fellow members of the Teachers of Color group have called for VIPKid to act "proactively" by teaching the company's parent customers about diversity in America, involving teachers of color in the construction of the curriculum, featuring teachers of color in advertisements in China, and releasing a statement to the company's Chinese customers explicitly supporting teachers of color.
    • afarachnps
      afarachnps on 07 Aug 18
       
      Online tutoring like the kind offered by this company, VIPKid, from China to the US, can offer great opportunities for targeting interpersonal communication. However, perhaps due to the synchronous nature of the interactions between tutors and students, cultural and racial stereotypes can interfere in many damaging ways. Does interpersonal communication in the language classroom, real or virtual, open up students and their interlocutors to situations for which we as teachers may not always be prepared?
jameshousworth

Using YouTube in the ESL Classroom - 2 views

www.thoughtco.com/utube-in-the-classroom-1211761

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shared by jameshousworth on 25 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • For homework, assign your ESL students to groups of four or five and ask each group to find a short video to present to the class.
smorris55

World Language - EdTech Hub - 0 views

sites.google.com/...world-language

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  • smorris55 on 06 Aug 18
     
    Just stumbled across this site with ideas on how or what tasks with technology in lesson planning might look like based on general units. Worth looking into more.
vaguevara

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

educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/...s41239-018-0105-2

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  • This study explores the deployment of correction strategies and repair moves in synchronous learning activities in an online English course.
    • barichetti
      barichetti on 10 Aug 18
       
      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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    • barichetti
      barichetti on 10 Aug 18
       
      Recasting during synchronous activities as a way to correct errors or misunderstandings from asynchronous activities.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 10 Aug 18
       
      Yes- the way it happens in the real world!
  • vaguevara on 10 Aug 18
     
    I appreciate the data around this-- Will be helpful with my student/ family communications about the 'how, why and when' of corrections.
barichetti

(28) 5 Strategies for Using Flipgrid in the Language Learning Classroom | LinkedIn - 6 views

www.linkedin.com/...age-learning-michael-j-shehane

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  • smorris55 on 06 Aug 18
     
    Since others posted tutorials, I chose an article from a teacher who shares its value.
  • barichetti on 06 Aug 18
     
    I really like this instructor's take on communication in the classroom, and how to use FlipGrid to foster it.
  • effeinstein on 06 Aug 18
     
    I loved the story of Connie who was nervous to speak in class but felt comfortable and excelled in flipgrid! Her picture was Sully from Monsters inc which gave me the idea of having students use dolls or stuffed animals to present stories on flip grid in the voice of that character.
norikofujiokaito

Computer Assisted Language Learning Social Networks: What Are They Talking about? - 9 views

www.scirp.org/...PaperInformation.aspx

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  • Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Validates the "three, then me" concept that asks students to ask three other students for help before asking the teacher. Students are perhaps more available asynchronously than the teacher as well, when students need help
  • Researchers also noted that people who interact more in an online course tend to achieve higher marks on exams, as opposed to lurking which is not as successful [12]
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      want to encourage participation with some sort of graded activity
    • norikofujiokaito
      norikofujiokaito on 25 Jul 18
       
      I suspect that students' achievement was assessed in online format; that is why students who interacted more could achieve higher marks.
  • Students who are required to collaboratively work online need to dedicate time to get to know each other and therefore are able to accomplish effective communication in an online environment [29]
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Need to persist and convince reluctant students that persisting will yield dividends. Also true of regular classroom settings.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Need to persist and convince reluctant students that persisting will yield dividends. Also true of regular classroom settings.
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  • This outcome tells us that the students seem to be more excited, talkative and social with one another, as well as chat/contribute more at the start of the course, but their overall participation rates were on a decrease during the duration of the course.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Is this a concern? Perhaps, having spent time at the beginning building trust, they are simply becoming more efficient.
    • smuske
      smuske on 24 Jul 18
       
      Or perhaps they're bored with this way of learning?
  • Furthermore, it has been shown that students prefer to contact their peer students rather than their tutor when they are struggling with coursework, facing difficulties in assessing facilities and understanding lectures
  • hharb01 on 29 Jul 18
     
    I offer a course in my school called Computer Mediated Language Learning. But this article gives a new perspective of what computer assisted can be.
  • vaguevara on 29 Jul 18
     
    Nice data to back up our use of all of these great online resources-- Thanks for sharing!
  • atsukofrederick on 29 Jul 18
     
    Active participation in discussions is a key to success. If you use a flipped classroom, providing useful vocabulary and sentence structures they might want to use to talk about a particular topic also helps the students participate more in discussions.
afarachnps

Unlike in US, most European students learn a foreign language | Pew Research Center - 1 views

www.pewresearch.org/...-in-school-while-americans-lag

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  • In a 2016 Pew Research Center report on the state of American jobs, only 36% of Americans reported that knowing a foreign language was an extremely or very important trait for workers to be successful in today’s economy, ranking it last out of eight skills for workers’ success
    • afarachnps
      afarachnps on 07 Aug 18
       
