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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey

Development - Is the 140 character 'micro interaction' enough? | Delta Publishing - Eng... - 7 views

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    Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".
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    Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".
Nik Peachey

Development - ELT and the Crisis in Education: Technology in the Classroom | Delta Publ... - 5 views

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    "One of the most common criticisms leveled at teachers who do attempt to integrate technology into their classroom environment, is that this often results in a lot of 'faffing around' or time wasted while struggling to get the technology to work properly. To some extent I feel that this criticism is fair, but I don't think it's a criticism that should be leveled at teachers, but would be better directed at the people who control the way technology is layered onto the classroom environment, so lets look at that."
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    ne of the most common criticisms leveled at teachers who do attempt to integrate technology into their classroom environment, is that this often results in a lot of 'faffing around' or time wasted while struggling to get the technology to work properly. To some extent I feel that this criticism is fair, but I don't think it's a criticism that should be leveled at teachers, but would be better directed at the people who control the way technology is layered onto the classroom environment, so lets look at that.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 5 Tasks to Teach Yourself to Teach with Technology - 20 views

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    Here are 5 tasks that you can download to help you develop materials and resources for your students whilst developing your own digital skills.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Ask & Answer Video Questions - 11 views

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    Questions and answers are the fundamental building blocks of language, so this is a great tool for checking out students' grammar and their ability to formulate questions and answers in any particular tense, so great online controlled speaking practice too.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations - 24 views

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    There are of course a few gifted speakers who can hold the audience's attention for a full hour and keep most of them listening and awake. If like me you're not one of those, then here are a few tools that, thanks to the increasing availability of wireless connectivity at conference centres these days, might help to turn your passive listeners into a bunch of multitasking audience collaborators.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers - 22 views

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    "I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45 of them. "
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    I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45 of them.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Let us Now Praise Famous Women - 4 views

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    "Technology was a huge feature of this years' IATEFL conference and it's very easy to be blinded or pulled along by the technology, but in the work of these six women there is for me some sign of the beginnings of a state of normalisation of technology in language teaching. A state when we can move past talking about technology and get back to talking about teaching of which technology is just a normal part and an enabler in that process of learning."
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    Technology was a huge feature of this years' IATEFL conference and it's very easy to be blinded or pulled along by the technology, but in the work of these six women there is for me some sign of the beginnings of a state of normalisation of technology in language teaching. A state when we can move past talking about technology and get back to talking about teaching of which technology is just a normal part and an enabler in that process of learning.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Create Authentic Web Based Research Tasks With Mashpedia - 7 views

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    "The site will then generate a page of information links about your search topic. It collects information from multiple media and different sources from books, blogs , text images to video and even Twitter references."
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    The site will then generate a page of information links about your search topic. It collects information from multiple media and different sources from books, blogs , text images to video and even Twitter references.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Create Quick Video Task Sheets - 7 views

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    "Basically, what it does is to convert an flv video file into a number of screen shots with a space next to each screen shot for the students to take notes."
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    Basically, what it does is to convert an flv video file into a number of screen shots with a space next to each screen shot for the students to take notes.
Nik Peachey

SubZin.com (BETA) - Movie Quotes Search Engine - 3 views

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    Movie Quotes Search Engine
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Quick Twitter Video Activity - 4 views

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    "Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability."
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    Educators seem to be constantly searching for new activities and ways to use Twitter with their Students. At the same time developers seem to be constantly looking for ways to build on the success of Twitter and develop apps and sites that will extend its functionality and increase its usefulness and usability.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Cropping YouTube Videos to Create Activities - 4 views

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    Clipping videos makes it much easier for us to create activities and tasks that focus on specific areas of the video clip without having to watch the whole thing.
Nik Peachey

Stage'D Home - 4 views

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    This is a great site tha enables you to create 3D animated cartoons. It's like a cross between Dvolver and Xtranormal.Fantastic. Select different motions for the characters chose backgrounds and add their dialogue.
Nik Peachey

Course: Easy Web 2.0 tools that you can use in your classroom - 20 views

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    "Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology."
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    Over the course of this event we will be looking at a small range of web based tools that will enable you to create motivating online language learning activities for your students. These can be used either in class or set as homework. You will have the chance to understand how these tools work, find out how to use them with students and be able to try your hand at creating and sharing activities with other teachers. By the end of the event you should have a small 'toolkit' of resources and ideas that will enable you to enhance your lessons though the effective and pedagogically sound use of technology.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: The Web 2.0 School of the Present - 7 views

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    "The 'Web 2.0' age has brought us more than a bunch of social networking apps and free web tools, it has also brought about a fundamental shift in the way many web based companies do business. I started to wonder if that change could be mirrored in the physical market place by moving towards a new approach to the language school and the way technology is used in it and how it fits into the face to face business model."
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    The 'Web 2.0' age has brought us more than a bunch of social networking apps and free web tools, it has also brought about a fundamental shift in the way many web based companies do business. I started to wonder if that change could be mirrored in the physical market place by moving towards a new approach to the language school and the way technology is used in it and how it fits into the face to face business model.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools - 7 views

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    I created a number of tasks for teachers which I hope will help develop their ability to use technology and to evaluate and create materials using web based tools. I've decide now to share those tasks so anyone who wants to use them to train other teachers or to develop their own skills can take advantage of and make good use of them.
Nik Peachey

Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration - 12 views

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    handy collaborative tool for creating diagrams etc.
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    handy collaborative tool for creating diagrams etc.
Nik Peachey

Nik's Daily English Activities: Study a Classic of Literature - 8 views

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    "Many great works of literature have been translated into other languages, but there is nothing quite as good as reading a book in the original language. In today's activity you are going to study a classic of English literature; 'The Old Man and The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway."
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    Many great works of literature have been translated into other languages, but there is nothing quite as good as reading a book in the original language. In today's activity you are going to study a classic of English literature; 'The Old Man and The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway.
Nik Peachey

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Really nice collection of digital research tools. All collected collaboratively using a wiki.
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