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Site Map for Nellie's English Projects
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Nellie's resources for students - how to's
Resources in this directory include:
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"Musings on the edtech frontier" (blog tagline)
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"online meeting platform . . . for realtime collaboration"
Sunday, April 24, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Letter to My Homestay Family
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My Startup Labels
books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, outlines, quickposts, reviews, revisions, typing, websites
Sunday, April 17, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA):Department
"The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society" (¶1, retrieved 2011.04.15).
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English: Who speaks English? | The Economist
R.L.G. (2011.04.05) suggests a large-scale study of an uncontrolled sample population "confirms ... stereotypes" (¶1), and "shows results similar to ... [an unspecified] study by the British Council" (¶3 [URL from original, retrieved 2011.04.14).
- This was not a statistically controlled study: the subjects took a free test online and of their own accord.
- But Philip Hult, the boss of EF, says that his sample shows results similar to a more scientifically controlled but smaller study by the British Council.
- Several factors correlate with English ability. Wealthy countries do better overall. But smaller wealthy countries do better still: the larger the number of speakers of a country’s main language, the worse that country tends to be at English.
- Export dependency is another correlate with English. Countries that export more are better at English (though it’s not clear which factor causes which).
- Teaching plays a role, too. Starting young, while it seems a good idea, may not pay off: children between eight and 12 learn foreign languages faster than younger ones, so each class hour on English is better spent on a 10-year-old than on a six-year-old.
- Teaching plays a role, too. Starting young, while it seems a good idea, may not pay off: children between eight and 12 learn foreign languages faster than younger ones, so each class hour on English is better spent on a 10-year-old than on a six-year-old.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Brainstorming - Google Across the Curriculum
This post displays slides from a "workshop . . . [Richard Byrne] designed to introduced participants to variety of Google services that they can use in their classrooms. Included in the workshop are five collaborative brainstorming sessions" (2011.04.09, para. 1, retrieved 2011.04.10)
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Lesser-Known Google Tools for Students & Teachers
". . . some of the lesser-known Google products that teachers should know about" (Richard Byrne, 2010.08.16, para. 1, retrieved 2011.04.10)
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Collablogatorium: 10 Things You Should Know About Blogging
" ... [T]en things I've learned and wished all bloggers knew about blogging" (Carla Arena, 2011.01.16, retrieved 2011.04.10).
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Life Feast: 10 sites I plan to use in 2011
List of sites, some still in beta, for use by students and teachers.
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Educational Technology Guy: Evernote - some great ideas for using it in education
Points out various resources from and including the Evernote Blog with its Education Series, but overlooks the terms of service
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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APA Style Blog: Using Serial Commas
Concise explanation of how and why to use serial commas
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What's New?: Another transition for this blog
Public discussion of plans for collective blog
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The Future of the Book According to IDEO | BookBotics
Represents a YouTube video from IDEO, and responses to three conceptual questions:
1. "... [H]ow do you ensure that readers are adequately informed?" (Nelson, ¶1)
2. "What is truly worth knowing?" (Coupland, ¶1)
3. "How do we experience written narratives in new and engaging ways?" (Alice, ¶1)
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Movie trailers you can use for listening practice – Thanks to Rickla for pointing them out.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Naoto Kan and the End of 'Japan Inc.' | The Nation
Naoto Kan and the End of 'Japan Inc.' | The Nation:
A surprising enough find for April 7, this article "...[a]ppeared in the April 18 [sic], 2011 edition of The Nation." It offers a critical appraisal of numerous issues entwined with U.S. foreign relations.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Japan strikes back!
Japan Releases Low-Level Radioactive Water Into Ocean - NYTimes.com: "Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific . . ." (April 4, 2011).
Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors - NYTimes.com
Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors - NYTimes.com: "Tokyo Electric Power ... [figures] show that most of the dangerous uranium at the power plant is actually in the spent fuel rods, not the reactor cores themselves" (March 17, 2011; ¶3). That was a couple of weeks ago.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)
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SLWIS Newsletter - March 2011: Introducing argumentative writing though dialogue and Web 2.0
"In this article, I first explore the pedagogical basis for dialogue writing and then explain the process for creating online dialogues" (¶1, retrieved 2011.03.30).
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EdTechBC (edtechbc) on Twitter
"Supporting Educators Interested in Teaching with Technology" (Bio, retrieved 2011.03.30)
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Online Conferences: Professional ... - Google Books
Anderson and Anderson (2010) characterize online continuing professional education (CPE) conferences as "structured, time[-]delineated" events involving "distributed population[s]" in synchronous or asynchronous use of "online communication and collaboration tools" (p. 15). They suggest that these characteristics may enhance "both the quantity and quality of interaction" in formal CPE sessions, thanks to possibilities for preliminary access to conference materials, world-wide participation, and asynchronous as well as real-time interpersonal engagements (p. 22), which in turn may promote constructivist and connectivist modes of learning within professional communities of practice (pp. 7-10).
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Think Before you Click | capriciousmuse
To commemorate Safer Internet Day, Sandy posts "a few Internet safety skills" she thinks "are important" (February 9, 2011).
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