Category: Collablogatorium
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Professional Development – Do-It-Yourself Approach
Ann Foreman has shared her wonderful presentation about professional development. What she says is exactly what I’ve been advocating for some years now. Educators need to be in charge of their own learning. They need to understand that PD is not institutionally-bound. We need to get hold of our own professional development perspective and analyze…
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365 Photos – Telling a Story
Photos are snapshots of a flash of a moment that will never happen again. They freezes time, space, people. They tell a story. They keep memories alive. Since 2009 I’ve been part of this wonderful group of passion-driven people, educators, amateurs who take their time every day to share a snapshot, that frozen moment of…
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m-Learning for Kids
If you are considering using tablets with the young ones, this guide from Laura Wright is an excellent start: Open publication – Free publishing – More education
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m-Learning – Screencasting App
I downloaded showmeapp to my iPad. You can write on the whiteboard and record a screencast, or you can use an image to record your impressions, stories, tutorials using it. Here’s my example for basic students: http://www.showmeapp.com/sh/?i=5220 I uploaded it from my iPad straight to the site. From there, you can embed the video or…
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Images in the Classroom Series – Emotions
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21204781@N07/2501994750/ My husband calls me a tourist or gadget girl. I always have a device which can help me capture the moment. First, because of my interest in photography, in getting that moment that in nanoseconds will be simply past. However, my most preement reason for being a gadget girl is that I am an…
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m-Learning in the EFL Classroom
More and more, I’ve been interested in finding and testing possibilities of using mobile devices in the classroom – flip cameras, smartphones, recorders, tablets – everything which is at a student’s reach. When I had a group of teens, it was simply natural to explore what was at my students’ fingertips, as for them it…
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ISTE – An Ed Tech Conference worth Following
For many educators in the world, it is vacation, summer time. For others, like in Brazil, it is winter break. In any case, a very opportune time of the year to keep our learning path running. ISTE is one of those unmissable opportunities. Of course, the best way to attend it is by being there.…
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Powerful Tool for the Classroom – Qwiki
Imagine a more dynamic, visually-appealing Wikipedia with audio and video. Mind-blowing Qwiki is exactly this!Great visuals, narration, subtitles. An impressive tool with great potential for any classroom. Take a look, for example, this video I got after searching about Pelé: View Pelé and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.
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Control X Emergence
I was just listening to this wonderful online presentation by Nancy White Marching into the Future with Heads, Hearts and Hand Nancy, as always brilliant and inspiring, talked about the connective possibilities that the Net has enabled us, but the point that really caught my attention was when she talked about emergence x control. This…
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The Power of Digital Storytelling
We are all a collection of stories. Stories that come from our ancestors, the ones that we built throughout our lives, those who surround us. Storytelling is ancient, yet totally contemporary. Our lives make sense because of our own stories and the weaving of our stories with the ones who are part of them. It…
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CALICO Conference – A Wealth of Information for Language Educators
CALICO, The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, has had its Conference in Victoria, Canada. Though I’d love to have attended it, there’s no way we can be omnipresent when we have our professional commitments, time and budget constraints. However, all of this doesn’t seem to be plausible excuses anymore when the Conferences can be at…
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Featured Blog – If the Ship Sinks, We Have the Survival Kit!
I’ve known these creative minds for some time now, and they are just pure inspiration. Vinicius, Marina and Vânia are very talented teachers whom I’m lucky enough to have been working with for a number of years. They are tireless, fearless educators who inspire others and keep their students engaged through activities that enhance students’…
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Exploring Videos Series – EnglishCentral
I’ve used EnglishCentral with my online group, English4Travel. The feedback was very positive, for students can watch videos in English related to topics of interest, they can decide for the level – easy, medium, hard – and they can record themselves to evaluate their oral production. They can watch the videos with transcripts and without…
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DailyLit – The Excitement of Literature in your Inbox
With DailyLit, you decide how (via email, RSS), when and where you want to receive your daily literature snippet. It can be every single day, or you can set it up for every other day, any time of the day. It´s up to you! Now, imagine asking your students to subscribe to a certain short…
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Audio Delivery Made Super Simple
Want an easy way for your students to record their voices and send it to you? Do you need one single place to receive all their audio files? Audio drop box is what you are looking for. I just tested and it is worth giving it a try. you have to create an account at…
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Superlame for the Classroom
Students as creators. We still duel over the institutional, syllabus demands and our willingness to test new approaches to our classrooms. Nothing better than starting really small, baby steps, micro-projects. So, here’s a very, very simple one. It can be used on a computer lab or even in class with a single computer. It works…
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Life is Organic, Not a Production Line
I’m a huge fan of Sir Ken Robinson. I’ve watched his presentations in TED Talks – Bring on the Learning Revolution & Schools Kill Creativity – and RSA Animate about education, creativity, our educational systems and transformation. In this video, Ken Robinson talks about pursuing our passions and the unpredictability and non-linearity of our lives.…
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Random Thoughts on Ed Tech Mass Debate
In reply to what Gavin Dudeney posted and the feedback he got, I’ll register here what I’ve written as a reminder of my own thoughts on the topic: Gavin, you mentioned in one of your replies “You’d like to think – wouldn’t you – that teachers ask themselves these questions on a daily basis –…
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Excellence Lesson Plan
The topic is one that can inspire anyone and re-enligthen our understanding of what makes us unique, special, excellent human beings. It is a reminder of not just doing average, but really excelling and being thankful for the ones who helped us succeed. It is an opportunity to inspire our students and ourselves to go…