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"This tutorial shows you how simple it is to edit the wiki (2008.05.29), and suggests ways of using wikis with students.

One in a series: Related posts * How to create a wiki * Using wikis for teacher development

Oxnevad suggests, "Students can develop transferrable knowledge and skills as they engage in learning experiences that require them to construct knowledge" (¶1). She argues for "seamless integration of technology" that will enable "students students to have access to the tools and information they need for success" (¶2), and proposes five instructional strategies for teachers to use to achieve those ends, namely: 1. Preparing "complex questions that require students to use higher level thinking skills" (Help students uncover knowledge, ¶2); 2. Facilitating learning from engaging and online resources, rather than delivering content (Eliminate the front of the classroom); 3. Creating opportunities for real world collaboration (Encourage collaboration); 4. Exploiting classroom and online opportunities for "frequent [and] informal assessment to gauge the effectiveness of your instruction and make adjustments to maximize the learning experience for each student" (Informally assess students [and instructional practices]); and 5. Preparing and publishing screencast tutorials for students to peruse whenever necessary, "...[i]Instead of spending valuable instructional time teaching the same tech skills over and over again to individual students" (Provide students with built in tech support). This October 30, 2012, post ends with an illustration comprising focus questions and a ThingLink product of fifth grade students' work. A list of links to related posts follows.

"[C]reate any size wall posters from any size images[.] Totally Free To Use!" (2012.04.22)  Thanks to Richard Byrne for pointing out this printing tool on his blog, Free Technology for Teachers, in How to Print Posters Using a Standard Printer (2012.04.20).

Richard Byrne explains "five ways that Google Sites are commonly being used in schools" (2012.08.20).

"...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).

"This web page is for people interested in learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. This is a useful skill for learners and teachers of English who may want to check the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary. Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them" (The Phonetic Chart, ¶1).

With English360, English teaching is changing. Our web-based learning platform can be used to create and deliver face-to-face, online and blended courses. Teachers an create personalised courses using digital authoring tools that let you combine coursebook content from Cambridge University Press

What a great way to improve learning in the online field. Thanks for posting!

List of sites, some still in beta, for use by students and teachers.

These are very good and interesting sites! Thank you very much for sharing them!!!

An interactive White Board (IWB) or SMART Board has the potential to deliver content better than traditional methods of teaching. Why? Because it provides multi-media functional interaction across audio, video, and computer media. It is also ideal for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. These qualities of an IWB also promote the dynamic delivery of content (if used to its full potential) in an engaging manner, which allows students to interact with science or math content their self. Examples include: * data manipulation * responding to data * even creating data So with all these attributes - "How are interactive white boards unsuccessfully used in science and math classrooms?" For the most part - not effectively!

This page offer tips on using leveled news and other stories, such as: - having students take turns reading (aloud to one another) and translating (interpreting) the whole text (aloud to one another), sentence by sentence (Reading, item 2, 2013.06.04); and - playing the media over and over during a subsequent lesson, until every student understands (Reading, item 6, 2013.06.04). It doesn't explain the leveling system.

In this teacher training video, Russell Stannard introduces an easy-to-use audio recording tool, and demonstrates how to sign up, record and upload audio files, add written comments to them, and embed them in a blog.

Did you know Spelling City offers more than just spelling practice? There's vocabulary and writing, too. Check us out http://bit.ly/c3xqWy

This section provides detailed tutorials and example files to help you develop your Flash authoring skills. If you have never used Flash before, you may wish to use the 'introduction to Flash' pages . Within five minutes, you'll be able to begin experimenting with the tutorials below.

Enter your list of words, and try several activities to learn their spelling. Teachers can save their lists. Includes automatic reading aloud and use in context. Cool!!!! Learned about it at David Kapuler's blog "Thoughts of a Cyberhero".

Has anyone tried this cool resource yet? If so, let me know how it worked!

Palalas, Agnieszka. (2010). ESP for busy college students: It the blend of in-class, online & mobile learning the answer? IALLT Journal, 41(1). Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal/esp_for_busy_college_students_is_the_blend_of_in_class_online_mobile_learning_the_answ

Interactive whiteboards (IWB) allow science and math teachers to teach multi-sensory lessons, seamlessly jumping from one type of media to another. Interactive science or math lessons can easily integrate text, sound, video, and graphics based on the tactile nature of the IWB.

Nik Peachey previews ReadTheWords.com (beta) online text-to-speech converter, prior to suggesting ways for EAL learners to use it for help "with their listening, reading and pronunciation" (¶2)

Nik may (have) announce(d) this post on the mailing list. He's looking for teachers to try out ReadTheWords.

Thanks again, Joao!

Guidelines for assessing credibility of online sources AFTER making sure teachers permit their use in your academic work--last updated in 2005, by Judith Kilborn (2008.08.25), who recommends a Webliography of Validating Web Sits for further information: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jmkilborn/webvalidation.html

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith's group for teachers using video

EFI - Webheads students - a list of students and teachers. There sublist for chat, & contact using webcams. It's part of Vance's creation and well worth investigating.