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cnorland

Sleeping Brains Can Process and Respond to Words - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...cess-and-respond-to-words.html

sleeping brain learning

shared by cnorland on 20 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • cnorland on 20 Oct 14
     
    Summary: In this article the main focus is the amazing things that people's brains can do, but specifically that even when we're sleeping, our brains can process and respond to words! This has been a theory of many people for the past hundreds of years, and now it's been proven. One of the people who was subject to this was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose mother would wake him up in the dead of night, and would give him music lessons then, when his brain was awake and free of distractions, and from there, Mozart could do nothing but absorb the information being embedded in his brain. And the knowledge about being able to understand words in your sleep could change the way people learn languages and study for exams. For example, if you go to sleep listening to a language learning tape, you will comprehend the bulk of the words in theory, and by default, will be learning in your sleep!
  • cnorland on 06 Feb 15
     
    Summary: In this article the main focus is the amazing things that people's brains can do, but specifically that even when we're sleeping, our brains can process and respond to words! This has been a theory of many people for the past hundreds of years, and now it's been proven. One of the people who was subject to this was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose mother would wake him up in the dead of night, and would give him music lessons then, when his brain was awake and free of distractions, and from there, Mozart could do nothing but absorb the information being embedded in his brain. And the knowledge about being able to understand words in your sleep could change the way people learn languages and study for exams. For example, if you go to sleep listening to a language learning tape, you will comprehend the bulk of the words in theory, and by default, will be learning in your sleep!
Maureen Deppman

Inspired Picture Writing - PicLit - 0 views

piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx

Writing Tool Photos Creative~writing English

shared by Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13
     
    This tool is great to help students with their creative writing. The site provides visually stunning images with a bank of words for writing a poem, descriptive paragraph, or caption. Lists of words are categorized by verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and with an additional universal list. The work is public, supports vocabulary building, and helps with word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Kamille Snell

Top 10 'untranslatable' French words - 1 views

www.thelocal.fr/...1

French words untranslatable

shared by Kamille Snell on 12 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Kamille Snell on 12 Jan 15
     
    Interesting article on the "top 10" words that cannot be translated to english. As I have learned over the years it is quite hard to translate one dialect into the other because many words don't correspond.
Maureen Deppman

Wordle - 1 views

www.wordle.net

Tool PL Presentation

shared by Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13
     
    Wordle is a tool for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Sofia Wolak

Shakespeare - 0 views

absoluteshakespeare.com/...a.htm

English writing Shakespeare definition

shared by Sofia Wolak on 12 Jun 14 - Cached
  • Sofia Wolak on 12 Jun 14
     
    In English we started a Shakespeare unit. While reading Shakespeare many of the words I was not familiar with. I found this site and it helped me to define the meanings of these words. This site is alphabetized so everything is quite easy to find. After I learned what the words meant I felt that I could finally understand what Shakespeare was writing.
Will Aldrich

English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com - 0 views

WordReference.com

language french german italian conjugation conjugations spanish dictionary translate translation reference word resource english to

shared by Will Aldrich on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Will Aldrich on 02 Oct 14
     
    Free online dictionaries - Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. Conjugations, audio pronunciations and forums for your questions. This website is really incredible. It has helped me with French so much. When I was trying to translate my letter from English to French, this tool made it so much easier to just look up a word that I needed to know! It even gives you the conjugations, tenses, and any other forms of the word that you could possibly need to know! I'd highly recommend this resource to anyone learning a language or anyone who just wants to know how to say something in a different language.
  • Lauren Parren on 02 Oct 14
     
    Have you tried Duolingo? If you aren't familiar with it and how it works, be sure to check out the TED talk about it and crowdsourcing. Amazing!
Siena Hoaglund

First Thousand Words in Spanish by Stephen Cartwright - 0 views

This book uses pictures to help you learn basics words in Spanish. This book is helpful when you are trying to learn how to say everyday objects, while still being an easy.

Education Tool Language

started by Siena Hoaglund on 17 Jan 14 no follow-up yet
Maureen Deppman

Fotobabble - Talking Photos - 0 views

www.fotobabble.com

Tool PL Photo Audio Photography

shared by Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13 - Cached
  • Maureen Deppman on 13 Sep 13
     
    Fotobabble is a free service that allows you to quickly turn a picture into an audio picture story. To use Fotoabble just upload an image to the site, and allow the site to access your computer's microphone, and start recording your voice. You can comment on your photo, explain what's happening in your photo, or tell a story related to your photo. When you've completed your recording you can save it in your Fotobabble account, contribute to a public gallery and or embed it into your blog. Have students upload images from lab experiments or field trips and then talk about them. Have student define vocabulary words and offer images. Have students describe an image of a painting or some other piece of art.
adupoise

"The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide, A Tool for Literacy Teachers" - 1 views

I read a prompting guide called The Fountas and Pinnell Prompting Guide, A Tool for Literacy Teachers. This book helps first and second grade teachers with the basics of teaching literacy for their...