      This is not related to our synchronous activities of the week, but suggests a link we've yet to make so far: how to use tech in our classroom to help to change the perception, prevalent in the US, that foreign languages are not an essential professional skill. With all the wonderful apps we've seen this past few weeks, there's surely something to do be with them about this issue!
ljarboe

Invitation-to-CALL-Unit3.pdf - 0 views

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  • While this may seem odd at first (if they are in the same room, why not have them discussing orally face to face?), a number of studies have shown that some students communicate more when they don't have to speak or be face to face with interlocutors, that communication overall is more evenly distributed among participants (e.g., Warschauer et al., 2000), and that they may even use a much wider range of discourse functions than they do in face-to-face settings with the same material (Kern, 1995).
    • ljarboe
      ljarboe on 10 Aug 18
       
      It explains for me the importance of CMC
  • afarachnps on 12 Aug 18
     
    Yes, agreed. It takes time for many students to feel comfortable with communication in the traditional setting, so we've found great tools to encourage their growth emphatetically and creatively.
barichetti

Six Habits of Highly Empathic People | Greater Good Magazine - 6 views

greatergood.berkeley.edu/...its_of_highly_empathic_people1

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  • “instrumental empathy” (sometimes known as “impact anthropology”) can go a long way.
  • “instrumental empathy” (sometimes known as “impact anthropology”) can go a long way.
  • ambitious imagination
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  • ambitious imagination
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      I like this phrase-- it encourages expansive thinking and ways out of old, ineffectual ways of thinking--
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      I like this phrase-- it encourages expansive thinking and ways out of old, ineffectual ways of thinking--
  • Inspire mass action and social change
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      And this is my hope, that empathy leads to agency and action on the parts of my students--L2 is an amazing tool to support action and change
  • empathic conversationalist.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      #great catch phrase for L2 learners
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      #great catch phrase for L2 learners
  • Orwell developed new friendships, shifted his views on inequality, and gathered some superb literary material. It was the greatest travel experience of his life. He realised that empathy doesn’t just make you good—it’s good for you, too.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      This is a great example of empathy-- I want to bring more of these types of anecdotes into my classroom-- via web apps--
  • Orwell developed new friendships, shifted his views on inequality, and gathered some superb literary material. It was the greatest travel experience of his life. He realised that empathy doesn’t just make you good—it’s good for you, too.
  • the power of empathy to overcome hatred and change our minds.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      I am especially interested in the intersection of L2 learning and empathy-- I think that a deeper understanding of culture--differences and commonalities, helps to form a bridge between peoples-- In learning language, we learn humility and stepping into the unknown--trying on new ways of saying things and seeing the world.
  • ighly empathic people (HEPs) have an insatiable curiosity about strangers.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      This is what I want from my students-- I look forward to using the tools of this CARLAtech18 to draw them in and help them to become lifelong language learners
  • Six Habits of Highly Empathic People |
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      I chose this article, as I feel empathy is the root of language learning, and I am searching for rationale and 'hooks' for student engagement in their L2 learning.
    • vaguevara
      vaguevara on 09 Aug 18
       
      I chose this article, as I feel empathy is the root of language learning, and I am searching for rationale and 'hooks' for student engagement in their L2 learning.
  • Six Habits of Highly Empathic People |
  • Six Habits of Highly Empathic People |
  • Empathy is about discovering those tastes.
    • barichetti
      barichetti on 13 Aug 18
       
      I like that this focuses on the active role we play in learning better empathic responses - sometimes I think we act like empathy is either something we have or we don't and that we all feel the same.
  • . Evolutionary biologists like Frans de Waal have shown that we are social animals who have naturally evolved to care for each other, just like our primate cousin
  • HEPs challenge their own preconceptions and prejudices by searching for what they share with people rather than what divides them.
  • Habit 4: Listen hard—and open up
  • claire_mitchell on 13 Aug 18
     
    I really like the phrase "instrumental empathy" -- I think it's something great to strive for in our classrooms and to integrate into our lessons.
Marlene Johnshoy

Week 2 - Activity 3 - CARLA Tech Online - 1 views

carlatech.ning.com/...week-2-activity-3

diigolet chrome extension

shared by Marlene Johnshoy on 21 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • B. Install the “Diigolet” into your browser  (Due Thursday, July 16)
    • Marlene Johnshoy
      Marlene Johnshoy on 21 Jul 15
       
      Now I can add a note and save it to the group. It should show up in the Diigo group page list of posts - with a colored bar alongside the note, or a little post-it note icon.
  • Marlene Johnshoy on 22 Jul 15
     
