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• Catalysing collaborative initiatives in computer-supported collaborative learning

  "a case study and formative evaluation..."

  tags: case studies collaboration evaluation infrastructure

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• Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American

  "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).

  tags: web open freedom technology Berners-Lee Tim

• Robert Slavin | IEE | University of York

  "Leading educational psychologist Robert Slavin is a Professor in the IEE" (Biography, ¶1, retriieved 2010.12.14 [page updated 2010.11.11]). This page lists selected publications and presentations.

  tags: Slavin Robert E. education educational psychology cooperative learning motivation

• Business Writing Tips from ULiveandLearn - Organizing Business Documents - Using an Outline - iContact Community

  Covers why and how to make an outline

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• TeachPaperless: Why Teachers Should Blog

  "There is no substantial qualitative definition of a blog. Blogs, or rather blogging platforms, just exist. The quality or essence of a blog is given meaning only via what the author does with the blog and how the blog is responded to" (¶4, retrieved 2010.12.13).

  tags: blogs Descartes learning teachers teaching

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• TESOL Connections: A Sequence of Critical Thinking Task

  "This article [by John Beaumont] is from Volume 1, Issue 4 of TESOL Journal" (TESOL Connections [website], Features, December 2010).

  tags: Bloom's taxonomy critical thinking TESOL Connections education resources tasks teaching

  • Scriven and Paul begin to define critical thinking as ‘‘the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action’’ (quoted in Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2009, para. 2).
  • Bloom (1956) offered one of the first comprehensive elaborations of these important skills. Since the conception of Bloom’s Taxonomy, his colleagues (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) have carried on his work and developed a two-dimensional taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing student learning outcomes. The Knowledge Dimension identifies four types of knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. The second aspect of Bloom’s Taxonomy, the Cognitive Process Dimension, outlines six ways of thinking (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create) and their many subprocesses.
  • For the purposes of this article, critical thinking is defined as the practice and development of an active, conscious, purposeful awareness of what one encounters both in the classroom and in the outside world. It is a kind of thinking and learning that demands an investment in personal and communal learning on the part of the student and teacher. Critical thinking does not discount the emotional or gut responses that everyone has. Rather, it complements and enters into dialogue with them so that reasoned judgments are possible.
  • Observing is the basic starting point of the sequence—so basic, in fact, that some teachers may not immediately consider it to be critical thinking at all. However, observing is critical thinking because it involves a fundamental level of analysis.
  • To read the rest of the article, download the PDF

• SCoPE: Seminars: Definitions of Motivation - What does motivation mean to you?

  URLs for optional course readings on metacognition shared by Roxanne (2010.12.03)

  tags: seminars SCoPE motivation

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RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

From carrots and sticks, to auto-go-juice:

BR 2-19: Wuthering Heights

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The most impressive passage for me was when Heathcliff ...[said], "I have to remind myself to breathe – almost to remind my heart to beat" (Bronte, 1989, p. 65). That made me realize how much our thoughts and emotions influence our lives.

Reference

Bronte, Emily. (1989). Wuthering Heights [Longman Classics series]. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-18: Wild America

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Integer justo massa, rutrum vel auctor eu, luctus sed sem. Donec egestas, ante sed convallis fermentum, arcu erat volutpat purus, eget ornare nisi neque sit amet lacus. Praesent pellentesque pharetra nisl, sed facilisis nisl ultricies vitae. Curabitur vitae elit quis massa sollicitudin interdum non eu orci. Nullam commodo tellus vitae nisl malesuada cursus. Sed tristique vehicula sapien in egestas. Vestibulum dignissim varius placerat. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed laoreet tincidunt massa sed molestie. Mauris sollicitudin, orci ut molestie sollicitudin, eros risus laoreet ligula, quis rutrum enim magna dignissim augue. Nunc lobortis porttitor velit quis ornare. Duis gravida, erat vitae pretium sagittis, nulla mi pharetra libero, sed vehicula dolor ligula eget lorem.

