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Making Music Boosts Brain's Language Skills - 0 views

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Publications Advocacy Music Research Parents Teachers Students

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  • dorie conlon on 23 Feb 10
     
    very interesting article from National Geographic - "brain-imaging studies have shown that music activates many diverse parts of the brain, including an overlap in where the brain processes music and language"
dorie conlon

Connecticut Council of Language Teachers - 0 views

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Teachers Professional Organizations advocacy

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The Connecticut Council of Language Teachers advocates world language learning for all students at all grade levels supports teacher and student activities that demonstrate language teaching and learning, and recognizes the success of teachers and students in world languages."
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Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - 0 views

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Teachers Professional Organizations

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  • dorie conlon on 22 Jan 10
     
    "The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL) is the oldest (1954) multi-language association of pre-kindergarten through university teachers in the country. Although nominally a regional association, its activities, publications, and annual conference attract participants from around the country and the globe. Currently, about 40 states and 10 foreign countries send a total of 2,500 educators to the Northeast Conference each year."
Kate Krotzer

FERTILE MINDS -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

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shared by Kate Krotzer on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Kate Krotzer on 24 Aug 11
     
    Rat-a-tat-tat. rat-a-tat-tat. Rat-a-tat-tat. If scientists could eavesdrop on the brain of a human embryo 10, maybe 12 weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket. Inside the womb, long before light first strikes the retina of the eye or the earliest dreamy images flicker through the cortex, nerve cells in the developing brain crackle with purposeful activity.
Barbara Lindsey

Lessons Learned: Webcasting and Live Blogging a School Board Meeting » Moving... - 0 views

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webcasting liveblogging fryer

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • In many ways, digital technologies can be used as humanizing and socializing influences in a community. One of the virtual attendees (Ernie Cox) tonight commented, “as a father of 2 small children I could be even more involved in civic life if more meetings where covered like this…..” Ernie is exactly right. Webcasting and recording events like this can open up many more doors for civic engagement and involvement. School
  • veryone who wanted to get into the room tonight could not fit. How many more Edmond residents and school district constituents could “attend” the meeting if it was both webcast live and archived? Many, many more.
  • If we want to help motivate and direct our students to become meaningfully engaged in the civic activities of their community, state, and nation (and I think this is an important goal) we should advance this purpose by encouraging them to become citizen journalists.
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  • The benefit of using a tool like CoverItLive (which was free, incidentally) was the opportunity to engage in a backchannel discussion with others during the meeting. This would not have been possible if we were simply viewing the board meeting on the TV. I could even envison the school board making time for virtual attendee/participant comments and questions.
  • This can and should be a context where the transparency afforded by social media tools produces numerous ancillary benefits for those involved, besides the simple act of documenting and sharing an event.
  • Our school board should go paperless. It was AMAZING to see how thick the binders of paper were which each school board member had in front of them during the meeting. In our digital world, it would be both prudent and useful to have all those documents digitized so they were full-text searchable.
  • the district blocks all videos and photos from the learning community so they are inaccessible by students as well as educators on the district network.
  • No one can predict with complete accuracy what the information and communications landscape is going to look like in 2015. How is this dynamic environment addressed in the site plans of our schools? I’m curious if these site plans will be made available electronically for parents to download and read. I think they should be.
Barbara Lindsey

educational-origami - Starter Sheets - 0 views

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teachers technology digital citizenship Bloom's Taxonomy professional development

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 16 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • dorie conlon on 15 Mar 10
     
    The Starter Sheets are resources for the classroom teacher. The intention of each sheet is to introduce a tool, technology or activity that could be easily adapted for use in the classroom. Each sheet is created to a template design and should have the following features: must be two pages must have pictures that illustrate process and outcomes process must be straight forward must be simple to read and understand must have clear benefits for the teacher in the classroom, the exemplar should be easy to adapt to a variety of classroom settings must have an alternative - web based or application must be linked to Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Sensory learning styles using VARK
Barbara Lindsey

TeachPaperless: The Five Minute Twitter Verb Crunch Drill - 0 views

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teachers vocabulary lesson planning technology twitter web tools classroom activities

