Laura Tidball's List: WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGY

The world languages map shows you the most spoken language on each continent. It is a great language learning resource for the wall of your classroom, office or home. PDF available to display on your website.

Summary of social networking and it's uses for langauge teaching.

Describes the evolving history of CALL (computer assisted language learning) over the last 30+ years

In an earlier post (Bogs, Wikis, or Nings? Part I), I brought up the question of where should teachers and students post content on the web with so many choices. If you are interested in learning about Nings, please visit my earlier post. In this post, I will focus on the use of wikis in a classroom.

Amazon.com: Differentiated Instruction Using Technology: A Guide for Middle & HS Teachers (9781930556836): Amy Benjamin: Books

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Recently I have been interested in using comics to liven up my teaching and my marking. A couple of days ago I was writing about Comic Life, a piece of software that allows you to create comic strips using photos stored in your computer. Well, today what brings me to you is www.toondoo.com a website that allows the user to create their own comic strips and even comic books using the templates provided or using your own pictures."

Here are my top five tips for creating resources using the Interactive Whiteboard. I am not by any means an expert, but I have picked up a few tricks and tips along the way that allow me to create interesting resources for the IWB with only the most basic knowledge of how it works.

If you are interested on learning more about making the interactive whiteboard interesting and, most importantly, interactive, then you should probably go and take a look at these other websites:

* Tom Barrett’s 37 (at the latest count) tips
* Teachers Love Smartboards
* The IWB Challenge
* Smartboard lesson podcasts
* The Whiteboard Blog

That’ll keep you busy for a while anyway…"

"Over the past academic year, my students and I have been experimenting with the use of a number of web based applications (often known as Web 2.0 tools). My aim has been to enhance our schemes of work by providing our students with new and exciting learning opportunities.

In my opinion, using technology effectively has clear benefits for both teaching and learning and can help to improve motivation by engaging pupils in activities which, perhaps, step out of their ordinary school experience and which show them that it is possible to teach and learn about a subject using tools similar to those they use daily outside school. In other words, we have tried to use the types of tools with which they are often already familiar.

I have written about each of these individual tools in separate posts, but I thought it would be useful to list the ten most used internet applications on one post. As ever, I aim to provide, not only a list of the web applications we have used, but also examples of practice which you may wish to follow or, indeed, improve upon.

Therefore, each of the entries below has links leading to lesson plans which have incorporated the tools as well as working examples of students’ work where appropriate. Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, my ten tried and tested internet tools for teachers are:"

"Looks like Notre Dame high school in the UK is taking the bull by the horns and moving forward with an initiative to allow the use of mobile phones for educational purposes during class time."

March 2009 - Adding a Wiki to Your Course

A wiki site can be easily added to any course to serve a number of objectives. For example, you may choose to create a wiki site dedicated to writing. Open one page where students create a short narrative collaboratively. This whole-classroom activity will offer your students the opportunity to practice key writing techniques and develop skills. Other pages can be authored by teams of student writers and presented for peer review and peer editing to the other teams.
With a wiki, you can design many interesting out-of-class extension activities to build writing skills.
There are many free wiki programs available, but Pbwiki.com is particularly easy to use. You can create as many wikis as you want for free with their basic package. Pbwiki.com offers affordable upgrades, but the basic package includes enough features to create an effective tool.

A great resource on creating wikis:

Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web by James A. West and Margaret L. West. Jossey-Bass A Wiley imprint. 2008

yAuthor is an innovative and user-friendly content-authoring tool designed for creating interactive lessons (courses). It is an on-line service that offers a fully graphical and intuitive interface tool, which can be used by a subject-matter expert without programming skills. Choose one of several ready-made graphical designs and create your own content! All graphical designs have been created with yPublisher technology. If you wish to create content with your own look and feel, simply call us!

Introducing the 2minuteMoodle: A framework for providing additional instructional scaffolding