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"Beginning in February, Microsoft plans to offer a new feature for young students: Immersive Reader dictation, a new feature within Office 365 apps for Windows and the Mac. As a parent of two elementary school students, though, I'm concerned that this feature-which brings smartphone-style voice dictation to traditional desktop apps-will be an unwelcome crutch."

Giuseppe Corsaro posted in Insegnanti 2.0 Il Grande portale della lingua italiana è il nuovo strumento realizzato dai Ministeri dell'Interno, dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca e da Rai Educational per aiutare gli stranieri a imparare l'italiano. Conoscere la lingua del Paese nel quale si è scelto di vivere è indispensabile per costruire un percorso di integrazione pieno e soddisfacente. Italiano.rai.it è una straordinaria e innovativa opportunità per apprendere l'italiano di base e avvicinarsi ai principi della Costituzione per condividerne valori, diritti e doveri e per comprendere i vari aspetti della vita civile del nostro Paese. Italiano.rai.it è un'occasione sia per gli stranieri che potranno migliorare la conoscenza della lingua, sia per i docenti, che potranno disporre di materiali multimediali di supporto all'insegnamento. http://www.italiano.rai.it/

VOCABULARY QUIZZES ESL Topics quizzes for intermediate-level learners can be used either as fun self-assessment activities or as formal evaluation tools - you choose. Easy to find, download, and use in class.

"CAPTIONING [+]About Captioning [+]Benefits of Captioning [+]Captioning Guidelines [+]Captioning Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIPTION [+]About Description [+]Benefits of Description [+]Description Guidelines [+]Description Vendors [+]Research and Studies [+]Spanish [+]The Law DESCRIBED AND CAPTIONED MEDIA PROGRAM [+]About the DCMP [+]History - Captioned Films for the Deaf, Captioned Films/Videos Program, and Captioned Media Program [+]History - Captioning Manuals and Guidelines [+]History - Closed Captioning [+]History - John Gough [+]History - Malcolm Norwood [+]Recommend Media to the DCMP ACCESSIBLE MEDIA UTILIZATION [+]For Educators [+]For Interpreters [+]For Other Consumers [+]For Parents"

DMCP = Described and Captioned Media Program. Vedi anche la pagina http://www.dcmp.org/about-dcmp : "Our mission is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies. The DCMP supports the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for 2014-2018 by committing to the following goals: Ensuring that students (early learning through grade 12) who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind have the opportunity to achieve the standards of academic excellence. Advocating for equal access to educational media as well as the establishment and maintenance of quality standards for captioning and description by service providers. Providing a collection of free-loan described and captioned educational media. Furnishing information and research about accessible media. Acting as a gateway to Internet resources related to accessibility. Adapting and developing new media and technologies that assist students in obtaining and using available information.

The "Teatro a Scuola" (Theater School) project, directed at 14-18 year-old, Real innovation lies in the involvement of students as writers, in a collaborative theatrical storytelling. During the theater workshop the teacher in charge of the project planned and implemented with the participants experimental activity that was inserted within the Italian program. Its purpose is to stimulate participants' creativity. It aims at to become an integral part of the activities foreseen by the school syllabus and to offer, next to the traditional learning method, a form of learning by doing. The project consists in three distinct, yet interdependent, moments: a first theoretical stage, which foresees a short series of lessons on the history of theater; a second stage dedicated to a theater workshop (elocution, lively reading, mime, song, dance etc.); and a final show, i.e. a genuine theatrical representation for the whole school and all citizens. Characteristics of innovation and experimentation of the project were that: students were not only actors but also authors and screenwriters; also, the project involved elders of the University of the Third Age (NGO)

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