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09
     
    Gives example of whole class Latin verb parsing using Diigo, Twitter and Twitterfall. Extension: resultant work used as review/homework guide.
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Why Wordle-By Steven W. Anderson - 1 views

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wordle students examples

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • @mrsmac75-As a starter for students to try and guess where we're going with our lesson and create their own learning outcomes. @ktenkely-I use Wordle as warm up. I hate the question, "What are we doing today." I give word clues about what we are doing in class.
  • I use it as an assessment activity at the end of a topic,
  • Barbara Lindsey on 14 Oct 09
     
    Great examples for using Wordle with students
Barbara Lindsey

folktaleMap - 0 views

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teachers literature lesson planning stories folktales culture classroom activities

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 09 Oct 09
     
    From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. These are spoken folk tales reinforced with animated pictures. Seems that only the Arabic and Chinese tales are in the TL and English with options to show subtitles in either. Wish stories from other countries were not just in English.
Barbara Lindsey

Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views

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technology teachers students

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 12 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Many of today's teachers make a critical mistake when introducing digital tools by assuming that armed with a username and a password, students will automatically find meaningful ways to learn together.  The results can be disastrous.  Motivation wanes when groups using new services fail to meet reasonable standards of performance.  "Why did I bother to plug my students in for this project?" teachers wonder.  "They could have done better work with a piece of paper and a pencil!"
  • With shared annotation services like Diigo, powerful learning depends on much more than understanding the technical details behind adding highlights and comments for other members of a group to see.  Instead, powerful learning depends on the quality of the conversation that develops around the content being studied together.  That means teachers must systematically introduce students to a set of collaborative dialogue behaviors that can be easily implemented online.
  • intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence
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  • While these early interactions are simplistic processes that by themselves aren't enough to drive meaningful change in teaching and learning, they are essential because they provide team members with low risk opportunities to interact with one another around the topics, materials and instructional practices that should form the foundation of classroom learning experiences.
  • A tagging language is nothing more than a set of categories that all members of a group agree to use when bookmarking websites for shared projects.
  • In Shirky's terms, teams that embrace social bookmarking decrease the "cost" of  group transactions.  No longer do members resist sharing because it's too time consuming or difficult to be valuable. Instead, with a little bit of thought and careful planning, groups can make sharing resources---a key process that all learning teams have to learn to manage---remarkably easy and instant.
  • Imagine the collective power of an army of readers engaged in ongoing conversation about provocative ideas, challenging one another's thought, publicly debating, and polishing personal beliefs.  Imagine the cultural understandings that could develop between readers from opposite sides of the earth sharing thought together.  Imagine the potential for brainstorming global solutions, for holding government agencies accountable, or for gathering feedback from disparate stakeholder groups when reading moves from a "fundamentally private activity" to a "community event."
  • Understanding that there are times when users want their shared reading experiences to be more focused, however, Diigo makes it possible to keep highlights and annotations private or available to members of predetermined and self-selected groups.  For professional learning teams exploring instructional practices or for student research groups exploring content for classroom projects, this provides a measure of targeted exploration between likeminded thinkers.
  • Diigo takes the idea of collective exploration of content one step further by providing groups with the opportunity to create shared discussion forums
Barbara Lindsey

Global Awareness, Community Service and Classroom Project Ideas » Moving at t... - 0 views

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global awareness teachers curriculum values blog lesson planning collaboration class projects

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • dorie conlon on 12 Mar 10
     
    "It is very important we help students in our classrooms develop deeper, broader, authentic world views through the information we share and collaborative activities in which we engage together during and after class. It is also critical we help students develop values like respect, empathy, and compassion. Learning is most powerful when it is experiential and connected to the real world, and more opportunities than ever are available to help bring these types of learning experiences to your students. Here are several ideas for research resources and class projects you should consider this year."
Barbara Lindsey

Google Earth Education Community - 0 views

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teachers students technology lesson planning tutorial

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Barbara Lindsey on 19 Oct 09
     
    A place for teachers and students to share and find info on topics that have been turned into GE activities. Some helpful how tos on using the tool.
Lisa Laurito

Spanish Resources - 9 views

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