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Isabelle Jones

NextGen Teachers - 0 views

nextgen.ning.com

blog icpj ict ideas links social_network

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  • Isabelle Jones on 05 Jul 08
     
    Educators connecting to explore the next generation of teaching and learning
Isabelle Jones

Flickr Toys - 1 views

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creativity flickr graphics ict ideas languages resources software writing

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  • Isabelle Jones on 05 Jul 08
     
    badge maker, motivation poster, magazine cover, movie poster, mosaic maker, calendar maker, trading cards, framer, wallpaper, warhol posters, palette generator, cube, bead art, collage, captioner, CD covers, billboardslideshow, black-and -white with yor o
Patrick Higgins

How Global Language Learning Gives Students the Edge | Edutopia - 9 views

www.edutopia.org/global-language-learning

language edutopia worldlanguages competency

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  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10
     
    In fact, some of the greatest obstacles to world-language education are parents who recall their own miserable experiences. Many Americans were introduced to foreign languages in middle school or high school classes that emphasized conjugation of verbs and other dull grammatical tasks rather than relevant communication skills. "Language teaching in the U.S. has been ineffective," Stewart says. "We start it at the wrong age. Teacher skills are not great. There's a focus on grammar and translation." The result: "Adults who took three years of French don't speak a word," she states.\nBut the trend toward competency and away from conjugation is helping create a new generation of language learners, one that gains real-world skills with many practical applications.
  • Patrick Higgins on 02 Mar 10
     
    the key here lies in the paragraph I clipped: the focus should be on competency rather than on conjugation.
Isabelle Jones

10 avatar generators for profile pictures | The Whiteboard Blog - 11 views

www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/...enerators-for-profile-pictures

resources avatar graphics

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    good for descriptions
Isabelle Jones

Writer's block? Cure writer's block with creative writing games - brainstorming widgets... - 10 views

www.languageisavirus.com

Article grammar English education creativity learning ideas links literacy literature poetry reference resources writing

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  • Isabelle Jones on 01 Feb 10
     
    transferable ideas to mfl??
Yuly Asencion

Teach ICT - Quiz Section - 11 views

www.teach-ict.com/quizhome.htm

games

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    game generator
Claude Almansi

Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie by Lewis Carroll (Trs Pietrac... - 1 views

www.gutenberg.org/28371

nonsense avventure Alice Pietracòla-Rossetti Carroll Gutenberg

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    "Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie by Lewis Carroll Help - Available eBook formats (including mobile) - Read online Bibliographic Record [help] Author Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Illustrator Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914 Translator Pietrocòla-Rossetti, T. (Teodorico) LoC No. 44020342 LoC catalog record Title Le avventure d'Alice nel paese delle meraviglie Language Italian LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres Subject Fantasy EText-No. 28371 Release Date 2009-03-20 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. Base Directory /files/28371/ Download this ebook for free Hand-Crafted Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Compression [help] Size Download Links [help] HTML none 224 KB main site mirror sites P2P HTML zip 1.44 MB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 none 169 KB main site mirror sites P2P Plain text iso-8859-1 zip 64 KB main site mirror sites P2P Computer-Generated Files [help] Format [help] Encoding ¹ [help] Size Download Links [help] EPUB (experimental) [help] 92 KB main site EPUB with images (experimental) [help] 1.44 MB main site Unicode Plain Text (experimental) [help] 171 KB main site Mobipocket (experimental) [help] 146 KB main site Mobipocket with images (experimental) [help] 1.43 MB main site Plucker (experimental) [help] 100 KB main site QiOO Mobile (experimental) [help] 124 KB main site ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service. Web site copyright © 2003-2009 Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation - All Rights Reserved. "
Gramarye Gramarye

Developing Intermediate Vocabulary - A book review - 2 views

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developing intermediate vocabulary

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    Developing Intermediate Vocabulary is an excellent book with generic topics that can fit into any classroom in any country in the world.
Lauren Rosen

Google Search Stories - 8 views

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google searchstories DigitalStorytelling web2.0 languages BER

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  • Lauren Rosen on 18 Jan 11
     
    Google search stories. Type in 7 different search words/phrases, choose what you are searching for, images, words, maps, blog, etc. and automatically generates a short movie based on your terms. Type search terms in any language.
Lauren Rosen

Wetoku - 6 views

www.wetoku.com

videoconference web2.0 videoconferencing BER

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  • Lauren Rosen on 02 Mar 11
     
    Videoconferencing 1 to 1 with auto record. Generates embed code and URL. Can be set to private so a password is needed to view. Super easy to set up. Great for oral interviews outside of class time or in distance learning environments.
Andrew Jeppesen

Building Peace - Thoughts on Modern Conflict - 0 views

www.buildingpeace.net/...why-language-matters.html

languages promoting-language languages-work buildingpeace learning a language

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  • This is the crux: foreign language ability is not just about converting information from one format to another. It's about human relationships.
  • A few years ago, while General Abizaid was still CENTCOM commander, I flew a C-17 into Cairo to pick him up after a meeting. While I sat on the parking ramp with my engines running, knocking out checklists for the next takeoff, I looked out the window and saw General Abizaid moving among a circle of grinning Egyptian military officers. He was shaking hands, talking, doing the kinds of things a combatant commander is supposed to do: keeping our alliances strong at a time when the situation in Iraq was critical. Because he is fluent in Arabic, I presume he was doing at least some of this in Arabic. I remember thinking, Wow. This is why language matters.
  • Language is extremely hard. We need as many language solutions as we can get, and technology certainly can and should help fill the gap. But no matter how good the technology gets, no matter how prevalent English becomes, old-fashioned speaking of a foreign language still matters.
Alyssa Ruesch

