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.
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!
Instead of constantly reinventing the wheel, I love to see what other World Language teachers are doing in their classrooms. This article has some good activities that can easily be converted to any language.
This is Padlet's official blog, full of ideas and tips. I didn't realize that Padlet had its own blog until now and thought I'd share it (rather than zeroing in on one specific post).
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.
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.
This is a good reference that was made as a blog for Arabic Grammar, that I use all the time when teaching Arabic.I think the group can use the same idea and create simple grammar lessons in FL, these lessons can be useful for all the teachers teaching for example French, German all over the world.
This is a recent Arabic blog which provides some information about culture, It will useful from teacher of other language to have an idea and use used in FL.
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Learn how to use Microsoft Movie Maker and iMovie as well as Slidestory
Slidestory lets students share PowerPoint-like presentations online and others comment on it. A great feature is that it makes it very easy to record narration for each slide. Similar, but more centred on discussions, is VoiceThread,Q
The author of the blog sells products that help people learn languages better solo - she coaches independent language learners and online teachers. She has a blog on her website that talks mostly about her language studies how she uses online resources, not limited to but including SM.