Think and Dream in English

Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders

2012-01-29T10:03:00.000+01:00

Create PowerPoint Files for eLearning Courses

2012-01-25T19:03:00.000+01:00

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/heres-noteworthy-free-powerpoint-template/

Helen Barrett Google Apps FETC2012

2012-01-25T16:03:00.000+01:00

Google Apps FETC2012

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Richard Gerver- Global Education Forum

2012-01-25T07:24:00.002+01:00

The Principal's Office on The Rachel Ray Show

2012-01-23T08:08:00.001+01:00

Differentiating with Learning Menus

2012-01-22T12:44:00.002+01:00

Ken Wilson Interview: Animating Your Lessons

2012-01-22T09:39:00.002+01:00

Los filtros en Gimp

2012-01-21T14:34:00.000+01:00

Los filtros

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Educational uses of SL

2012-01-15T08:58:00.003+01:00

Several videos about educational uses of Second Life.

Using Google Docs with Blogger

2012-01-14T18:00:00.000+01:00

Using Google Docs with Blogger

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Ideas para cambiar la forma de usar la pizarra

2012-01-14T15:17:00.000+01:00

Ideas para cambiar la forma de usar la pizarra

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Taming Information Chaos with the Power of 2.0

2012-01-13T16:42:00.002+01:00

Taming Information Chaos with the Power of 2.0

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Perfectionist Traits - Ten Telltale Traits of a Perfectionist

2012-01-12T21:43:00.000+01:00

Perfectionist Traits - Ten Telltale Traits of a Perfectionist:

"If you’re wondering whether or not you’re a perfectionist, there’s a good chance you are one, at least to a degree. (Take The Perfectionism Quiz if you want to know for sure.) Perfectionists are a lot like high achievers, but with some key differences. These differences are important, as perfectionists tend to experience more stress! The following are ten telltale traits of perfectionists. Do any of these sound familiar?
All-Or-Nothing Thinking:
Perfectionists, like high achievers, tend to set high goals and work hard toward them. However, a high achiever can be satisfied with doing a great job and achieving excellence (or something close), even if their very high goals aren’t completely met. Perfectionists will accept nothing less than, well, perfection. ‘Almost perfect’ is seen as failure."

Using Google Plus with Learners

2012-01-11T23:38:00.000+01:00

Using Google Plus with Learners

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Top 10 Ways to Assess Your Students

2012-01-08T01:41:00.000+01:00

Top 10 Ways to Assess Your Students:

"Part of teaching is assessment. Colleges offer entire courses on ways to assess students of English. It is easy, however, for teachers to get stuck in a rut of assessment.

If you are looking for a new way to assess your students or just want a reminder of some oldies but goodies, read on for a look at ten of the most popular ways to assess ESL students."

iLearn 2

2012-01-07T12:20:00.000+01:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More macintosh

Too Loud To Be Heard: Handling Noise Levels in Your ESL Classroom

2012-01-07T01:28:00.002+01:00

Too Loud To Be Heard: Handling Noise Levels in Your ESL Classroom:

"While ESL classes should encourage students to speak English, you also need to maintain an environment in which everyone can be heard. Depending on the activities you choose to do in class and the nature of your students, keeping noise levels reasonable can be challenging especially with younger students.

Ideally your classroom will be an area in which everyone can participate and students listen respectfully to one another. Let’s talk about some ways to achieve this."

Moodle Course Design: a high-wire act

2012-01-06T16:58:00.001+01:00

Moodle Course Design: a high-wire act #mootnz11

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Joyce Seitzinger The Personal Learning Network: Personal, practical, pervasive

2012-01-06T11:58:00.002+01:00

The Personal Learning Network: Personal, practical, pervasive

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iLearn

2012-01-06T09:38:00.000+01:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More apple

When Things Go Wrong: How to Turn a Disaster ESL Lesson into a Triumph

2012-01-06T03:38:00.000+01:00

When Things Go Wrong: How to Turn a Disaster ESL Lesson into a Triumph:

"It happens to even the best teachers: a well thought out, carefully planned lesson goes horribly wrong and you are stuck in the middle of class with confused, frustrated, and disengaged learners.

