LearningwithComputers

summarizes and reflects upon College Board and Pew Internet collaborative report on Writing, Technology and Teens:http://pewresearch.org/pubs/808/writing-technology-and-teens (2008.04.24)

Marielle (Classroom 2.0) aka mapl3 (Authorship 2.0) publicises findings of a telephone survey and discussion with focus groups of U.S. teens about writing online

To create a time line

I've found this tool to create timelines. I haven't give it a try yet but I think it can be promising, especially when learning tenses. Or maybe, at the beginning of the year, make students do a timeline with the objectives they would like to reach until the end of the year. Just ideas. Hope you find it useful, Lore

134 posts in Diigo facilitated/sponsored discussion (2008.07.30), several with interesting links

suite of conversations among educators and technology providers

Cool tool for Twiiter!

Very simple and effective ways to add value to the language classroom.

"Five easy, practical steps toward better digital integration in your classroom" (teaser, retrieved 2008.08.26)

Gleaned from Carla Arena's collection

Daf's blog about teaching in Second Life. Just fascinating

Teaching secrets

Special for new teachers

Thanks to Joao for pointing this out!

Although fast and loose about what constitutes collaboration, this paper concisely introduces and compares free online tools that writers can use to compose (and publish) documents collectively and jointly, namely: GoogleDoc, Writeboard (no publication), ZohoWriter, and ThinkFree.

Suggested by Vance. A cool tool from Japan

Dennis comments about hus experience teaching in SL with Nergiz (Daffodil) Kern

Very interesting. We should try SL. Dennis and Nergiz are doing a great job there

Recent definition of communities linking to Stephen Downs video about groups and networks: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540

Thanks to Joao for pointing this out!

Pointed out by wiki author in Resources for Languages (Diigo

"a wiki all about creating and sharing digital stories" with various computer and web applications (Welcome to Digistories..., 2009.02.06)

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

Qipit converts cellphone snapshots to PDFs and stores them on its site for use later.

I can hardly wait to try this.

Short tutorial (3:16) with recommendations re: storing account info. on computers and allowing Google to track online activities.

Screencast tutorial by Heather Ross on creating a Google account in order to gain access to a variety of Google services

Introduces a September 18, 2008 [sic] article from Scientific American Mind Magazine: The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secrets-of-storytelling

George Siemens ponders whether: "scientific method [is] a testament to the power of a logical framework to banish myth and superstition," and "how...emotional and cognitive effects of a narrative influence our beliefs and real-world decisions" (2008.08.25).

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.

web2.0, Classroom 2.0

"short, high-interest, nonfiction stories from Scholastic News boost early reading skills and support differentiated reading and ELL students" (2008.09.08)

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out this site: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/listen-read/ (2008.09.07)