______ of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else "of the day" might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.
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21st Century Fluency Project - 1 views
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Very good ideas regarding teaching for the digital age
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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"
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This is great stuff!!!
Questions from First-Time Online Instructors - 1 views
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There are a lot of questions that are pretty obvious that teachers new to online teaching will ask. and then there are all the questions that they don't even know they should ask - until they get into things!
Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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some ideas about why teaching writing with short assignments (Twitter?) might be a good idea
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views
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The K-12 educators in this study engaged in true dialogue, where evidence of actual conversation occurred in Twitter over 61% of the time. Additionally, over 82% of the time, the educators in this study chose to follow other educators or content experts related to their field of teaching so they were able to create a personal learning network meaningful to their professional needs.
Education Week Teacher: Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools - 2 views
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Food for thought - brings up the Bloom's Taxonomy and higher thinking skills as the purpose for using tools, not teaching tools.
4Teachers : Main Page - 0 views
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Teaching with Technology. Great site. Ads can be annoying.
Open Educational Resources - 0 views
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Open educational resources (OER) are "digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research."
28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter | Best Colleges Online - 1 views
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I almost feel overwhelmed with all this information of how to use Twitter for educational purposes. Some of the ideas are great and they look fun, definitely aiding to the traditional ways of teaching. What caught my attention at this list of creative ways teachers use Twitter is creating a TWIBE - have any of you heard of this before or used it? If yes, how did it work?
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Supplement foreign language lessons: Twitter’s unique spacing limitations make for an interesting way to nurture foreign language acquisition. Tweet a sentence in a foreign language at the beginning of the day or class and ask students to either translate or respond in kind as a quick, relatively painless supplement.
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UCLA Language Materials Project: Main - 0 views
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Teaching materials for the Less Commonly Taught Languages
The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) | The Sloan Consortium - 2 views
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Faculty Development for Online Teaching
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Vol 16, Issue 2 - Special Issue of JALN - "Faculty Development for Online Teaching"
FREE Course from ISTE | Designing Digital Media for Teaching & Learning | An Open Onlin... - 3 views
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"Whether digital media sparks fear or intrigue, it is a fundamental part of students' lives and can enrich teaching and learning in and out of the classroom. This course will examine how the creation and consumption of digital media can enhance education by engaging and empowering teachers and students. Throughout this project-based course, you will learn how to use free web 2.0 tools to create, implement, and assess digital media."
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2017/04/19/three-ways-humanize-on... - 4 views
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Three basic tips - what other tips do you have for teaching online?
The Right Way to Show Movies in Class | Creating Lifelong Learners - 6 views
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Ask students to evaluate the movie.
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I think this is an important metacognitive moment that gets students to think about themselves as learners. It also goes along with teaching media literacy.
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Show curricular movies at the beginning of units and not at the end. This gives students background information that they need to understand a unit before teaching that unit.
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How to use movies to teach media literacy in the classrom.
Computer-Mediated Communication | Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Writing - 4 views
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Research has shown that CMC: can help increase students' motivation to learn the foreign language, lower their anxiety, increase their fluency in the target language, lead to improved intercultural competence and democratize classroom communication.
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I agree with this author's idea. In my teaching experience using CMC to teach language, I can notice my students' progress i the target language. They express their motivation and even introvert students are more open to share their ideas.
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Keep in mind that students who study languages with different orthographies may encounter specific difficulties during CMC sessions. Be prepared with creative solutions, such as suggesting computers and keyboards that accommodate the characters your students need.
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This is a really good suggestion Vivian! It is always nice to have plan B especially when using technology! -
The author says that CMC helps in all of these areas, but doesn't provide any information about his sources. I think this shows the value of including links to other websites in blog posts about education!
Using social media as a language learning tool | Teacher Network | The Guardian - 3 views
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Five ways you can start to engage with your pupils on social media
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reate a Facebook page
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This article is about England but has some good tips for beginning to engage students using social media. It also shows that other countries struggle with promoting the importance of FL learning too. -
This blog provides facts about the influence of new technology in society and it engages instructors to be updated and open to new ways of teaching. It also provides some examples on how we can engage our students to learn languages through the use of social media. Carlatech17
4 Solid Strategies for Teaching French in the Modern Classroom | FluentU French Educato... - 2 views
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A flipped classroom reverses traditional teaching methods: The learners get the topic and recorded material online at home, while class time is devoted to doing exercises and discussing the topic. This will enable you as a teacher to devote more time to problem areas.
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This suggests the extent to which the success of a flipped classroom depends on the effective use of technology. In the context of flipped lessons, technology actually facilitates face-to-face interactions.
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A helpful article by Hilda Thomas, published on FluentU. Thomas provides a comprehensive list of online tools that can be used in the language classroom, some of which will be familiar to you from Koning's article. She also suggests resources for teachers interested in flipping their classrooms.
KQED Teach - Designing Presentations - 1 views
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Some free classes for teachers about tech - designing presentations, making media for classroom use, and others.
technology – we teach languages - 0 views
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List of episodes tagged "technology" on the We Teach Languages podcast. Topics include tech tools, eportfolios, digital games, Google translate, online teaching, and more! I learned about Adobe Spark from episode 103 w Heide Trude.
COVID-19 Planning for Fall 2020: A Closer Look at Hybrid-Flexible Course Design - PhilO... - 2 views
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some very practical suggestions in case you have to teach a HyFlex course
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