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Mar
6
2012

Dr. Marina Kostina suggested, "Digital worlds offer great opportunities for development of more sophisticated measures of assessment of learner’s knowledge and skills," and pointed out a suite of assessment rubrics that she'd found on "a professional development page of the website of the University of Wisconsin-Stout" (2012.01.25).

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in list: Educational Measurement

Mar
5
2012

"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by <a href="http://wfmu.org/">WFMU</a>....  Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era" (About, ¶¶ 1-2, 2012.02.05).

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in list: Media Literacy

Feb
17
2012

BestBloggingTips shows and tells how to start screen-sharing in a Google+ Hangout. She warns that everyone present can see your Gmail address, if you share Google stuff directly, and notes that sharing screens in Hangouts are small.

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in list: Tech. Tools

Feb
15
2012

"This guide is intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain. It covers:

1. Collecting leads
2. Online Collections
3. Legal Stuff
i. Licensing
ii. When Does a Work Pass Into The Public Domain? (Overview, 2012.02.15)

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in list: Intellectual Property

Jan
5
2012

"Grammar-Quizzes.com is an open educational resource for understanding, learning and practicing English grammar usage. These materials present simple grammar concepts and are most appropriate for non-native speakers, but also include practices that could be used for K–12 native speakers" (Mission, ¶1, 2012.01.05).

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in list: Grammar

Dec
17
2011

"The United States Education Program is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Education Program. The goal of the Global Education Program is to engage students and professors across disciplines, universities, and countries in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool" (Wecome, para. 2, 2011.12.17).

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in list: Educational Technology

Dec
12
2011

In this post, PikiFriends suggest: "Schools have always had the responsibility of keeping learners safe. While the current surge of interest in elearning has presented new challenges to these responsibilities, being vigilant and following these safety guidelines can help ensure that all participants are safer and more aware of the various risks" (Conclusion, ¶1, 2011.12.12).

This post provides Website Safety Guidelines, and lists:

+ important questions for teachers and learners to ask,
+ anti-surveillance plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers; &
+ news articles about Internet surveillance "in no particular order" (Press articles on internet surveillance issues, ¶1, 2011.12.12).

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in list: Educational Technology

Dec
9
2011

"...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).

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in list: Educational Technology

Nov
23
2011

"This site is for you to share the video you use to support your teaching, learning and research, and find video that others have found useful" (About this Site, 2011.11.23). The site curates links rather than hosting media.

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in list: Teacher Education

Nov
22
2011

Palalas, Agnieszka. (2010). ESP for busy college students: It the blend of in-class, online & mobile learning the answer? IALLT Journal, 41(1). Retrieved November 22, 2011, from http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal/esp_for_busy_college_students_is_the_blend_of_in_class_online_mobile_learning_the_answ

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in list: Educational Technology

  • Neumeier (2005) more broadly defines a hybrid learning environment as “a combination of face-to-face (FtF) and computer assisted learning” used in a single course delivery context (p. 164).
  • hybrid language learning courses are “only going to foster successful language learning if they are carefully designed on the basis of an analysis of the participants’ needs and abilities” (p. 176).
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Nov
15
2011

"Lindsey Wright is a keen linguist and she is fascinated with the potential of emerging educational technologies.... In this guest blog post, she considers the advantages and possible barriers to studying languages online.  

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in list: Educational Technology

Oct
16
2011

" ..[T]his ebook covers the practical questions that often arise when designing and developing an online course. Topics were collected and assembled from questions asked over my years of working closely with educators. It is designed to help educators create an online course that is usable, accessible, and engaging so students get the most out of an online course " (Ebook Short Description, para. 1).

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in list: Educational Technology

Sep
26
2011

Tutors' handbook pointed out by Nellie in a Moodle for Teachers Orientation course (M4T-O, September 2011)

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in list: Educational Technology

Sep
21
2011

Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. <i>Educational Leadership 62</i>(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx

"Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here ... [Coiro] pose[s] each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge" (A New Kind of Literacy, ¶3).

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in list: Information Literacy, Teacher Education

  • Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here I pose each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge.
  • The following strategy lesson invites students to stop, think, and anticipate where important information about a Web site's content might be found
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Sep
20
2011

UsingEnglish provides a "free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index. More detailed statistics are available to members" (Text Analyser, retrieved 2011.09.20).

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in list: Vocabulary Development

"VocabProfile will tell you how many words the text contains from the following four frequency levels: (1) the list of the most frequent 1000 word families, (2) the second 1000, (3) the Academic Word List, and (4) words that do not appear on the other lists" (Instructions, retrieved 2011.09.20).

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in list: Vocabulary Development

Sep
12
2011

Harrington suggests that plagiarism is endemic, and that originality reports from automated checking services enable writers to polish their work to make plagiarism difficult to detect. 

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in list: Writing

This PDF lists indications that children are involved in cyberbullying, either as victims or instigators.
© 2009 Cyberbullying Research Center

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in list: Internet safety

Sep
7
2011

"Robert Bruce Scott is the owner and editor of the ESL MiniConference Online newsletter and Web site. This project is a labor of love, hoping to make a positive difference in the field of ESL. Mr. Scott is advised by an all-volunteer editorial board of ESL teachers, language-learning specialists and educational technology experts" (About us, Keeping the conference spirit going..., ¶4, retrieved 2011.09.07).

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in list: Teacher Education

This site enables you to "Get the Latitude and Longitude of a Point" you select on a Google Map, and to "Show [a] Point from Latitude and Longitude" coordinates that you have already.

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in list: Educational Technology

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