Students can react to material in different ways than you anticipated and new activities may take less time, be more challenging, or not work out quite the way you expected. Never continue following a lesson plan that is failing. This will only waste everyone’s time and students will not get the most out of their lesson with you. It is hard to think of new ideas and come up with an alternate plan during a lesson but this is the best course of action."

What You Can Do With a Song: 5 Creative ESL Listening Activities

2012-01-05T23:36:00.000+01:00

What You Can Do With a Song: 5 Creative ESL Listening Activities:

"Practicing listening skills in class can be a real drag to a student, marking the correct answer in their workbook, while listening to repetitive dialogues voiced by the same people, over and over again. This is where the student’s mind begins to shut down and take a five-minute breather, and whatever happening outside captures their wandering attention.

Listening involves a great deal of concentration, and so when the brain has switched off and gone for lunch, the listening skills follow suit.

How can teachers avoid this from happening, you ask?

Well, the answer is simple. Why not try something a little different. Think outside of the box and provide the students with something that you may not have tried before.

Songs provide a great alternative to listening tasks, as they are effectively the same dull listening exercises, but dressed in disguise as something that’s entertaining and fun.

Another reason why songs are great in the classroom is that they can be used as part of an entertaining and amusing, yet thoroughly educational warmer that will set right tone for the remainder of the lesson.

You don’t have to do a song and dance about it? Just a song on its own would be fine, thank you.

Adding the occasional song along with an accompanied activity to your class every once in a while, you’re giving the students more variety in the class. This keeps their attention towards you, their brain’s switched on and a stronger ability to listen for detail in the long run.

Here’s some creative activities that are aimed to not only entertain students, but to inspire and educate as well."

Head in the Clouds? Ten Free Web 2.0 Tools to Support Faculty Research - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus

2012-01-05T11:34:00.000+01:00

Head in the Clouds? Ten Free Web 2.0 Tools to Support Faculty Research - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus:

"Increasingly more researchers are integrating Web 2.0 technologies with research methods (data driven instruction) as they examine barriers and potential solutions for systemic issues in their individual educational practice. However, while there are a multitude of tools, which tools are appropriate?

Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of web development and design that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A central characteristic of Web 2.0 or “Cloud Computing” is the ability of the users to own and exercise control over the data on the web (Page & Ali, 2009). Web 2.0 tools are enabling people from the distant corners of the globe to effectively communicate and construct knowledge, troubleshoot common enigmas, and collaborate in ways that give their previously unheard voice more than a mere echo or some false illusion of truth on the horizon."

50 Awesome Classroom Management Tips You Can Use Tomorrow

2012-01-04T13:11:00.000+01:00

50 Awesome Classroom Management Tips You Can Use Tomorrow:

"Personal tips for effective classroom management

Find out who you are as a person; find your strengths, weaknesses, and how your chemistry works with others
Pay attention at all times
Keep your word
Be excited about teaching what you teach
Study leadership and be a leader
Accept responsibility for everything that happens in your classroom, whether good or bad
Assume the role of a captain of your classroom and be in control at all times"

How to embed a video into a PowerPoint presentation and package it within a SINGLE PowerPoint file | freewaregenius.com

2012-01-03T12:11:00.000+01:00

How to embed a video into a PowerPoint presentation and package it within a SINGLE PowerPoint file | freewaregenius.com:

"The Method: in a nutshell, convert your video to a flash (SWF) file, then embed the file within your PowerPoint presentation. Embedded flash objects will be saved within the PowerPoint file itself, and will play as video. The original video does not need to be placed in the same directory as the PowerPoint file. Problem solved!"

