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.
Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes). George Siemens, in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be OrganizedThe goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all of the information available out there. It's just too much even if we focus only on the very essence of it. The goal is to learn how to learn, to know where to look for something and to be able to identify which parts of all the information available are most relevant to learn or achieve a certain goal or objective.This is why new digital literacy skills are of such great importance. From the New York Times: "...Mr.
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.
Part One Digital Learning … Top 3 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Teachers and Students Happy Holidays and welcome to “Part One” of a series of posts dedicated to those attempting to curate the Digital Curriculum. Please enjoy and share this post via email or a retweet. While you are at it, I would appreciate that you take a moment to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email and follow me at (mjgormans). Part One… 12 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers -– Mike Gorman ( As education begins to embrace technology and digital resources, we as educators must also remember that these new tools allow teachers to move students at the center of their learning. Symbalooedu.com Symbaloo allows you to organize and share the best of the web with your students. Students can also become powerful curators and collaborators with their own Symbaloo account. It just might be time for you to get started and take a further look. Diigo.com Beyond the Bookmark 1. 2. 3. 4. Evernote.com Evernote in the Classroom Like this:
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.
Goal 10: Spread Your Knowledge (15+ Tools to Bookmark, Aggregate, Curate) Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, June 14th 2012 Goal 10 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! ““If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ” ~ Margaret Fuller Short-term- share resources you have collected about a topic with colleagues at school or online. Long-term- develop a community for sharing resources in your teaching environment. My Personal Thoughts About This Goal As educators, we are in the business of learning. Resources Related to This Goal I love learning. The tools that I use meet a few criteria: They have a free app! Tools Diigo- saves all your bookmarks in one location accessible anywhere with the Internet, allows you to highlight sections on websites and make notes, takes clippings, tag, search, and more! More resources: Important News Check out my Pinterests for other posts with this goal or ask me to add yours! Challenge:
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.