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About Us - oomongzu (Fun & Innovative ESL videos and English videos)
Plenty of mind-numbing background music, but still worth checking further to see whether these "animated teaching videos for ESL and EFL learners" (About Us, ¶1, 2017.02.24 [JST]) might be suited to particular learners' needs
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Catalog of the Council of Europe's Pestalozzi programme publications, currently 1-5 (2017.02.23)
Sunday, February 26, 2017
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Sunday, February 05, 2017
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What I learned from burning-out as a teacher
"Teaching communities can be incredibly nurturing, caring and supportive of the children in their care, but sometimes forget to extend this to the teachers who are at the front line. Teachers may be afraid of being seen as weak or struggling if they open up about their challenges or difficulties. My first piece of advice is find a colleague you can open up to and can offer support or just a listening ear, of course, you can do the same for them. Building and nurturing positive relationships is one of the most important things anyone can do for their well-being."
- Mindfulness refers to the process of bringing our attention and awareness to the present moment, with an attitude of non-judgement and acceptance
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Sunday, January 29, 2017
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WS BLOG: Making Moves that Matter | The Writing Studio
"This post is meant to share some of my more-enlightening misadventures with stasis, destabilization, and resolution in hope that they will help writers, consultants, and teachers use the three moves more intentionally" (¶1, retrieved 2017.01.27).
Sunday, January 22, 2017
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Grammar Girl : How to Peer Edit an Essay :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™
"[T]he following approach can help you prove your editing prowess" (¶3, retrieved 2017.01.20).
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APA Style Blog: How to Cite a YouTube Channel
"A reference to a YouTube *channel* follows the usual who (YouTube username), when (date), what (title), and where (URL) format" (¶1, 2017.01.19 [emphasis added]).
Sunday, January 15, 2017
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Timeline JS3 - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use.
"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet" (Timeline JS, Overview, 2017.01/11).
Sunday, January 08, 2017
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David Autor: Why are there still so many jobs? | TED Talk | TED.com
Good news for techie teachers: "As our tools improve, technology magnifies our leverage and increases the importance of our expertise and our judgment and our creativity" (interactive transcript, 6:00).
Sunday, December 25, 2016
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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).
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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).
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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."
Sunday, December 18, 2016
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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
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APA Style Blog: Writing Website In-Text Citations and References
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Falcon Scientific Editing | Publishing, Writing, and Grammar Resources for Researchers
A weblog highlighting guides and other resources for academic writing and publication.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
"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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Sunday, December 11, 2016
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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).
Sunday, December 04, 2016
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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).
Sunday, November 20, 2016
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"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)
Sunday, November 06, 2016
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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.
Sunday, October 09, 2016
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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).
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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).
Sunday, October 02, 2016
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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.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
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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."
Sunday, August 28, 2016
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Goal: English 2nd university language - News VietNamNet
Ambitious proposals not only for universities, but also for earlier English education.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
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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
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"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)
Sunday, August 07, 2016
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"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."
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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.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
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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.
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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).
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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]).
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"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).
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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?
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