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Ole C  Brudvik

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  • E-Learning in Europe Posted by admin On October - 27 - 2011 ADD COMMENTS Western Europe recorded the second slowest rate of growth in the electronic learning sector. It’s average increase of just 6.7 % only surpassed the North American growth rate. In contrast, Eastern Europe and CIS have reported a  robust average increase of 21.8%. Read the rest of this entry »
sanjit saha

Van Insurance Quotes - 1 views

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    Comparing Van Insurance online is the first step towards getting the best rates available - and using our site is a great way to find some of the best deals on your van insurance! We know you'll want to compare van insurance quotes online, but we also hope that the prices and cover we can find you is among the best in the industry.
clarence Mathers

How To Develop Workable Lead Nurturing Strategies for B2B Email Marketing - 0 views

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    We've taken a look at applying lead nurturing concepts broadly to an integrated marketing campaign in a previous blog post. Now, let's narrow down our discussion to cover lead nurturing in the realm of B2B email marketing and see what we can do with our B2B contact lists, email messages/content, and other campaign considerations to improve the quality of our prospects.
Tim Macmillan

Using Google Drawing to Create Digital Book Jackets - New Literacies for a  N... - 0 views

  • Google Drawing served as an excellent tool for making visually appealing book jackets.
  • The book jackets required: a visually appealing cover that included the title, publisher, author’s name, and a relevant image a spine that included the title, author’s name, and publisher a back that included a concise, engaging summary of the text; quotes of praise (either from published reviews or written by the student); awards the book has won; a barcode, price list, and credits
Nik Peachey

Digital Video - A manual for language teachers - 0 views

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    This book was designed to help language teachers access the potential of new video-based technologies for the purpose of language learning. The book covers a wide range of theoretical aspects but the main focus is on the practicalities of how to use various web-based and mobile applications to create motivating and engaging learning opportunities. The book contains more than 40 step-by-step lesson plans that guide the teacher through classroom and online activities. There are also 26 video tutorials to help teachers with the technical aspects of understanding the technology.
Caroline Roche

Cover story - Broken spines |TES - 0 views

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    Article about the use of E books, especially textbooks in schools. Fair and openended article- does not advocate getting rid of traditional books, just integrating ebooks with books.
Martin Burrett

Khan Academy - 0 views

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    comprehensive math tutoring videos...free The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. We have 600 videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here. To keep abreast of new videos as we add them, subscribe to the Khan Academy channel on YouTube. The entire video library is shown below. Just click on a category or video title to start learning from the Khan Academy!
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    Khan Academy is a widely know and used cross-curricular educational video site. While there is some content for younger students, most videos are for older students and adults. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Jeannine Hamilton

FedFlix : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive - 3 views

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    Interesting resource of government films. Check out the Duck and Cover film for all of us who remember viewing it - in Kindergarten!!
Jorge De La Garza

Comment to my Class on Your experience request.. - 70 views

Good Morning! I'm including the link to the VoiceThread recap I created for my Class: http://voicethread.com/share/264701/ The Topics cover: Voicethread Digital Storyboarding Photostory 3 Intruc...

