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Online Virtual Classroom...Teaching a Multi Cultural International Online Class
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The Online Virtual English Class
Thousands of Koreans attend English Classes everyday trying to learn to speak a Language that is now deemed essential. All teachers of English in Korea are expected to be able to Speak English by 2010. Schools, Colleges, Universities and a myriad of tiny after-school centers pay enormous fees for native speaking teachers to become their Engl… Continue
Posted on January 6, 2009 at 6:17am —
Virtual MiniLife as aide to Teaching Conversational English
http://www.myminilife.com/neighborhoods/17946-active-mates
It started with Active Mates and a link where I could buy my friends. It looked fun so I did. This led me to My Mini Life and building houses for my friends to live in.
Suddenly I was part of a whole little Virtual World where people build little houses, and exchange visits and gifts, and get virtual money in points, by voting and participating.
Its a great way o… Continue
Posted on January 6, 2009 at 6:14am —
Online Virtual Classroom
http://Activeenglishspeaking.com
http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5553/print
On the advantages of virtual, text-based discussions:
"... In all my years of teaching classes, there are always some students in the class who are very hard to get to speak up. You can ask them a direct question, but basically, unless they are put on the spot, these students will not volunteer their own opinions in class, and I think that there are various reasons wh… Continue
http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5553/print
On the advantages of virtual, text-based discussions:
"... In all my years of teaching classes, there are always some students in the class who are very hard to get to speak up. You can ask them a direct question, but basically, unless they are put on the spot, these students will not volunteer their own opinions in class, and I think that there are various reasons wh… Continue
Posted on January 6, 2009 at 6:12am —
Content Based Learning: Improve Reading Using Newspapers
Content Based Learning Extends the Student to his Own Level
Content Based Learning has as its focus, Content, and provides the student a rich base of content for learning.
A base content is provided by the teacher, with the option for the student to extend beyond what the teacher and lesson provides. This allows the student who is capable and motivated, to work at his own level, and extend his learning to the level of his own capability.
Using a set textbook and working th… Continue
Content Based Learning has as its focus, Content, and provides the student a rich base of content for learning.
A base content is provided by the teacher, with the option for the student to extend beyond what the teacher and lesson provides. This allows the student who is capable and motivated, to work at his own level, and extend his learning to the level of his own capability.
Using a set textbook and working th… Continue
Posted on December 7, 2008 at 5:49pm —
Level 2 Research: Using Video for Voice
This Activity had students take a basic speaking activity...Topic: "What is fun?" based on a textbook activity Unit 10.
1.Teacher focused fun activities were listed on the board....
2.Students working in pairs, created their own 'Top 10" List of Fun Activities.
3.Next they discussed and shared their activities with other class members walking around the room and seeing who had the same activities.
4. Step 4 was the teacher bringing out e camera and asking students to have a short conve… Continue
1.Teacher focused fun activities were listed on the board....
2.Students working in pairs, created their own 'Top 10" List of Fun Activities.
3.Next they discussed and shared their activities with other class members walking around the room and seeing who had the same activities.
4. Step 4 was the teacher bringing out e camera and asking students to have a short conve… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2008 at 6:20pm —
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Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!
That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.
Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?
Thanks,
Jack
My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
Hey, you probably already know about his stuff, but, I have a blog on Edublogs, and so does Larry Ferlazzo, and ESL/ELL educator in California. Anyway, Larry has the most extensive Web 2.0 resources linked off his blog than any place I have ever seen. For what it's worth.
-Tim
You're most welcome.
Mark
If you read my Wiziq post on my page in classroom 2.0, I explain Wiziq.
But here are some other links that will help explain Wiziq more.
Wiziq's virtual classroom explanation
Wiziq's blog
You can teach English Language Learners online using Wiziq's virtual technology.
Learn English Online : Writing and Grammar by Nellie Deutsch
Get your own Virtual Classroom
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