Research on the Go with Mobile Devices Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, November 8th 2013 From the Cool Sites Series and Mobile Learning Series “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert This week I am in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, presenting at the GAETC conference. I had six sessions which you can read about here, Slides Download these slides! My Favorite Resources Find all these apps and bookmarks in this Pearl Tree, Cultivate your interests with Pearltrees for Android Challenge: Use one of these resources or ideas and share with me how the experience went with your learners.
NoodleTools : MLA / APA / Chicago Bibliography Composer, Notecards, Outlining July 2013 Free Book Chapter From "Input-Based Incremental Vocabulary Instruction" by Joe Barcroft Chapter 3Checklist for Designing and Implementing Vocabulary Lessons This chapter presents a checklist for designing and implementing effective vocabulary instruction lessons. The rest of this chapter discusses the rationale for attending to each of the seven items in the checklist. 1. With regard to materials, it should be clear from the description of the various steps in the lesson what materials will be needed to implement the lesson. 2. TESOL Community TESOL Community members are constantly connected, discussing topics of importance to you. Recent Discussion Threads from the TESOL Community: Join in the conversation! Have an idea for an online discussion? Discussions in the TESOL Community are open to all TESOL members, regardless of interest section. Nonmembers can participate in selected events with free registration. TESOL Bookstore Looking for Projects to Engage Students and Have Fun?
Bio Cube The Bio Cube interactive has been changed to a new format: the Cube Creator. Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned. The interactive Cube Creator offers four options: Bio Cube: This option allows students to develop an outline of a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read; it can also be used before students write their own autobiography. Mystery Cube: Use this option to help your students sort out the clues in their favorite mysteries or develop outlines for their own stories. Story Cube: In this cube option, students can summarize the key elements in a story, including character, setting, conflict, resolution, and theme. Create-Your-Own Cube: Working on a science unit? Students can save their draft cubes to revise later. For ideas of how to use this tool outside the classroom, see Bio Cube and Mystery Cube in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section. back to top Name Tag Glyphs
Help Them Brainstorm! 50+ Tips & Resources Posted by Shelly Terrell on Friday, December 20th 2013 Included in the Digital Tips Advent Calendar and part of the Effective Technology Integration category “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.” – Charles Dickens Brainstorming is an important process that students should do frequently so it becomes a ritual they continue throughout their lives. Storyboarding Storyboards are useful when integrating multimedia projects such as making movies and various digital storytelling projects. Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers help categorize and organize thoughts and ideas to make connections the way the brain does. These are some of my favorite tools and resources: Read Write Think’s Interactive Cube for writing mysteries, biographies, and other storiesLucid Chart is a fantastic tool for web and mobile graphic organizers! Free Brainstorming Mobile Apps More Resources Blog posts related to concept mapping and integrating graphic organizers: Challenge:
Sweet Search The Fairy Tale Re-Mix AlicePopkorn via photopincc As much as creativity is necessary in learning, it is not realistic to expect learners, who have never had the opportunity to think for themselves, let alone be creative in the classroom, to produce creative work from one day to another. Asking students to write creatively takes time. The three fairy tales which you can see on the left, are well known to many around the world and have become part of childhood references. Working individually or in pairs, learners begin by choosing the fairy tale they want to re-write. After choosing, they can read an example of a "fractured" fairy before developing their own. To help students, there are questions which lead them to think about the characters, the setting, whose point of view is going to be given as well as the plot. When students have completed their new twist of the fairy tale they have chosen, all they need to do is print, and by sticking their stories up around the classroom walls, it can be read by all.
A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation Depending on your point of view, content on the internet can be a vast collection of treasures, a cesspool swimming in filth, or a big pile of gold specks mixed in with an even bigger pile of dirt. My guess is that most people lean towards the last one, giving rise to content curation, the process of finding the gold among the dirt, as a very popular online activity. At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Similar to museum curators, content curators sift through a seemingly never-ending amount of digital objects to unearth individual items worthy of being showcased for a specific audience. Once the selection is finished, the curator presents those assembled elements under a cohesive theme, just like museum curators do for specific exhibitions. It helps to think of a content curator as someone who’s editing a print magazine. Social Media Curation Tools