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susana canelo

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: The First Days of School (Part 1) - 0 views

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    Teaching secrets
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    Special for new teachers
Paul Beaufait

Collaborative Writing - 0 views

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    Thanks to Joao for pointing this out!
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    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.
susana canelo

Videos with syncro subtitles - 0 views

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    Suggested by Vance. A cool tool from Japan
susana canelo

EFL in Second Life: A guest lesson in EFL in Second Life - 0 views

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    Dennis comments about hus experience teaching in SL with Nergiz (Daffodil) Kern
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    Very interesting. We should try SL. Dennis and Nergiz are doing a great job there
Paul Beaufait

On Communities & Virtual Learning Communities « - 0 views

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    Recent definition of communities linking to Stephen Downs video about groups and networks: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540
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    Thanks to Joao for pointing this out!
Paul Beaufait

digistories / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Pointed out by wiki author in Resources for Languages (Diigo
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    "a wiki all about creating and sharing digital stories" with various computer and web applications (Welcome to Digistories..., 2009.02.06)
Paul Beaufait

LEO: Assessing the credibility of online sources - 0 views

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    Thanks again, Joao!
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    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
Paul Beaufait

Your Camera Phone is a Document Scanner with Qipit » CogDogBlog - 0 views

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    Qipit converts cellphone snapshots to PDFs and stores them on its site for use later.
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    I can hardly wait to try this.
Paul Beaufait

create_google_account - 0 views

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    Short tutorial (3:16) with recommendations re: storing account info. on computers and allowing Google to track online activities.
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    Screencast tutorial by Heather Ross on creating a Google account in order to gain access to a variety of Google services
Paul Beaufait

elearnspace: The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn - 0 views

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    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
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    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).
Paul Beaufait

Learning technology teacher development blog: Text to Speech for EFL ESL Materials - 1 views

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

F-ALT - F-ALT - 0 views

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    web2.0, Classroom 2.0
Paul Beaufait

Listen & Read Grade 1: Animals & Food | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    "short, high-interest, nonfiction stories from Scholastic News boost early reading skills and support differentiated reading and ELL students" (2008.09.08)
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    Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out this site: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/listen-read/ (2008.09.07)
Paul Beaufait

CogDogRoo » Tag - 0 views

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    Alan Levine's wikified workshop activities and resources for personal, exploratory, and collective tagging of sites and photos
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    Reverberates with LwC tagging activities and discussions in Diigo less long ago than Levine's workshops down under.
Paul Beaufait

Konrad Glogowski :: Blog :: Towards Reflective BlogTalk - 0 views

  • The point here is that when we talk about blogging, most of us focus on writing. We tend to ignore the fact that a class blogging community provides teachers with a very valuable opportunity to use informal instructional conversations to engage our students as thinkers and writers. These conversations can help our students immerse themselves in the rich tapestries of voices that characterize blogging communities.
Carla Arena

WIAOC 2009 / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Preparing for Webheads 2009 Convergence
John Evans

TALL blog » Blog Archive » Not 'Natives' & 'Immigrants' but 'Visitors' & 'Res... - 0 views

  • In effect the Resident has a presence online which they are constantly developing while the Visitor logs on, performs a specific task and then logs off.
  • The Visitor is an individual who uses the web as a tool in an organised manner whenever the need arises.
  • The resident is an individual who lives a percentage of their life online.
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  • This underlying motivation lead us to outline two main categories of distance learning student.
Mary Hillis

Created by Camtasia Studio 5 - 0 views

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    Nik Peachey's excellent training video on personal start pages. Please watch as part of Week One tasks and respond on LwC blog.
Paul Beaufait

YouTube - How to create a magazine in Bloxi - 0 views

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    Carla recommended the Japan-based Edublog service, bloxi.jp, and I've found it every bit as accommodating as she said it was. When I Googled "bloxi" today, to bookmark my new blogs a Flock browser, this video showed up in the top five hits.
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    "This is a simple explanation for how to create a mag..." (YouTube description) - a tutorial for quick and easy set up of a personal blog, and then another blog to use as a magazine site
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