PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/29/2010

• Tomei's Typing Tools

  Typing topic generator (favorites), timer, and word-count tool, plus a list of practice typing sites

  tags: practice, tools, typing, wink_students

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/25/2010

• Social Media Workshop « Language Acquisition Resource Center

  Blended participation, 2010.08.09-13 (PDT): "What’s happening with blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networking?  How can we use the tools our students use to connect, share, and inform in the language classroom?"

  tags: social, media, workshops, blended, online, summer institute, education, learning, teaching, technology, languages

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/22/2010

• Reputation Management and Social Media | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

  "Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young. While some internet users are careful to project themselves online in a way that suits specific audiences, other internet users embrace an open approach to sharing information about themselves and do not take steps to restrict what they share" (OVERVIEW, ¶2).

  tags: digital footprints, reputation, privacy, social, media, social media, profiles, education, management, adults, young adults

• New YouTube Editor Lets You Remix Your Videos Online

  "YouTube has launched a brand new video editor that allows users to easily remix their own videos and turn them into brand new video creations.  The editor, which has a super simple interface, lets users create clips using pieces of their own videos and music from an AudioSwap library of tunes" (O'Neill, 2010.06.16)

  tags: YouTube, video, remix, editor, tools, online

• Why I Returned My iPad - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review

  "Boredom.
  
  Being bored is a precious thing, a state of mind we should pursue. Once boredom sets in, our minds begin to wander, looking for something exciting, something interesting to land on. And that's where creativity arises." (Bregman, 2010.06.16)

  tags: iPad, creativity, multitasking, connectedness, boredom, tools, technology

• ESL Video :: Free ESL/EFL Video Activities for English Students

  "Learn English with free videos" (tagline, 2010.06.21).

  tags: activities, free, listening, quizzes, skills, viewing, wink_students

• Dogme language teaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Represents a do-it-yourself approach to forming and fostering language teaching movements

  tags: Dogme, language, language teaching, methodology, teaching

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/21/2010

• Ed Tech Widgets

  Tim Holt's collection of widgets for educators

  tags: widgets, technology, education

• How To Moderate All Comments and Posts On Student Blogs | The Edublogger

  Explains blog setup with gmail+ addresses, and revising default comment moderation settings to implement post and comment supervision

  tags: comments, moderation, settings

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/18/2010

• Discussion: TESOL | LinkedIn

  "... thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars" (JD Velasquez, relative date: "9 months ago"; retrieved 2010.06.17)

  tags: TESOL, Linkedin, videos, lectures, lists

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/15/2010

• PDFJoin! - Join PDF files online for free.

  tags: pdf, files, tools, technology

• French songs for teaching

  "a tagged collection of songs suitable for teaching French from nursery to early secondary" (tagline, 2010.06.14)

  tags: songs, teaching, French, chansons

• Blogs as Web-Based Portfolios PDF | The Thinking Stick

  Offers "the Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I’ve been working on for the past couple of months" (Jeff Utrecht, 2010.06.04).

  tags: blogs, web-based, blogging

• Best WebQuests . com - What WebQuests Are (Really)

  tags: Webquests, education, technology, constructivism

  • The main critical attribute of a WebQuest is to facilitate this transformation of information into a newly constructed, assimilated understanding.
  • WebQuests aren’t anything new. What they are is a way to integrate a number of sound learning strategies while also making substantial educational use of the Web.

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/12/2010

• Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  tags: dashes, en dash, em dash, punctuation, style, Wikipedia, wink_students

• Online Community Toolkit

  "... building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? Start here." (Last edited 1/06, retrieved 2010.06.11)

  tags: case studies, communities, communities of practice, facilitation, tools

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/10/2010

• Tutorial for Flash MP3 Player

  Explains how to adapt  a WordPress audio player plugin for use in web pages and Blogger posts, which for Blogger requires template modification

  tags: podcasting and digital storytelling, Flash, audio

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/09/2010

• Protecting Your Privacy On Social Networking Sites : NPR

  Science Friday program in which Ira Flatow discusses privacy issues relating in particular to Facebook and Twitter with Rich Mogull and Michael Zimmer

  tags: privacy, networking, social, technology, tools, NPR

• Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard

  "Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps." 

  tags: browsers, SSBs, applications, MacOSX, free

• Prism - Get Started

  Site-specific browser extension and stand-alone application

  tags: applications, browsers, SSBs, free

• : : : British Council - English Teacher's Portfolio : : :

  "... a unique self-study language improvement programme, specifically designed to help Brazilian teachers of English develop listening and speaking skills. / ETP focuses on pronunciation and vocabulary development. There are also teaching tips and all from a Brazilian context." (English Teachers' Portfolios, ¶¶1-2)

  tags: Brazil, British Council, English, listening, pronunciation, self-access, speaking, skills

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/08/2010

• Abstract and Findings — Eportfolios:

  This page introduces findings from Meg Goodine's examination of numerous case studies in comparison with broader post-secondary electronic portfolio research. "While not a silver bullet, with careful planning and attention to key questions, there is strong evidence that eportfolios can help students more authentically demonstrate what they have learned and connect this learning to their lives beyond our institutions." (Abstract, ¶4, retrieved 2010.06.07)

  tags: SCoPE, seminars, portfolios, higher education, reports, research, post-secondary

• QUT | Australian ePortfolio Project | Australian ePortfolio Project - Final Report

  Stage 1 "findings revealed that there was a high level of interest in the use of ePortfolios in the context of higher education, particularly in terms of the potential to help students become reflective learners who are conscious of their personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, as well as to make their existing and developing skills more explicit."

  tags: SCoPE, seminars, portfolios, Australia, higher education, research, reports

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PABeaufaitBookmarks 06/06/2010

• 10 Simple Google Search Tricks - NYTimes.com

  10 of Simon Mackiie's favorites (2010.04.02)

  tags: Google, search, NYTimes, tips, wink_students

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