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Barbara Lindsey

Google Earth Education Community - 0 views

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    A place for teachers and students to share and find info on topics that have been turned into GE activities. Some helpful how tos on using the tool.
Barbara Lindsey

Google Earth for the Elementary Teacher: TCEA 2008 - Susan F. Reeves - 0 views

  • Google Earth Overview Packet (doc file - 1,162kb) Packet with instructional information for K-5 Teachers
  • Landform FlipBook PowerPoint Template (ppt file - 727kb) Students use this template to locate, take screen shots and find examples of major landforms. (Grades 2 - 4)
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    Wonderful set of resources that are clear, focused and supportive of teachers interested in using google earth to enhance their curriculum. While geared towards K-5, I think these resources can be useful for any level of instruction.
Barbara Lindsey

2009-11-15 GWE at iNACOL's VSS (Google Workshops For Educators) - 0 views

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    Wes Fryer and workshop on google apps, including google maps. Fantastic resources!
Barbara Lindsey

FORA.tv - About Us - 0 views

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    "We gather the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. We present this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want."
Barbara Lindsey

UC Berkeley orientation: UC Berkeley asks incoming students to say more than 'hello' - ... - 0 views

  • In addition to exploring their diverse backgrounds, students will discuss the language challenges graduates face as many work overseas, Hampton said. "They're going to be living in a multilingual context, and that's a really interesting thing for them to think about," he said.
  • The voice samples will be attached anonymously to an interactive world map so other participants can hear them, and each student will be matched through a voice recognition program with five others who have similar pronunciations, Johnson said.
  • With about 30% of incoming UC Berkeley students reporting that English was not their first language, exploring that linguistic diversity is a good way to help students feel comfortable at such a large school, faculty organizers said.
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  • This summer, UC Berkeley is asking new students to submit a less controversial part of themselves: Their voices and accents
  • One result will be an analysis of California accents, as researchers try to get beyond such stereotypes as the Surfer Dude, Valley Girl and Central Valley Farmer to study participants' vowel sounds, along with their locations, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • After two years and perhaps again after four, students will be asked to make new recordings to determine whether being at UC homogenized their accents or pushed them into distinctive speech subgroups, Johnson said. (For example, he said, because of his Oklahoma upbringing, he pronounced "Don" and "dawn" identically in one of the experiment's exercises.)
  • Among those embracing the project was Chloe Hunt, 18, a freshman from Santa Barbara who said the voice map made her even more curious to meet students from many cultural backgrounds. "It made me think about who I'm going to be sitting next to in class," said Hunt, who learned Farsi from Iranian relatives.
  • Leah Grant, 41, who is transferring to UC Berkeley from Long Beach City College, said listening to the voice samples made her feel like part of the university already. The varying approaches also were amusing, she said.
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    fall 2011 syllabus
Sam Smith

SEDONA TO LAS VEGAS VIA OVERNIGHT IN GRAND CANYON - 1 views

My wife and I just got married last week and the honeymoon we both thought of was the 2 day and 1 night guided tour of the Grand Canyon on our way from Sedona to Las Vegas. This tour could only com...

Sedona Tours

started by Sam Smith on 12 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Barbara Lindsey

'absolutely intercultural!' - 1 views

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    Welcome to the first ever intercultural podcast. 'absolutely intercultural!' is its name and, as far as we know, this is the first podcast in the world to deal with intercultural issues. We'll be releasing a new episode every second Friday evening, looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For example, we'll be hearing from students on foreign work placements, asking how teachers can make use of intercultural exercises and simulations in their classroom and sharing with you any intercultural gossip we come across. 'absolutely intercultural!' won't be so much about passing on information but more about starting an intercultural dialogue between the makers, and you, the contributors and listeners.
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