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• How can I tell if a website is credible?

  This webpage suggests six factors to consider when assessing website credibility, and adds, "If you are unsure whether the site you’re using is credible, verify the information you find there with another source you know to be reliable" (retrieved 2016.12.22).

  tags: credibility evaluation information information literacy online resources websites WWW

• Helpful Hints to Help You Evaluate the Credibility of Web Resources

  "These guidelines are to help you become familiar with various types of Web resources and the reliability of the information" you find among them (¶2, retrieved 2016.12.22).

  tags: credibility evaluation information information literacy online resources websites WWW

• Free Puzzlemaker @ Discovery Education

  "Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists."

  tags: free generators learning materials puzzles resources tools webtoolsforeducators

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• Nocking The Arrow: Taking Steps Towards Global Competency

  Schuetz, Robert. (2016.12.10). Taking Steps Towards Global Competency [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://www.rtschuetz.net/2016/12/taking-steps-towards-global-competency.html

  tags: collaboration dispositions education global competency knowledge leadership learning perspectives references respect responsibilities resources skills standards

• APA Style Blog: Writing Website In-Text Citations and References

  tags: academic writing APA APA style blogs citations references websites writing

• Falcon Scientific Editing | Publishing, Writing, and Grammar Resources for Researchers

  A weblog highlighting guides and other resources for academic writing and publication.

  tags: abstracts academic writing citations editing formatting guidelines journals publication style venues for publication writing

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"Get tough, or die!"

Let me try to keep this story about advice I've received relatively short, yet informative. Though at first you may consider the advice valid only for participants in a particular event in Montana decades ago, in the end I hope you may find ways to generalize (adopt or adapt) it to your own circumstances. Here goes.

In high school, I competed in gymnastics. The coach of a cross-town rival team and I became friends after I had entered college, and beg[u]n judging local gymnastics meets. 

In the off-season, the cross-town high school coach and I also became rivals in canoe races. In one race, actually a three-legged team-relay event, in which a grade school friend of mine had run, I'd cycled, and the two of us paddled together, my old friend and I finished fourth. 

Though our running and cycling times weren't stellar, we'd been white-water canoeing together for years (since high school). So we passed a number of other teams on the river, including slow rafters, and were about to overtake another when the river narrowed.

As we passed just astern of a raft running the rapids ahead of us, an inner-tube it was towing on a tail line dragged under our canoe, and dumped us immediately. We lost time swimming the canoe to shore, emptying the water from it, and resuming the race.

At the end of the third leg of the race, my old friend and I finished fourth. My rival and his team had finished first or second. In the parking lot, at the end of the race, was where I got the advice. 

My rival and his partner had loaded their low-cut racing canoe on his car rack. It was easy to distinguish from ours–a high-gunneled recreational model. The advice was on a bumper sticker on his car.

As the race committee began awarding prizes, it became clear that the third-place team hadn't waited around for awards. So my partner and I received the third prize. Though I don't remember what that prize was, I do remember the message on my rival's rear bumper.

It read, "Get tough, or die!"

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• Evidence-Based Principles for Online Faculty Development | EDUCAUSE

  "After research and discussion, the Professional and Organizational Development Network developed eight principles to guide institutions as they explore and select online educational development resources for their campus communities" (Key Takeaways, point 3).

  tags: education Educause faculty development higher education online education online learning

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• Strategies to Help Students ‘Go Deep’ When Reading Digitally | MindShift | KQED News

  "[C]asual digital reading on the internet has instilled bad habits in many students, making it difficult for them to engage deeply with digital text in the same way they do when reading materials printed on paper" (Schwarz, 2016.10.16, ¶1).

