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Dear America - Prac SAC conferencing - 23 views
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Click on the little blue d icon to access the Diigolet toolbar. You can then use it to apply floating sticky notes to the page, highlight portions of text, leave comments about those portions of text and bookmark comments. Remember, conferencing comments you make need to be constructive.
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different people respond
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Stay Organized on the Internet with Diigo: Access Your Bookmarks, Notes & Info. Anywher... - 84 views
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The internet is host to a ton of great information. The challenging part is keeping all the information you need organized and accessible wherever you go. This is where Diigo comes in.
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Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views
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MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay)
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Education Podcasts @ education.podcast.com - 80 views
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Even some of the littlest ones in k-12 schools are podcasting
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Springpad: a free app that helps you remember - 167 views
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The Spring Pad is for your phone or computer, and it helps save ideas, organize links, share, set reminders, etc! Even better it is FREE!
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 49 views
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It’s also a question, as Mr. Lanier, 49, astutely points out in his new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” of how online collectivism, social networking and popular software designs are changing the way people think and process information, a question of what becomes of originality and imagination in a world that prizes “metaness” and regards the mash-up as “more important than the sources who were mashed.”
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Core discussion topic? From this, I see a few discussion issues: 1. Do we prize "mash-ups" more than original work? Who is "we" in this? 2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," then the next question is: is this good or bad? 3. Finally, if the answer is "bad" to #2, what place do "mash-ups" have, and how do we help our students see the value in original work?
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Web 2.0 is creating a “digital forest of mediocrity” and substituting ill-informed speculation for genuine expertise;
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How do teachers help students rise above this "digital forest of mediocrity"?
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Mr. Johnson added that the book’s migration to the digital realm will turn the solitary act of reading — “a direct exchange between author and reader” — into something far more social and suggested that as online chatter about books grows, “the unity of the book will disperse into a multitude of pages and paragraphs vying for Google’s attention.”
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If Johnson's predictions are true, is this necessarily bad? How much of this concern is "nostalgia"? What would be lost from an academic p.o.v, and what migh be gained?
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Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite — never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
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Should teachers "fight" this, or embrace it? Can summaries/sound bites ever be appropriate for academic discussions?
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And online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine their original thinking.
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Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”
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Can teachers moderate this attitude? Does our (adults) use/non-use of technology help breed this attitude?
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authors “will increasingly tailor their work to a milieu that the writer Caleb Crain describes as ‘groupiness,’ where people read mainly ‘for the sake of a feeling of belonging’ rather than for personal enlightenment or amusement. As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style.
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Does this ring true to educators? Are social concerns and literary conerns opposites? How does web publishing affect "literary" publishing, as opposed to "non-literary" publishing?
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However impossible it is to think of “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” or “Jersey Shore” as art, reality shows have taken over wide swaths of television,
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The New York Times Kind of Misinterprets a Study About Tests and Learning - 64 views
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But, before the multiple choice, standardized testing crowd starts thumping their chests, it's important to note the kind of test the researchers administered. After reading the passage, students "wrote what they remembered in a free-form essay for 10 minutes. Then they reread the passage and took another retrieval practice test." So, to decipher the wonkitude, the students read a passage, wrote a reflection essay, reread the passage a second time, and then wrote another reflection essay.That's a far cry from bubbling in the letter "C" on a scantron form. -
A new study claims testing helps kids get smarter-except, the tests that make a difference aren't the ones you think.
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Princeton University - Kindle pilot results highlight possibilities for paper reduction - 20 views
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However, e-readers must be significantly improved to have the same value in a teaching environment as traditional paper texts, participants said.
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but they also said the ability to highlight directly on traditional text, to take notes and flip pages for ease in navigation suffers in the e-reader.
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With hopes of assisting industry with the refinement of e-readers, and providing useful information to other academic institutions considering the devices, information and data from the one-time pilot have been compiled on an Office of Information Technology (OIT) website.
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About 65 percent of the participants in the pilot said they would not buy another e-reader now if theirs was broken. Almost all the participants said they were interested in following the technology to its next stages, because they think a device that works well in academia would be worth having.
