Ddeubel's Posts - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T12:06:40Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubelhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1949894128?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=ddeubel&xn_auth=noMovies and Philosophies of Educationtag:www.classroom20.com,2011-10-27:649749:BlogPost:7665032011-10-27T19:38:54.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
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I've written lots about philosophies of education. How important they are to develop and sustain. A lot of what is "stress" in today's teaching world, derives from teachers working in settings that conflict with their own underlying philosophy of education - often, the teacher not really even knowing that this conflict…
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I've written lots about philosophies of education. How important they are to develop and sustain. A lot of what is "stress" in today's teaching world, derives from teachers working in settings that conflict with their own underlying philosophy of education - often, the teacher not really even knowing that this conflict exists!<br/>
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I'm teaching philosophy of education with my students and one thing I had them do was to watch some film clips and try and match the "stylized Hollywood teacher" with a particular teaching philosophy. A great activity and I offer a simplified version here, to challenge you.<br/>
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There are many labels and "types" of educational philosophies. Here are 5 main ones.<br/>
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<a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/philosophy-1ue85c0.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3779 align-center" title="philosophy" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/philosophy-1ue85c0-300x158.png" width="300" height="158"/></a><br/>
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The challenge is - view the film clips below and match them to the philosophy of education. The films clips are from: <strong>Dead Poet's Society | Stand and Deliver | Dangerous Minds | School of Rock | The Emperor's Club .</strong> Match them to the correct Philosophy of Education: <strong>Perennialism | Essentialism | Progressivism | Existentialism | Social Reconstructivism<br/>
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Put your answers as a comment and I'll be awarding a free copy of my Teach | Learn techbook to all who get it right... Good luck! [<em>click to go to the film clip</em>]<br/>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKqT57N9Y3Y&feature=related" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3781" title="Phil3" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/Phil3-2emg7h6-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtmGcdSDAI" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3782" title="Phil4" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/Phil4-1b99qn5-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTgGR6_1ps" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3783" title="phil2" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/phil2-19pr5ft-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws5is2gjuW4&feature=related" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3784" title="phil1" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/phil1-qqrll3-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150"/></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yGsweX6eA" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3785" title="Phil5" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/10/Phil5-1ece063-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150"/></a>Extensive Watching (move over books!)tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-09-17:649749:BlogPost:7477262011-09-17T13:58:05.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p><a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/extensive-watching-1fvbv13.jpg"><img align="right" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3562" height="300" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/extensive-watching-1fvbv13-196x300.jpg" title="extensive watching" width="196"></img></a> The last few years, I've been very focused on the role and possibility of video in the classroom. Thus, my recent work developing <a href="http://www.englishcentral.com" target="_blank">EnglishCentral</a> and my focus on the potential of a "<a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/08/02/the-flipped-curriculum-conference-repeat/">Flipped Classroom</a>".</p>
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<p>I had an interesting skype…</p>
<p><a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/extensive-watching-1fvbv13.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3562" title="extensive watching" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/extensive-watching-1fvbv13-196x300.jpg" align="right" width="196" height="300"/></a> The last few years, I've been very focused on the role and possibility of video in the classroom. Thus, my recent work developing <a href="http://www.englishcentral.com" target="_blank">EnglishCentral</a> and my focus on the potential of a "<a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/08/02/the-flipped-curriculum-conference-repeat/">Flipped Classroom</a>".</p>
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<p>I had an interesting skype discussion with Dan Sorianno (@danhummsoriano ) at the BC in Mexico City. He's thinking of adopting a Flipped Classroom model as an experiment. During our discussion I returned to a term I've used over the years, "<strong>Extensive Watching</strong>". I'd like to outline this important concept for language learning here and get your own feedback, opinion, thoughts.</p>
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<p>I'm a big fan of extensive reading. It works. If done properly, it allows students to acquire a lot of fluency quickly (so long as equal attention is paid to speaking). However, the rub these days is that many students don't want to nor like reading. It's just a fact that I've run across time and time again in the classroom. I think it has to do with</p>
<p><strong>a)</strong> <em>Visuality</em> being an ever present force and medium now - through the internet, TV, film etc...</p>
<p><strong>b)</strong> <em>Communication.</em> Youth are so connected, never alone and a book entails the place and discipline to be alone with self. Today's youth want shared experience, a social experience. A book is in their head, the images in their head - something is never shared. A film / video has an objective visual reference and is more shared/social.</p>
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<p>As <a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/06/22/the-video-teaching-revolution/" target="_blank">I've outlined before</a>, the Gutenburg Galaxy is waining. The role of text is taking a back up role to the cool medium that is the visual realm. This entails a change on the part of teachers. We should now update Day and Bamford's classic and call it "<strong>Extensive Watching</strong>". I took down the book from my self and revisited it. It can simply be re-written for this new media focus. </p>