  tags: education digital MindShift reading strategies

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• 調整さん - 簡単スケジュール調整、出欠管理ツール

  "カンタン出欠管理、調整ツール。 / 調整さんはURLをメンバーに送るだけで、イベントの出欠確認や日程調整ができる出欠表ツールです。 / ログインなしでもご利用頂けますが…!" (https://chouseisan.com/, 2016.11.18)

  tags: events IT4ALL online Recruit scheduling tools 管理ツール スケジュール ツール

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• Giving Feedback | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  This extract from Nygaard (2015) covered a three-step process for responding to requests for feedback on academic writing. Nygaard, Lynn P. (2015). Writing for Scholars: A Practical Guide to Making Sense & Being Heard. London, England: Sage Publications.

  tags: academic writing action planning feedback mirroring responding

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• 03. Organizing documents | Mendeley

  "Mendeley searches document details - including the ‘General notes’ field - as well as within the body text of any PDF papers in your library" (Use search to retrieve references, ¶2< 2016.10.06).

  tags: academic writing Mendeley reference managers research searches

• Author Services Publishing open access with Taylor & Francis

  "Whilst there are many different definitions of OA, Taylor & Francis authors can choose to publish either “gold” or “green” OA in our journals" (Publishing open access with Taylor & Francis, ¶1).

  tags: academic writing open access publishing venues for publication

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• Digital Typhoon: Typhoon Images and Information - National Institute of Informatics

  "Real time typhoon information" and links to tons of other earth-related info.

  tags: Earth images informatics information meteorology National Institute of Informatics resources

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• PIGATE in Cyberspace (2016.09.10) by Paul Beaufait on Prezi

  "A mosaic representation of Internet communication technology (ICT) that organizers and members of the PIGATE teacher development community use. Their ICT use supplements and supports monthly face-to-face meetings and other activities."

  tags: collaboration communication communities ICT resources teachers teacher development

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• Goal: English 2nd university language - News VietNamNet

  Ambitious proposals not only for universities, but also for earlier English education.

  tags: ASEAN compulsory education education English English language learners English speaking populations English teaching globalization teacher development Vietnam

  • Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nhạ had said earlier this month that the ministry has created a roadmap to achieve the goal starting this academic year, and urged universities to improve their English teaching methods.

     

    He asked universities to apply the latest technologies in teaching English, teach students about the importance of globalisation and expand international links to promote the use of the language.

     

    He said students would be required to make all presentations and hold all discussions in English, while the staff would speak English at their meetings.

     

    The ministry has given specific instructions to the 61 universities and academies it runs to take the initiative to draw up teaching standards that match ASEAN standards.

     

    They would then be published to solicit public opinion before the ministry tweaks its education and training plans, he said.

     

    Other universities needed to review and report the challenges they face in making English the second language and suggest solutions, he said.

  • At the beginning of this year the ministry announced that English would be a compulsory subject from grade three onwards starting in 2018 as part of its foreign language teaching plan.

     

    English is currently only mandatory from grade 10 onwards.

     

    Under the plan, from 2018 students in grade three and above will have four English lessons a week.

     

    English is now only an optional subject in primary schools, with one or two lessons a week.

     

    The ministry reported that around a 10th of primary school students do not learn English since the country has a shortage of some 7,700 teachers.

     

    Besides, only a third of English teachers at primary and high schools meet teaching standards, according to the ministry.

• How to Find Students to Tutor Online - The WizIQ Blog

  Seven+ tips for rounding up students, including: 1) community building, 2) forum participation, 3) offering free trials, 4) conducting social media campaigns, 5) enhancing educational support offerings, 6) sending newsletters to mailing lists, and 7) amplifying sharing via word of mouth.

  tags: communities education forums free trials marketing networks newsletters social media support teaching

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• The best password manager (and why you need one) – The Sweet Setup

  Focused on 1Password, but covered a range of Mac-friendly options

  tags: 1Password AutoFill Dashlane iCloud iCloud Keychain iOS LastPass password managers OneSafe passwords security syncing tips

• http://wenger-trayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07-Brief-introduction-to-communities-of-practice.pdf

