Glogster: make a poster online. It's free! Home. Interactive and multimedia learning modules. MOOCs. Creating Texting Dialogues for Students. As mobile phone use becomes ubiquitous around the world and texting becomes a new genre of communication, it seems increasingly important that we as language teachers engage with these devices and help students to deal with the impact they are having on the English language.
Some time ago I wrote about a texting language translater called Transl8it which enabled users to trans late short texts from standard English to something approaching sms texting language. Since then I've used the site quite a lot to:Translate text for using in chat rooms such as TodaysMeetTranslate poems and short dialogues into texting language for students to readTranslate news headlines.I've also tried getting students to record example sentences of vocabulary into texting language, just to add an extra element to creating vocabulary records. Recently, I have also found a handy tool called ifaketext and this enables you to create a picture of a smartphone screen with your dialogue on. Here's an example: Best. ESL Apps - iPad in the ESL classroom. 10 Awesome iPad Writing Apps. Web20fortheclassroom. 100 Ways To Use Facebook In Education By Category. Back in 2009, we wrote a popular post, 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom.
Now almost three years later, educators are still finding great ideas for putting Facebook to work on our list. But at the same time, Facebook has changed so much, and the site has even more to offer for the classroom. So we’ve compiled a fresh batch of ways to make Facebook work in your classroom, some tried and true, and others that have evolved with Facebook.
Read on, and you’ll find a wealth of resources, assignments, and amazing uses for Facebook in any type of classroom. Resources on Facebook Facebook is so much more than vapid status updates. Ask for information: Instead of trusting Wikipedia, ask the crowd on Facebook. Projects & Assignments Facebook is an interesting platform for learning, and these ideas offer great ways to make the site a part of projects and assignments in your classroom. Sharing Collaboration & Discussion Classroom Management & Organization. About Voxopop. Easy Way pronunciation game. Dropbox - Simplify your life. Issuu - You Publish. TRAITR. Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students. Flash Meeting. Blogmeister. Target="_blank"> target="_blank"> Over the holidays and with the glorious abundance of time I've consciously not spent on the road lately, I have been putting some sweat into Class Blogmeister.
Admittedly, I've left it alone over the past years and been, pretty much, a silent partner to all of you teachers who continue to use it and push its possibilities. But I have continued to program, on other projects, and have developed some skills that I didn't have when I initially built CB. Those skills have been poured into our blogging service, and I'm ready to pull off the sheet. But before I do, I want to open it up to you, for the weekend, to kick around in. I've still got a little bit to do today, but it should be finished for the weekend. I hope you'll like it as much as I've enjoyed making it. Staging Site: target="_blank"> One addition: Some of the banner pictures that you have uploaded as students or class may not show up on the staging site.
Home. Search results for: web 2.0 [0 articles] 100 Websites You Should Know and Use - StumbleUpon. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience? Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience?
(11) Technology in English language teaching. Learning Technology. About teaching, learning, reflecting and being a 21st century learner & teacher … The Difference between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0. I was recently asked about the difference between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0.
Simple question, I thought. But when I sat down to write this I realized the explanation isn’t as straight forward as I had originally thought. So read as I try to explain the differences between Web 2.0 and 1.0. Web 2.0 refers to how we are using the internet today.