    If you are seeing this with the Chrome Extension - I'm discovering that there is no way to share your highlights and post-it notes with the group. Go back and install the Diigolet - instructions in Week 2!
anonymous

About Google Scholar - 0 views

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scholarly search carlatech17 Group B

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  • Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 31 Jul 17
       
      We often tell our students to avoid doing research online and to go to the library. However, we should be encouraging both. The issue with online is credibility of source. Students need to practice determining which are scholarly sources, worth of paper citation, and which are not.
  • Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications Locate the complete document through your library or on the web Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 31 Jul 17
       
      All of these actions need to become second nature for our students
speabodymn

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Creating engagement through interactive infographics - 4 views

nikpeachey.blogspot.com/...ement-through-interactive.html

groupC group C

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  • The potentials for dropping in html objects such as quizzes that enable interaction can make static data much more dynamic. The ability to drop in multimedia and particularly video can lend more significance and impact to the information in the graphic.
    • speabodymn
      speabodymn on 30 Jul 17
       
      I have not tried this tool, but it sounds like a great combination of things--embedded videos, plus the ability to add quizzes. I am imagining being able to create something like a google-docs quiz or EdPuzzle, and embed within the context of a larger discussion of a topic. This might help to show how one activities fits into a broader unit.
rfrisch125

Music Unit - Creative Language Class - 2 views

www.creativelanguageclass.com/music-unit

rubrics culture music compelling comprehensible

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  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
  • So many opinions were out there on social media. I decided to focus this unit even more on this popular music event.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      There are always good themes but we need to figure out how to make them focused, comprehensible and doable. That is the key.
  • Lots of comprehensible input there! They learned about new genres. Some said they added music that we learned about in class to their playlists. Love that!
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Comprehensible and compelling input. Plus, added Spanish music to their audio files. The best language learners are the ones who listen to music and watch videos.
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  • The main culture goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Seeing how she described the cultural aspects of the unit really brought into focus what she was trying to accomplish. From here she will be able to set up tasks and activities that meet these goals.
  • Now the major communication goals:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I like how these three areas help define what the students will be able to do.
  • For example, for the last presentational goal where they tell what happened, they only used a few verbs (won, nominated, said) as memorized chunks. Intermediate students were able to give more details and it sounded like a true narration of events with transitions.
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      I love this! each level can accomplish the goal by sheltering or minimizing the vocab.
  • And the remaining 3 C’s:
    • rfrisch125
      rfrisch125 on 27 Jul 17
       
      Wow this lady really knows what she is doing!! I haven't seen a rubric like this before. I like it.
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

When Not to Use Video Chat for Language Learning | | Academic Technology Specialists - 0 views

web.stanford.edu/...hivetalkin

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  • October 31, 2011
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 14 Aug 17
       
      This article is not the most recent, but it's still an interesting read.
    • lars3969
      lars3969 on 14 Aug 17
       
      This is the most interesting point in the article. Even when speaking with another native English speaker on Skype or Google Hangouts, it can be hard to negotiate turn taking.
  • trying to have a conversation with someone you have never met, over a low quality video connection, in a language you don’t speak very well, is quite challenging socially as well as linguistically.
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  • Anyone who has used video chat for business purposes knows just how difficult it is to execute turn-taking, interrupting, and politeness.
speabodymn

http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2010/yanguas.pdf - 2 views

llt.msu.edu/...yanguas.pdf

language education CMC Skype

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    • speabodymn
      speabodymn on 14 Aug 17
       
      "...no differences were found between video and FTF groups." The article shows that CMC performance is very similar to FTF--this suggests to me that recorded Skype conversations (or similar recorded online CMC work) could serve as a good way to practice and assess interpersonal communication skills.
mmegillespie

I've got that Flipgrid FEVER - En français, SVP! - 1 views

mmefarab.wordpress.com/...ive-got-that-flipgrid-fever

carlatech17 GroupC Flipgrid

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  • lars3969 on 14 Aug 17
     
    This blog gave a good overview of the new features on Flipgrid (which just got rolled out a week or two ago). Helpful stuff!
Robert Steen

Types of Texts : Foreign Language Teaching Methods - 6 views

coerll.utexas.edu/...texts.php

Education CARLA resources

shared by Robert Steen on 27 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • A "text" isn't limited to something written down. A text can be a film, an artifact, anything in a language and culture that conveys meaning.
  • Created texts have long dominated the materials used in language classrooms. But increasingly, educators are coming to understand the need to bring more authentic texts into the learning environment.
  • Robert Steen on 27 Jul 17
     
    Good discussion of "authenticity" -- what makes a text authentic or not?
  • anonymous on 31 Jul 17
     
    "Authentic" appears to mean: naturally produced by authentic source for communication in a native setting. What concerns me is that the call for "authentic" dates back to perhaps 20 years ago? We are still claiming it is important, yet we scaffold authentic text often to the point that they loose their intrinsic challenge.
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