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<p><a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/videobook-2hxteif.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3564" title="videobook" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2011/09/videobook-2hxteif-300x210.jpg" align="left" width="300" height="210"/></a>Students "watch" at their own level and through this massive watching of video with language in context, can, do, will achieve rapid language acquisition. That's where EnglishCentral is coming from but it could be any source of video that is at the appropriate level for the student and contains motivating, interesting content.</p>
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<p>I looked at <a href="http://extensivereading.net/docs/ERChar.html" target="_blank">pages 7-8</a> of the book, "The Characteristics of Extensive Reading". I hereby end and hand the torch to Extensive Watching by rewriting this to outline the characteristics of extensive watching (and in a future post, I'll outline the differences, however obvious, with the "extensive listening" approach).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Characteristics of Extensive Watching</strong></p>
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<p><strong>1.</strong> Students WATCH as much as possible. (preferably outside of the classroom - following the flipped model of the language classroom)</p>
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<p><strong>2.</strong> A variety of videos/film is available in a variety of genres and topics so as to encourage watching for different reasons and in different ways.</p>
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<p><strong>3.</strong> Students select what they want to watch and have the freedom to stop watching when the video fails to interest them.</p>
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<p><strong>4.</strong> The purposes of watching are related to pleasure, information and general understanding. The purposes are determined by the nature of the videos and the interests of the students.</p>
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<p><strong>5.</strong> Watching is its own reward. There are few exercises after watching and only for quickly reinforcing the material.</p>
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<p><strong>6.</strong> The videos are well within the linguistic competence (level) of the student. Video gives context and allows for a "wider" leveling. Dictionaries are used after the viewing and rarely during the watching of the video.</p>
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<p><strong>7</strong>. Watching is both shared and individual. Videos if possible, to be discussed and used as scaffolding material into purposeful communication and speaking practice.</p>
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<p><strong>8.</strong> Watching speed is at the natural rate of the media's speakers. Whole watching is the recommended practice rather than stopping and reviewing video.</p>
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<p><strong>9.</strong> Teacher's orient students to the goals of the program (communicate the rationale), explain the methodology (how to) and track what students watch, and guide students to get the most out of the program.</p>
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<p><strong>10.</strong> The teacher is a role model and watcher. They participate and watch what students watch. The extensive watching classroom is a place of equality and a decreased power dynamic between teacher and learner.</p>EnglishCentral - a new versiontag:www.classroom20.com,2011-08-14:649749:BlogPost:7106022011-08-14T19:00:00.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p>We've cleaned up things and have started a vocabulary tracking focus. Use youtube videos and increase your word power! Lots more features to help in ESL, literacy, vocabulary building and public speaking. Learn more about the changes<a href="http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blogs/englishcentral-what-s-coming" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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<p>We've cleaned up things and have started a vocabulary tracking focus. Use youtube videos and increase your word power! Lots more features to help in ESL, literacy, vocabulary building and public speaking. Learn more about the changes<a target="_blank" href="http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blogs/englishcentral-what-s-coming">here.</a></p>
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</p>EnglishCentral - what's coming...tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-07-23:649749:BlogPost:6860892011-07-23T15:17:32.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974062155?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974062155?profile=original" width="188"></img></a> As an "insider", I'm privy to a little of what is going on at <a href="http://www.englishcentral.com" target="_blank">EnglishCentral.</a> The team has really been working overtime and coming up with some fantastic changes that will be in a new release. </p>
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<p><strong>Here's my insider's sneak preview! </strong></p>
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<p>I hope you like the new look and…</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974062155?profile=original"><img class="align-right" width="188" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974062155?profile=original"/></a>As an "insider", I'm privy to a little of what is going on at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.englishcentral.com">EnglishCentral.</a> The team has really been working overtime and coming up with some fantastic changes that will be in a new release. </p>
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<p><strong>Here's my insider's sneak preview! </strong></p>
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<p>I hope you like the new look and changes. EnglishCentral can be used for learning/teaching English, public speaking, literacy and more ..... <br/>
Please comment and let us know your thoughts about this or other things you think EnglishCentral should do. This summer we are working overtime to prepare for September and the school year. Working overtime to get EnglishCentral teacher ready. </p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Important Changes</span></p>
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<p><strong> 1. The player will give students "fluency" feedback as well as that on pronunciation.</strong> Meaning, your students will also get scored at their ability to match the length of utterance and pause of the original video. If they don't say the word(s) at the correct time, a pause icon will show and indicate this. This is one step towards building a complete prosodic model by which to assess student speech. (forthcoming - tone/pitch/stress/power).</p>