This book is full of surprises. I was most surprised to learn, "There are more than three hundred national parks, ... seashores, ... forests, and recreation areas" in the U.S. (Cox, 1990, p. 4). I have visited some of them already. Reading this book makes me want to visit some more.

Reference

Cox, Teresa. (1990). Wild America. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-17: Wild America by Teresa Cox

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In this book there were lots of surprises. The most surprising bit of information about the U.S. was that there are literally hundreds of "national parks, national seashores, national forests, and [national] recreation areas" (Cox, 1990, p. 4). I've seen some of them already. I really want to go and see more of them soon!

References

Cox, Teresa. (1990). Wild America. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group UK.

BR 2-16: Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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Praesent nec dolor quis purus facilisis venenatis ut non dolor. Etiam eget augue non mauris ornare pretium. Nullam eleifend lorem libero. Proin a pellentesque elit. Sed lectus massa, ullamcorper a laoreet et, viverra eget nisl. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Phasellus consectetur varius urna. Maecenas rutrum fermentum viverra. Aliquam molestie, turpis ut tempus mattis, odio quam pretium nisl, nec pulvinar lacus arcu sed nulla.

My favorite line in the book is when Heathcliff says, "I have to remind myself to breathe – almost remind my heart to beat!" (Bronte, 1989, p. 65). It reminds me how strongly our thoughts can influence our bodies.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse dui lacus, commodo quis consectetur at, pretium eget eros. Aliquam pretium egestas est. Vivamus eu ante at mi rhoncus semper. Fusce mattis aliquet mauris, vitae commodo odio congue non. Phasellus adipiscing scelerisque sem, at laoreet magna fringilla id. Etiam risus lorem, suscipit quis malesuada a, imperdiet pretium turpis. Fusce mattis leo quis turpis condimentum euismod. Vivamus feugiat arcu at tellus porta auctor. Donec a nisi mi.

Maecenas lobortis sollicitudin sem, a fermentum urna dignissim sed. Ut erat arcu, pulvinar vitae laoreet at, scelerisque et quam. Donec sed quam diam. Fusce felis lacus, luctus id ullamcorper vitae, hendrerit vitae nibh. Sed eget lacus at dui commodo mattis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Curabitur tincidunt, lacus ut semper pharetra, quam diam blandit leo, ut aliquet dui ipsum at nisl. Nam luctus sodales facilisis. Donec et nulla vitae erat commodo feugiat eu sed odio. Aliquam velit enim, rhoncus at euismod in, pulvinar eu erat. Integer facilisis accumsan odio ac luctus. Aliquam volutpat vehicula lacus et rutrum.

Reference

Bronte, Emily. (1989). Wuthering Heights [Longman Classics series]. Harlow: Longman Group UK.

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• ARCS Categories - Attention

  "Peruse the pages of this website to learn about the concept of motivational design, the theoretical foundation of the ARCS model, the systematic motivational design process, examples of ARCS-related research areas, and a few of the places and people associated with ARCS-related studies and practices" (ARCS Categories, Long Term and Immediate Goals, ¶2, retrieved 2010.12.03).

  tags: motivation theory volition

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• PHRAS.IN - Say this or say that?

  Thanks to Nik for pointing this out in Get Students Checking Grammar and Collocation (Nik's Quick Shout, 2010.11.25).

  tags: grammar collocation proofreading tools writing wink_students

• Plenary session: The Professional Life Cycles of Teachers - Tessa Woodward | IATEFL Harrogate Online 2010

  44th Annual International IATEFL Conference Plenary: Intro., audio and two-part video

  tags: professional development teachers Woodward Tessa

• eLearn: Opinions - The Rise and Fall of 'e'

  "In the information age, learning is not about acquiring and remembering knowledge; rather, it's about the skill of knowing where and how to access that knowledge as it becomes appropriate" (¶9, retrieved 2010.11.25).

  tags: learning information age online skills technologies

• 17 Online Meeting Tools That Facilitate Collaboration

  "Here are a few tools you may want to consider, some of their notable features and the cost for using them" (¶2, 2010.11.24).