The English Teacher's Companion: Who We Were, Who We Are, and Who We Teach - 0 views

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genx geny babyboomers lgtt CARLA

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    potential reading about differences b/w gen x, gen y, and babyboomers and how different generations might respond to teaching styles.
Andrea Henderson

Grille de Lecture - 0 views

www.actualiteenclasse.com/...Grille%20lecture%20(sec).pdf

grille_de_lecture media resumé reading summary

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  • Andrea Henderson on 09 May 09
     
    Generic Summary sheet to use with various media. Dans quel média? Quelle est la source? Qu'est ce qui est écrit?
Isabelle Jones

Department for Children, Schools and Families : Independent Review of the Primary Curri... - 0 views

www.dcsf.gov.uk/primarycurriculumreview

curriculum education UK review primary

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  • Isabelle Jones on 18 Jun 09
     
    intersting mention about ICT and how MFL should be integrated with Language learning in general (and literacy)
Isabelle Jones

The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - 2 views

www.fodey.com/...snippet.asp

writing creativity ideas software resources

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  • International School of Central Switzerland on 26 Sep 09
     
    Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. In example to surprise friends and coworkers, send a birthday greeting or to give your next blog entry a special look.
Pamela Arraras

CLIL Compendium - 0 views

www.clilcompendium.com/index.html

clil

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    The CLIL Compendium received support from the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission.
Victor Hugo Rojas B.

David Crystal - Home Page - 6 views

www.davidcrystal.com

crystal

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    "Welcome to my website. It contains details of my books, articles, and other materials, along with some biodata. Books and articles are listed on two general pages in chronological order, and are also classified under fifteen themes. The articles are downloadable - apart from a few cases where I no longer have a copy (please get in touch if you can supply copy for these missing links)."
Andrew Graff

TPR Foreign Language Instruction and Dyslexia - 2 views

www.dyslexia.com/...tprlanguage.htm

dyslexia foreign language TPR TPRS CIinstruction lessonplanning differentiation

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  • For language teachers, this accepted presumption of incapacity is a huge hurdle, because it keeps many children and adults from even dipping a toe into the language pool!
  • TPR was and is a wonderful way to turn that presumption on its head and show the learner that, not only can we learn, but under the right circumstances, it's fun!
  • When we are infants our exposure to language is virtually inseparable from physical activities. People talk to us while tickling us, feeding us, changing our diapers... We are immersed in a language we don't speak, in an environment that we explore with every part of our body. Our parents and caregivers literally walk and talk us through activities - for example, we learn lots of vocabulary while someone stands behind us at the bathroom sink, soaping our hands until they're slippery, holding them under warm water, rubbing or scrubbing, all the while talking about what we're doing and what it feels like. In this way, movement and feeling are intimately tied to the process of internalizing the language.
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  • Classes are active - you are not in your seat all period. The focus for the first weeks is on listening and moving in response to what the teacher says.
  • There is heavy emphasis on listening comprehension, because the larger your listening comprehension vocabulary is, the larger your speaking vocabulary will become.
  • Lots of language is learned in happy circumstances, especially while you're having fun.
  • In a TPR class, grammar and syntax are not taught directly. Rather, the teacher designs activities that expose the student to language in context, especially in the context of some kind of movement.
  • I'm asked with some regularity about appropriate foreign language instruction for students with a dyslexic learning or thinking style. I'm quick to recommend finding a school or program that includes - or even better - relies on TPR as its principal instructional strategy.
  • Typically, the initial TPR lessons are commands involving the whole body - stand up, sit down, turn around, walk, stop.
  • Fairly soon, the teacher quietly stops demonstrating, and the students realize that they somehow just know what to do in response to the words.
  • You're also encouraged to trust your body, because sometimes it knows what to do before your brain does!
  • As class proceeds, nouns, adverbs, prepositions are added until before you know it, students are performing commands like, 'Stand up, walk to the door, open it, stick your tongue out, close the door, turn around, hop to Jessica's desk, kiss your right knee four times, and lie down on Jessica's desk."
  • It's just that the instruction is designed to facilitate language acquisition, not learning a language through analysis, memorization and application of rules.
  • But consider your native language: you did not need to learn the grammar and syntax of your native language in order to learn to speak it. You learned those structures, unconsciously as you learned to speak.
  • The first is that in a TPR classroom, the focus is not on analysis of linguistic structures, but on internalizing those structures for unconscious use.
  • When we use TPR strategies to teach, our goal is truly to be able to understand, speak, read and write the language, not "about" the language.
  • I think this creativity, the synthetic rather than analytic experience, the low stress, and generally accepting environment engineered by the teacher, are a large part of the reason so many students, including students with learning challenges, find TPR classes so effective and enjoyable.
  • Within these real experiences, students are free to generate all kinds of expressions using the language they're studying, and to lead instruction in unique directions.
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