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"The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare? A new study finds moderate student gains in courses where lectures take place at home and "homework" happens in the classroom. "

"Distance Education Student-led facilitation strategies in online discussions"

"Any blogger will know that social networking is a great (if not the greatest) way to direct traffic to your site. Many new bloggers struggle to find their audience, but with some careful link sharing on the various social sites, you can have traffic flooding to your site each time you add a new post. Here at Edublogs we use a variety of social networks to keep in touch with the students and teachers who blog with us. You can catch us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest… and now, you can share your latest blog posts on our brand new "subreddit", /r/Edublogs."

I am just a teacher, but not a tech person. However, at this point of my life I have realized that I need to improve my tech skills if I want to continue teaching the new generations. Also, if I want to spread my ideas. Thank you for share this post. It was very interesting because it help me to develop other ideas for my professional projects.

"Do you ever feel stuck in a rut while planning your language classes? Perhaps you spend a lot of time lecturing at the white board, use the same activities with different vocabulary for every unit, or rely on teaching students grammar because that's how you were taught. No matter your "go to" activity, we are all much more engaging when we vary our activities and make them relatable. If the speaker is engaging, a good lecture every now and then is enjoyable. However, when faced with daily lectures, students dread class, and hence, learn less. So why not mix it up?"

Why is curation important? Curation is a life skill and an important part of being digitally literate. Educators need to know how to curate information so they can teach students how they can curate content for research, their interests and passion. As part of this process educators need to encourage students to curate information using techniques that address their own personal learning needs.

"Curation - is it the new search tool (Valenza 2011), the new search (Good 2012), the future of Web 2.0 (Boyd 2010), or the new black (O'Connell 2012)? What is curation anyway, and how can it be used as a tool for student and teacher learning? This essay will investigate what curation is and the different contexts it is used in. Why is it important; who are the curators, what motivates them and what makes a great curator? What processes and tools are used for curation and what digital literacies are required for successful curation? It will conclude with an investigation into ways teachers can use curation both with and for their students and as a tool for their own professional learning and a brief look at some curation tools."

Welcoming your students to your online class means giving them the information that they need to get started

"It's one of the most talked-about trends in education right now. Right behind the iPad and Common Core. Flipping your classroom is a trend that doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. That's great, because it offers a lot of advantages for your classroom regardless of your students' age or what subject matter you're presenting in your classroom. If you're new to the concept, flipping your classroom can feel a little bit overwhelming: How much should I switch around? What is best for the classroom vs at home? Why am I doing this again anyway?"

"Wherever we are, we'd all like to think our classrooms are "intellectually active" places. Progressive learning (like our 21st Century Model, for example) environments. Highly effective and conducive to student-centered learning. But what does that mean?"

"Less to Pedagogy Among educators, there's much talk of pedagogy, but in institutions of higher education, there should be more talk of andragogy. Andragogy, also called adult learning theory, is the adult version of pedagogy. Adult learners, especially non-traditional college students, will probably gain more from instructors who use principles of andragogy. In college, I learned about four of its assumptions."

Yacapaca quizzes are an amazingly flexible tool for baselining, pre-tests, post-tests and anywhere you need formative assessment. Set a quiz with a few clicks and be delighted at how much your students enjoy the Yacapaca interface. Use our whiteboard tools to motivate students and to review attainment with them question-by-question after the test.

"Across the arc of a well-designed project, teachers build in frequent opportunities to assess for learning. Formative assessment opens a window on student thinking and, when applied frequently, sets the stage for timely feedback, just-in-time instruction, more productive classroom conversations and revisions that lead to higher quality results by the end. How can you incorporate more formative strategies into projects?"

This resource make student feel like they are in a real classroom with this resource.

I took it and I scored 85%. I think it can help weed out some students who should not take an online class.

Some steps to setting up peer feedback assignments

Fear of Pubic Speaking is high on most everyone's list of phobias. This site lists fun-filled speech activities that you can help your students become more confident giving speeches and presenting. There are 7 public speaking games here. You'll find they're very adaptable to suit children of all ages; that is from around middle school to adulthood.