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"I found the device difficult to use and not conducive to academic purposes," he said, and added, "But I can see how it can be used for pleasure reading."
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What they liked best about the devices was: the battery life, the wireless connection and the portability of the e-reader; the fact that all the course reading was on one device; the ability to search for content; and the legibility of the screen, including the fact it could be read in full sunlight. The top five suggestions students had for improving e-readers were: improving the ability to highlight and annotate PDF files; improving the annotation tools; providing a folder structure to keep similar readings together; improving the highlighting function; and improving the navigation within and between documents on the reader (including having more than one document open at the same time for comparison).
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"The Kindle would be better for an academic setting if the PDF format worked more effectively,"
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"There would be a greater benefit realized if the devices could develop a better way to deliver the ubiquitous PDF document, which is used by many journals and libraries to deliver documents, and is the common format in which dissertations and theses are published and read by faculty," Temos said. "Some students said they spent a considerable amount of time printing PDF documents during the semester, and hardly ever referred back to them once the semester was over. I don't expect that is unusual."
Lassus Font - Full Character Map | DailyFreeFonts.com - 53 views
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Purdue OWL: Paraphrase Exercises - 196 views
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Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
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Summarizing Strategies - 5 views
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a collection of summarizing strategies--lots of different ideas here that could work for many different levels of learners
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Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal L... - 14 views
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This social bookmarking site is easy to use and also provides you with an iPad app, android app, and a Diigolet bookmarking tool. You no longer need to save in your favorites just bookmark all of your favorite sites into Diigo and share them with friends, organize them in lists, or present them with their webslide creator. -
They even offer a Teacher console where you can create groups for your classroom. This allows you to have student accounts, without the need for an email address, and then your students can work in the same list, create individual lists, and share everything with only others in their group or publicy (if you choose).
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If people are able to read this, doesn't that mean they already use Diigo?
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Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio for Work or School - 257 views
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This is a great resource. Just a note, Google Page Creator was replaced by Google Sites in 2008. Sites is great for creating a class website as well.
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Quotepad - text notepad for the internet - 63 views
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A nice little downloadable tool that remembers which webpage you copied text from on the internet. Entries are timestamped and you can set reminders to view the site again. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
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wikispaces - 1 views
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A wiki is a space on the Web where you can share work and ideas, pictures and links, videos and media — and anything else you can think of. Wikispaces is special because we give you a visual editor and a bunch of other tools to make sharing all kinds of content as easy for students as it is for their teachers.
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A Wikispaces Private Label site is a secure, dedicated wiki environment — like a clone of Wikispaces.com, but with your organization’s DNA mixed in. You get unlimited wikis (and everything you need to manage them), plus tools to integrate the site with your other systems and support your users.
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A superb wiki/web hosting site with lets you create web pages for your class or school or use it as a Wiki and let your pupils/colleagues create and build the page together. The basic account is free and if you sign up as an educator you can get extra storage space. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
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academiblog: 15 Tips for Postponing Writing Procrastination - 2 views
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Open your brain so there is flow.
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Flow is important, indeed. See Csikszentmihalyi (1975) for more detail. I've found that binaural beats can aid getting into the flow, but I still need a good source for high quality binaural beats.
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Open a document.
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Yeah well, for some this can be quite demotivating - having a clean and empty document on your computer that screams for attention and at the beginning shows nothing but the fact that you haven't done anything yet. So instead of opening an empty document, I always suggest my students should use a good writing software that helps them to produce text naturally and "on the go". For this, my personal choice is Citavi.
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Always capture ideas.
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Routinize your writing
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See Rowena Murray (2011), chapter on becoming a 'serial writer'. Seer also: work by Peter Elbow.
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Remind yourself why you are writing.
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Ask questions that need answers.
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Timers are your friends.
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Perfection is not your friend.
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Take one slice (bite) at a time.
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Isolate editing and composing.
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Note when you finish where you’ll be starting next.
