"I have found a few more bugs in grou.ps (still in beta, still quite new), but, overall, I would agree that it does (or hopes to eventually do) at least as much as ning."
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Wikis in the Classroom
Started this discussion. Last reply by Shahrinaz Ismail May 11, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
A friend of mine just sent along a link to the Yale School of Art's new site, almost entirely student-generated through an open wiki platform. With the exception of certain "critical" information…Continue
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Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes
Started this discussion. Last reply by Nellie Makarova-Cross May 6, 2010. 8 Replies 0 Likes
I'm always looking for new ideas for foreign language classes, think the subject is pretty flexible, and am particularly interested in Web 2.0 possibilities. I've tried pen-pals, skyping, target…Continue
Ideas for Web 2.0 language lessons?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Marcia Tyrol May 7, 2010. 5 Replies 0 Likes
A group of us is compiling a good list of activities for language students to perform online as homework, extra credit, etc. The lessons/tasks are usually things like researching information on…Continue
Program Ideas for more Interactive Language Teaching 2.0
Started this discussion. Last reply by Juan Pablo Velez Barragan Apr 22, 2010. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello All, I'm a foreign language teacher and have recently begun experimenting with online interactive community resources in my curricula. So far, I've had some great successes pairing students…Continue
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Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Peter Lane's discussion What do you know about the site GROU.PS?Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Brad Flickinger's discussion Teaching with iPads"For teaching purposes, do you think there is a significant benefit over an IPod touch? Do you find that the "one application at a time" feature keeps students focused, or hinders multi-media work and multitasking?"
Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Cameron Foster's discussion Why I'm leaving Ning"that being said, grou.ps is still in beta. any chance of substantive changes (in either usability or pricing)? thoughts?"
Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Cameron Foster's discussion Why I'm leaving Ning"just took a look at grou.ps (the site recommended by Cameron...thank you very much) and it looks great.
in the registration, there seems to be an option to "migrate a ning network". I'm not sure exactly what that means (content?…"
"I have some experience using wiki for classroom management. I've been adopting this since last semester (Jan 2010), and this is the second sem I'm using wiki. I create 1 wiki for each subject/class, depending on the needs for…"
Juan Pablo Velez Barragan posted a discussionWikis in the Classroom
A friend of mine just sent along a link to the Yale School of Art's new site, almost entirely student-generated through an open wiki platform. With the exception of certain "critical" information like info for applicants, students all have a password and can change text and image files throughout the site:http://art.yale.edu/HomeI've checked back a few times and, based on the number of changes every couple of hours, the students are fairly excited. Now,…See More
Marcia Tyrol replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Ideas for Web 2.0 language lessons?"Try ePals. I searched by country under the Collaboration tab and went to Spain. Then I searched using the key word Basque and I found several teachers who want to set up collaborations.
I found ePals to be a bit cumbersome in the past, but now many…"
Nellie Makarova-Cross replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"Hi, Tim . Teachers use voicethread, Skype and epals for this reason http://edupln.ning.com/forum/topics/looking-for-international
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Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Ideas for Web 2.0 language lessons?"i like the idea of real-world interaction (or as close as possible online), but how can we get it to work for students who don't have access to native speakers of the target language?
I, for instance, started teaching Basque this semester and,…"
Tim Musgrave replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"I think that's where you'd fall down Juan, getting native speakers interested.
You could set them up in an environment like this where all the teachers would respond... ???
Student writes a message on the noticeboard, someone english or…"
Juan Pablo Velez Barragan replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"I like Twitter as an educational tool. Unfortunately, for foreign language, the tweets themselves so often have abbreviations (140 character limit), that I'm not sure how useful it is (more for following links).
Tim, I really like the idea of…"
Cameron Foster replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Ideas for Web 2.0 language lessons?"have you seen lingt?"
Cameron Foster replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"We used a digital video camera - but I don't think it would have mattered. In terms of learning outcomes and outputs, I thought it was great. I actually didn't 'teach' at all. The kids had to go to the new unit we were about to…"
Tim Musgrave replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"Great idea... did you use a camcorder or a webcam?"
Cameron Foster replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Fun Ideas for Foreign Language Classes"This is a low-tech, high-tech exercise I used:
I had my year 8 students make videos explaining grammar points for another year 8 class and vice-versa."
Tim Musgrave replied to Juan Pablo Velez Barragan's discussion Ideas for Web 2.0 language lessons?"I've been thinking about using google streetmap with the students... start them off in one location and give them directions to another... you could set the area in an interesting location where there's lots of language used on road signs,…"
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- At 6:16pm on April 23, 2010,
Box Ruiz said… - Gracias por agregarme Pablo. Seguimos en contacto de Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
- At 7:59am on April 23, 2010,
julio aviles romero said… - Estimado Juan Pablo
Gracias por la invitacion y espero que podamos trabajar algun proyecto juntos. Saludos desde Mexicali, Mexico
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