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Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for Boolean Search contruction. It can be used to teach and learn Boolean in a variety of settings.

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!

Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student's blogs.

Online Magazine for Learners of English

This PDF from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework represents "activity to ensure portability and accessibility of learner collected evidence of learning" (p. 1). It is copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2008.

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.

videos for esl learners

Anamaria Menezes' Webslide presentation of various sources of listening material for learners of English as an additional language

Story telling sites.Ideal for younger learners, here you can listen to (and read) short (and longer) stories in simple English. Great fun! rec Claudia

captioned videos for EFL learners

Introduces Diigo: lists suggestions for using Diigo in education from discussion with Clif Mims on why teachers and learners would, should could use Diigo, and diplays annotated screenshots showing how to activate and use Diigo functions

the level is more for intermediate to advanced, in fact, it was not specially made for L2 learners. But very useful, though. In words of Illya Celena

"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).

In part 1 of this series, we looked at what a learning scenario is, its basic structure, capabilities and applications. We move on now to look in more detail at the steps involved in creating simple scenarios to support learners in understanding the principles underlying everyday problem-solving and decision 

**click on "Learners Desk" (TINY font upper right corner) to access assessments