Embed Downloads Directly to Your Blog

2012-01-02T17:10:00.002+01:00

http://ladybugsteacherfiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/video-tutorial-embed-downloads-directly.html

Getting Learners to Speak English During the Break

2012-01-02T11:08:00.000+01:00

Getting Learners to Speak English During the Break

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Transforming Culture in the Classroom

2012-01-02T10:42:00.002+01:00

Transforming Culture in the Classroom

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Showing Our Learners to Achieve Success with Resolutions

2012-01-01T13:58:00.000+01:00

Showing Our Learners to Achieve Success with Resolutions

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Moodle in the Classroom

2012-01-01T10:31:00.000+01:00

Five Reasons for Using Authentic Video in the Classroom | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

2011-12-28T11:32:00.000+01:00

Five Reasons for Using Authentic Video in the Classroom | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC:

"This blog entry gives five reasons for using authentic video in the classroom as part of teaching English. With the proliferation of video websites teachers are turning their eyes on this resource to bring some life and energy into the classroom. In this context taking cues from Antonia Clare's (you can watch her talking about her experience in writing SpeakOut here: http://www.pearsonlongman.com/speakout/author_antonina.html) webinar on the same topic the blog entry presents some thoughts on using video in the classroom."

New tool to optimize teacher training for the use of ICT in the classroom | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

2011-12-27T10:28:00.000+01:00

New tool to optimize teacher training for the use of ICT in the classroom | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization:

"The UNESCO ICT competency Framework for Teachers aims to help countries develop comprehensive national ICT competency policies and standards as an important component of an overall ICT in education strategy."

Accuteach

2011-12-23T00:12:00.001+01:00

AccuTeach from accuteach on Vimeo.

Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

2011-12-22T15:32:00.000+01:00

How to overcome the Lonely Teacher Blues

2011-12-20T18:30:00.000+01:00

a cLiL to cLiMB, ELT CLIL EFL ESL ELL Online Games & Activities, Resources: How to overcome the Lonely Teacher Blues:

"Teaching is, often, a lonely job. If you're lucky, you get to talk about your problems, exchange ideas, or periodically receive some level of motivation in the staff room. Most of the time, however, you get thrown in the deep end, with only a marker and the coursebook to clutch.

Some seek to fight this problem by attending conferences, and others do courses, but these tend to be costly, and teaching is not noted for a generous pay scale. So, unless some form of backing is available, most of us can't do either of those.

However, the situation has improved tremendously in the past decade or so. As Barbara Sakamoto said in my interview with her, "Get online!" There's a bewildering amount of information and resources available on the Internet, so much so that one can easily get lost. If you're reading this, you're probably among those who are already fairly knowledgeable about the world of blogging, Twitter, and webinars. It is our duty, then, to enlighten the uninitiated."

FREEways to Making Teaching & Learning Mobile

2011-12-18T23:58:00.001+01:00

FREEways to Making Teaching & Learning Mobile

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60 apps in 60 minutes

2011-12-18T20:08:00.001+01:00

60 apps in 60 minutes

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Online Comic Creators

2011-12-18T15:28:00.001+01:00

Online Comic Creators

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How to teach … Christmas | Education | The Guardian

2011-12-18T11:58:00.000+01:00

How to teach … Christmas | Education | The Guardian:

"Your lesson plans are likely to go out of the window this week as pre-Christmas excitement takes hold of your pupils.

But do not fear – the Guardian Teacher Network has lots of festive resources that will engage your class in the run-up to the holidays.

Younger pupils will love Kessie's Gift for Santa, a story about a little girl who suddenly feels that Santa should get a present. Suitable for KS1 and KS2, the story explores the themes of giving and receiving and provides a handy stimulus for Christmas-themed drama activities.

For KS2 and KS3, 'Twas the Fright Before Christmas is a humorous play that re-works Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Featuring three ungrateful children and a reformed Scrooge, the play has plenty of parts to get your whole class involved. A scene from the film A Muppet Christmas Carol is used in this English lesson to get pupils talking about Dickens's classic Christmas tale. The KS2-KS4 resource includes links to an edited and abridged version of the novel, particularly useful for Esol students and reluctant readers. Suggested activities include writing a diary entry for Christmas Eve. Scrooge writes his first Christmas card is a KS3 lesson in which students read an article and answer questions about the beginnings of the Christmas card in Britain. During the activity, pupils will discover what the first Christmas card looked like and why people complained about it."

