Skip to main content

Home/ Language Learning and Technology/ Group items tagged online games

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Simon B

That'SLife » Blog Archive » Online Language Learning - 0 views

  • There are certain perceived advantages – flexibility, price, personalized learning… but frankly most of the research will show that these are not nearly as important as we might feel.
  • Disadvantages in online language courses are relatively obvious, I think – lack of easy group practice, lack of eye contact, lack of many paralinguistic features which make the possibility of group gelling and real communicative practice much harder than they might be in a face-to-face context.
  • there are plenty of opportunities online for real, meaningful language practice – Second Life with its international communities of native speakers springs to mind here – and these may be much more real and useful than anything that may be achieved in an online classroom.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • you cannot really learn a language online, but you can improve one.
  • many online courses will give you plenty of practice in the basic skills, few of them have the community side in place to successfully emulate the experience of learning with a group of like-minded people.
  • the social community should be the absolute centre of any school or course, and not something tacked on at the end.
  • People need to get together and talk to each other, to laugh and share and discuss – you simply don’t get this in an online tutorial with a teacher. So yes, by all means have good solid exercises, games and everything else – but don’t bother opening an online school, or engaging in distance language teaching unless you give people a chance to talk to each other.
  • I would be looking for a company that has been around for a while, long enough to prove that what it offers is good enough to survive. I would then be looking at if they are recognized by an institution for the work they do.
  • I’d ask to talk to a real human being at the other end of the phone who could answer my questions in the language of my choice, and I would find out about the organization – who they have working for them, who the writers are, who their big clients are. I’d have a sample class and a sample tutorial.
Cara Whitehead

WordFind - 0 views

  •  
    This online game is a favorite! It works great on your interactive whiteboard, too!
yc c

Spongelab | A Global Science Community | Home page - 5 views

  •  
    Spongelab is an online learning platform with science animations, images, videos and games integrated into a teacher content management system. All at no cost, science teachers, students and thinkers can access our growing database of amazing interactive educational media. Spongelab - where science meets play!
Cara Whitehead

Back to School - 0 views

  •  
    Great word list and free online games for the first week of school
Cara Whitehead

Word Abbreviations - 0 views

  •  
    Free online games and printable resources
Cara Whitehead

Figurative Language | Articles - 0 views

  • Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations.
Señora Knipp

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 1 views

shared by Señora Knipp on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  •  
    Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing.">s Make Beliefs, make beliefs for children, make beliefs for adults, make belief, make beliefs cartoons, make beliefs comics by Bill Zimmerman
Sara Kennedy

OnlineFreeSpanish.com - 0 views

  •  
    Study Spanish for free with our OnLine Lessons
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 0 views

  •  
    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
1 - 11 of 11
Showing 20 items per page