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Joel Bennett

Diigo Educator Accounts - 0 views

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    Allows teachers to create student accounts (even without email addresses) which are private, but shared to the rest of their class. Allowing students to communicate and share and markup web pages, without exposing their accounts to other Diigo users.
Isabelle Jones

South Windsor High School::Mme McKenna - 0 views

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    Ideas for a student blog or blog for students
Yuly Asencion

Spanish resources - 12 views

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    This is a collection of on-line resources for Spanish students and teachers collected by the MA students at Northern Arizona University
Stéphane Métral

Interactives - 6 views

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    " "Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. "
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    lots of resources
Gramarye Gramarye

Gateways to Academic Writing - Book review - 4 views

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    Gateways to Academic Writing is a fully integrated program for students who are writing in English is one that I would recommend for anyone looking for a book that covers all the bases. I cannot find anything that needs to be added to this comprehensive coverage of writing, whether the student is using English as a first or subsequent language.
Barbara Lindsey

News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

  • Some adventurous professors have used Twitter as a teaching tool for at least a few years. At a presentation at Educause in 2009, W. Gardner Campbell, director of the academy of teaching and learning at Baylor University, extolled the virtues of allowing students to pose questions to the professor and each other — an important part of the thinking and learning process — without having to raise their hands to do so immediately and aloud. And in November, a group of professors published a scientific paper suggesting that bringing Twitter into the learning process might boost student engagement and performance.
  • But while Lomicka and her tech-forward peers are not advocating that every college go the way of Chapel Hill, they are finding out that some relatively novel teaching technologies that are used by academics of all stripes, such as Twitter and iTunes U, are particularly useful for teaching languages.
  • At Emory University, language instructional content is far and away the biggest export of its public repository on iTunes U, where visitors from around the world have downloaded more than 10 million files since Emory opened the site in 2007.
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  • Language content makes up about 95 percent of the downloads from the Emory iTunes U site.
  • the most popular content is audio and video files that were originally developed not for a general audience, but by professors as supplements to college-level coursework,
  • Because language demonstrations often require audio and sometimes video components (e.g., tutorials on how to write in a character-based alphabet), and students often like to practice while on the move, iTunes is in many ways an ideal vehicle for language-based instructional content.
  • what we do offer is an online supplement that enhances what happens both in the classroom and in foreign study in the culture — and it is always there as a resource for our students, because it’s online.”
Isabelle Jones

Student portfolios for Language Learning: What They Are and How to Use Them «... - 11 views

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    A brief overview of how student portfolios can be used for assessment and evaluation. Contains references
International School of Central Switzerland

Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog - 6 views

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    "Create a free class website and let your students build sites too. Look at the sample site at http://cnapolitano.weebly.com/ What can I do with Weebly? Easily create a classroom website & blog Manage your students' accounts Accept homework assignments online Keep your parents up to date We offer a simple interface to let you centrally manage all the Weebly accounts at your school or district. (not free)
Lauren Rosen

Learn It In 5 - YouTube interactive videos - 2 views

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    Make your youtube videos a quiz or create an interactive create your own adventure story. Start the story, students create the endings as videos and users can choose which ending they want, or have students first create the middles and then choose a middle different from their own to then create an ending. What are your ideas?
Isabelle Jones

Fab French - 1 views

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    French website set up as a student ICT project with teacher providing content.
Barbara Lindsey