  tags: online technology tools collaboration

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• Parcs Canada - Réserve d'aire marine nationale de conservation Gwaii Haanas

  "Parcs Canada a déterminé que les eaux entourant la réserve de parc national et le site du patrimoine haïda Gwaii Haanas pourraient éventuellement être désignés comme aire marine nationale de conservation" (Un lien entre la terre, l'eau et les humain, ¶1, 2010-10-05).

  tags: Canada conservation Gwaii Haanas Haida heritage national parks patrimoine Windy Bay

• Parks Canada - Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site - Hlk'yah GaawGa (Windy Bay)

  tags: Canada conservation Gwaii Haanas Haida heritage national parks patrimoine Windy Bay

• History - The Nature of Things with David Suzuki | CBC-TV

  "the nature of things does a program in the Queen Charlotte Islands profiling a watershed in Windy Bay that helps to raise awareness about the destruction of West Coast forests..." (1980, ¶1).

  tags: Canada Queen Charlotte Islands environment awareness environmental awareness forests watersheds history nature CBC Suzuki David education natural resources

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• technology4kids [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage

  "great tips for using technology with kids" (Welcome to our Wiki!, ¶1, 2010.11.09) - everything from A (audio) to W (wikis)

  tags: education K-12 teaching technology technology4kids tools resources learning online

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• Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Tips and tricks: Wiki stats - Annotated

  Wiki stats "tell you how many people visited your wiki, and which pages they looked at, and how many edits they made, and what countries they came from" (What exactly are “wiki stats”?, ¶1, 2010.10.28)).

  tags: tools wikispaces tips statistics wikis

  • If you’re a teacher, these numbers will help you monitor individual students. You can dig a little deeper into how they’re working and behaving on the wiki, and it gives you a way to evaluate students and the work they do over a semester.

• Git - Fast Version Control System

  "Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency" (Git is..., ¶1, 2010.10.28).

  tags: open source version control system tools

• 20x20 what is it? - PechaKucha 20x20

  FAQ-ish explanation of presentations comprising twenty slides displayed for twenty seconds each, and a not-for-profit organization supporting such presentations

  tags: design presentations pecha-kucha PowerPoint

• Ze Frank's web playroom | Video on TED.com

  "♫ Just breathe ♫"

  tags: social networking ted.com video Ze Frank

• onlineteachingguide / Front Page

  A "great self-guided tour of learning to teach online from Bow Valley College" (S. Johnson, Gracefully moving to online faciitation? BCcampus: Online Teaching: Best Practice, 2010.10.21).

  tags: distributed learning education guides instructional practices learning online references research resources theory teaching

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• YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

  Animated visual representation of Sir Ken Robinson's talk to the RSA [n.d.]

  tags: education animation change YouTube RSA videos paradigms ADHD

• Edmodo | Guide

  Guide for teachers and students currently covering 18 topics:
  
  1. Teacher Sign Up2. Create a Group3. Student Sign Up4. Post a Message5. Reply to a message6. Manage your Messages7. Manage your Groups8. Assignments9. Grading10. Settings11. Calendar12. Public Pages13. Spotlight14. Teacher Connections15. Library16. Mobile Web17. Co-Teaching18. Small Groups

  tags: Edmodo guide tutorials education tools technology

• The Case For Social Media in Schools

  See also: 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers

  tags: education learning media schools social social media technology

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• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

  "... a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more" (retrieved 2010.10.15)

  tags: collaboration etherpad writing opensource collaborative tools

• Dept. of Educational Theory & Practice at UAlbany

  Lists Prof. Meskill's: 
  Selected PublicationsWork in ProgressProceedings

  tags: educational practice publications technology theory

• Cool websites to teach writing « My Integrating Technology journey

  "easy to access, up-to-date and immediate source of authentic materials" for use with middle school writers

  tags: cool writing websites young learners technology resources

• Creating avatars « My Integrating Technology journey

  Lists sites and suggests tools for students to use to create avatars

  tags: autonomy avatars free sites technology tools

• Montana's melting glaciers: The poster-child for climate change - CNN.com

  (CNN) -- As recently as 100 years ago, Montana's Glacier National Park had more than 150 glaciers throughout its more than one million acres. / In 2005 only 27 remained. Today the total is down to a just 25 and those that are left are mere remnants of their former frozen selves. 