Salman Khan talk at TED 2011

2011-12-18T09:28:00.000+01:00

Tic tac. formas de enseñar vs. maneras de aprender

2011-12-16T21:47:00.000+01:00

Tic tac. formas de enseñar vs. maneras de aprender

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English resources and lesson plans | Guardian Teacher Network | guardian.co.uk

2011-12-14T14:56:00.000+01:00

English resources and lesson plans | Guardian Teacher Network | guardian.co.uk:

"Welcome to the Guardian Teacher Network English teaching resources page. Here you will find everything you need for delivering exciting, engaging and informative English lessons for all ages. Our resources include exclusive Guardian content, written by expert teachers, materials created and uploaded by teachers worldwide and Guardian articles on key topics. Browse and use the resources, add your favourites to your personal lesson planner, and download individual components for use in your own lessons."

Christmas and Other Winter Holiday Resources

2011-12-13T22:58:00.003+01:00

Twitter Background

Past posts:
http://dreaminenglish.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas

Christmas Links from Isabel Perez's ESL Site:
http://www.isabelperez.com/xmas.htm

Christmas Lesson Plan from Developing Teachers:
http://www.developingteachers.com/tips/xmasplan_01.htm

Christmas Adjectives (Gap-fill exercise):
http://www.englishpage.com/holidays/christmas5c.htm

Breaking News English ESL Lesson Plan on Christmas:
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/xmas.html

Listen to 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens:
http://www.world-english.org/christmas_carol.htm

Make and print vocabulary handouts for Christmas vocabulary:
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/handouts/christmas.php

Free Christmas Coloring Pages:
http://childparenting.about.com/od/funcelebrations/a/Free-Christmas-Coloring-Pages.htm

Christmas Graphics:
http://www.christmasmyspacegraphics.com/
http://www.christmas-graphics-plus.com/
http://www.christmas-graphics.net/
http://jsmagic.net/xmas/
http://www.glitterfy.com/graphics/Christmas/
http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/merry-christmas-comments-1.php
http://www.1netcentral.com/christmas-graphics.html

Santa and Other Traditions Printables:
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/holidays/ss/santaprint.htm?nl=1

Christmas Treasure Hunt:
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/denise/ChristmasTreasureHunt.htm

Christmas Around the World Webquest:
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/nbarkhou/christmaswq/

Christmas Traditions Around the World:
http://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm
http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/
http://www.soon.org.uk/country/christmas.htm
http://holidays.kaboose.com/xmas-around.html
http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/worldxmas/
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson041.shtml
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/denise/HowChristmasIsCelebrated.htm
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/xmas/world1.htm
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/christmas_play.htm

Christmas Teaching Resources:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/christmas.html

Christmas Lesson Plans:
http://www.eslflow.com/Christmaslessonplans.html

The 12 Days of Christmas:
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/ss/12dayscolor.htm?nl=1

Christmas Writing Printables:
http://specialed.about.com/od/holidaysthemes/tp/Christmas-Writing-Printables.htm?nl=1

Christmas Activities and Ideas:
http://familyfun.go.com/christmas/

Merry Christmas - Digital Play:
http://www.digitalplay.info/blog/2011/12/10/merry-quizmas/

ICTMagic Advent Calendar:
http://www.wix.com/ictmagic/christmas#!

600+ Christmas Icons:
http://www.designrshub.com/2011/12/600-free-christmas-icons-for-your-blog.html

Winter Holiday Traditions:
http://712educators.about.com/cs/winterholidays/a/winterholidays.htm

Hanukkah / Chanukah:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Chanukah-Activities-6106520/
http://voices.yahoo.com/free-hanukkah-chanukah-printables-670421.html?cat=11
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/holidays/ss/hanukkahprint.htm?nl=1

Kwanzaa:
http://voices.yahoo.com/kwanzaa-information-websites-free-printable-activities-681223.html
http://712educators.about.com/cs/winterholidays/a/winterholidays_5.htm?nl=1

More resources for traditions:
http://www.scoop.it/t/celebrations-for-education

Can teachers ever have a work-life balance? | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional

2011-12-11T12:58:00.000+01:00

Can teachers ever have a work-life balance? | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional:

"Teachers are, at times, a much-maligned and misunderstood community. Your friends will rib you about knocking off at 3 o'clock. "Oh, and you get all those holidays don't you?" they will quip. "How hard can it really be?"

