Digital Storytelling: Free ESL Materials.com | Websites | Lesson Plans - 29 views
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Dave Truss on 01 Mar 10A great list of sites to use and examples to see for digital storytelling, ideal for ESL
1. Scaffolding
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Dave Truss
class_startersCATESOL.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 3 views
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Great 'sponges'/icebreakers and activities that can be use more than once in a classroom
Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet - 0 views
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# Study vocabulary or almost anything # Create your own flashcards - sign up free # Share flashcards with your friends # View the quick guide or watch the video tour
Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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2. Time Line
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3. Experts
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The thoughtful/reflective effort it took to write this has made this one of the most powerful things I've done for professional development as a teacher.
Kids say the darndest things | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why? Good. They did something good for once.
What comes around | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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The task was simple: Have your advisory pick an issue in the school and then create a video that promotes awareness of the problem and/or a solution to the problem.
Making a Difference | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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Here is a great thing to do with your online students: Donate Free Rice to help end world hunger… (and improve their vocabulary while you are at it!)
Student Creators: How to Contribute to the Internet | Edutopia - 0 views
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When young people help to create content for the Internet -- when they experience being active participants, contributing to what there is online -- they are more likely to see the Internet as a resource that they understand and use effectively.
Brick Wall « Je Pense… - 0 views
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Not every school will be able to afford one computer per child, let alone have the luxury of using parent-purchased cell phones for classroom instruction.
CTV.ca | Kielburgers join forces with Oprah on new campaign - 0 views
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Some "O Ambassador" projects include: * Building a package of school supplies for a classroom in need * Planting a tree on school grounds * Creating "AIDS Awareness" posters * Organizing "Read-A-Thons" * Collecting old blankets and sleeping bags for local homeless shelters
Halloween Scavenger Hunt on Ning | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 1 views
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Some fun in the classroom, with a little learning going on in the background.
Textorizer - vectorise a picture using text strings - 0 views
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Choose the photo, and the text that makes it... very cool
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Busy Time Rants - 0 views
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Let us forget the term “technical support” and focus on “innovation support”.
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I LOVE this quote: Let us forget the term "technical support" and focus on "innovation support".
The Pulse: Willfully Ignoring the Lessons of the Past - 0 views
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The following video clip is a 1940s-era news-reel style report on the latest thing, "progressive education." Beware the ideas are quite radical! Schoolwork is relevant, learning-by-doing is advocated
Fortnightly Mailing: What to advise a student about using the Web - 0 views
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Here are 8 things to do that will make life easier, and your studies more fulfilling.
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - 0 views
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Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
Twemes- Great tool we can use with Twitter - 0 views
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Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term twemes.
Pearson Presents: Learning to Change - Practical Theory - 0 views
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I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world -- just like they do on Facebook or MySpace -- and the kids will learn. There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
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is there much of an honest discussion of just how hard implementation of these ideas actually is.
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And the problem is that our entire structure has to change to make it easier. You can't teach 150 kids a day this way... you can't have traditional credit hours... you have to find new ways to look at your classroom. Everything from school design to teacher contracts to class size and teacher load to curriculum and assessment -- everything we do in schools -- has to be on the table for change if we are to achieve the kind of schools that video is speaking about. The only thing that shouldn't be on the table, and that the video actually hints that it should be, is the need for teachers in their day to day lives-- the adults who can make a deep profound impact in kids' lives.
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I remain very, very concerned with the notion that all we have to do is let the kids connect with the world.... There's a fallacy there, and my experience with how much really deep teaching of digital ethics we've had to do at SLA to counter all that the kids come in the door thinking about the digital world.
Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A ... - 0 views
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Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy, students have a wide spectrum of digital competence positively correlating to their digital exposure.
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So if I were to make the post title into a statement it would be: Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy, students have a wide spectrum of digital competence positively correlating to their digital exposure.
Dave Truss
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