  tags: ecosystems glaciers Glacier National Park global warming Montana water water supplies

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• goodbyegutenberg / FrontPage

  "...I've been revamping this site for the start of the TESOL PPOT 107 course beginning on Sept 6, 2010. As I value all the work that's gone into building this site over the years, and all the people who have helped, I have removed nothing. The 2009 and 2010 EVO sessions are still here. Go to archive sections in the sidebar to find the material from those sessions preserved intact" (Vance Stevens, 2010.09.05).

  tags: EVO goodbyegutenberg TESOL tesol evo's site building wikis

• How to use an Interactive Whiteboard - English Language Teaching - Cambridge University Press

  "This series of video tutorials demonstrates how to use an Interactive whiteboard" (retrieved 2010.10.07).

  tags: professional development technology presentations howto interactive whiteboards tools teaching

• BBC - Skillswise Words - Putting sentences together to make compound sentences

  includes factsheet, games, quiz, and worksheet; suggests reviewing:
  
  Before you start ...
  Do you want to revise making simple sentences?
  Do you want to revise using commas?

  tags: words BBC sentences literacy writing English grammar wink_students

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• PDPresenterToolkit - home

  "This wiki is a template that you can use for any Professional Development or Training sessions that address the use of wikis in education." (Wiki While You Work: An Introduction to Wikis in Education, ¶2, 2010.09.30)

  tags: wikispaces wikis presentations howto education professional development technology learning resources free tools

• Paul Nation

  "... [A] test of vocabulary size ... now being trialled with non-native speakers of English ... is available on this web site" (Current Research Projects, ¶1, 2010.09.30).

  tags: Nation Paul vocabulary research resources tests

• Fukuoka JALT - Home

  "This is the official Website for the Fukuoka chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)." (Welcome to Fukuoka JALT, ¶1, 2010.09.30)

  tags: Fukuoka JALT websites

• Gricean maxims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  "four conversational maxims that arise from the pragmatics of natural language" (¶1, 2010.09.28)

  tags: language maxims Gricean wikipedia

• Task-Based Language Teaching › A blog (mostly) on TBLT by teacher and coursebook writer Marcos Benevides

  tags: language task-based teaching

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• YouTube - PARTICIPANT ORIENTATION TO ELLUMINATE LIVE! (2)

  Rapid verbal/visual presentation with closed captions

  tags: Elluminate orientations videos technology YouTube

• 2010 Horizon Report

  In thirteen parts: Executive Summary, Key Trends, Critical Challenges, Technologies to Watch, The Horizon Project, One Year or Less: Mobile Computing, One Year or Less: Open Content, Two to Three Years: Electronic Books, Two to Three Years: Simple Augmented Reality, Four to Five Years: Gesture-Based Computing, Four to Five Years: Visual Data Analysis, Methodology, 2010 Horizon Project Advisory Board.
  
  Also available as a PDF, in English, German, Japanese, and Spanish from the New Media Consortium: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2010-horizon-report

  tags: educational technology Horizon Report technology trends reports 2010 future edtech

• Handbook of competence and motivation - Google Books

  THE EMERGENCE OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GOAL CONSTRUCT (p. 53)

  tags: achievement handbooks learning motivation competence

• stock.xchng - site info

  "By downloading an Image You agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement automatically..." (Legal information, Image license agreement, ¶1, 2010.09.21).

  tags: agreements free images photos

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Sayonara, P2 - WinK Core

As noted on Sayonara, P2 - WinK Core, "a Vox Group acts largely independently of the individual blogs of the members of the Group" (2009.09.05, at 11:11). This bears out in endeavours to capture content from Vox prior to its imminent closure (2010.09.30). Although it has been possible to move posts from Vox directly to TypePad (How to move your Vox blog to TypePad, [n.d.]), and indirectly to a WordPress blog (see: Bloxi, in diagram below), such exports capture only posts by a single [blog's] author [or authors?]. Moreover, as almost all of ... [an individual group member's] WinK Core ... posts were private, they became drafts.