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<p><br/> <strong>2. A simplified interface.</strong> Take a look - every page is less busy and easier to use and find what you need. In WATCH, simply click the sidebar and go any category. Drop down menus take you to the videos you want, instantly.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974064175?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="662" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974064175?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="662" class="align-center"/></a><br/> <strong>3. Unified Difficulty Level.</strong> Meaning, you'll self select your level based on internationally recognized standards or the EC levels. When you use EnglishCentral, you'll only get videos and vocabulary at your preselected levels. We'll track your progress as you climb through the levels. Level 7 is the vocabulary beyond 8,000+ words and represents an addition 25,000 words of study!<br/>
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Tomorrow, I'll detail some more delicious changes you'll love!<br/>
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Note one thing. The teacher tools will remain the same BUT they will get an overhaul later this summer. They'll be sleak, easy and work like a charm. We are working overtime on them!Websites for Practice Speaking Englishtag:www.classroom20.com,2011-05-27:649749:BlogPost:6400102011-05-27T01:00:00.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<center>Full Screen <a href="http://present.me/presi/view/421-using-technology-for-english-speaking-practice" target="_blank">HERE</a></center>
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I recorded my talk at the recent <a href="http://www.koreatesol.org/2011NatCon">KOTESOL National Conference</a> - Getting Students Speaking: Harnessing the Power of New Technologies.…
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I recorded my talk at the recent <a href="http://www.koreatesol.org/2011NatCon">KOTESOL National Conference</a> - Getting Students Speaking: Harnessing the Power of New Technologies. <br/>
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It's a pretty comprehensive overview of online tools and technologies. <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/TESOL/speaking.swf">Here's the presentation of only the websites</a> (click the images to go to that website). <br/>
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Thanks to Aaron and all the hard working Kotesol organizers for really pushing the envelope by skyping me in and starting to use this type of professional development!Two Tech Tips for Language practicetag:www.classroom20.com,2011-01-02:649749:BlogPost:5790712011-01-02T14:37:49.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
Today, two quick tips of two very innovative and adaptable tools. <a href="http://cueprompter.com" target="_blank">The Cue Prompter</a> and <a href="http://transl8it.com" target="_blank">Transl8it.com.</a> Listen/Watch as I show you them and suggest some uses. Get the dialogues mentioned…
Today, two quick tips of two very innovative and adaptable tools. <a href="http://cueprompter.com" target="_blank">The Cue Prompter</a> and <a href="http://transl8it.com" target="_blank">Transl8it.com.</a> Listen/Watch as I show you them and suggest some uses. Get the dialogues mentioned <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topics/transl8itcom-games-the" target="_self">HERE.</a><br/>
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<img align="right" alt="encouragement" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1752" height="300" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/encouragement-17qi5gl-225x300.jpg" title="encouragement" width="225"></img> I just came home from the movies. In the film I saw (The Kids Are Alright), one character when asked why he dropped out of school says, "I just thought it was a big waste of money for something I could learn myself, from a book."<br></br>
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This was something I had realized early, sitting in the town library one "PD" or professional development day, years ago in grade 8. I was flipping through a National Geographic and chanced upon an article about Jane Goodall. I was stoked, we had…
<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1752" align="right" title="encouragement" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/encouragement-17qi5gl-225x300.jpg" alt="encouragement" width="225" height="300"/>I just came home from the movies. In the film I saw (The Kids Are Alright), one character when asked why he dropped out of school says, "I just thought it was a big waste of money for something I could learn myself, from a book."<br/>
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This was something I had realized early, sitting in the town library one "PD" or professional development day, years ago in grade 8. I was flipping through a National Geographic and chanced upon an article about Jane Goodall. I was stoked, we had been talking about chimpanzees in class! I started reading and wondered why we'd learnt none of this in class! OMG! And then it dawned on me - I could learn from a book. School was for sports and girls but really ineffective when it came to learning.<br/>
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As the years went on, I realized more. That actually I had been wrong. Not that school wasn't a more effective way "to learn". No. I understood that a book really wasn't as perfect a tool of learning. For the cerebral and imaginative - a book was great. But for show and tell, for constructive learning, participation, modeling - it was a dud. You couldn't learn how to build anything from Popular Mechanics, you'd only learn how to talk about it, write about it and comment on it. Books weren't a replacement for teachers or schooling. There was still a need for teachers and people in the learning equation.<br/>
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Now, (and isn't it ironic, me a 20 year in, teacher), I'm not so sure. I think we don't need teachers. Nor schools. Now before you go further, take a deep breath and allow me to explain, explain how I've become such a heretic. I'll keep it short, I promise.<br/>
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After hearing the line the film, it dawned on me that it should be updated to, "I just thought it was a big waste of money for something I could learn online". The internet has allowed us, the amateur, to prosper. We can teach each other but more importantly we can show, demonstrate and learn not only in a "reading" way but also in a "real" way. Teachers are everywhere online - they are the mailmen, the musicians, on video, on screencasts. They are you and me.<br/>