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Tero Toivanen

Digital Citizenship | the human network - 0 views

  • The change is already well underway, but this change is not being led by teachers, administrators, parents or politicians. Coming from the ground up, the true agents of change are the students within the educational system.
  • While some may be content to sit on the sidelines and wait until this cultural reorganization plays itself out, as educators you have no such luxury. Everything hits you first, and with full force. You are embedded within this change, as much so as this generation of students.
  • We make much of the difference between “digital immigrants”, such as ourselves, and “digital natives”, such as these children. These kids are entirely comfortable within the digital world, having never known anything else. We casually assume that this difference is merely a quantitative facility. In fact, the difference is almost entirely qualitative. The schema upon which their world-views are based, the literal ‘rules of their world’, are completely different.
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  • The Earth becomes a chalkboard, a spreadsheet, a presentation medium, where the thorny problems of global civilization and its discontents can be explored out in exquisite detail. In this sense, no problem, no matter how vast, no matter how global, will be seen as being beyond the reach of these children. They’ll learn this – not because of what teacher says, or what homework assignments they complete – through interaction with the technology itself.
  • We and our technological-materialist culture have fostered an environment of such tremendous novelty and variety that we have changed the equations of childhood.
  • As it turns out (and there are numerous examples to support this) a mobile handset is probably the most important tool someone can employ to improve their economic well-being. A farmer can call ahead to markets to find out which is paying the best price for his crop; the same goes for fishermen. Tradesmen can close deals without the hassle and lost time involved in travel; craftswomen can coordinate their creative resources with a few text messages. Each of these examples can be found in any Bangladeshi city or Africa village.
  • The sharing of information is an innate human behavior: since we learned to speak we’ve been talking to each other, warning each other of dangers, informing each other of opportunities, positing possibilities, and just generally reassuring each other with the sound of our voices. We’ve now extended that four-billion-fold, so that half of humanity is directly connected, one to another.
  • Everything we do, both within and outside the classroom, must be seen through this prism of sharing. Teenagers log onto video chat services such as Skype, and do their homework together, at a distance, sharing and comparing their results. Parents offer up their kindergartener’s presentations to other parents through Twitter – and those parents respond to the offer. All of this both amplifies and undermines the classroom. The classroom has not dealt with the phenomenal transformation in the connectivity of the broader culture, and is in danger of becoming obsolesced by it.
  • We already live in a time of disconnect, where the classroom has stopped reflecting the world outside its walls. The classroom is born of an industrial mode of thinking, where hierarchy and reproducibility were the order of the day. The world outside those walls is networked and highly heterogeneous. And where the classroom touches the world outside, sparks fly; the classroom can’t handle the currents generated by the culture of connectivity and sharing. This can not go on.
  • We must accept the reality of the 21st century, that, more than anything else, this is the networked era, and that this network has gifted us with new capabilities even as it presents us with new dangers. Both gifts and dangers are issues of potency; the network has made us incredibly powerful. The network is smarter, faster and more agile than the hierarchy; when the two collide – as they’re bound to, with increasing frequency – the network always wins.
  • A text message can unleash revolution, or land a teenager in jail on charges of peddling child pornography, or spark a riot on a Sydney beach; Wikipedia can drive Britannica, a quarter millennium-old reference text out of business; a outsider candidate can get himself elected president of the United States because his team masters the logic of the network. In truth, we already live in the age of digital citizenship, but so many of us don’t know the rules, and hence, are poor citizens.
  • before a child is given a computer – either at home or in school – it must be accompanied by instruction in the power of the network. A child may have a natural facility with the network without having any sense of the power of the network as an amplifier of capability. It’s that disconnect which digital citizenship must bridge.
  • Let us instead focus on how we will use technology in fifty years’ time. We can already see the shape of the future in one outstanding example – a website known as RateMyProfessors.com. Here, in a database of nine million reviews of one million teachers, lecturers and professors, students can learn which instructors bore, which grade easily, which excite the mind, and so forth. This simple site – which grew out of the power of sharing – has radically changed the balance of power on university campuses throughout the US and the UK.
  • Alongside the rise of RateMyProfessors.com, there has been an exponential increase in the amount of lecture material you can find online, whether on YouTube, or iTunes University, or any number of dedicated websites. Those lectures also have ratings, so it is already possible for a student to get to the best and most popular lectures on any subject, be it calculus or Mandarin or the medieval history of Europe.
  • As the university dissolves in the universal solvent of the network, the capacity to use the network for education increases geometrically; education will be available everywhere the network reaches. It already reaches half of humanity; in a few years it will cover three-quarters of the population of the planet. Certainly by 2060 network access will be thought of as a human right, much like food and clean water.
  • Educators will continue to collaborate, but without much of the physical infrastructure we currently associate with educational institutions. Classrooms will self-organize and disperse organically, driven by need, proximity, or interest, and the best instructors will find themselves constantly in demand. Life-long learning will no longer be a catch-phrase, but a reality for the billions of individuals all focusing on improving their effectiveness within an ever-more-competitive global market for talent.
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    Mark Pesce: Digital Citizenship and the future of Education.
Kathleen N

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    This is a fantastic way to view your feeds via Firefox Plugin for Google Reader
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Infographic: How Technology is Facilitating Education - 0 views

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    There's an allure to interesting infographics that is hard to ignore. Here's one from an outfit that serves as an educational guide for graduate students interested in education and teaching. It covers trends and use of social media, online learning, and how students use technology. Sources are provided at the bottom of graphic. (Source: Masters in Education Online
abbas Haider

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    Taking advantage of the cost of auto insurance low without compromising or sacrificing service and quality of insurance offered by insurance companies is not easy. In fact, in this situation difficult to obtain financing auto insurance low cost is a coalmine in diamond. Who has used our service if n
Sukhpreet Kaur

Using WizIQ for Art Classes Taught by Gisele Grenier Online Class by Gisele Grenier - 0 views

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    This class will be a basic overview how to use WizIQ for drawing and painting art classes that I teach. This session will cover the use of video, reference photographs, paintings, critiques and the interactive whiteboard.
scidocpublishers

Journal on Stem Cells Research: - 0 views

International Journal of Stem Cell Research and Transplantation\n(IJST)  ISSN:2328-3548, is a free, Open  Access, Peer-reviewed,  exclusive online journal covering areas of\nStem cel...

Journal on stem cells research stem cells Cell bank Stem cell treatments Adult stem cell

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scidocpublishers

International Journal of Aeronautical Science & Aerospace Research (IJASAR) - 0 views

International Journal of Aeronautical Science & Aerospace Research (IJASAR) is a comprehensive, peer reviewed journal devoted to Aeronautical Science & Aerospace Research. IJASAR, publ...