Education Literacy English Fountas Pinnell PromptingGuide YoungChildren SecondGrade

started by adupoise on 08 Oct 14 no follow-up yet
lanefisher

France Enter - 0 views

This is an incredibly interesting source of information, as it doubles as a news feed and a way to practice French and test knowledge. The French is more difficult as it is for intellectual people,...

French

started by lanefisher on 18 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
lanefisher

La Rafle - 0 views

Listening to the music of another culture is an incredibly beneficial to really understand the culture. It is also a great way to learn new words and to train the ear to understand French. Not only...

music french language words culture

started by lanefisher on 18 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
lanefisher

French Flashcards - 0 views

www.studystack.com/French

French Flashcards Learning

shared by lanefisher on 13 Jan 15 - Cached
  • lanefisher on 13 Jan 15
     
    It is very useful because it teaches students new words in a fun and creative way. It isn't the same as listening to it on a movie or a radio, but it allows the student to learn to spell the words as well, and learn conjugations.
Lyn Smith

Ten Steps to Writing an Essay - 0 views

www1.aucegypt.edu/...outline.htm

Writing Words Help Essay Steps Simple Education

shared by Lyn Smith on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Lyn Smith on 17 Jan 14
     
    This is a great site for helping you with writing. I breaks down essays into all the necessary parts and gives you advice on how to be affective with your writing. It tells you everything from how to research properly, to making an outline and a thesis. This was helpful for me when we were assigned essays in English. The site prompted me to complete my essays before they were due so I wouldn't be rushed. This would be very applicable to classroom environments to help struggling and proficient students alike. I find this site extremely reliable because even though this is subjective information, the reservoir of information greatly improved my writing. I would recommend this to anyone who wishes to become a better writer.
Clayton Trombley

What Makes a Good Design? - 0 views

www.todesignwrite.com/...designgood.html

art design Tool pl Education

shared by Clayton Trombley on 29 Jan 14 - Cached
  • Clayton Trombley on 29 Jan 14
     
    Graphic Design is found everywhere you look. It is found on clothing, advertising, books, and websites. This website holds some of the key elements that makes up a successful design. It goes into details on each element and breaks them down.
  • Kristen Farrell on 24 Mar 14
     
    Can your design of a promotional poster for the snowboard team be a helpful way to get your word out for your Age project?
Kristen Farrell

The rulers of Ancient Egypt - 1 views

This looks like an approachable source. I did a little searching on this site and thinkquest in general and learned that these are educational pages made by students for students. The sites avail...

Research Ancient Egypt

started by Chelsea Bingham on 10 Mar 14 1 follow-up, last by Kristen Farrell on 24 Mar 14
Kristen Farrell

Ancient Egyptian Burial Rituals - 1 views

I was trying to open this site, but it is a little different how you are posting these articles. You might be starting and not giving the comment option right from the home page. Look at someone ...

Research Ancient Egypt http:__www2.sptimes.com_Egypt_EgyptCredit.4.3.html

started by Chelsea Bingham on 10 Mar 14 1 follow-up, last by Kristen Farrell on 24 Mar 14
Clayton Trombley

How the Ukraine crisis ends - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html

writing Research education Ukraine Crisis

shared by Clayton Trombley on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Clayton Trombley on 18 Mar 14
     
    This article is about the possible out comes that can happen when the crisis starts to come to a close. It also gives a great political history of Russia and the Ukraine.
  • Kristen Farrell on 24 Mar 14
     
    I am glad you put this article on Diigo Clayton! Kissenger does a nice job of reminding people to have historical knowledge before reacting; Russian history and psychology of Ukraine can not be ignored. I was intrigued by his comment that villanizing Putin is a response to not having a clear policy. HK starts his essay well with the reference to how easy war begins and how challenging and daunting it is to end. Words of wisdom...
Sam Jarvis

Putin's words to America regarding Syria - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...tion-from-russia-on-syria.html

shared by Sam Jarvis on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Sam Jarvis on 13 Sep 13
     
    This article basically backs up what Obama's decision to not strike by elaborating on the fallback that would occur had we followed through with an attack.
  • Kristen Farrell on 11 Nov 13
     
    Fallback or fallout? It may be good to follow up to see how Putin gained from this arrangement.
Kelsey McCormick

All about psychiatry - 0 views

www.psychiatry.org/...more-about-psychiatry

Psychiatry

shared by Kelsey McCormick on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Kelsey McCormick on 30 Oct 13
     
    This is a great site that explains everything about psychiatry. It talked about what the they are, the difference between psychiatrist and psychologist, where they work the training and so much more. The site is worded very well and had a lot of great information.
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