To cut to the chase, teaching is a stressful profession. Many of those friends of yours who jest about your extended holidays will not understand the complexities and strains of being in the profession."

Ode to #Pencilchat: Technology Integration in the Classroom

2011-12-11T10:35:00.002+01:00

Ode to #Pencilchat: Technology Integration in the Classroom
by: MiddleLevelEd

"In honor of Twitter's #pencilchat, I put together some of the more memorable tweets to create this video. I plan to use it for upcoming professional development workshops about technology integration in the classroom. It's a light-hearted look at the spectrum of where we sit regarding technology in the classroom and meeting our students' needs. Enjoy!"

Nancy Duarte Talks at TEDx East : Storytelling

2011-12-09T22:00:00.000+01:00

CLIL Citizenship: Recycling | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

2011-12-08T20:48:00.000+01:00

CLIL Citizenship: Recycling | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC:

"As citizens of a world with limited resources we all need to think about how best to use these resources, whether we are in the developed world or the developing world. This activity will help pupils think more about recycling at home and at school. It is aimed at older primary or younger secondary pupils."

Cooking in Britain Today | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

2011-12-08T17:18:00.000+01:00

Cooking in Britain Today | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC:

"This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students talk about food and cooking. The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes. This lesson should challenge stereotypes of British food and encourage students to discuss their own preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants."

Holiday Apps for Creating Gifts & Learning

2011-12-08T13:06:00.000+01:00

Holiday Apps for Creating Gifts & Learning

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El diseño de actividades didácticas con TIC

2011-12-06T08:51:00.000+01:00

Jordi Adell "El diseño de actividades didácticas con TIC" JEDI2010 Bilbao

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Education World: Bullying and Cyberbullying: Six Things Teachers Can Do

2011-12-05T17:28:00.001+01:00

Education World: Bullying and Cyberbullying: Six Things Teachers Can Do:

"What Can Teachers Do to Reduce Future Occurrences of Bullying?

Discuss Bullying: Give students the opportunity to discuss bullying. Have the class come up with rules against bullying and involve them in determining that bullying behavior is unacceptable. Provide classroom activities and discussion opportunities related to bullying and violence, including the harm they cause and strategies to reduce their incidence.
Teach Cooperation: Teach cooperation by assigning projects that require collaboration. Such cooperation teaches students how to compromise and how to assert without demanding. Take care to vary grouping of participants and to monitor the treatment of and by participants in each group.
Develop a Plan: Develop a classroom action plan to ensure that students know what to do when they observe a bully-victim confrontation."

Read the whole article here:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/what-schools-can-do-to-stop%20bullying.shtml

Why You Should Always Start With a Warmer

2011-12-05T14:42:00.003+01:00

Why You Should Always Start With a Warmer:

"Starting with a warmer is important for a number of reasons. Your students need a chance to settle down into the class and get their minds focused on the lesson ahead. Delving straight into difficult subject matter isn’t going to help them in the least bit."

Type with me :a quick educative online collaborative tool

2011-12-05T09:12:00.000+01:00

Type with me :a quick educative online collaborative tool:

"Typewith.me is an online document collaboration tool which works in real time .It is a very important web2.0 tool for teachers and educators .it is free , easy , simple to use and above all doesn’t need any registration .It has a cool functionality that allows users to work on the same document and at the same time."

