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International School of Central Switzerland

» York Apps - Integration ideas and examples TYS Tech Sessions - 4 views

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Lauren Rosen

Teach Parents Tech - 7 views

www.teachparentstech.org

howto technology BER

shared by Lauren Rosen on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 05 Jan 11
     
    Send a note to parents/someone with links to very short simple videos on a variety of common web tasks.
  • Lauren Rosen on 05 Jan 11
     
    Send a note to parents/someone with links to very short simple videos on a variety of common web tasks.
Barbara Lindsey

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

www.insidehighered.com/...each_students_foreign_language

twitter language learning2.0 pln cop

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • 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.”
Claude Almansi

Call for Chapters: Classroom Experiences with Tech « Educational Technology a... - 4 views

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LSCF call call for chapters IGI IGI-Global Classroom experiences

shared by Claude Almansi on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 14 Mar 11
     
    "Introduction In recent years, the world has witnessed a growing wave of local initiatives in support of public schools. Teachers, cultural associations and civil society have been playing an active part in grassroots experiments aimed at helping schools in the creative elaboration of new educational methods, also exploiting information technologies. Here answers are coming from those directly faced with educational issues, in contrast with the more common top-down reforms, where experts' committees draw up didactic experimentation plans to be put forward to willing teachers. Experiments like that are often very effective but, unfortunately, they rarely get known beyond the immediate sphere of their promoters. Moreover, they tend to be short-lived because promoters don't have the strength to sustain them and a suitable supporting network is lacking. They are like drops in the ocean: they apparently cannot change the entire educational system. But the ocean of whole human community could be flooded by many such contained experiments that would transform it, if the most meaningful of them could be fostered, spread and developed. ..."
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