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DFILM movies!
Just a reminder that DFILM is a great way to have students practice writing! Here's a particularly nice example:Whoopee! Big Success With Student Downloads!
It finally happened! A student with a Nokia phone with mp3 capability asked how he could save the mp3 files of me reading one of the stories to his phone so he could listen to them outside of the classroom! Here he is downloading the mp3 files from the class wiki to his phone!Visualize Student Writing (or any writing) Artistically Using Wordle!
Wordle is a clever new website (free)that lets you create artistic "word clouds" of any selected text or website. I'm not sure exactly how I'll use it in the ESL classroom but it's a lot of fun and beautiful too! Basically, you paste text or a URL into the site and it creates the word clouds automatically based on the frequency of the words appearing in the selected text. Here's one I madeEasily transfering and/or making large files accessible to yourself or others
On occasion, I've been blocked from sending Powerpoint presentations via email because they've been too large (file size) for either my email system or the recipient's email system to accommodate. I've had to chop them up into smaller pieces. I've just experimented with a free website that allows anyone to easily upload a file as large as 100MB for a specified period of time and receive a URLYou can always learn something new!
This past Friday, Paul Yung, a colleague in the Division of Adult and Career Education of LAUSD, co-presented with me in one of the monthly Technology Colloquium workshops that I organize and present. He presented techniques for using do-it-yourself multimedia for the first hour and I completed the session with simple ways to get your students to start using the Internet as part of the ESLBarry Bakin's Page
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- ESL Teacher Adviser, Division of Adult and Career Education, Los Angeles Unified School District and ESL Intermediate Low Teacher, Pacoima Skills Center
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- I have dual roles in the Division of Adult and Career Education: I'm an in-classroom teacher of ESL for adult immigrant students at Pacoima Skills Center, and I'm a teacher adviser at the division level in ESL programs. My main area of focus as a teacher adviser is training our division's ESL instructors in the use of and integration of technology in their teaching. In that role, I also collaborate with other teacher advisers in integrating technology into our ESL course outlines and other publications. Being a classroom teacher gives me the opportunity to experiment with the technologies that I learn about with my own students. For me, it's a perfect combination!
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Thank you very much for your interest. If you provide me with an e-mail, I would be glad to send you a full version free of charge.
It seems like the Random link in the teacher.pageflakes subdomain only links to other teacher.pageflake pages. That is a lot better than the regular pageflakes and something to consider.
Take care,
John
Have you seen http://teacher.pageflakes.com/? I think Pageflakes has fallen short of the goal. They have a custom set of flakes that are edu-centric when you open the control panel, but the browse flakes/pagecasts buttons are still available. I can't use that with students.
And you are right - the random pagecast link is still there. In other words, they haven't really done anything yet. Have you heard anything else?
I'm pulling myself out of that rut! Thanks a lot for checking in, though, I appreciate it...
Sorry for the delay in communication - it's been a crazy 1st half of the year! I love Pageflakes as a tool, but I think they have a small team over there. My conversations with them are always positive, but I find that it takes a very long time to execute on those conversations. Most of the things I've asked for haven't been delivered yet: removing the random link, removing the Browse all Flakes button, and customizing the list of flakes available to students. It's been disappointing because we had to put our plans of students using the service on hold. I'm still waiting patiently because I think Ole and his group will get it together. In the meantime, I am using it as a resource portal for teachers, parents, and students. Such a shame - it's so much more powerful than that.
I honestly can't remember how I added the dvolvr movie, but it must have been easy :-) I'll look at the source of the page and let you know.
I see that you teach ESL adult immigrant students. You might like my 6th Grades restaurant project on VoiceThread, this is one example (unfinished) once the kids finish their part, I will open it up for comments and then Language learners will be able to place virtual orders :-) http://voicethread.com/share/25589/
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Susan
I'll let you know as soon as I know more about the sub-domain. I got an email today from the folks at Pageflakes and they are working on it.
Thanks for the clock links!
Hans
It's great to meet you! I actually found your pagecast a few weeks ago. It was fun to find you here as well. I'm also new here, but it seems like a fantastic place to find support and inspiration. Welcome to Classroom 2.0!