  "This brief and general introduction examines what communities of practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning" (¶2, 2016.08.08)

  tags: communities of practice definitions myths

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• Backpacking Checklist - REI Expert Advice

  tags: advice backpacking checklists REI

• Collaborative Online Continuing Education: Professional Development Through Learning Communities | Edutopia

  "Learning communities share a way of knowing, a set of practices, and shared value of the knowledge that comes from these procedures. These learning communities, with expanded human and technological resources, bring together students, teachers, and community members in directing the course of education in new ways."

  tags: communities education Edutopia learning teacher development social media technology

• Electronic Village Online / Call_for_Proposals_2017

  Deadline for proposals: September 4,  2016 Moderators' training session October 16 – November 13, 2016 Online sessions from January 8 to February 12, 2017.

  tags: calls EVOs online proposals TESOL workshops

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• http://www.njsbf.org/images/content/1/1/11085/Plagiarism07_final.pdf

  An informative brochure prepared for and published by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation.

  tags: academic writing guidelines plagiarism

• Research Study Manuscript Outline

  "This handout ... provides a detailed outline of how to construct a research study, focused to manuscripts concerning an English as a Foreign Language [education-related topic], using quantitative or qualitative methodology, or both" (Abstract, 2916.07.28).

  tags: academic writing content guidelines manuscripts organization outlines publications quantitative qualitative research

• What Great Listeners Actually Do

  • people perceive the best listeners to be those who periodically ask questions that promote discovery and insight. These questions gently challenge old assumptions, but do so in a constructive way
    • Constructive interactive listening strategies: inquire, "challenge old assumptions," and seek new discoveries and insights (Zenger & Folkman, 2016, Good listening is much more ..., ¶1, 2016.07.26 [JST]).

• Unscrupulous journal solicitations: What they are, what they do, and how you can protect yourself | JALT Publications

  "Recently, academics are receiving an increasing number of email invitations to submit papers. While some are legitimate announcements from reputable organizations, many are a new kind of spam from what Beall (2012) calls “predatory publishers” (p. 179). Basically, they track you down through the titles of your work and invite you to submit manuscripts. They promise quick turnaround and imply guaranteed acceptance. If you are a novice researcher, you might be flattered into submitting. However, you may find later that there is a hefty fee. We wrote this paper to help you identify suspicious solicitations so that you can avoid being duped" (¶1).

  tags: academic writing APA Beall journals publication open access publications publishers venues for publication

• APA Style Blog: Introducing APA Style CENTRAL

  The video in this post introduced the APA's institutional mega-service! Do you have any hands-on experience? If so, what are your impressions? Does it compare favorably with other reference management tools or suites?

  tags: academic writing APA APA Style Central tools and reference

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• Australian Curriculum | Global Education

  "The Australian Curriculum sets out the core knowledge, understanding, skills and general capabilities important for all Australian students. It describes what all young Australians are to be taught as a foundation for their future learning, growth and active participation in the Australian community" (Australian Curriculum, ¶1, 2016.07.20).

  tags: Australia awareness countries diversity goals international issues respect

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• 熊本県| メニューを見る | ほっともっと

• The Overselling of Ed Tech - Alfie Kohn

  ""[W]e shouldn’t confuse personalized learning with personal learning. The first involves adjusting the difficulty level of prefabricated skills-based exercises based on students’ test scores, and it requires the purchase of software. The second involves working with each student to create projects of intellectual discovery that reflect his or her unique needs and interests, and it requires the presence of a caring teacher who knows each child well" (Kohn, 2016.03.12, ¶9).

  tags: Alfie Kohn children collaboration disruption education learning innovation schools teaching technology technology integration

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• Enigma of English education | Daily News

  An article from the Sri Lankan press.

  tags: communication education job-readiness learning linguistic competence English teaching teacher development

  • we did not have enough competent English teachers. By late 1990s, plans were afoot to train 50,000 school teachers to teach English. Much effort and money were spent on the project but the standard of English among the trained teachers remained low
    • Teacher training failed to accomplish goals (What went wrong? ¶1).
  • traditional Sri Lankan society put far too much emphasis on proficiency exams. Not only are they insufficient method of assessing language abilities, but also they put an insurmountable amount of pressure on students as well as teachers and schools
    • Students and teachers faced "insurmountable" test performance pressure (What went wrong? ¶1) from parents and administrators.

