5 Fresh Places to Find Great Online Video The Digital Entertainment Series is supported by the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10, the seriously entertaining smartphone that knows how to have fun. Check it out here. Here at Mashable, we're big fans of web video, and we're not alone. People spend more and more time online watching (and many times, rewatching) video content, both user-generated and commercial. Even five years ago, during the early days of startups like YouTube and Blip.tv, sifting through content to find the best the web had to offer could be difficult. After all, with 24 hours of video uploaded every minute just to YouTube, there's a lot of content out there. In today's landscape, where we have not only a plethora of user-generated content, but also mounds of new and catalog content from commercial publishers, finding the best in online video can take a lot of time and effort. Fortunately, more and more sites and services are stepping up to help sift through the vast, expansive wasteland of online video. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Multiple Meaning Words Multiple Meaning Words Write or tell two sentences for each word below. Be sure to use the word as a noun in one sentence and as a verb in the other sentence. Click on a word to check your answers. Tom March :: Bright Ideas for Education » Contemporary Teaching Introduction and rationale What follows is a draft / attempt at digesting and synthesizing all the calls for “21st Century” teaching skills into one list – a list that reflects the best practice of “Web-enhanced” educators. These people use technology as a means to promote intrinsic motivation and a disposition toward critical thinking, they are not obsessed with “teaching” the how-to’s of software applications. My goal in developing this checklist is to outline a continuum of skills for all teachers. In other words, level 1 is where all teachers can and should be. Levels 2 and 3 identify ways these skills can be developed. The checklist is not definitive – on the contrary, I attempted to identify “the least someone needs to know” in order to enjoy success at integrating technology. So… Could you please, either send me an email, forward a comment or have at this page with Diigo. Foundational Skills Using Email to facilitate learning Creating and posting key course documents online
Vocabulary Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers help students to visualize the relationships between words and their possible meanings. Teachers can use these graphic organizers with their explicit vocabulary instruction. These tools may also be used as classroom assessment for learning because they give teachers a quick look at students' vocabulary knowledge. Knowledge Rating Scale Frayer Model Word Detective Vocab-O-Gram Graphic Organizer Vocabulary Cluster Own the Word Graphic Organizer Verbal and Visual Word Association (VVWA) Concept Map Graphic Organizer Alphaboxes Websites on Vocabulary Graphic Organizers: Vocabulary Word Box Geometry Vocabulary Graphic Organizer Concept Circles in Math
Doing it Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary Every Monday my seventh grade English teacher would have us copy a list of 25 words she'd written on the board. We'd then look up the dictionary definitions and copy those down. For homework, we'd re-write each word seven times. Good, now you know it. Test on Friday and never for those 25 words to be seen again. Copying definitions from the dictionary we would probably all agree is not an effective way to learn vocabulary. The truth is, and the research shows, students need multiple and various exposures to a word before they fully understand that word and can apply it. Selecting Words Ah, so many words, so little time. My first year teaching, before my tenth graders began reading Lord of the Flies, I went through every chapter and made lists of all the vocabulary words I thought they'd have trouble with, so that I could pre-teach them. When I looked at those long lists, I began to freak out. Then, here's what to do after the students pick their own words: Ranking Words Teaching Words
Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Coll At the epicenter of the evolving nature of literacy is digital literacy , the term du jour used to describe the skills, expectations, and perspectives involved in living in a technological society. How has digital literacy evolved in the 25 years since digital tools began appearing in classrooms? And how can we make it more responsive to our present needs? Writing What You Read Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, this has meant being able to consume and produce words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking. New media demand new literacies . New media coalesce into a collage . New media are largely participatory, social media . Being able to actively create rather than just passively consume new media is important for the obvious reason that it teaches literacy and job skills that are highly valued in a digital society. 1. 2. 3.
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