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Even more important is the notion of authority. School has survived because of authority. In a way, it is kind of like a prison sentence. You have little say over it, you MUST and there is so little opportunity for rehabilitation or reform. It is a process that you have to undertake in order to be part of society. You are punished if you don't. It is <a href="http://www.publicpolicyblogger.com/2010/10/education-reform-journalintroduction.html">mass social programming</a>, dollar driven, even more so today. So school and education continues with only polite postering about reform and change. It is self perpetuating. No wonder that the calls for radical reform of education of the 60's are still so relevant, loud and true.<br/>
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I'm a student of the enlightenment and believe that learning is liberating and beneficial to all humanity. Illuminating, labitur lux, it lets the light in. It benefits us all and all the splendors around us come from ideas and education. However, everything has its time and place. Schools too, <a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm">designed as mass market assembly lines, disseminating discrete, memorizable bits of public knowledge</a> are long useless and defunct. If mankind is to develop, we must go from the public realm and into the private - from the liberation of the mass to the liberation of the self.<br/>
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Mark Twain said, "don't let your schooling get in the way of your education." So true. But if you think about his words, you also can gather the notion that we shouldn't throw away schooling. He doesn't say that, nor I think believed it. School is great and necessary. I wouldn't have given my best years to a classroom, if I hadn't believed so. But we should take the teacher out of the school and make school a place of learning not teaching or being taught. Teachers should become mentors, motivators, encouragers, friends, councillors, anything but what they are at present. Students should get help, not be told what nor how to learn. They can figure it out, evolution tells us so.<br/>
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In the weeks to follow, I hope to elaborate on these few late night thoughts I've laid out. Lots about "Superman" and the snake oil salesmen in the education business. Lots more about self-learning and the possibilities of technology as a liberating force. Stay tuned.<br/>
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I also highly recommend Andrew Finch's <a href="http://www.finchpark.com/arts/teachers.pdf" target="_blank">"Teachers, Who Needs Them".</a> It's a good read from a good man.<br/>
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A couple quotes on the tip of my brain to end.<br/>
<p style="text-align: center;">Learning is not a spectator sport. ( why do we make it so with our schools?)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers</p>
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It has now been a year since I first started the #1 series. A catalog of what I believe is important in teaching and particularly ELT. See it below, share, download. <br></br><br></br>Here it is faithfully edited, updated and relinked, facelifted. Lots of stuff that might remain as important reference.
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<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974058269?profile=original">Download a hardcopy to print</a>, carry around, use as toilet paper and win paper airplane contests…
It has now been a year since I first started the #1 series. A catalog of what I believe is important in teaching and particularly ELT. See it below, share, download. <br/><br/>Here it is faithfully edited, updated and relinked, facelifted. Lots of stuff that might remain as important reference.
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<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974058269?profile=original">Download a hardcopy to print</a>, carry around, use as toilet paper and win paper airplane contests with. Most importantly, print and give to your colleagues, spread the inspiration. <br/><br/>Let me know what you think. Should I continue? Which one has helped you or which one do you love best? Let's talk! Diga me!<br/>
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</center>New eteaching rooms - what do you use/think?tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-09-23:649749:BlogPost:5117552010-09-23T12:00:00.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="left" alt="eteach" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1608" height="167" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/09/eteach.jpg" title="eteach" width="200"></img> This next year, I'll be setting up my own eTeaching system and doing online teacher training. Mostly out of interest and to see if I can do it. As part of that process, I'm presently setting up my own audio/video eteaching suite. And since I'm doing it for myself, I thought, "why not do it for everyone?". Technology has that benefit, once you do it for yourself, it costs little to share it.<br></br>
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So, I'd like to ask what you are looking for in an eteaching system. You know, I've…
<img src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/09/eteach.jpg" alt="eteach" title="eteach" width="200" height="167" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1608" align="left"/>This next year, I'll be setting up my own eTeaching system and doing online teacher training. Mostly out of interest and to see if I can do it. As part of that process, I'm presently setting up my own audio/video eteaching suite. And since I'm doing it for myself, I thought, "why not do it for everyone?". Technology has that benefit, once you do it for yourself, it costs little to share it.<br/>
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So, I'd like to ask what you are looking for in an eteaching system. You know, I've tried them all. From basic skype to edufire, to dimdim, to wiziq to elluminate to scribblar to ...... They all have their limitations concerning privacy, cost, set up, and user experience. Most of all, reliability. They don't work as well or as sure as they should. I think teachers should have something that works - so I'm setting out on my own.<br/>
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I'll be making available on Saturday. Use and make as many rooms as you want and test drive for 3 weeks. After that, deciding on a pricing plan. <a href="http://poll.pollcode.com/b2s9">Vote here. .</a> How much would you pay? Best technology and it rivals adobe connectnow or HP rooms at a fraction of the cost. So my question, how much would you pay for a video conferencing eteaching room that:<br/>
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1) can hold up to 100 students<br/>
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3) audio/video capability of the highest clarity and response<br/>
4) full whiteboard capability<br/>
5) chat and private ongoing chat<br/>
6) simplicity - no sign up, no installs. Click and use.<br/>
7) make multiple rooms for each of your classes with a click.<br/>
8. fully secure and private, encrypted data transmission.<br/>
9. desktop sharing that is quick and doesn't drag.<br/>
