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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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