8 Social Media Strategies for Your Classroom Are you ready to bring social networking to your classroom? If you’re looking to make your classroom more relevant, connected, and meaningful to your students, it’s the best place to start. Study after study has confirmed the benefits of networking. Before we delve into strategies, though, let’s look at some reasons why we should connect with students in this manner. First, we have to acknowledge the ubiquity of social networking. Besides the ubiquity factor, so much of social networking is free. Engagement is another important reason to use social networking. Lastly, social networking lets you incorporate real-world experiences into your classroom. Now for some strategy. Keep in mind that this is a social networking strategy, so there’s going to be interactivity involved. Twitter – If you have a personal account, create a second one for connecting with your students. Facebook – If you’ve not already done so, create a Facebook Page to connect with students.
MrMacPE : @TeacherToolkit here is the... How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple By Dolores Gende Apple’s iBooks2 and authoring app has created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don’t necessarily need Apple’s slick devices and software to create their own books. How educators think of content curation in the classroom is enough to change their reliance on print textbooks. As the open education movement continues to grow and become an even more rich trove of resources, teachers can use the content to make their own interactive textbooks. Here’s how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps. 1. Teachers can work with colleagues within their subject area departments and beyond the walls of the classroom to aggregate resources through social bookmarking. Also try Paper.li or The Twitted Times, which will sift through your connections’ resources and organize them. 2. One of the most user-friendly tools to post resources for your course is LiveBinders. 3. Cybrary Man Educational Resources
Projet Phonologie du Français contemporain - Présentation du français oral Tous les francophones, de France et du monde, n'ont pas le même parler, pas la même prononciation: en voici ci-dessous quelques exemples. Cliquez sur les points pour afficher et écouter un extrait. Vitrine réalisée par Dr David Le Gac Pour davantage d'illustrations, consulter la rubrique Le français illustré ! C’est un lieu commun de dire que le français oral est différent du français écrit, qu'il est notamment moins complexe que l’écrit : sa syntaxe est plus libre, pour ne pas dire relâchée, on se reprend, on hésite, etc. Le texte qui suit est inspiré en grande partie des chapitres d'un ouvrage collectif à visée à la fois scientifique et pédagogique paru en 2010 aux Editions Ophrys (Paris), intitulé "Les variétés du français parlé dans l'espace francophone: ressources pour l'enseignement" (avec DVD), sous la direction de S. Tout d’abord, la notion même de « français oral » est vague, et il convient de définir plus précisément ce à quoi elle réfère. La locutrice de la Réunion (cf. (cf.
Box of Tricks - Technology and Education How and Why to Make Your Digital Publications Matter I don’t have the metrics, but I’ll stake my professional reputation on the following statement: In the last one or two years, there has been a seachange in how even the most traditional academic, nonprofit, or corporation values, respects, and “counts” relevant, professional online publication and interactivity. The keywords are “relevant” and “professional” and how you present your digital contributions is not only key to your success, but also itself contributes to the larger culture of peer learning. This year, as I’ve been on leave and been on what is turning into a never-ending lecture tour (sixty events and counting!), I am constantly being approached, whether at corporations, nonprofits, educational institutions, or academic and professional institutions, about how and why to make online publications count. So, here are some ad hoc hints about how to make your online publications relevant and professional. Give your online publications a separate category on your resume or vita.
French Work Culture Five weeks vacation, recurring cigarette-espresso breaks and two hour lunches are among the stereotypes perpetuated about French work culture and I can say from experience, only two of three are still true today. Lingering over glasses of wine and copious lunch plates for two hours is a habit rapidly slipping from convention as is the notion that the French are unproductive. It occurred to me recently that my career actually began in France. I worked retail in the States throughout college but nothing full-time and nothing I intended to make a lifelong vocation. When I first set out to do a post about work culture, I used my husband's environment as a comparison - a traditional French company with approximately 11,000 employees and part of a massive French conglomerate. Vacation: reserving time for travel and personal time is as entrenched in French culture as those extended lunches that once helped define the workday.
Resources for the MFL Classroom | sharing ideas and resources for more effective & relevant teaching | Page 2 Let the Quizzes begin! Quizlet.com is amazing! By far the best free website for practising and learning vocabulary that I’ve found so far. I am a big believer in the power of games to transform the way students learn and this is the best website that I have seen for a few reasons: It’s freeIt uses VAK very successfully – you see the word, at the same time listen to it (website automatically adds audio) and then you have to type what you hear. Here’s a French one I made earlier I am waiting for another website to get started which promises similar functions to Quizlet except it actually monitors your progress as you learn your words. Like this: Like Loading... Augmenting your classroom Aurasma – better than a QR code! I know I’m a bit of an ICT geek when I get excited about the potentials of augmented reality in the classroom!! Watch this space! Make your own website! Top 8 tips: Here’s one I made earlier…
How To Make An ePub File For The iPad, Nook, Kobo & More As editor of the MakeUseOf Manuals project, I’ve been thinking about this a great deal lately, searching the web for the best tools to create ePubs with. I’ve not learned everything yet, but I’ve got a basic outline in place. If you’re looking to create ePub files you’ve come to the right place. What ePubs Are The ePub format is an open standard used in many different devices to display books, newspapers and magazines. This format, unlike PDFs, is designed to flow; that is, content is not laid out on set pages with a set layout. Devices that use ePub files include: The iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, via iBooks.Android devices, via FBreaderThe NookSony ReadersThe Kobo ReaderAny Windows, Mac or Linux machines, via a number of programs.Many more devices If you want your book to work on as many devices as possible, it’s critical that you learn how to create ePub files. Exporting from InDesign, Pages & Open Office Pages is great, but it’s Mac only and costs money. Creating From Scratch Or Editing
The Media Network Monitor: How to watch Internet TV across borders Living in the U.S., one of my greatest regrets is that I can't watch BBC video with iPlayer. If I were living in the U.K., I'd feel the same away about not being able to watch shows on Hulu. But, with a Web proxy or a virtual private networks (VPN)s and an Internet Protocol (IP) address in a country where the content is available, you can watch these shows. All of these services block you from watching video by simply checking to see if your IP address is in the “right” country. Your IP address, under today's IPv4 Internet, can place you to a particular neighborhood, so it's trivial to see if you're in the proper nation. Related: How to watch the Olympics on the Internet Finding your TV shows on the Internet Technically, it's easy to set your browser up to use a Web proxy or VPN software. When you use a proxy, though, all your traffic is still open to network administrators. There are many commercial proxy servers.