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Paul Beaufait

This Side of the Mirror » Blog Archive » Why the Five Paragraph Essay is Maki... - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 02 Apr 13
     
    Janet Lee proposes five options to consider in case five paragraph essays are what you're calling on students to produce. 
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Building Communities--Strategies for Collaborative Learning - 2002 - ASTD - 0 views

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  • E-learning communities are groups of people connected solely via technology. All interactions begin and occur over the Internet, through conference calls, via videoconferencing, and so forth. These communities promote virtual collaboration that's focused on addressing a specific topic, and they are supported by one or more online learning and media tools.
  • Blended learning communities integrate online learning and face-to-face meetings. Two core assumptions of this type of community are 1) deep personal relationships between learners create richer collaborative learning experiences and 2) relationships between learners can be strengthened through structured group interactions that employ technology before and/or after a face-to-face learning event.
  • For example, a leadership development program might include an ice-breaker community to provide prework and introduce participants, a face-to-face experiential workshop to help clarify and define individual development objectives, and a follow-up community that focuses on coaching and mentoring to overcome challenges as participants achieve their objectives.
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  • Whether creating a community for e-learning or one that supports a blended learning approach, community builders must consider a variety of factors related to people, group processes, and technology--if they're to design and orchestrate online environments that inspire collaborative learning.
  • As the term community has become an ambiguous buzzword, the concept has become synonymous with online discussion boards and chat rooms. When put into a learning context, however, community can be a vehicle for connecting people to other people’s stories and experiences, as well as mentoring, all of which result in accelerated learning and the sharing of tacit knowledge within an organization.
  • Paul Beaufait on 14 Sep 09
     
    Suggests communities support collaboration
  • Paul Beaufait on 12 Jan 10
     
    Identifies "Types of learning communities" and suggests how to create them.
joe tomei

Vocabgrabber - 1 views

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  • joe tomei on 04 Apr 10
     
    Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.
Paul Beaufait

Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American - 1 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 18 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 18 Dec 10
     
    "Several principles are key to assuring that the Web becomes ever more valuable. The primary design principle underlying the Web's usefulness and growth is universality" Universality is the Foundation, para. 1).
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SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011: Introducing argumentative writing though dialogue and We... - 1 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 30 Mar 11
     
    "In this article, I first explore the pedagogical basis for dialogue writing and then explain the process for creating online dialogues" (¶1, retrieved 2011.03.30).
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