• Improve Your Pronunciation By 'Shadowing' Others

  Voice of America, Learning English, Education Tips # 4 This 6:35 min. audio program included "the opinion of Marla Yoshida, an English as a Foreign Language teacher at the University of California, Irvine" (transcript, ¶2) "that English learners need to do more than listen and repeat in order to improver their pronunciation" (The problem with listening and repeating, ¶2).

  tags: audio learning listening pronunciation resources shadowing strategies transcripts Voice of America

• Top 6 Open Source Web Conferencing Software Tools For eLearning Professionals - eLearning Industry

  Pappas proposed six "budget-friendly ... open source web conferencing software tools to consider" (2016.05.27).

  tags: collaboration elearning IT4ALL open source technology tools software web conferencing

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• Tame Your Inner Critic | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  This TomProf post encapsulated "advice on how to limit the power of your inner critic when you sit down to do your next writing" (Message Number: 1503, Folks, ¶1).

  tags: academic writing empowerment motivation

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Better World Flux (recovered draft, 2012.07.13)

The Better World Flux site provides an interface that creates graphic representations of world population trends in just a few easy steps:

• 0. Reset the display.
• 1. Drag and drop population trend indicators, or combinations of them, that you want to include in the display; 
• 2. Click to add countries whose relative status vis-a-vis those indicators you want to highlight;
• 3. Explore the results: 
• a) either by playing an animation or moving the slider with your cursor to see changes over time, and 
• b) by clicking on colorful data bands to display the names of other countries in the same bands.

The indicators correspond to UN Millennium Development Goals. Clicking on the About tab on the Better World Flux site reveals a Glossary of indicators with cross-links to sources of data, some dating back up to six decades.

For example, the life-expectancy indicator (1960–2010), which when animated looks a bit like a garden slug crawling in general towards a better world, shows:

a. Japan's human life-expectancy rose to the level of those of Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, tops in the world in 1972;

b. Japan then became the sole country at the top in 1981, and was joined by Sweden again in 1983; 

c. Switzerland joined those two at the top in 1984, along with a variety of other countries – between 1985 and 1993, including: Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Macao, Malta, Spain, and the UK;

d. Rwanda became a separate node on the long-tail in the 1990's.

e. Japan topped the list solo again in 1994, rejoined by Hong Kong from 1996 to 1998, and Switzerland in 1999.

f. Italy and Australia were next to regain the top band, in 2000 and 2001, respectively, followed by Canada, joined by Liechtenstein in 2002, and then Iceland and Israel again in 2003.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out Better World Flux (The Best Resources For Creating Infographics, 2011.01.11), and to Richard Byrne, as well (Better World Flux - Create Animated Data Displays, 2011.02.04).

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• Integrating technology into English language teaching - The Hindu

  • Have language teaching and learning become easier because of technological innovations and availability of tools such as mobile apps? 

     

     

     I don’t think it has become easier. We’ve become resource rich, but in some ways our job has become harder. Technology has changed the way people communicate and interact with and through language. That has broadened the scope of what we need to do and the range of skills we need to enable that process.

  • In what ways can technology promote learner autonomy? 

    

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     Technology is a huge enabler of learner autonomy because it can give students access to a large range of material, sources of information and useful applications. And if, as teachers, we focus on helping our students to understand how to use technology to become more autonomous learners, then we could really start to realise the full potential that technology offers us. 