10. full moderation and control of users.<br/>
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Any comments about your experiences appreciated. Stay tuned. All in the name of affordable education.<br/>
<br/><img alt="What it will look like" src="http://bigbluebutton.org/sites/default/files/images/overview.png" width="440" height="270"/>[/caption]Can you help Zacharia get an education?tag:www.classroom20.com,2010-09-06:649749:BlogPost:5055282010-09-06T09:45:45.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="right" alt="Holding-hands" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1366" height="213" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/09/Holding-hands-300x213.jpg" style="text-align: center;" title="Holding-hands" width="300"></img> Over the last several months, I've been corresponding with Mike Marzio, the wonderful engineer behind <a href="http://real-english.com">Real-English videos</a>. Corresponding about a campaign to raise funds for Zacharia, a poor, bright spirited deaf man in Kenya. <br></br>
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We wondered how to go about it. Would others respond? Fortunately, Mike has the resolve and has got things organized, including <a href="http://zachs-fundraiser.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">a website</a> where…
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We wondered how to go about it. Would others respond? Fortunately, Mike has the resolve and has got things organized, including <a href="http://zachs-fundraiser.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">a website</a> where you can find out lots about Zacharia and his needs/life. <br/>
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I really do think that one of the most powerful things about "technology" is not all the gadgetry and wizardry and pyrotechnics. What is so amazing is how we can "come together" as Lennon might have sang. Contrary to the luddites who shout how it makes people become lonely, self absorbed souls - it makes the world a smaller, more understanding place. I truly believe that. With a click of a button or a lift of a switch - we can be across the ocean and connect with the whole realm of humanity. <br/>
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And with this amazing ability comes responsibility. To do what you can, to help who you can. We have this opportunity and I hope readers who get so much from my blog, will think about helping Zach, helping with the gift of education. It's not about the money but about the love. <br/>
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Listen to Mike and then Zach as he tells his story. Chip in, pass it on and help in that way too. I really think it would be great if classrooms could get involved and help Zach. He is real, I am real. He needs help and your students would benefit from learning about how hard it is to be both poor, dirt poor and disabled - when you have a heart of gold. <br/>
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</center>TEFList - a new way to find an English teaching jobtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-09-02:649749:BlogPost:5039432010-09-02T10:00:00.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="right" src="http://eflclassroom.com/teflist/logo.png"></img> Well, it is finally here! <a href="http://teflist.com">TEFList, the video ELT job site</a>. A l<img class="htmlbox-toolbar button-image" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/index/gfx/x.gif"></img> ot of work went into it and it really does some amazing things. Ning is charging us through the nose and I hope any revenue provided by TEFList will help our community survive. <br></br><br></br><span style="font-weight: bold;">1)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">All the jobs in ELT in one spot (no being a chicken with your head cut off)…</span><br></br>
<img src="http://eflclassroom.com/teflist/logo.png" align="right"/>Well, it is finally here! <a href="http://teflist.com">TEFList, the video ELT job site</a>. A l<img class="htmlbox-toolbar button-image" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/index/gfx/x.gif"/>ot of work went into it and it really does some amazing things. Ning is charging us through the nose and I hope any revenue provided by TEFList will help our community survive. <br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">1)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">All the jobs in ELT in one spot (no being a chicken with your head cut off)</span><br/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">2) Permanent resume/employer pages you can personalize and share but shut off when finished job searching</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">3) Video resume upload or embed. Show off your talents.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">4) Lots of other things: internal email with employers, job info. directory, resources, AMAZING search capability etc...</span><br/><br/>I hope that it will help us raise money to support <a href="http://eflclassroom.com">EFL Classroom 2.0</a> and please be so kind as to spread the news about it. A great way to help keep us going here - that's part of my strategy - let the schools pay! <br/><br/>I'll be formally open it in our Sept. newsletter and then emailing my database of 25,000 employers, the first week of Sept. then it should get busy. <br/><br/>For now, please browse, take a look and report back what you think. Look forward to the honest opinion of our members and the first month my developers and I will be working out the wrinkles. <br/><br/>Cheers, <br/><br/>David <br/> <br/>
Here's the first of many screencasts on basic use of TEFList.<br/>
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</center>Zen and the Act of Publishing a Booktag:www.classroom20.com,2010-08-17:649749:BlogPost:4980462010-08-17T01:33:40.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
Jeremy Harmer made a comment in defense of big publishers the other day. He said, "<em>the cost of producing a book is horrendous these days, the investment staggeringly high</em>."<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/zen-and-the-act-of-teaching/12208303"><img align="right" alt="Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu." border="0" src="http://www.lulu.com/services/buy_now_buttons/images/book.gif"></img></a> I took that as a challenge so within 8 hours I CREATED and PUBLISHED a book. Not some frothy, blablabla book but something substantial and which practicing teachers or teacher training programs can use. This book and…
Jeremy Harmer made a comment in defense of big publishers the other day. He said, "<em>the cost of producing a book is horrendous these days, the investment staggeringly high</em>."<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/zen-and-the-act-of-teaching/12208303"><img src="http://www.lulu.com/services/buy_now_buttons/images/book.gif" align="right" border="0" alt="Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu."/></a> I took that as a challenge so within 8 hours I CREATED and PUBLISHED a book. Not some frothy, blablabla book but something substantial and which practicing teachers or teacher training programs can use. This book and wisdom came from my own experience using reflective writing in my teacher training courses.<br />
