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Stéphane Métral

TooFAST VERSION 1.5 - 2 views

www.toofast.ca

survey teaching enseignement assessment sondage poll

shared by Stéphane Métral on 24 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • Stéphane Métral on 24 Nov 09
     
    TooFAST is a secure and free anonymous online assessment tool TooFAST allows anyone to develop an online assessment questionnaire that is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TooFAST allows multiple question formats and allows an unlimited number of surveys to be completed. The software automatically summarizes and consolidates the comments, in real-time, on the web or as XML.
Martin Burrett

Speaking the Lingo - 1 views

ukedchat.com/...speaking-the-lingo

language jargon barriers to learning

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Mar 18
     
    "你知道这是什么意思吗？No? Languages can both be barriers and be bridges. They can block access to learning and more, but knowing a little of 'the lingo' can open previously impenetrable doors. This doesn't have to be a language from overseas, but a certain way of speaking which includes speakers or potenticially excludes non-speakers from a group. Teaching, with it's SPaGs, NPQHs and RQTs can make us want to LOL or even go AWOL!"
Claude Almansi

STONE DEAF PILOTS - the deaf tech blog » Blog Archive » ASL & subtitles toget... - 1 views

www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=71

cartocci delicious player stonedeafpilots webmultimediale

shared by Claude Almansi on 02 May 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 02 May 08
     
    Alessio Cartocci of the web accessibility work group Webmultimediale of Italy has developed an Internet video player with switchable multilingual subtitles and a resizeable sign language window that is superimposed over the player.
Martin Burrett

Book: Vocabulary Ninja: Mastering Vocabulary by @MrJenningsA via @BloomsburyEd - 3 views

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book review vocabulary

shared by Martin Burrett on 23 May 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 23 May 19
     
    "Building a rich vocabulary, across the curriculum, is one of the main aims for most teachers. Not only does a rich vocabulary help to create strong writing skills, but also can help with improving access to all areas of the curriculum. In his book, Andrew Jennings explains why vocabulary should be a focus in your classroom, providing resources and inspiration to help optimise vocabulary learning. Resources include a focus on SPaG facts, key vocab words that support various popular primary topics, an etymology section to inspire pupils, and looking at various grammatical features that can help build a repertoire of rich vocabulary. Throughout, the book provides other resources that can be copied for classroom use, or be used to take home to help build vocabulary skills away from the school setting."
eric paul

French Vocabulary working with an iPad - 6 views

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French

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  • eric paul on 12 Jul 10
     
    Series of lessons in French, vocabulary accessible from your iPad
Joel Bennett

Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What? - 0 views

www.danah.org/...MSRTechFest2009.html

Development WebDesign SocialNetworking Twitter Research SocialMedia

shared by Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Social media is driven by another buzzword: "user-generated content" or content that is contributed by participants rather than editors.
  • I'm going to share my research in three acts: 1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
  • Facebook was narrated as the "safe" alternative and, in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred. Those college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook while teens from urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace while simultaneously rejecting the fears brought on by American media. Many kids were caught in the middle and opted to use both, but the division that occurred resembles the same "jocks and burnouts" narrative that shaped American schools in the 1980s.
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  • over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • many adults have jumped in, but what they are doing there is often very different than what young people are doing.
  • Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social network sites. Even if they are just trying to talk to their friends, those who hold power over them are going to access everything they wrote if it's in public
  • while you can replicate a conversation, it's much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences. We are used to being able to assess the people around us when we're speaking. We adjust what we're saying to account for the audience. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences.
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate
  • Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09
     
    1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
Barbara Lindsey

Top News - Google makes famous artwork more accessible - 0 views

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prado museum googleearth

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 19 Jan 09 - Cached
  • said to be the first of its kind involving an art museum. It involves 14 of the Prado's choicest paintings,
  • the images now available on the internet were 1,400 times clearer than what would be rendered with a 10-megapixel camera.
  • "With Google Earth technology, it is possible to enjoy these magnificent works in a way never previously possible--obtaining details impossible to appreciate through [even] firsthand observation," he said during a news conference at the museum.
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  • The project involved 8,200 photographs taken between May and July last year, which were then combined with Google Earth's zoom-in technology.
  • "With the digital image we’re seeing the body of the paintings with almost scientific detail," Zugaza said. "What we don’t see is the soul. The soul will always only be seen by contemplating the original."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 19 Jan 09
     
    Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to view the gallery's main works of art from their computers--and even zoom in on details not immediately discernible to the human eye.
Barbara Lindsey

NEA: World Languages - 0 views

www.nea.org/...worldlanguages.html

articulation culture glastonbury language learning lifelong

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 11 Oct 08 - Cached
  • "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.
Claude Almansi

Video Captions : Adding / Editing captions - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - 0 views

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captioning subtitles youtube help multilingual accessibility

shared by Claude Almansi on 09 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 09 Nov 08
     
    To add captions or subtitles to one of your videos, you'll need to have files with the captions/subtitles in them. (...) We currently support a simple subtitle format that is compatible with the formats known as SubViewer (*.SUB) and SubRip (*.SRT).
Isabelle Jones