     

      

     

• Center for Instructional Excellence - Intercultural Learning 101

  Purdue University's modular online prep. course for studying abroad

  tags: attitudes culture communication curiosity education empathy knowledge openness resources self-awareness skills worldviews

• Team Building: 8 Fundamentals, 6 Best Practices - eLearning Industry

  Alex Teregodistinguished teams from committees, proposed eight fundamental characteristics of team building, and then listed and elaborated what he considered "The 6 Best Practices for Successful Team Building" (2016.05.28).

  tags: best practices elearning team-building teams

• News | UN Women – Headquarters

  A directory or news and other items in categories by type, topic, region, and country

  tags: countries education information international issues

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• 93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

  "There are over 800 documentaries now cataloged in our library of social change films. ... The films cover a wide array of topics, from media to war to politics and sustainability" (¶1-2, 2016.06.16).

  tags: change documentaries education films issues media politics sustainability war

• Nik's Learning Technology Blog: 20 + Things you can do with QR codes in your school

  A 25 September 2015 post by Nik Peachey that he shared with the EdTechTalk group 7 June 2016

  tags: edtech efl ell elt esl k12 QR codes

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• Project Based Teaching Rubric | Project Based Learning | BIE

  This [Buck Institute for Education] rubric describes beginning, developing, and Gold Standard levels for Project Based Teaching Practices for K-12 teachers" (What is it? ¶1, 2016.06.10).

  tags: collaboration groupwork learning project-based learning resources rubrics teaching

• QR Codes Generator | QRcoder.co

  Generates codes for various content

  tags: QR codes QR code generators technology tools Tools and reference

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• Diving In: The Open Waters of Digital Resources and Open Educational Resources (OER) - OLC

  "The question I pose is not how we use digital or OER,  but how we use the combination of both types of resources to provide pedagogically rich, high quality, cost-effective resources for students"

  tags: blended learning digital resources education OER open education open education resources resources technology enhanced learning

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• Cyber Savvy | Embrace Civility

  Backbenched now (Embrace Civility, home page, 2016.05.25), but well worth looking over: "Cyber Savvy is a student-led, positive norms approach to teach upper intermediate, middle, and high school students (grades 5 - 12) about digital safety, including effective digital decision-making, safe posting of personal information, digital relationships, social networking, cyberbullying, and digital dating/exploitation. The schools that have used this program in the pilot testing have been very pleased with the results" (Cyber Savvy, ¶1, 2016.05.25).

  tags: children civility cyber-savvy cyberbullying digital safety education high schools Internet safety middle schools online relationships personal information privacy resources relationships social media social networking students

• Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? - OLC

  This OLC Institute post suggested three purposes and provided numerous examples of social media implementation and integration that may serve to "support learning in online courses" (2016.05.17, ¶3, ff.), namely:1. Amplifying the physical and psychological engagement of learners (Engagement using social media, ¶1);2. Providing instruction to "increase teaching effectiveness and enhance learning outcomes" (Instruction involving social media, ¶1); and3. Facilitating access to, and increasing availability of academic, career, and other "support services" (Student support using social media, ¶1).Reference Online Learning Consortium [OLC] Institute for Professional Development. (2016.05.17). Why Should I Learn More about Social Media? [weblog post]. http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/learn-social-media/

  tags: blended learning engagement integrating technology IT4ALL learning outcomes online courses online learning Online Learning Consortium (OLC) social media student support

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• Just Listen | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  In this excerpt, Lowman and Aldrich (2016) suggested strategies for informal conferences with individual students, "preferably during office hours, rather than … after class or on campus" (Just Listen, ¶2). They indicated that the purpose of these sorts of somewhat extended encounters, approximately 10-30 minutes in length (Close the conversation…, ¶1), was empowerment of students to "better understand their situation[s], consider … wider range[s] of options, and make their own decisions about their future[s]" (Just Listen, ¶2). Their suggestions highlighted: active listening, (re-)focusing, moderating distress, avoiding giving advice, closing, and recommending follow-ups for student conferences.Lowman, Joseph; & Aldrich, Howard. (2016). Just Listen. National Teaching & Learning Forum, 25, 1–3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ntlf.30054/full [doi: 10.1002/ntlf.30054]

  tags: active listening counselling focusing moderating professional development student conferences

