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iTunes Movie Trailers - 0 views

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    Movie trailers you can use for listening practice - Thanks to Rickla for pointing them out.
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Always Learning - 0 views

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    A blog focusing on Business Writing Tips since Dec. 2010
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail - Clarity and Focus - 0 views

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    Ten rules for writing effective mail messages that the Writing Center, Inc., will explore in coming weeks.
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SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011 - 0 views

  • several problems are inherent in machine scoring. First, though Ferris (2003) claimed that students will improve over time if they are given appropriate error correction and that students use teacher-generated feedback to revise things other than surface errors, students rarely use programs like MY Access! to revise anything other than surface errors (Warschauer & Grimes, 2008); paragraph elements, information structure, and register-specific stylistics are largely ignored. Second, although teachers can create their own prompts for use with the program (more than 900 prompts are built into MY Access! to which students can write and receive instantaneous feedback.), MY Access! will score only those prompts included in the program. Third, regarding essay length, in many cases, MY Access! seems to reward longer essays with higher scores; consequently, it appears that MY Access! assumes that length is a proxy for fluency.
  • Overall, students’ opinions regarding MY Access! were mixed; students found useful aspects as well as aspects they termed less helpful.
  • Some students found working with the program very helpful in discipline, encouraging multiple revision. Others liked working with the many tools provided, finding them very helpful in the revision process. On the other hand, some students, lacking basic computer skills, found the program stressful and unusable. Others were discouraged by the seeming overabundance of feedback; in some cases, writers found it overwhelming, so they tended to disregard it. Our most disheartening finding: When some of the students were unhappy with their scores, they found ways to raise them by simply inserting unrelated text to their essays.
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  • They appreciated the help MY Access! offered in finding grammar errors, but they were not always sure how to fix them. Further, the program offered no positive comments about what students were doing well, which could negatively impact student motivation. In addition, after working on a prompt once or twice, many became bored and wanted to switch to another prompt. Many of the student writers used MY Access! for surface editing only and rarely used it for revision. In general, students in this study did not use features in MY Access! (e.g. My Portfolio, My Editor), possibly because their teachers did not explicitly assign them.
  • Locally controlled assessment is important; when assessments are created from within, they are specific to one context―they are developed with a very specific group of students in mind, considering what those students have learned in their classes and what they are expected to be able to do as a result of what they have learned in that context. Standardized tools such as the many machine-grading programs available today cannot address this specificity.
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    "Though Crusan (2010), Ericsson and Haswell (2006), and Shermis and Burstein (2003) offered a more thorough treatment of machine scoring in general, in this article, I concentrate on one program―MY Access! (Vantage Learning, 2007)―briefly describing it and discussing a small study conducted in a graduate writing assessment seminar at a midsize Midwestern university in which graduate students examined second language writers' attitudes about using the program as a feedback and assessment tool for their writing in a sheltered ESL writing class" (¶2).
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BBC - CBeebies - Story Time: Watch and read along to stories featuring all your favouri... - 0 views

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    Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)
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Online Audio Stories - 0 views

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    "Free Downloadable Audio Books" (2011.03.15)
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I'm Reading! [Starfall] - 0 views

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    Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)
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english.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - 0 views

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    NHK World English radio news program
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Control clicks for mac - 0 views

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    KGU computer labs have the mice set up for this, so students might benefit from this
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Basic Research and Writing: Earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis - 0 views

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    Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy
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Purdue OWL [Online Writing Lab] Search Page - 0 views

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    "The Purdue OWL offers global support through online reference materials and services" (Mission, ¶1, 2011.05.10).
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LinkWithin - Related Posts with Thumbnails - 0 views

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    "LinkWithin is a blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive" (Show Related Stories Under Each Post, para. 1, 2011.05.14).
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ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education - 0 views

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    Searchable by subject or template, this site facilitates creation of "free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds!" (2011.07.04). Templates [include:] Fakebook [new] Arcade Game Generator Random Name Picker Countdown Timer Twister Keyword Checker Plagiarizr Dustbin Game Telescopic Topic Post It Diamond 9 Fishbone (Ishikawa) Venn Diagram Animated Book Timeline Lights Out Target Hamburger Living Graph Learning Cycle Jigsaw Diagram Priority Chart Source Analyser
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ARTICLE CHECKER: Free, Online Plagiarism Detection Tool « DE Tools of the Trade - 0 views

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    Does the tool Goldsmith reviewed (June 23rd, 2011) work as intended, i.e., not to detect plagiarism, or what? Goldsmith speculated about the "Bottom line?"
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Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - 10 Rules for Clear, Direct Wording - 0 views

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    "10 rules for clear, direct wording" of "business e-mail" messages
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How To « WordPress.tv - 0 views

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    "Help and tutorials for beginner and expert alike" (tagline, 2022.06.28).
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Tools for Learners | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    "A collection of web based tools to help learners exploit the web" (tagline, 2011.06.23)
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Free online services. Photo editing and fun. Photo sharing - 0 views

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    Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.
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ImageOid - Add effects to image - 0 views

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    Online image editor, beta version, takes gif, jpg, and png files up to 800 Kb. In May 2011, Rhondda Powling said it "offers twenty-two effects" and combinations"  (Diigo, Images4Education, 04 May 11).
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JSpell Spell Checker - 0 views

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    Single line of code to add to HTML blog gadgets:
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