Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
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(28) 5 Strategies for Using Flipgrid in the Language Learning Classroom | LinkedIn - 6 views
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Since others posted tutorials, I chose an article from a teacher who shares its value.
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I really like this instructor's take on communication in the classroom, and how to use FlipGrid to foster it.
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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.
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Media Use in the Classroom - 2 views
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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.
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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.
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Technology is not going away and language teachers need to embrace its full potential to engage our 21st century learners.
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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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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!
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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!
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Classkick - Learn together | Reimagine student feedback - 4 views
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Computer Assisted Language Learning Social Networks: What Are They Talking about? - 9 views
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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]
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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.
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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
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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.
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Nice data to back up our use of all of these great online resources-- Thanks for sharing!
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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.
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Teaching, Tech and Twitter: Ignite a Flipgrid Fire - 1 views
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5. GridPals! An incredible idea from Bonnie McClelland, GridPals connects classrooms across the globe creating virtual pen pals. You can take advantage of GridPals using Flipgrid One. However, if one of the GridPals teachers has Flipgrid classroom then you can become CoPilots on the same grid giving both teachers access to the educator dashboard.
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The beginning of the year, at parent conferences, a send-off to the next grade are all ways to get families involved in encouraging and supporting their kids.
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ONE of the PVLEGS expectations to focus on at a time
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Flipgrid film festival
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Flipgrid video and a QR code link to the video is stuck on the map? Geography, history and oral reports all rolled into one.
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7. Computer science shareout
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The Global Read Aloud is a set 6 week period that spans from early October through mid-November and teachers all over the globe read one book and connect with other classrooms all over the world.
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10 Ways to Enhance Math Lessons With Flipgrid by Sean Fahey.
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background knowledge
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1. Virtual vocabulary word wall When working on a unit have your students record a video describing the meaning of important vocabulary words. They can hold up a card in their selfie video with the word written on it so the words are easily accessed by other students.
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The Educator's Guide to Flipgrid (2nd Edition).
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Virtual reality narratives in foreign language pedagogy | Harvard Initiative for Learn... - 0 views
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The video project allowed students to engage in four brief VR tours of Parisian quarters.
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The team will expand upon the initial pilot by hiring five Parisians from different neighborhoods to document and share their lives with a VR camera over the course of one to two months.
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Awardees hypothesize that virtual reality will allow language learners to have perceptual, empathetic, and culturally immersive experiences in multiple sensory modalities (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) that will enhance their vision, perceived value of language and culture learning, and willingness to communicate.
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Six Habits of Highly Empathic People | Greater Good Magazine - 6 views
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ambitious imagination
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empathic conversationalist.
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Inspire mass action and social change
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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.
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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.
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Six Habits of Highly Empathic People |
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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.
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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.
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ighly empathic people (HEPs) have an insatiable curiosity about strangers.
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the power of empathy to overcome hatred and change our minds.
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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.
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Empathy is about discovering those tastes.
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. 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
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HEPs challenge their own preconceptions and prejudices by searching for what they share with people rather than what divides them.
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Designing and Implementing Synchronous Language Tasks - 11 views
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asks should give the learners the opportunity to create contents, which motivates them. • Synchronous communication tasks give students the opportunity to develop an audience for authentic communication. • Tasks should be focused on thinking skills. • It provides collaborative learning experience. • Tasks should give students proof of getting their ideas across • Creates a learning environment that goes beyond the classroom. • Vocabulary improvement
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Thanks for sharing-- Some great slides to help with family communications! and I love the activities-- going to use this year!
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I like the slide show especially the slide that shows the different tasks for synchronous activities.
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I saved this for a course I am working on (training for language instructors who will be teaching online courses). Thanks!
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How to use Glogster - web / desktop - 6 views
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(carlatech17 GroupC) Glogster Can be used to create posters embedded videos for class presentation.
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Not only will audiences be enraptured, but presenters will gain skills in digital literacy and creativity, as well as a lot of confidence! Glogster presentations can also be shared instantly with classmates, parents, colleagues and learners around the globe.
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I really like Glogster. I thought it was a great way to introduce oneself to an ePal at the high school level. Really fun and engaging!
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I tried this one at the beginning of the week, but gave up after not being able to type accent marks in Spanish. I like the idea of creating posters or "one pager" presentations.
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5 Strategies for Using Flipgrid in the Language Learning Classroom | Michael J Shehane ... - 5 views
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Great suggestions in this article for using Flipgrid. I really like the idea of keeping track of completed assignments (in my school that would be considered a Habit of Work as we do not grade homework anyhow) and perhaps using Flipgrid as part of a summative assessment at the end of the semester...lots of no stress practice and, by the time the assessment comes, they are all familiar with the technology.
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I enjoyed reading Connie's story, and I think we all have "Connie" in our classes. Flipgrid can be a great opportunity for students show the side that others don't see in class.
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Thanks for sharing this article! I liked the idea of different context and different identity :-) Sometimes students express themselves more comfortable at the beginning through the use of alternate identities. Specially if they have to video record themselves when they are learning the language.
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My only concern is that how much the material they use in video can be authentic.
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Statement on the Role of Technology in Language Learning | American Council on the Teac... - 3 views
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I hope we can learn how to introduce games online. For me this hard to do , but I think it be very effective for students to learn FL.
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I like to use games in teaching but for me it is hard to design one in class and online.
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"The use of technology is not a goal in and of itself; rather technology is one tool that supports language learners as they use the target language in culturally appropriate ways to accomplish authentic tasks." This quote stood out to me and it is so true. sometimes we feel pressured to use technology but we forgot the pedagogy purpose.
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Thanks for sharing it. We are using technology for our language lessons. I agree what ACFLT says about having clear that tech is a tool not a goal since the most important aspect is the learning.
Professors Share Ideas for Building Community in Online Courses - 0 views
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100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom - OnlineCollege.org - 11 views
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Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.
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This list is amazing. It has even a list of apps and pages that work very well with Facebook.
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I love this list. So many activities we can do with our students to learn through FB.
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this looks great. All it takes is a couple of good ideas for something to work well. Thank you
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This is a great list! I never used facebook for teaching but I learned many facebook apps for instructional purpose! Thank you for posting!
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Thinking About Synching? Technology resources for the World Language Classroom - 6 views
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Reinders_2011.pdf - 1 views
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0LFURVRIW¶V 0RYLH 0DNHU RU $SSOH¶V iMovie for Mac users) is a free and easy-to-use program that lets students combine audio, video and still images.
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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
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