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Digital Storytelling: Free ESL Materials.com | Websites | Lesson Plans - 29 views

www.freeeslmaterials.com/digital_storytelling.html ELL ML-ELL ML-LA digitalstorytelling
shared by Dave Truss on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • Dave Truss on 01 Mar 10
     
    A great list of sites to use and examples to see for digital storytelling, ideal for ESL
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class_startersCATESOL.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 3 views

ce.sbcc.edu/class_startersCATESOL.pdf September sponges icebreakers
shared by Dave Truss on 09 Sep 09 - No Cached
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  • Dave Truss on 09 Sep 09
     
    Great 'sponges'/icebreakers and activities that can be use more than once in a classroom
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Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet - 0 views

quizlet.com flashcards tools interactive
shared by Dave Truss on 11 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 11 Nov 08
     
    # 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
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Wikis in the classroom: a reflection. | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/reflection-on-wikis blc08 pairadimes pedagogy reflection wiki
shared by Dave Truss on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • 1. Scaffolding
  • 2. Time Line
  • 3. Experts
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  • Grades
  • 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.
  • here it is
  • Before reading the feedback, my initial impression was given in my Some Assembly Required post
  • Dave Truss on 15 May 08
     
    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.
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Kids say the darndest things | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/kids-say-the-darndest-things humour pairadimes
shared by Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08
     
    How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why? Good. They did something good for once.
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What comes around | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/what-comes-around advisory pairadimes studentvoice video
shared by Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08
     
    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.
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Making a Difference | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/making-a-difference charity pairadimes socialresponsibility
shared by Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 25 Jun 08
     
    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!)
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Student Creators: How to Contribute to the Internet | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/student-creators blc08 collaboration techintegrator
shared by Dave Truss on 27 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 27 May 08
     
    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.
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Brick Wall « Je Pense… - 0 views

3sara0.wordpress.com/...question digitaldivide techintegrator
shared by Dave Truss on 27 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 27 May 08
     
    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.
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CTV.ca | Kielburgers join forces with Oprah on new campaign - 0 views

www.ctv.ca/...20080526 charity community empathy studentleadership
shared by Dave Truss on 26 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 26 May 08
     
    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
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Halloween Scavenger Hunt on Ning | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 1 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/lloween-scavenger-hunt-on-ning lessons ning pairadimes
shared by Dave Truss on 24 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 May 08
     
    Some fun in the classroom, with a little learning going on in the background.
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Textorizer - vectorise a picture using text strings - 0 views

textorizer.whatfettle.com art photography
shared by Dave Truss on 24 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 May 08
     
    Choose the photo, and the text that makes it... very cool
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Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Busy Time Rants - 0 views

educationaltechnology.ca/...848 blc08 opensoftware schools2.0 techintegrator technology
shared by Dave Truss on 22 May 08 - Cached
  • Let us forget the term “technical support” and focus on “innovation support”.
  • Dave Truss on 22 May 08
     
    I LOVE this quote: Let us forget the term "technical support" and focus on "innovation support".
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The Pulse: Willfully Ignoring the Lessons of the Past - 0 views

blogs.districtadministration.com/...willfully-ignor.html blc08 education newliteracy pedagogy
shared by Dave Truss on 21 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 21 May 08
     
    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
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Fortnightly Mailing: What to advise a student about using the Web - 0 views

fm.schmoller.net/...what-to-advise.html newliteracy schools2.0 students studentvoice
shared by Dave Truss on 19 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 19 May 08
     
    Here are 8 things to do that will make life easier, and your studies more fulfilling.
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Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - 0 views

www.themaninblue.com/...index.php art cool geometry
shared by Dave Truss on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 18 May 08
     
    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!
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Twemes- Great tool we can use with Twitter - 0 views

twemes.com meme twitter
shared by Dave Truss on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 18 May 08
     
    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.
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Pearson Presents: Learning to Change - Practical Theory - 0 views

practicaltheory.org/...index.php
shared by Dave Truss on 18 May 08 - Cached
  • 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.
  • is there much of an honest discussion of just how hard implementation of these ideas actually is.
  • 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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  • Because nowhere in that talk
  • "If we just change it all up, the kids will all suddenly just start learning like crazy" when that misses several points -- 1) we still have an insanely anti-intellectual culture that is so much more powerful than schools. 2) Deep learning is still hard, and our culture is moving away from valuing things that are hard to do. 3) We still need teachers to teach kids thoughtfulness, wisdom, care, compassion, and there's an anti-teacher rhetoric that, to me, undermines that video's message.
  • We cannot pretend these ideas "save" our schools, they create different schools -- better ones, I believe -- but very, very different ones, and that's the piece I see missing.
  • Dave Truss on 18 May 08
     
    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.
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Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A ... - 0 views

pairadimes.davidtruss.com/digital-competence-a-spectrum digitaldivide digitalexposure pairadimes pedagogy schools2.0
shared by Dave Truss on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Rather than a Digital Native/Digital Immigrant dichotomy, students have a wide spectrum of digital competence positively correlating to their digital exposure.
  • Dave Truss on 15 May 08
     
    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.
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