Top 10 Board Games for the ESL Classroom

2011-12-05T04:40:00.001+01:00

Top 10 Board Games for the ESL Classroom:

"Board games can be a useful and ready asset for the ESL classroom. Most require little to no preparation, and with a little patience, your English learners add a new resource to their language studies. On top of all that, board games are a fun way to learn new vocabulary and make a change from the normal routine."

40 ICT Ideas in 40 Minutes

2011-12-04T20:38:00.001+01:00

40 Ict Ideas In 40 Minutes

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Killing Us Softly 4

2011-12-04T09:27:00.000+01:00

"In this update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and for her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women, eating disorders, and addiction, and launched a movement to promote media literacy as a way to prevent these problems. Kilbourne is the creator of the renowned Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women film series and the author of the award-winning book Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and co-author of So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids."

Microsoft's Free Tools

2011-12-03T20:18:00.001+01:00

Microsoft's Free Tools

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Just Beam It

2011-12-03T16:47:00.001+01:00

JustBeamIt from JustBeamIt on Vimeo.
Just Beam It app for Google Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mmikgkdknaammcapbklcdaakpphfilgg

Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks

2011-12-02T21:13:00.000+01:00

TEDxWomen – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

2011-12-02T12:58:00.001+01:00

Watch live streaming video from tedxwomen at livestream.com

TEDxWomen – Jennifer Siebel Newsom

2011-12-02T08:48:00.002+01:00

Watch live streaming video from tedxwomen at livestream.com

The media is sending a dangerous message to young people.

TEDxWomen - Barbra Streisand and Noel Bairey Merz

2011-12-02T02:18:00.002+01:00

Watch live streaming video from tedxwomen at livestream.com

TEDxWomen – Rachel Simmons and Claire Sannini

2011-12-01T21:52:00.000+01:00

Watch live streaming video from tedxwomen at livestream.com

Using the web 20 for alternative assessment

2011-11-30T22:05:00.000+01:00

Using the web 20 for alternative assessment

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Dropmark

2011-11-27T12:03:00.003+01:00

Introducing Dropmark from Dropmark on Vimeo.

The YouTube Trick

2011-11-26T21:02:00.000+01:00

Google+: Sharing but like real life

2011-11-26T09:21:00.002+01:00

Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN

2011-11-26T00:45:00.000+01:00

Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN

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Fun with Flashcards

2011-11-25T22:35:00.000+01:00

Fun with Flashcards

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Inocente

2011-11-25T09:04:00.004+01:00

Inocente Trailer from Shine Global on Vimeo.

http://www.shineglobal.org/index.php/hero-of-the-week/inocente/

"ShineGlobal,Inc. Dedicated to ending child abuse and exploitation through the production of documentaries which raise social awareness and effect political change.

INOCENTE is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings."

Aprendizaje Social en Red: de los contenidos a las conexiones

2011-11-24T18:42:00.002+01:00

Aprendizaje Social en Red: de los contenidos a las conexiones

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Barbie: The Young Girl’s Ultimate Role Model?

2011-11-24T13:35:00.000+01:00

Barbie: The Young Girl’s Ultimate Role Model? | About-Face:

"Especially in this day and age, every young girl should have a role model. They need someone to look up to — someone who will validate their dreams, inspire their hearts, and represent all the positive, healthy ideals life has to offer. My mother is my role model, and so when I saw this commercial the other day, I assumed it was a shout-out to all the hardworking mothers setting their daughters on the right track. After all, at such a young age, who can inspire young girls to “go to the moon”, “dance”, and “teach the next generation”?"

Born to Learn

2011-11-24T11:24:00.003+01:00

Born to Learn from Born to Learn on Vimeo.

More videos here:
http://vimeo.com/20924263

Differentiated Instruction

2011-11-23T18:18:00.000+01:00

Integrative Thinking, Peepz Movie

2011-11-23T13:35:00.001+01:00

Deep learning in the Age of Distraction

2011-11-23T09:01:00.002+01:00

Deep learning in the Age of Distraction

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The Twitter Experiment - Twitter in the Classroom

2011-11-23T08:40:00.000+01:00

Awakening the Media Generation

2011-11-22T10:58:00.000+01:00

The documentary film "Cover Girl Culture" takes a hard look at the fashion industry and the message it conveys to young people.