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• Teaching and Learning Resources / ARCS Model of Motivational Design

  "The ARCS motivational design process is a systematic problem solving approach that requires knowledge of human motivation and progresses from learner analysis to solution design" (Keller's ARCS Model of Motivational Design, ¶1, 2016.05.13).

  tags: attention confidence education learning instructional design Keller John motivation professional development relevance satisfaction teacher development teaching

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• JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

  Alderton, Elizabeth; Brunsell, Eric; & Bariexca, Damian. (2011). The end of isolation. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 7(3).

  tags: collaboration communities of practice learning learning networks professional development social media social networking social networking sites Twitter

  • Professional learning networks created through social networking, like Twitter, can provide these opportunities. However, collaborative conversations alone are often not enough to promote teacher learning and change. Teachers must try complex innovations in their classroom and reflect upon these implementations in order to extract from experience the knowledge that leads to improved teaching (Ladewski, Krakcik, & Harvey, 1994).

• About | Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

  "Digital Writing, Digital Teaching is a blog ... [that] explores the variety of issues related to teaching writing with new media for K-16 teachers and teacher educators" (About, ¶1, 2016.05.02).

  tags: learning literacy methodology networks teaching U.S. writing

• About NWP - National Writing Project

  "The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners" (Our Mission, ¶1, 2016.05.02).

  tags: learning literacy networks teaching U.S. writing

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• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. (2015). Life in Japan for Foreign Researchers: 2016-2017.

  "This book is designed to provide useful information for living in Japan to overseas researchers under JSPS’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers and Invitation Fellowships for Research in Japan programs. It is normally sent to newly selected JSPS Fellows along with their Award Letter."

• The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

  "Adapted from The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels, Chapter 2, pp. 15-29. � 1999 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc."

  tags: culture cultural relativism

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• Putnam (2001) on social capital

  "This paper starts with a discussion of definitions of social capital, then turns to issues in measurement, and finally, presents some evidence on the consequences of social capital" (¶ 1 [PDF]). Putnam, R. (2001). Social capital: Measurement and consequences. Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(1), 41-51. Retrieved from https://search.oecd.org/edu/innovation-education/1825848.pdf

  tags: altruism issues OECD public policy Putnam social capital social networks U.S.

• BBC Two - The Secret War on Terror, Episode 1

  "This episode looks at how the West became involved in abductions, secret prisons and even torture...."

  tags: abuctions BBC documentaries governments information intelligence services international issues prisons terrorism torture wars

• WCAJ 8th Symposium Program.pdf

  Final program for symposium at Tsuda College, 2016.03.05

  tags: academic writing Peer Support Group presentations writing centers

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• The Two Worlds of Learning Analytics | EDUCAUSE

  • But is this really what we want? And who should get access to such combined data? For starters, course faculty should not have access to students' academic backgrounds and performance outside of their courses, as such information could easily bias grading decisions.⁹ On the reverse side of the coin, university administrators should not have access to individual course grading data, as it is not their business to interfere with faculty conducting their courses.
  • In the case of learning analytics, the personal touch — supported by the data collected about students — could make the real difference in their success.