Wordle - Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views

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display ideas wordle

shared by Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Wordle is a Java applet, and Java applets are not permitted to write anything to your disk. So, while the applet could generate a jpeg, it wouldn't be able to give it to you! You can certainly take a screenshot of the Wordle applet.
  • There's a "Print..." button below the Wordle area, on the left-hand side. Press it. You will be prompted to allow the Wordle "Java applet" to access your printer. Please check the checkbox that says "Always permit", and accept the dialog.
  • Windows users will need to use third-party software to generate a PDF from the print dialog. Adobe Acrobat is fine, but I happen to use the free-as-in-beer CutePDF Writer. I have no relationship to the folks who make CutePDF, nor do I take any responsibility for anything that might happen as a result of your using it. If you do use CutePDF, you'll also need to install Ghostscript, a free-as-in-speech PostScript interpreter. The PDFs you make in this way are fully scalable, and suitable for making posters, T-Shirts, what have you. Please tell me about anything interesting you've done with Wordle.
  • Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08
     
    refer to paragraphs about PDF
James OReilly

Google Translation Center: The World's Largest Translation Memory - GigaOM - 0 views

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  • Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center
  • This is an interesting move, and it has broad implications for the translation industry, which up until now has been fragmented and somewhat behind the times, from a technology standpoint
  • Google has been investing significant resources in a multi-year effort to develop its statistical machine translation technology.
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  • Google Translation Center is a straightforward and very clever way to gather a large corpus of parallel texts to train its machine translation systems.
  • If Google releases an API for the translation management system, it could establish a de facto standard for integrated machine translation and translation memory, creating a language platform around which projects like Der Mundo can build specialized applications and collect more training data.
  • On the other hand, GTC could be bad news for translation service bureaus — especially those that use proprietary translation management systems as a way to hold customers and translators hostage.
  • For freelancers, GTC could be very good news; they could work directly with clients and have access to high quality productivity tools. Overall this is a welcome move that will force service providers to focus on quality, while Google, which is competent at software, can focus on building tools.
  • That strategy would also eliminate a potential conflict of interest
  • translation professionals are understandably wary of contributing to something that could put them out of work
  • as well as avoid channel conflicts with partners who will be their best advocates in selling to various clients
  • my guess is Google will make this a free tool for the translation industry to use, and it will figure the money part out later. It can afford to be patient
  • I remain convinced that a multilingual web will be a reality in a short time, and that a menagerie of tools and services will emerge over the next few years — some geared toward helping translators, some toward building translation communities, and others that make publishing multilingual sites and blogs easy and intuitive.
  • the web will begin translating itself, and within a short time
Claude Almansi

Table of Contents - CSU Web Access Committee - 0 views

www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/...toc.htm

accessibility_of_elearning captioning delicious sottotitoli

shared by Claude Almansi on 02 May 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 02 May 08
     
    (The items listed are also examples of captioned movies and their transcripts)
Claude Almansi

Ecologia dei siti web.net: E' nato "webmultimediale" - Maurizio Boscarol - 03.10.07 - 0 views

www.ecologiadeisitiweb.net/...e-nato-webmultimediale

accessibility accessibilità boscarol codice comunicazione delicious ecologiadeisitiweb ellero webmultimediale

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  • Claude Almansi on 02 May 08
     
    ...importante luogo di informazione su come rendere accessibili i contenuti multimediali, [propone] riflessioni sui codici comunicativi dei contenuti multimediali, superando così le questioni meramente tecniche e sostenendo una piena integrazione del mul
Tami Brass

Using Web 2.0 to motivate boys to speak in the target language - 0 views

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languages web2.0

shared by Tami Brass on 03 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Voki is a Web 2.0 tool that enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using an avatar, a talking character (Voki 2008) which they can customise to their liking. I decided that Voki would be the ideal tool on which to base the three lessons that I chose to describe and evaluate in this paper because: it can be accessed both at home and at school; it necessitates computer-pupil interaction, which, as described above, is a motivating factor;  it facilitates the transition from teacher-centred, class-based learning  to one in which the pupil begins to acquire individual responsibility; it makes it possible for the quieter pupils to make their presence felt and be heard; and it allows the pupils to role-play and hide behind a mask (an avatar).
    • Tami Brass
      Tami Brass on 05 Jun 08
Maggie Verster

Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers. - 0 views

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language english education

shared by Maggie Verster on 10 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 10 Nov 08
     
    Interesting but unfortunately in flash, without making flash accessible to blind users. And there is no motive for having this information in flash to begin with: even signted users would benefit more from a normal html version of it.
Paul Beaufait

ReadPlease - Home - Text-to-speech software that lets your computer talk - *HG* - 0 views

www.readplease.com

text-to-speech speech accessibility tools Windows

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  • Paul Beaufait on 24 Nov 08
     
    "award-winning text-to-speech software for Windows® based operating systems" (2008.11.24).
  • Paul Beaufait on 24 Nov 08
     
    Windows, only, or so it seems
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