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using comics in the classroom

Using iPads with first graders - and she only had ONE iPad for part of the year!

Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn't need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it's built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day.

Seems like a great website with suggesting for utilizing webtools. Since I really enjoy teaching the students songs in Spanish, it was fun to learn about Tubeoke, a website which supplies the lyrics for songs you find on YouTube.

Voxopop- Online Spoken Discussion

There is quite a few posts about Wallwisher on youtube. I wanted to share this one because the author explains how to use the tool to entice students to create an extended text that they can share with other students for comments. Combining the post-its to paragraphs and an overall texts is also a great way to look at text strucure overall. He also introduces another tool Middlespot which looks even more suitable for story telling. Check it out!

More ideas on how to use Wallwisher. I highlighted some of my favorites.

CLEAR opening page with many programs to try

Great ideas for using Wallwisher with language students. To name just a few, you could use it for collaborative homework, vocab practice or daily sentences.

Ideas for incorporating iPad or Facetime in the classroom.

Open Educational Resources clear lists and explanation of resources (not just for African client).  See 'supporting distance learner' in right menu.  

 Focuses on creating a free and open source on-line platform that gathers Information and Communication Technology-based applications and pedagogies to practice oral skills on-line.

DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS AND SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION The present study investigates discourse functions and syntactic complexity in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learner output obtained via two different modes of computer-mediated communication (CMC): asynchronous and synchronous discussions. Two instructors and twenty-five students from two advanced ESL writing classes participated in this study.

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