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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.

tanti video tutorial (in inglese) su come usare gli strumenti del web, con un particolare focus sull'insegnamento dell'inglese. Interessanti i video tutorial su come usare twitter (in particolare la seconda parte, sull'uso delle liste).

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"ClassFlow is a revolutionary cloud-based teaching and learning platform that makes lesson planning easier and lesson delivery more dynamic. Get started with ClassFlow - register for free Sign in Register Create Interactive Lessons Plan your lessons anytime, anywhere. All you need is the internet. Read more Connect With Every Student Use tablets or personal devices to put the information in their hands. Read more Achieve Instant Feedback Reveal progress and comprehension in the moment of learning."

Scaricabile liberamente dalla rete perché Open, sostituisce i programmi proprietari su qualsiasi superficie touch. In inglese ma corredato da videotutorial. Segnalato da Maupao.

L'ho scaricato intanto e provato sul laptop. Le funzionalità ci sono tutte o quasi mi pare, comunque le più importanti e sono semplici da usare. La visualizzazione grafica forse sul laptop va adattata (vedo alcune scritte eccessivamente grandi). La galleria dei contenuti ha una impostazione molto chiara, più funzionale del notebook per esempio, ma è tutta da riempire naturalmente. L'interfaccia web al momento (mi?) funziona proprio male. il motore di ricerca della galleria non si attiva e se cerco di collegarmi a siti web esterni dall'interno della finestra della lavagna, il programma incontra una serie di errori e smette poi di funzionare. Sarà da provare un po', anche in classe collegata alle varie lim, per verificare se può effettivamente fare da valido sostituto dei vari software proprietari. Da verificare anche la compatibilità/convertibilità da/con i formati almeno più diffusi (notebook e promethean per es.) per poter riutilizzare contenuti già creati con quelli senza troppe difficoltà. Il problema della eterogeneità di lim e relativi software, nell'ambito in particolare dello stesso istituto - posto che secondo me il software proprietario rimane comunque di grande utilità per chi lo usa diffusamente, se non altro per beneficiare dei contenuti creati nell'ambito delle relative comunità i apprendimento - mi pare diffuso a macchia d'olio e ormai endemico, mi sa, a causa delle 'politiche' di acquisto piuttosto incoerenti adottate dalle scuole nell'ebrezza da finanziamento pon o similare. Forse un software aperto potrebbe alleviare, se non risolvere, i disagi creati a docenti e studenti.

VoxOoFox è un programma libero che legge ad alta voce ciò che si scrive in OpenOffice e in Firefox. Nasce per Linux, ma chi ha Windows ha qualche speranza di installare ugualmente. Qui i dettagli per scaricare in ambiente Windows. In francese.

Apparentemente ci può essere qualche problemino nell'installazione di VoxOoFox in Oo 3.4. Qui la soluzione (in francese). Attenzione anche all'antivirus Avast, che non permette l'installazione del programma.

"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.

"Wink is a freeware screen capture and tutorial-creation program. It supports many features such as input-based capture and text annotations. Navigation buttons can be added to any presentation and the bitmaps for all presentation controls can be edited."

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"By Liana Heitin (...) In a growing number of K-12 schools, the use of 1-to-1 computing devices-including iPads, laptops, and Chromebooks-is becoming a central part of instruction. For teachers making the digital leap, one of the greatest hurdles can be figuring out how to manage the tech-infused classroom. How do you keep kids, who suddenly have the Internet at their fingertips, on task? How do you ensure the devices are safe and well-maintained? And how do you compete with your most tech-savvy students? (...)"I think this is the new frontier frankly with classroom management. We've never confronted this," said Kyle Redford, a 5th grade teacher at Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, Calif. "

Suggerimenti interessanti su come assicurarsi che gli allievi facciano quel che devono fare in classe con aggeggi web-connessi anziché lasciarsi trascinare da altre cose. Ma si tratta proprio di una "nuova frontiera" per gli insegnanti? In tempi pre-web, era lo stesso quando mandavi gli allievi a far ricerca in biblioteca, o gli facevi fare lavoro di gruppo sul prato della scuola, no?

Aggiungo solo questo: che se si va a scuola per lavorare in modalità 1-to-1, tanto valeva restarsene a casa, no? Va bene per brevi periodi di tempo e per scopi precisi, ma altrimenti la scuola è preziosa per comunicare con l'insegnante o lavorare a coppie o in gruppo. Socializzare e costruire la comunità, insomma.

"Video - How to Create a Padlet Wall for Your Classroom"

Cory Doctorow theguardian.com, Monday 28 April 2014 00.00 BST "An ISP should give users the bits they ask for, as quickly as it can, and not deliberately slow down the data The Federal Communications Commission, America's telcoms regulator, has formulated a plan to allow internet service providers (ISPs) to charge companies for the right to "premium" access to its customers. This is the worst internet policy news imaginable. It should strike terror into the heart of anyone who cares about fairness, politics, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, fair trade, entrepreneurship, or innovation. The FCC now stands as the world's foremost symbol for "regulatory capture," and its chairman - a former cable executive lobbyist - is the poster child for an unhealthy relationship between industry and its regulators. What's at stake is "network neutrality," which is the simple principle that your ISP should give you the bits you ask for, as quickly as it can, and not deliberately slow down the data you're looking for. ... "

Doctorow's intro in his newsletter: "My latest Guardian column, "Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom," explains what's at stake now that the FCC is prepared to let ISPs charge services for "premium" access to its subscribers. It's pretty much the worst Internet policy imaginable, an anti-innovation, anti-democratic, anti-justice hand-grenade lobbed by telcos who shout "free market" while they are the beneficiaries of the most extreme industrial government handouts imaginable."

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