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Later this week in a detailed post, I will describe the steps I took to both publish AND market this book. I think it will be highly beneficial to all - writers or even those who might still be only thinking about it, "one day".<br />
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Admittedly, I have a sound tech background and so could do all this quicker than the regular Joe - however, it isn't difficult and the costs and investment AREN'T staggering - unless you want to justify your billion dollars in profits (after expenses / before taxes - <a href="http://www.pearson.com/investor/ar2009/strategy.html">Pearson's 2009 financial statement</a>).<br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/zen-and-the-act-of-teaching/9230548">Get the book on Lulu to order or download.</a> (and be so kind as to write a review/comment!)<br />
Also, everyone who is supportive enough towhatever amount to EFL Classroom 2.0 to cover our rising costs (from Ning, another profit hungry bemoth), will get it free. The license is <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons and Sharealike</a>. Meaning, once you get it - do whatever you want with it and copy, spread around as much as you like! Teacher trainers, you can contact me on <a href="http://eflclassroom.com">EFL Classroom</a> or here and get <a href="http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/eflclassroom-472605-zen-and-the-act-of-teaching/">the powerpoint</a> for instructional purposes.<br />
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<a href="http://eflclassroom.com/flash/blogcarnival.swf" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="ferris_wheel" height="200" src="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/07/ferris_wheel.jpg" width="248"></img></a> <a href="http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2010/07/30/18th-blog-carnival-a-real-carnival/">This blog carnival</a> is <strong>REALLY</strong> a carnival! <span style="font-weight: bold;">You'll</span> experience a lot of fun and learning. <br></br><br></br>Many thanks to all those in the wider ELT community for participating and good luck riding the ferris wheel!…
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I really enjoyed Charles Leadbeater's - <a href="http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/orange-buttons/we-think.aspx">"We-Think"</a> (see the cool video clip of its premise <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo">HERE</a>). He really hit the nail on the head when it came to how the world was changing due to communicative technologies, Web 2.0 and the rise of the "amateur" and mass participation in innovation/ideas.<br />
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Today, watched for a second…
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I really enjoyed Charles Leadbeater's - <a href="http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/orange-buttons/we-think.aspx">"We-Think"</a> (see the cool video clip of its premise <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo">HERE</a>). He really hit the nail on the head when it came to how the world was changing due to communicative technologies, Web 2.0 and the rise of the "amateur" and mass participation in innovation/ideas.<br />
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Today, watched for a second time, his Ted talk. He tackles education this time, how education will be transformed in the future (and specifically where). He does a good job and of course we all love his accent! However, I was a little put off.<br />
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There have been many others long before he got on the stage, championing a future of education that is more leveled, participatory and learner driven. He acknowledges some of them but not enough for me. I guess that is how it goes. The dedicated do the leg work and then the well funded and fueled come along and scoop up the accolades (I'm thinking of others, like Seth Godin for example).<br />
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Here's <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/flash/newlearningfull.swf">my own manifesto</a> from a few years back....<br />
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Still, he does the championing well and I urge everyone involved in education to think about these issues. Here are the important ideas as I see them;<br />
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<strong>*</strong> the school is defunct and an outdated concept<br />
<strong>*</strong> the future delivery tool for knowledge will be some form of the cell phone<br />
<strong>*</strong> education can be brought to people, on demand.<br />
<strong>*</strong> students need to be "attracted" (he says "pulled") and not pushed. Otherwise it is useless.<br />
<strong>*</strong> technology disperses knowledge, knowledge becomes "cheap". It brings learning to the people.<br />
<strong>*</strong> education is about engagement. Inquiry based curriculum is the future and we should, "teaching through".<br />
<strong>*</strong> technology allows learning without a teacher. Peer and shared learning/cooperative learning evolve.<br />
<strong>*</strong> learning needs to be practical and productive (not about the neck up only)<br />
<strong>*</strong> education will be scaled down and small but everywhere.<br />
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In any case, glad he's realizing these things and speaking to others, awakening! What do you think?Technology and Teaching Languagestag:www.classroom20.com,2010-07-12:649749:BlogPost:4874162010-07-12T03:05:07.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
My thoughts on how technology is part of the curriculum for language teachers. You might also like my <a href="http://issuu.com/eflclassroom/docs/best_teacher_student_sites?viewMode=presentation">ebook of top sites for language teaching</a><br></br><br></br>Here is a presentation in brief - focusing on how technology relates to curriculum. Some tips, some thoughts .......…<br></br><br></br><br></br>
My thoughts on how technology is part of the curriculum for language teachers. You might also like my <a href="http://issuu.com/eflclassroom/docs/best_teacher_student_sites?viewMode=presentation">ebook of top sites for language teaching</a><br/><br/>Here is a presentation in brief - focusing on how technology relates to curriculum. Some tips, some thoughts .......<br/><br/><br/>
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</center>18th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog carnivaltag:www.classroom20.com,2010-07-05:649749:BlogPost:4847632010-07-05T21:00:00.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="right" src="http://eflclassroom.com/images/blogcarnival.jpg" width="155"></img> The <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/newsletter/july.html">EFL Classroom 2.0 newslette</a>r is public and find information about the forthcoming 18th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival we will host August 1st.<div><br></br></div>