• “Photos For Class” Is My Favorite Site For Finding Images | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Larry Ferlazzo's "'go-to' site" (2016.02.20).

  tags: education digital resources images photos resources

• Recording lectures: legal considerations | Jisc

  "Clarifying the legal aspects of recording lectures at UK further and higher education institutions."

  tags: copyrights intellectual property lectures performances property rights recordings UK

• APA Style Take 2 - YouTube

  Screencast demonstration of quotation, paraphrase, and reference composition techniques by Trey Erwin (2015)

  tags: APA-style capitalization citations composition paraphrasing punctuation references resources writing YouTube

• eWAVE -

  Kortmann, Bernd, & Lunkenheimer, Kerstin (eds.). (2013). The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://ewave-atlas.org, Accessed on 2016-04-05.)

  tags: corpora creoles dialects English Englishes language varieties linguistics morphology mother tongues pidgins syntax

• http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002437/243713e.pdf

  "This policy paper, released for International Mother Language Day, argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children’s learning. It shows the importance of teacher training and inclusive supporting materials to improve the learning experience of these children, and provide them with a resilient path of achievement in life" (¶3).

  tags: countries education international languages issues

• Duolingo

  "[T]his review will focus on the iOS iPad version of Duolingo, Apple's 2013 App of the year (Duolingo, 2014) in English (L1) with French as the target language (L2)" (Overview, ¶2)."

  tags: digital game based learning DGBL Duolingo languages learning online technology translation

  • Target users of the app would be autonomous users with some existing level of motivation or curiosity for language study who are seeking to refresh basic skills
    • Target Use, ¶1: Spot on!
  • The Duolingo app is probably best used as a supplement to other language learning materials that offer more contextualized authentic language use
    • Target Use, ¶2: Positive spin!

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• http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2001/060.pdf

  Takaki, N., & Laskowski, T. (2002). An on-going study investigating teacher thinking of JTEs: A tale of two teaching cultures. In M. Swanson & D. McMurray (Eds.), _JALT2001 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo, JP: JALT.

  tags: cultures communities education English teaching teacher development teacher support teacher thinking teachers

• http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2004/E99.pdf

  Sato, K., Takaki, N., Okada, C., Takahashi, K., Yamashita, R., & Serikawa, H. (2005). Lifelong Teacher Learning through a Collaborative Study Group. In K. Bradford-Watts, C. Ikeguchi, & M. Swanson (Eds.), _JALT2004 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo, JP: JALT.

  tags: collaboration communities education English teaching learning teacher development teacher learning teacher support teachers

• http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2006/E136.pdf

  Sato, K., Cholewinski, M., Cornwell, S., Heigham, J., Kiyokawa, S., & Takaki, N. (2007). Communities of supportive professionals: Creating a teacher learning community through professional development. In K. Bradford-Watts (Ed.), _JALT2006 Conference Proceedings_. Tokyo: JALT.

  tags: communities education learning teacher development teacher support teachers

• Identity Theft Recovery Steps | IdentityTheft.gov

  "IdentityTheft.gov is the federal government’s one-stop resource for identity theft victims. The site provides streamlined checklists and sample letters to guide you through the recovery process."

  tags: governments identity recovery theft

• What is Media Literacy? - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

  The ETR editorial team defines it as "a set of competencies that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and formats" (¶1, 2016.03.30), then draws on a P21 framework and two videos to amplify that definition.

  tags: competencies literacy media media literacy P21 framework

• Apply to a U.S. Online Graduate Program as an International Student - US News

  "Though the specifics vary across programs, international applicants should ensure that they meet all their requirements ​and apply to a school that caters ​to students from overseas by taking these five considerations into account" (¶3).

  tags: education graduate schools international students online U.S.

• start | Introduction

  "Looking Back: This Past Year after the Earthquake is a collection of accounts written by the students of Rikuzentakata City Kesen Junior High School in 2012, one year after the 3.11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. In its original Japanese form it was distributed to the families of the children, Rikuzentakata City Hall, and the local library. "

  tags: collaboration communication education earthquakes Japan learning projects reflections students websites writing

• Forest Service seeks to silence Smokey the Bear over fracking - Waging Nonviolence

  • LaRoe ‘s culture-jam appropriation of Smokey is permissible under the fair-use exemption to exclusive copyright ownership
  • this is not the first time the Forest Service has sought to silence environmentalists for appropriating Smokey’s image

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