Tag: video
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Educação Hibridizada – Conceitos, Exemplos e Recursos
Uma tendência irreversível de hibridização do ensino/aprendizado, utilizando o presencial e o online de forma flexível nos processos, no tempo, o modelo blended será o grande modelo do ensino/aprendizado nos próximos anos. Utiliza-se do presencial para a criação de comunidades e proximidade e também do online para as atividades em que o aluno produz melhor…
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Technology Giving Wide Wings to Creativity
As long as I keep seeing transformative and exciting examples of how technology can help the next generation of professionals acquire new skills in different areas, I’ll advocate its use. That’s exactly what happened with me some days ago. I was at the Apple Store with my kids, looking for the present my husband…
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Picturetelling in the Park with Jamie Keddie
I met Jamie Keddie, from the very resourceful site, lessonstream, in Brighton, on my very first day at IATEFL 2011. He was part of my Twitter network and, at the pub we were at, he just said, “I’m that guy with the dog as a thumbnail”. Yes. Everything about Jamie has a visual cue! However,…
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Learning is About Understanding Relationships
The power of Rita Pierson’s words still echo in my mind. What a wonderful, powerful, inspiring talk in which she pours her heart in a call for educators to make a difference, to connect and to be part of their learners’ worlds. I can’t think of anything more brain-friendly than that. Are you doing your…
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A Remix of the Web2.0
Serendipity is always the best resource. I was looking for some resources to the online course I’m teaching right now, Web Tools for Educators, when I came across this MOOC – Teach the Web. Just as I was browsing through their resources (Mozilla guys know how to make it simple, exciting and connected), I came…
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A Brain-Friendly Activity – Instructions for a Bad Day
I’ve been teaching teens this semester. And I can feel their different states of mind, the introvert struggling, the extroverted always trying to shine, the quiet with so much to say, the lost with so many words to shout…There is so much going on with every single one of them that we, educators, have different…
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Surfing the Waves of Change in Education: No Action is not a Possibility
Serendipity is one of the strengths of a hyperlinked world in which the network is always providing us with learning moments and reflective checkpoints. As I was browsing my wonderful Pinterest network, I came across, by chance, this clean, unpretentious blog http://thingsigrab.wordpress.com/, and I couldn’t help but start browsing it, scrolling down, with my eyes glued…
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Online Teaching Videos
Curt Bonk is on my list of inspiration when it comes to online teaching and learning. I’ve gotten some neat ideas for my online classes from his book Empowering Online Learning: 100+ activities for reading, reflecting, displaying and doing. If you are really interested in becoming more proficient in you online teaching/tutoring/mentoring skills, you might…
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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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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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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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Changing Education Paradigms
Every educator, administrator, parent, professional should watch this. Great summary of our historical perspective, but, at the same time, giving perspective to what we do and should be doing. Now, it is up to us make the small shifts to change education. With you, Sir Ken Robinson:
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Lesson Plan – World Cup Finals Video
Everybody seems to be talking about soccer at this time of the year, and, we, educators, are always trying to find the most effective way to incorporate current news in our lesson plans. The World Cup will keep current for some more weeks, so let’s not miss the chance to use precious resources out there…
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e-Learning – Don’t do This to your Online Students
More and more I find myself looking for ways, activities, resources that will help me connect with my online students in meaningful ways. It’s always a challenge, but when you hit it, the results are extremely rewarding. When you get your students to respond to a challenging, extra activity, heaven. Just like in any classroom,…