<div>You can visit the last blog carnival <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/06/a_qa_english-learning_blog_car.html">HERE</a>. Submit your entry in our handy…</div>
<img src="http://eflclassroom.com/images/blogcarnival.jpg" align="right" width="155"/>The <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/newsletter/july.html">EFL Classroom 2.0 newslette</a>r is public and find information about the forthcoming 18th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnival we will host August 1st.<div><br/></div>
<div>You can visit the last blog carnival <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2010/06/a_qa_english-learning_blog_car.html">HERE</a>. Submit your entry in our handy <a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=educatorblog.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogcarnival.com%2Fbc%2Fsubmit_2452.html&sref=http%3A%2F%2Feducatorblog.wordpress.com%2F">Blog Carnival Submission Form.</a></div>
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DavidMeeGenius - text to speech for readingtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-07-05:649749:BlogPost:4847412010-07-05T20:39:13.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="right" alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974057262?profile=original"></img> I really believe in the power of ebooks with audio, the power of text to speech technology, to help our students learn. You'll find loads of that on <a href="http://eflclassroom.com">EFL Classroom 2.0</a>. Thus, my constant promotion of TTS- through <a href="http://englishcentral.com">English Central</a>, the <a href="http://tarheelreader.org">Tarheel Reader</a>, C<a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/Wpage/page/show?id=826870%3APage%3A65362">hatterbots</a> and all sorts of other…
<img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974057262?profile=original" alt="" align="right"/>I really believe in the power of ebooks with audio, the power of text to speech technology, to help our students learn. You'll find loads of that on <a href="http://eflclassroom.com">EFL Classroom 2.0</a>. Thus, my constant promotion of TTS- through <a href="http://englishcentral.com">English Central</a>, the <a href="http://tarheelreader.org">Tarheel Reader</a>, C<a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/Wpage/page/show?id=826870%3APage%3A65362">hatterbots</a> and all sorts of other tools like <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/powertalk/PowerTalk-1.2.11.exe?download">Powertalk</a>, <a href="http://www.bellcraft.com/deskbot/">Deskbot</a> and <a href="http://www.ispeech.org/">iSpeech</a>. So I'm happy to introduce the small, new, but growing <a href="http://meegenius.com">MeeGenius site.</a> <br/><br/>On MeeGenius, you can read books with text to speech support. They are mostly for young learners and mostly, the classics. Fairy Tales, folktales etc.... The voices are terrific and best, the text is highlighted as the words are read. Perfect for children to follow along and gain specific phonemic awareness and reading skills. Try this, <a href="http://www.meegenius.com/book/3">"The Princess and the Pea."</a><br/><br/>But here is what I LOVE about Mee Genius. You can adapt the books, personalize the books!!!!! <br/><br/>Personalization offers huge, attractive benefits and it is simple. You just click "Personalize" instead of "read" and then add the names of the characters you want. So for example, you can use the names of your students and really make learning, storytelling fun and personal. Amazing! The only wrinkle is that you have to register to personalize the books and to my knowledge, they haven't added voice to the personalized books yet....<br/><br/>Try it out and let us know what you think....<br/><br/><br/>A Classroom's Hierarchy of Needstag:www.classroom20.com,2010-04-13:649749:BlogPost:4619592010-04-13T00:36:31.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">A Classroom’s Hierarchy Of Needs</span><br></br><br></br><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974057403?profile=RESIZE_320x320" style="float: left;" width="300"></img> I just got home after a morning of observing two classrooms. One was wonderful, a place that all students would long to be in. One was dreadful, a place that students would only just barely tolerate and where one student actually said, when asked to make a metaphor using the word school, “School is jail”.<br></br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">A Classroom’s Hierarchy Of Needs</span><br/><br/><img width="300" style="float: left;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974057403?profile=RESIZE_320x320"/>I just got home after a morning of observing two classrooms. One was wonderful, a place that all students would long to be in. One was dreadful, a place that students would only just barely tolerate and where one student actually said, when asked to make a metaphor using the word school, “School is jail”.<br/>
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What made them different? On the face of it they were both nice looking places. The teachers both looked “teacherly”. Everything seemed to transpire as teaching should. Objectives were noted, tasks were given, worksheets completed, reviews completed. Still, I was left with this stark difference. From where did the light shine on the one and the darkness overcome the other?<br/>
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So I got to thinking about Maslow for some reason. Good old Maslow. Boldly stating the obvious, he clarified a lot for us. Like a true genius he made us see what is always there. That life does have a purpose and it is to become “self-actualized”, a being that participates in their own creation and growth.<br/>
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I got to thinking that we could well apply his findings not only to students but even more succinctly to “classrooms”. What are the “needs” of a classroom? What makes them different and helps them achieve the ends and their purpose? Here below is a summary of my afternoon’s ruminations.<br/><br/><img style="float: left; width: 315px; height: 321px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974059663?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"/><br/><p style="text-align: right;"><img style="width: 328px; height: 324px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974059692?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"/></p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1. A Classroom’s Physiological Needs</span><br/>
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Every classroom needs the basics. Adequate lighting. A cool and controlled temperature in which to “think”. Resources for which learning may be enabled. These might be chalk and a board or a Macbook. These might be paper, scissors. This might be evidence of learning on the walls and around the classroom. There should be in the classroom, a look of a place that respects knowledge. This is a classroom’s most basic “need”. Design it so that this is apparent. It could be just a few books in a treasured spot but make sure your classroom has an appearance of a place that worships “thought”.<br/><br/>