[Note: Various WordPress installations offer different options for direct imports (WordPress.com: Support: Tools: Import). If Vox isn't among your site's options, you'll have to improvise.]

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• Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study

  Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume XII, Number I, Spring 2009
  University of West Georgia, Distance Education Center

  tags: education research technology faculty administration online

• How to Be a "Perfect Packer" and Avoid Airline Baggage Charges - Technorati Travel

  Introduces readers to packing tips at OneBag.com.

  tags: tips travel packing luggage traveling light

• EduDemic » The Ultimate Teacher’s Guide To Social Media

  This 17 page guide provides "a detailed description of how each tool can be best used by teachers" (Edudemic, 2010.06.14, ¶2).

  tags: social media technology teachers Edudemic guide education social media literacy

• Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources

  "We’ve compiled a monster list of 70+ tools and resources for podcasters and wannabes" (¶1, 2010.09.02).

  tags: podcasting resources tools audio podcasting and digital storytelling

• English Page menu / Kumamoto prefecture

  List of and links to English pages attached to the Kumamoto Prefecture Web Site: Agriculture, Int'l Exchangee[s], Tourism ...

  tags: English Kumamoto Prefecture tourism international exchanges wink_students

• What Is The Future Of The EFL / ESL Textbook? | English Attack! Entertainment English Blog

  "...[D]espite the widespread declared enthusiasm for “edtech” and all its related cyber-baubles, teachers still – and will continue to – rely on a quality ELT textbook as the pedagogical “anchor” of their teaching, and schools are also probably more comfortable having such an expert-authored curriculum than being without" (So Is the Clock Ticking? ¶2).

  tags: ELT textbooks transitions digital paper-pased education technology teachers edtech

• Academic, General and Young Learner Tests of English from Pearson

  assessing which English skills, how well?

  tags: English tests academic general young learners

• Teacher Development Interactive

  "a video-based, online teacher development program" to look into

  tags: interactive teacher development programs video

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• DE Tools: DE Tools of the Trade «DE Tools of the Trade [SOUNGLE: Web Repository of Free Sounds

  Introduces Soungle and explains its use for free, for non-commercial purposes

  tags: free tools educators technologies distance education sound sound effects resources

• JALT2009 Conference Proceedings Contents

  Password protected files--password on p. 2 of TLT

  tags: JALT proceedings education languages teaching learning professionalism conference jalt2009

• Cuil - Search Plugins - Google Chrome

  "[T]he upstart search engine Cuil has announced that it won’t keep any personally identifiable information at all, a privacy feature that distinguishes it from Google" (Rosen, 2010, Expiration Dates, ¶2).
  
  Rosen, Jeffrey. (2010). The Web Means the End of Forgetting. The New York Times, July 21, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2010, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=all

  tags: defaults not-Google search engines searches plugins privacy

• The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - Annotated

  by "Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University"

  tags: employment privacy reputations social networking sites technologies

  • The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost existential level, our ability to control our identities
  • All around the world, political leaders, scholars and citizens are searching for responses to the challenge of preserving control of our identities in a digital world that never forgets.
  • two recent studies challenge the conventional wisdom that young people have no qualms about having their entire lives shared and preserved online forever.
  • The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. On the Internet, it turns out, we’re not entitled to demand any particular respect at all, and if others don’t have the empathy necessary to forgive our missteps, or the attention spans necessary to judge us in context, there’s nothing we can do about it.
  • Our character, ultimately, can’t be judged by strangers on the basis of our Facebook or Google profiles; it can be judged by only those who know us and have time to evaluate our strengths and weaknesses, face to face and in context, with insight and understanding.