COVER GIRL CULTURE | Women Make Movies

http://www.covergirlculture.com/
More videos here:
http://www.covergirlculture.com/?cat=57

CNN Joy Behar Nicole Clark - sexualization of 10 yr old girl French Vogue. Sexploitation

Beauty Pressure

Think unrealistic ads don't affect young girls? Think again. Girls are under more pressure than ever.

http://dreaminenglish.blogspot.com/2009/11/beauty-pressure_21.html
http://www.dove.ca/en/Social-Mission/Self-Esteem-Resources/

Media's Effect on Beauty

Much more here:
http://www.scoop.it/t/awakening-the-media-generation

Web 2.0 Tools in FE and HE

2011-11-21T21:38:00.000+01:00

Web 2.0 Tools in FE and HE

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Spinning Straw into Gold

2011-11-21T12:08:00.003+01:00

Lean startups: Spinning Straw into Gold

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How the English Language Was Developed

2011-11-21T10:39:00.000+01:00

Maria Andersen - Recipe for Free Range Learning

2011-11-21T02:58:00.003+01:00

Re-examining Listening Comprehension

2011-11-20T23:58:00.004+01:00

Re-examining listening comprehension

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Bullying Defined

2011-11-20T21:57:00.005+01:00

"Bullying is when somebody is made to feel uncomfortable, unhappy, desperate, because of the acts of others. It can be verbal, it can be name calling, it can be physical, it can be taking somebody's lunch money if it's at school. All bullying is wrong. It's usually a gang bullying one person or two people, and in the most extreme cases it can lead to children feeling desperate enough to consider taking their own lives."

Read the whole article here:
http://www.videojug.com/interview/bullying-defined

More articles and videos on bullying here:
http://www.videojug.com/tag/bullying

Bridging the Gap Between Digital Natives and Immigrants/Foreigners

2011-11-20T19:38:00.001+01:00

Presentation1Bridging the Gap Between Digital Natives and Immigrants/Foreigners

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50 Coolest Online Tools for Word Nerds | Online Universities

2011-11-20T17:18:00.003+01:00

50 Coolest Online Tools for Word Nerds | Online Universities:

"Learning and using new words can be one of the great pleasures of language. While university courses can help you to build your vocabulary, seeking out words, wordplay, and information is essential to becoming a true word nerd. These online tools can help you along, making it simple to learn new words, find out where they came from and just plain play with words."

Healing Isolation & Facilitating Empathy: The Power of Virtual Worlds « Virtual Connections

2011-11-20T15:48:00.003+01:00

Healing Isolation & Facilitating Empathy: The Power of Virtual Worlds « Virtual Connections:

"Second Life‘s community has included a significant percentage of people who are struggling with some type of disability or illness, or who are caregivers and, therefore, limited in their ability to leave their homes to socialize."

JALT 2011: Kids Sharing Stories

2011-11-20T10:38:00.003+01:00

JALT 2011: Kids sharing stories

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Shelly Terrell - Livebinders

Mobile Trends 2020

2011-11-20T08:37:00.000+01:00

Mobile Trends 2020

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9 herramientas gratuitas para desarrolladores y diseñadores web | GeeksRoom

2011-11-19T21:08:00.000+01:00

9 herramientas gratuitas para desarrolladores y diseñadores web | GeeksRoom:

"A continuación tienen algunos servicios web que ofrecen herramientas para facilitar ciertas y determinadas tareas de los desarrolladores o diseñadores web.

Algunas de estas herramientas nos pueden ahorrar mucho tiempo como el generador de código CSS o el servicio que nos permite hallar los colores perfectos para un sitio web.

También van a encontrar un generador de botones y hasta un convertidor de Flash a HTML5."

