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)
Plenty of mind-numbing background music, but still worth checking further to see whether these "animated teaching videos for ESL and EFL learners" (About Us, ¶1, 2017.02.24 [JST]) might be suited to particular learners' needs
It's very to do if you use the Diigo toolbar. Just selelct the text you want to highlight and then click on the arrow beside the "Comment" button on the Diigo toolbar. There choose "Add a floating sticky note to this page." Then you'll get a pop-up window where you can choose to make your note private (only you can see it) or public or share it with a specific group. I am sharing this sticky note with the Learningwithcomputers group.
Yes, these floating sticky notes are really cool.
Maybe we could encourage students to use them to make comments on texts they read on the Net. Who knows they would enjoy this way of reading and writing. Well, it's just a thought, maybe a too optimistic one.
We are all optimistic, aren't we, João? Maybe if we started not expecting that the students would write the sticky notes, but, at least, read ours, they could be encouraged to go further. For example, we could have them read a text and use the sticky notes for comprehension, reflection. What do you think?
Hi Carla, I like your idea of letting students read our sticky notes first. That would certainly be a good start. We wouldn't ask them to do anything in the beginning except looking at and reading our sticky notes. Maybe they (at least some of them) might also want to try using the sticky notes the same way. And we teachers mustn't show a too great enthusiasm for it, just behave the normal way or even show a kind of uninterested interest. :-) That's a lesson I learned. :-)
Exactly, Joao. That's the way I tend to do it, casually! I guess that if we just give the students a link with our annotation, like asking questions, then some of them would be. at least, curious to learn how we did that!
choose any or all of the recommended tags for your bookmarks.
you could simply use quotation marks for "lesson plan"
there are no better tags than others.
we should agree on a special tag for the group like "LWC" that we would always add to every bookmark we tagged.
Organizing tags in topics or bundles
CamelCase is my favorite for MultiWordTags
plural forms for countable nouns.
Take, for instance, collaborat, a tag I tend to favor in de.licio.us to capture the essence of collaborate, collaboration, collaborative, and collaborators
awareness-raising,
are means of raising awareness
wondering if there're any shortcut suggestions to 'attacking' the project of revisiting and tagging them?
I've been tagging many things both ESOL and ESL (because I don't know if diigo would automatically search for both. Is there a way to find out ?
we're moving from just collecting resources to a more engaged collective way of making the best out of the resources we share with the group.
the power of folksonomies is exactly having everybody tagging as much as possible, with as much key-words as you can think of. We won't ever be able to create a true "system"
agging for personal use x tagging for public good
Tagging will always be ambiguous because our very personal ways of classifying things and making them useful for us. Even so, with folksonomies, we're able to see the latest trends in a determined group or about a certain topic, we can go to places never imagined before.
Hi, yes I agree "Lists" are a great way to organize bookmarks. I already made a list for my "teaching resources" items as a try and now I'm going to experiment with the webslides. The only thing is that I imported my bookmarks from delicious and it's hard work to organize them all :-)
So, how could we organize our tagging system after this week's discussion? Give some practical hints here.
I'll start with:
- try to keep a single word tag
- add as many tags as you can think of
- think of individual uses of the tags you're using, as well as the collective needs of easy retrieval of resources
- tag, tag, tag
- pay attention to mispelled words
- use the groups' recommended tags in addition to the ones you've already used
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I found this in the NECC 08 webcasts and it looks like a great source for educators. The idea is to make a social tagging platform like delicious (or diigo!) but have it only relevant to educators.
I can also warmly recommend the webcast: http://www.kzowebcasting.com/necc/
Tuesday 11am - Edtags.org
Hello all,
not sure what happened the last time I tried to edit this note -- it disappeared? Anyway, apologies if you receive this twice... and please check mlots.org and the 'other' tab. David Rosen is a longtime online mentor of mine -- check out the nifl.gov listservs archives for rich info, too.