• Edublogs News - Students no longer need email addresses to start an Edublog

  "You will be happy to hear that Edublogs no longer requires users to have an email address!" (2010.08.27, ¶2)
  
  "You will also notice that we now allow you to create your own password right from the start!" (2010.08.27, ¶5)

  tags: blogs Edublogs mail students user-friendly blogging basics and security

• Educators / Plugin[s]

  "Try these cool Plugins!" (page heading, retrieved 2010.08.27)

  tags: education educators integration media PBworks tools wikis resources online technology

• Business Writing Tips - iContact Community

  Tips from the Writing Center for Effective Business Writing that may apply readily to blogging

  tags: writing tips business blogging wink_students

• English curriculum Attainment Levels

  Catalog of curricular documents (downloadable Word files) pointed out on mailing list:
  
  Subject: Re: [jalt-call] Question about Univ. English Programs Date: August 26, 2010 21:23:25 JST

  tags: attainment curricula English Japanese levels

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism

  Recommends strategies and tools for teachers whose students write electronically, and presumably in English; comments include other recommendations.

  tags: plagiarism writing technology resources teaching tools free Free Technology for Teachers

• Tips For Dealing With Spam Commenters | The Edublogger

  Defines comment spam, and explains ways of avoiding or handling it

  tags: blogs blogging comment spam comments Edublogger Edublogs spam tips blogging basics and security wink_students

• How Does Edublogs Compare? | Edublogs - teacher and student blogs

  Comparison chart for Blogger, Edublogs, and Wordpress platforms

  tags: Blogger blogging blogging platforms comparisons Edublogs Wordpress blog layout templates and themes security learners teachers

• Privacy Policy - EnglishCentral.com - Annotated

  tags: privacy policy EnglishCentral

  • If you do not want us to use the information you provide in order to inform you of products and services we think might interest you, or provide your information to third party companies, it is your obligation to please let us know, by contacting us at customerservice@EnglishCentral.com.
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• E-CAP Speak. Discover. Improve (Japanese site)

  English
  Communication
  Assessment
  Profile

  tags: assessments communication English languages speaking

• Athabasca University Press - Publish with Us

  Calls for prospectuses

  tags: education educational technology peer reviews publications publishing scholarly

• braz2010vance [licensed for non-commercial use only] / PLN - Annotated

  PLN: The paradigm shift in teacher and learner autonomy

  tags: autonomy braz2010vance education educational technology learning paradigms paradigm shift teacher development teaching technology

  • Etienne Wenger (2007) asked Cristina Costa when she knew she was in a community of practice and she said, when she noticed her practice had changed. And this is the correct answer.  When your practice changes, you know you have truly learned. The next step as a teacher is to model what you did for your students so that some will follow in your footsteps.

    
    

    
    So how can you do it?  Your change in practice probably won't be from this one encounter, unless I can convince you or nudge you, if you were heading that way already, into taking the next step in your journey.  The goal is to move from being just a consumer of networked content, which you in essence hoard, to a creator of content, which you share with the network that shares with you.

  • language teachers need to look beyond what it appears on the surface is happening between them and the learner and consider the bigger picture, such as ways in which technology fosters connections with communities and networks that humanize rather than isolate to strengthen individuals as an integral part of modern society and how that society acculturates, or learns together.
  • I encourage colleagues to think SMALL because in my view the computer is no longer the salient aspect of technology. The salient aspect is the use to which technology is put, and the salient use is to re-wire and expand how we are able to learn by enabling us to nurture and participate in always-on PLNs, or Personal Learning Networks.

  • In order for teachers to grasp the fundamentals of applying technology to transformative learning outcomes, practice with peers is necessary, where teachers themselves become mentors for one another while sharing with one another their discoveries and experiences with their own learning.

    
    

  • Teachers who drive their own professional development through participation in PLNs constantly express and assess each other's needs, and promote professional development on an as-needed basis, from where it is only a short leap to applying it to students.

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 08/27/2010

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism

  Recommends strategies and tools for teachers whose students write electronically, and presumably in English; comments include other recommendations.

  tags: plagiarism writing technology resources teaching tools free Free Technology for Teachers

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