Las 100 mejores películas sobre la educación

2011-11-19T18:28:00.000+01:00

Las 100 mejores películas sobre la educación:

"lista de las mejores películas ambientadas en el mundo de la enseñanza y la educación. Para alcanzar la cifra de cien hemos abierto un poco la mano, y así hay películas sobre la clásicas relación de un profesor con sus alumnos en las aulas, pero también profes que dan clases particulares, casos extremos de niños discapacitados e incluso salvajes y el mundo de la enseñanza en el colegio, en la universidad e incluso en academias. Puede haber pasión por las humaniades, el deporte y el baile. Maestros ejemplares, y otros que no están a la altura de su apasionante y difícil profesión."

How Collaborize Works

2011-11-19T14:08:00.000+01:00

Thanksgiving Resources

2011-11-19T13:11:00.000+01:00

This year Thanksgiving falls on the 24th of November.

Older posts about Thanksgiving

Pilar's Classroom Blog - Thanksgiving Posts

Thanksgiving resources for education

The Thanksgiving Story

History.com - Thanksgiving

Wikipedia - Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving History

Busyteacher.org - Worksheets

Resources for Teaching and Learning Thanksgiving

Scoop.it - Thanksgiving Resources for Education

Recipes

10 ways to change the minds of tech-reluctant staff | eSchool News

2011-11-19T11:58:00.000+01:00

10 ways to change the minds of tech-reluctant staff | eSchool News:

"We often hear about tech-savvy educators and administrators who have an array of best practices and whose love for technology is evident. But as anyone who’s ever been part of a school or district knows, not all teachers and administrators are as comfortable or familiar with technology."

Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis

2011-11-19T09:47:00.001+01:00

Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis - Boing Boing:

"At the University of California at Davis this afternoon, police tore down down the tents of students inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, and arrested those who stood in their way. Others peacefully demanded that police release the arrested."

TEDx Youth Day

2011-11-19T07:45:00.000+01:00

Watch live streaming video from tedxcushmanschool at livestream.com

10 Teacher Tested Tricks to Teach Modal Verbs

2011-11-18T21:08:00.001+01:00

10 Teacher Tested Tricks to Teach Modal Verbs:

"Teaching modal verbs can be a challenge, especially to beginning teachers who don’t have enough experience."

Edna Krabappel, 'The Simpsons' - Top 10 Bad Teachers - TIME

2011-11-18T18:30:00.000+01:00

Edna Krabappel, 'The Simpsons' - Top 10 Bad Teachers - TIME:

"Who let this chain-smoking, jaded divorcée teach the fourth grade? Edna Krabappel has good intentions that never quite translate into adequate learning for Bart and his less-than-motivated peers. She lives up to her name as a bitter, loveless loner who lets her personal life fuse into her lesson plans as she shares the cynicism of middle age with the malleable minds of Springfield Elementary School. She tries her best to keep the students in line, but her apathy — she describes her job as "glorified babysitter to a bunch of dead-eyed fourth graders" — ultimately leads to her demise."

Bulllying: Practical Strategies for Teachers and TAs | The Creative Education Blog

2011-11-18T12:42:00.000+01:00

Bulllying: Practical Strategies for Teachers and TAs | The Creative Education Blog:

"Victims of bullying suffer psychological and sometimes physical scars that last a lifetime. Victims report greater fear and anxiety, feel less accepted, suffer from more health problems, and score lower on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who are not bullied.

Victims often turn their anger inward, which may lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide.

The practical strategies outlined below could form a part of your pro-active approach towards preventing and handling bullying."

Innovative copyright

2011-11-17T20:25:00.000+01:00

Innovative copyright:

"Learning about or teaching copyright is often frustrating and difficult for both teacher and student because it is a complex area, and, let’s face it, reading the text of the law is not always the most exciting way to learn.

Endeavoring to address this issue and many others, the Copyright Education and Consultation Program, a project funded by the Illinois State Library, was designed to establish a program to provide authoritative copyright information directly to faculty, instructors, and researchers at the largest Illinois universities. The goals of the program include increasing confidence in use of materials, informing users of copyright education resources available to them, empowering users with knowledge about their own intellectual property rights, and facilitating use of copyrighted material in the classroom."