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Integrate writing into how you define yourself.
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SPAN 103N W01 S111: Foro de lenguaje y cultura - Semana 9 - El embarazo - Due Sunday, 7/17 - 7 views
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Suggestions: Use past tense (preterite) more often to talk about things that happened in the past. The verbs you recognized are good examples. At this point, though, not only should you recognize words, but phrases and TENSES/CONCEPTS, as well. These are the grammar examples you will need to share on your chart. Did you see any reflexive verbs? Commands? Preterite? If so, share the example AND the English equivalent (translation). -
Also, for your chart you might end up being short on Country-Specific resources. When looking for things to share, think about sharing info from a particular country. It is too late for this post, but since your resource is from California, perhaps you could find some info on the Hispanic population in California. Where are they from? Then pick one of those countries of origin and find some info about it for us. Bingo! Country-specific example for your chart.
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Since this forum is over, you can post this info on the "country-specific catch-up forum" that I will make available immediately.
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I sense a lot of stress about the forum requirements, so I am going to provide group feedback this way. Make sure to click on each "sticky note" to get my feedback on the post. This will help you complete your chart as best as possible.
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HIGHLIGHTS: You will see a lot of highlights on this page. Pink/red highlights indicate a mistake is present. I have not highlighted ALL mistakes, just some that you should be able to fix with what you know at this point. GREEN means GOOD! I have highlighted many phrases that indicate good/correct grammar usage. Sometimes I highlight in green things that I really like :-) Green means GO!!!
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT BEING SHORT ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REFERENCES, I WILL SHARE IDEAS ON HOW TO INCLUDE THOSE AND PROVIDE A SEPARATE "Country-Specific Catch-Up Forum" where you can explore individual countries a bit further.
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Vi la pagina
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Me encanta
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Lo unico que puedes hacer es revisar y leer tus viejos forums y buscar ejemplos que
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usastes.
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Me pongo
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nervioso
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If you want to say "I completed," you should use the preterite. Verb = COMPLETAR. Yo completé.
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This post is very interesting. The quote included is informative and summarizes the findings of the source Gabriela consulted. This information is very useful for all of us. The content is excellent, but I would like to see more linguistic information. For example, did you pick up any new words from reading this article? If so, you should list them (WITH English translations for the benefit of classmates). Also, to obtain country-specific resources, you could have looked up premature births in Spanish-speaking countries and focused on one in particular, perhaps sharing information or a resource from that country. Feel free to do this and post on the "make-up forum" available soon.
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Yo necesito leer mis viejos forums
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Yo escribo el charto pronto
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unico problema
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ayudan
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yo vi que usaron el preterite(pasado tenso) como "se logro-was accomplished".
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usted sito
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en español: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXmHnpBgEqw.
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muchísimas ejemplos
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los verbos reflexivos, empieza immediatemente en diapositiva 2: “se usa para identificar afecctiones serias o mortales antes que lo síntomas aparezcan. Se puede empezar el tratamiento antes que la salud del bebé se perjudique por estas afecciones.”
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Objeto Directo ejemplo, de diapositiva 4: “...el tratamiento puede salvarle o evitarle problemas....”
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Objeto Indirecto ejemplo, de diapositiva 16: “...si no le practicaron pruebas preliminares de la audición a su bebé al nacer, asegúrarse de que le practiquen estas pruebas.”
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Y Objecto Doble en diapositiva 22: “...y al recién nacido se les da de alta antes que el bebé....”
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Ejemplos de vocabulario nuevo
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Ahora estoy curiosa como se prueban los recién nacidos in otros países. Encuentro un sitio de Bolivia
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No la encuentro la misma que Bolivia
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la situación en Venezuela
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me dijo
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Hablé con mis vecinos, quienes son de El Salvador
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Tuve que buscar
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Completado
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Completado
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Completado
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Completado las
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decidí esperar
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yo no realizo que “verb use” fue el verbos yo uso en “my post.”
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haci
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y haci vino
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el nacio vajo
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Escuchado
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nombre de la operación
