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Alison Leytem

Teaching English using web 2.0 - 3 views

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    This is Ann S. Michaelson's blog, Teaching English using web 2.0. In Ann's blog, she talks about incorporating Web 2.0 tools and applications with students in her International English class. There are great posts about how to use different applications, such as blogs and WebNote, as well as ideas for 1:1 classroom activities. As a future English teacher, I am always interested in learning new ways to use Web 2.0 in my classroom. In addition to presenting different tools, Ann also considers how to teach English as a second language.
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    I really like this blog. I really like her ideas about incorporating web 2.0 into an ESL classroom. Whether it be ESL or just a traditional English classroom, I think that using web 2.0 is a promising way to engage students in learning English.
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    I like the web 2.0 tools Michaelson introduced in her blog such as Webnotes, Timeline and he vocabulary builder VocabAhead. The webnotes is kind like a combination of google document, google reader and diigo.I think it's convenient for both teachers and students to get useful resources, organize and share them. Although the free version limit the functions, it is still worth trying. The timeline tools is a good one can be used in history course. Using timeline to display flow chart in powerpoint is also a good choice. I like VocabAhead best. It explains words by using image, voice and example sentence. Thus, it makes students much easier to understand a new word and know how to apply in real situation. I think it's a good tool can be used in English class. Thanks for sharing the blog to us.
Alex Toft

Damian N. Bariexca, Ed.S., NCSP - 1 views

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    Blog of Educational Psychologist and former English Teacher, Damien Barexica, who is very involved in integrating technology into the classroom, and in his own words, "Making the Technology fit the lesson and not the other way around."
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    Thanks for sharing this blog, Alex. It's nice to see technology really being integrated into all content areas. It sometimes is difficult to bring the technology efficiently into an English classroom, as I'm sure you know! This teacher proves that it is possible!
Wilson Rojas Bugueño

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - For English as a Second Language - 0 views

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    This site is full listening activities for ESL and EFL. It has different levels and it has pre - while and pot listening activites.
Libby Sturgeon

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL - 0 views

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    This is a great blog for English as a Second Language teachers to get ideas for the effective use of technology and other methods in this type of classroom.
Katie Pruiksma

My Fake Wall - MyFakeWall.com - 1 views

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    This website could be a great resource for students and teachers in science, math, history, language arts, etc. This site will allow students to create a fake page about a famous individual. This combines things students enjoy (Facebook) and school material. If you can create an appropriate and interactive project, it can be very enjoyable for students.
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    This looks like a great site Katie! I can definitely see myself using this in the future. I will be an ESL teacher, so it will be a good way to practice simple English phrases, as well as learning content. Thanks for sharing!
Emily Keitel

100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers - Classroom 2.0 - 2 views

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    This website gives 100 free web tools for Elementary teachers. The list is organized into several different categories: 1) Organization and Collaboration, 2) Search Engines and Directories, 3) Google, 4) Templates and Lesson Plans, 5) Research and Reference, 6) Games, 7) Reading and Writing, 8) Math and Science, 9) Arts, 10) History and Social Studies, 11) Online Libraries, and 12) Activities. This is a great resource for teachers to use for instruction as well as to give to students to use for classroom work and homework.  
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    This looks like a great resource for anyone in education, teaching or learning. It is well organized and provides links to a lot of useful free tools. I wish I had this stuff when I was growing up.
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    This looks like a great resource for elementary teachers, providing so many links in one place. It is like an annotated bibliography, presenting various resources for teachers to use, making it easy for us to navigate. Though I plan to teach in secondary education, some of these categories could still be used with high schoolers in my English classroom, especially Google and the Research & Reference resources. I think that teachers in elementary education will find this resource very useful, and I could even show it so some of my high school students so that they would have different things to explore if they were interested. I found a similar website that compiles resources from around the web, focusing on Language Arts education: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_mid.htm. Here, there are citation guides, research help, online literature links, and many other great activities for the LA classroom.
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    This looks like a great resource to keep on hand for teachers! I feel like it should be used mostly by teachers and they should definitely take advantage of it. Too often do teachers use the same routine every day and use stuff out of books! Why not go on the computer and research things that can spice up your classroom.
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    This is a great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms to enhance learning. It has a WIDE variety of useful tools that can make learning more fun and engaging. I would recommend that the teacher scans through these options prior to opening them up to students. The teacher could select a few good ones and show them to the students to use during class or at home. I do no have any bookmarks similar to this one, but I am sure there are a lot out there that could be just as helpful. Thanks for sharing the great resource!
Jackson Brown

slideshow.com - Publish and Share Your PowerPoint Presentations online - 1 views

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    This is a web 2.0 tool that allows one to upload Powerpoint presentations to the web for accessibility. I'll use this is teaching, presentations, and professional development training!
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    This is an awesome tool that teachers and students can use to share their knowledge with others. I have already used this to help my godson with some of his music theory, because the slide shares are searchable, so you can share with others, and view other people's contributions. I will use this in my English classroom to establish historical/literary contexts for literature before my students start reading.
aric folden

bubbl.us | brainstorm and mind map online - 0 views

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    This is a graphic organizer similar to inspiration. It allows to outline content showing relationships between topics. Easy way to go over the main ideas and expand on them while not just presenting a lot of text.
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    I really like that you posted this, because I have been looking for an alternative to Inspiration for a long time! It is even better that it is online and can be used from anywhere. I think that both teachers and students could use this resource: teachers for outlining concepts when delivering lessons to students, and students when studying or creating presentations to use with the class. It would be extremely useful in an English classroom, so you could outline the themes of a piece of literature, without getting too "wordy." I haven't found anything else like this online, so I will have to keep looking. Great post!
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    I really like this post. I was actually was just looking at this before I saw this post. I think that this site would be able to be used very effectively in the classroom. Students could start their mind map at school and also be able to access it from home on the internet. I believe that this resource can be used by both students and teachers. Everyone brainstorms and this site allows for you to save what you have been working on in your profile. Another mind mapping resource that I have found is called spicynodes. It is the same concept with a different interface.
Mikael Rein

Creating Podcasts - 1 views

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    This site shows you how to create podcasts for your classroom. Some suggestions this site gives for using podcasts are: weekly classroom news broadcast, document a field trip and, record a class discusson.
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    I think resource has great potential for use in a classroom. I would probably use it myself, as a teacher, to learn how to record my English class discussions, or to do posts on different authors or other topics and send them out to my students. It could also be a great tool to use for students, helping them consider taking a different angle on the typical project or presentation. Apple gives another great how-to on creating and using podcasts here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. We should consider multiple forms of expression, not just text, when using digital technology with students; listening can be so useful!
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    Podcasts are great ways to record classroom lectures in college. I would think it would be useful for staff and students. However, I have never listened to a podcast myself, so I don't know how well they meet the needs of a student. I'm also wondering if because of more availability of video recordings of classrooms that podcasts are diminishing.
Destery Hildenbrand

Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide - 1 views

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    Online resource for MLA, APA, and all citation and paper creation needs. Regularly updated and easy to use resource for writing projects.
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    Great Educational resource that was not mentioned. I been a little more successful in my writing since finding this great resource.
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