Aeronautical Science Space Science Spacecraft Risk and reliability Aerospace Research Air and Space Medicine Airframe maintenance Electrotechnology Genotoxicology

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lawagner

Writing Center Staff | Wilk - 0 views

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  • gut-wrenching descent
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      Thesis: understanding the differences and cultural factors will help with some guidelines for communicating with ESL students/tutees, thus leading to more beneficial tutoring sessions.
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      Introduction
  • severe
  • ittle headway
  • communications gap.
  • made in the paper.
  • struggled
  • in my explanations
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      Since the first paragraph identified the problem and stated the solution, the reader needs to understand what is causing the probelm
  • cultural factors plague important aspects of ESL communications in the writing center.
  • ack of a shared linguistic knowledge base,
  • ifferences in the educational, rhetorical, and cultural contexts of their language
  • acquisition
  • learning
  • subconsciously incorporating of linguistic forms through reading and listening.
  • consciously assimilating rules and forms through study and instruction.
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      What causes the communication gap/ differences between what the ESL learner wrote and what the tutor is trying communicate as errors
  • Understanding those differences helps in formulating beneficial principles of communication
  • rhetorical models are quite diverse
  • In some cultures, one would be considered rude or abrupt to announce one's point immediately.
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      Socratic dialogue vs didactic context (lecture and passive learning)
  • Socratic dialogue
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      The tutor takes on the role of collaborator and is an authoritative figure based on didactic tutoring. Tutors don't need to know all the answers, but it seems this paragraph is saying start by using didactic tutoring and move towards Socratic dialogue.
  • didactic context
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      So we have a communications gap, how do we begin to communicate with the ESL learner. What tutoring style should we use? Didactic context and communicate collaboratively, but realize that tutor is more of an authoritative figure, telling/informing the tutee of what he/she must do.
  • shared assumptions and patterns of language
  • apply a principle they have learned to a grammar error.
  • communicate collaboratively
  • ole as cultural/rhetorical informants as well as collaborators.
  • Cultural differences in body language
  • attitudes and preferences
  • The acceptability of degrees of physical proximity and eye contact differ between cultures.
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      Cultural differences in body language (speaking without speaking), attitudes and preferences need to be known so that the tutor and tutee may communicate effectively. Examples of these cultural differences are given: Latin American, Arabic, Asian, and Chinese.
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      When I have gone to a new country, such as Zambia and Mexico, I looked up the ways in which to communicate with folks there, forbidden hand gesture, is shaking hands okay. In some culture they kiss each other on the cheek as a greeting. Ignorance towards body language, attitudes, and preferences may drive an eternal wedge between the tutor and tutee. This is a huge part of understanding cultural differences.
  • it down first and allow the student to establish comfortable body positioning
  • ake body language cues from the writer
  • encouraging the student to speak up or ask questions
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      This paragraph answers a question Writing Centers, directors and tutors may wonder: Do I have to know everything about every culture in order to communicate effectively? When writing essays it's important to keep in mind questions that may arise from the intended audience.
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      The tutor does not need to know everything about every culture, rather keenly observe the tutee, and modify behavior when appropriate.
  • utor can foster discourse through slightly modified behavior.
  • temptation to address too many issues in one session
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      Another issue with tutoring ESL learners: trying to fix everything at once. They are not the same as a native English speaker and cannot be expected to eat, chew and digest everything put in front of them. You need to pick up the steak knife and cut up the steak into manageable pieces. 
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      Native English speaker vs ESL learner; don't tutor them the same Although this paragraph seems slightly out of place and doesn't move the argument forward, it is a reminder that ESL students are tackling the foreign language and cannot be expected to handle the same workload as native speakers.
  • effective communications is best achieved by limiting the topics covered within the session
  • English is not the primary language.
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      Going back to ESL learners, a part of understanding cultural differences is understanding that they are coming to me for help with their writing-writing which is in a foreign language to them. Understanding prioritizing is part of the solution when tutoring ESL learner, and all learners consequently.
  • The driving force behind limiting is prioritizing.
  • the primary cultural barrier to communication
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      Explaining the differences in mechanics seen in varying languages spoken by other cultures. Patience is key nevertheless.
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      So how do tutors not overwhelm the tutees? By prioritizing-what is causing the most issues and go from there.
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      Communication barriers lie in the language itself and its attached conversational dialect, transcending into how the ESL learner communicates in their native tongue. * I think this paragraph could be two.
  • ack of fluency in conversational dialect
  • Close observation is a key to interpreting and dispelling cultural interference.
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      Summarizing the last several paragraphs; close observation is the key as well as other possible modifications.
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      Summarizing the main points is like the Therefore since we know all of this we can understand  the cultural differences between the tutor and ESL tutee and thus eliminate or at least reduce the cultural barriers.
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      Conclusion
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      A continuance of the last paragraph. All of this information presented  may help or it may not.
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