NEA: World Languages - 0 views

  • "The fact that our students study a language from grade one not only teaches them how to learn languages, it gives them the mindset that languages are just as important as any other subject," says Janet Eklund, now in her 20th year at Glastonbury, where she's one of two Russian teachers.
  • "All along, we're working to make them not just language proficient, but culturally aware," says Oleksak. "We always remind them that they have to learn more than just the words to relate to people from other cultures."
  • "There's a Chinese saying, that if three people pass by, one of them is your teacher. We learn from just about every experience we have," says Wang. "Then we make sense of it through our language."   
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  • Asia Society's Shuhan Wang cautions against a "language of the month" approach for districts working to build their language programs. It's more important, she says, to build on community resources and to do what you can to make language learning real-world and relevant to them.
  • Presidential candidate Barack Obama hit on some deep-seated anxiety when he remarked in July that we should emphasize foreign language learning from an early age.
  • "The U.S. will become less competitive in the global economy because of a shortage of strong foreign language and international studies programs at the elementary, high school, and college levels," the Committee for Economic Development stated plainly in a 2006 report. "Our diplomatic efforts often have been hampered by a lack of cultural awareness," the report went on to say. The world is becoming so interrelated, if we don't teach our young other languages and cultural values, says Wang, "We are denying them access to the new world. It is just plain and simple. If we continue to view language learning as for the elite, for the "smart ones," or for the family who can afford to pay for it, we are really widening the gap."
  • What does it say about America that we are the only industrialized nation that routinely graduates high school students who speak only one language? Frankly, it says that if you want to talk to us—to do business with us, negotiate peace with us, learn from or teach us, or even just pal around with us—you'd better speak English.
  • "The norm is still either no foreign language or two years in high school," says Marty Abbott, director of Education at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
  • Foreign language programs are often among the first things cut by urban school administrators desperately adding math and reading classes to raise test scores.
  • "It's time to reassess what 'basic skills' really means for the 21st century," says Asia Society's Wang.
  • Not only will students learn new vocabulary in the target language, but they get to work on the concepts they need to master for other classes, and yes, for high-stakes tests. That's how they do it in Glastonbury, says Oleksak: "We pre-teach, co-teach, and post-teach what's going on in the elementary classroom."
  • The kids reason out what you get when you add three butterflies plus four butterflies: Seven, yes, but really it's practice in Chinese and math, as well as a reminder that caterpillars turn into butterflies.
  • Right now, districts like Glastonbury—with an articulated, sequential program spanning grades 1–12, state-of-the-art language labs, and all the support an administration could give—are the exception.
Patrick Higgins

100 Awesome Ivy League Video Lectures | Online Universities.com - 0 views

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    Another one of these "100" lists, but this one rocks for providing students with the ability to push further.
Isabelle Jones

ProfeBergeron - SPANISH V HONORS           WISSAHICKON HIGH SCHOOL - 1 views

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    Vocab practice-student-generated powerpoint-jeopardy games-to download
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: YouTube, Copyright and Lucacept - 0 views

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    more on the discussion of copyright; Jenny Luca explains how she works with students as they develop their own videos on a related educational topic...trailers for good books in this case; links to her complete blog posting are available
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    Two important areas for EFL students to learn about are discussed here: making video trailers as book reviews and copyright issues.
Isabelle Jones

cfox2's favorites tagged with "smartboard" on del.icio.us - 0 views

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    iwb taxonomy for students
Rob McTaggart

Chinese Tools - Online tools to learn chinese - 0 views

  • Chinese Order Stroke
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      Great for IWB's!
  • Hand Writing Recognition
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      This is a good way for students to check if their Chinese writing is legible. If the computer can't guess at what it may be, maybe they need to keep working at it. Built for success and great for interactive whiteboards.
  • Chinese Annotation Tool
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      This tool takes a sentence in Chinese (not pinyin unfortunately) and gives an English or French translation for every word individually. Very good for breaking up sentences into small parts, for analysing word-order and for students to check their writing.
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  • Chinese Annoted News
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      Great for more advanced students. This site gives small news stories and any word that is hovered over is translated into pinyin and English.
  • Chinese Dictionary NEW
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      This is one of the best Chinese-English dictionaries on the internet, when you consider that so many of the words have audio and an animation of the stroke order for writing.
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    This is a fantastic resource for any classroom learning Chinese or about China. The dictionary pinyin with tones as well as simplified and traditional writing, an animation of the order stroke for many words and audio of how the word should be spoken. There is also other resources such as practice sheets for writing, a translator, and other stuff for kids and the classroom.
Patrick Higgins

LiveMocha - 64 views

Is anyone using LiveMocha with their students? We are looking at it and would like to know if there are any safety concerns, especially with Russian students?

language learning students

started by Patrick Higgins on 18 Nov 08 no follow-up yet
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