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Have you ever wanted to create short "how to" video for your students to use for homework, remembering facts, and solving math problems. How often have your students stated, "I could not complete the homework assignment, because I could not remember the steps and no one could help me." Well the answer is to create a screencast or video for posting on your class wiki or blog for students to view at home or anywhere else they have web access.

For as long as I can remember I've been using avatars to teach Internet safety. It's a fun and engaging way to teach students the importance of protecting their identities when they are online and a great prelude to using a variety of web 2.0 tools to support the curriculum.

re we'll have a lot to learn from one another with such a great, diverse group.  Remember that our class will be really profitable if we both do our jobs, I'll do my best to prepare exciting lessons full of practice and interaction, and you should focus on your learning in our online space at http://www.cambridgelms.org Ready? See you next Thursday,  Carla

Lingro remembers all the words you look up, so you can easily review and study them.

Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again; that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language. These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it's almost impossible for the letter 'W' to follow the 'Z' in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as "the," "that," "with," and so on. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.

Sribbly is a nice note taking application that sits in your system tray and lets you quickly jot down notes, to-do lists, ideas and any other text-based information that you may want to remember later.

guys, I just created this screencast to answer Marina Bonani's question. It's about how to start bookmarking. Here you go. Remember you need to install Diigo toolbar, or "diggolet". Where do you find instructions to do that? In our virtual classroom. It's all there!

Learning and enjoying songs can be a great way to improve your listening, vocabulary and pronunciation. In this activity we are going to use two websites to help you find, listen to and memorize the words of a song. First you'll use YouLyrics to find the words and a video of the song, then you will use MemorizeNow to help you learn and remember the words.