<br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Safety Needs</span><br/> <br/> Of course classrooms should be places that are physically safe. No sharp edges, fire extinguishers checked and ready, windows secure. However there is a bigger “safety” concern – that of its soul. Is the classroom a place where the child trusts the teacher and feels warmth and security? Is the classroom a place where a child would come to, to feel safe and “at home”? Is the class bright and warm – not just in look but in spirit? Make your classroom into a place where student’s feel “safe”, every student.<br/> <br/> Nicolas Hobbs in his “Re-education Process” outlines how vital trust and security are in education.<br/>
<br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Trust is the glue that holds teaching and learning together .... The first step in the reeducation process is to help the young person make a new and very important distinction that adults can be counted on as predictable sources of support, understanding and affection.</span>"<br/><br/></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Belonging and Love Needs</span><br/>
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A classroom is a place where human beings gather. As such, it needs to be a place where every member feels at home and “belongs”. Each student needs to feel ownership of the classroom – that it is his/her classroom and not just a place they have to pass so many hours or a place to drop their backpack.<br/>
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We should ask, “Do the members of the classroom care about each other, really care?” Do they have each others back? Is the “power” of the classroom leveled, so that caring might occur. Nel Noddings, who has written so eloquently about this issue states,<br/>
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The caring teacher strives first to establish and maintain caring relations, and these relations exhibit an integrity that provides a foundation for everything teacher and student do together.<br/>
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Meaning, that if there is to be a caring classroom, teachers must first commit to this as a priority and investigate why it isn’t occurring. A teacher must forge a “relational” view of learning by getting all students to participate and also by lowering the “power threshold” and making the classroom a community not a kennel.<br/>
Activities where students cooperate and get to know each other are vital to this. Without them – a classroom is a vessel full of tedium, weighed down, it goes nowhere.<br/><br/>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Esteem Needs</span><br/>
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I have arrived at the conclusion too many classrooms do not offer students real “success”. Our classroom’s are about competition and “a winner”. They are about comparing and ranking and assessing each to each. How in god’s name can we ever create self-esteem when there is only one king or queen and so many lowly failures?<br/>
<br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Albert Einstein</span><br style="font-style: italic;"/></div>
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Classroom’s have to be places built upon the fundamental tenet that each student will experience success. Teacher’s must create classrooms where success is contagious and an ongoing event. I’m convinced, through thousands of hours of observing classrooms – I’m absolutely convinced we’d have a lot more “successful” people in society, if only teachers simplified everything. We teach to the top and try to pull everyone up. We shouldn’t. We should join the principles of special educators and teach to the bottom, letting everyone ride that wave as they wish.<br/>
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There isn’t enough success in our classrooms. Thus, there isn’t enough self-esteem. Too often, classrooms are rooms where people are sorted. This one left, this one right. The teacher is the SS guard and students can hear the german shepherds nipping at their heels. Classrooms should not be “concentration” camps – they should be places where children feel experience the elation of achieving something and tasting their potential. They find this on the sports fields and in gyms and music rooms - ask yourself why they don’t find it in the regular classroom?<br/>
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If a child leaves your classroom without tasting the delicious food of success. If you haven’t reminded the students of what they’ve accomplished and achieved -- your classroom has a dark cloud hanging over it.<br/>
<br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Men were born to succeed, not to fail.”</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Henry David Thoreau</span><br/></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Self - Actualization</span><br/>
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This is what it is all about. Every classroom should be a place where students can realize their full potential and participate in their own development and creation.<br/>
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The only way this can occur is if the prior conditions have been met. Further, there needs to be a freedom for the student to choose for themselves, what they want to do and what they want to be. Teachers need to control less and put the onus on students to find their own path towards the goals of the classroom.<br/>
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If Johnny wants to learn about tigers – let him! If Janet wants to describe osmosis through a dance – let her! Teachers need to give students more opportunity to express the curriculum in their own manner and style. If this happens as it should (and I’d even go further – schools also have to give students more opportunity to control when and if they go /come to school), if this happens, true happiness is the result.<br/>
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I remember, a tiny, skin and bones, 99 lb grade 8 boy. I wanted to do my end of term class speech (to which winners would “advance”), on guerrilla warfare. My teacher dissuaded me, as only a teacher knows how – I had to talk about volcanoes. The day of the speeches, I went up there and at the last moment, changed my mind. I spoke about guerrilla warfare. Sure, nobody knew who Ho Chi Min was, sure, all students thought I was speaking about “gorilla” war, sure my teacher was aghast --- but I was never happier. And never happier to leave behind that classroom. And that is what self-actualizing is about – happiness. The end goal of all our classrooms and teaching.<br/>
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If you help create one happy individual through their participation in your classroom – you are making a difference. I know Maslow would agree.<br/><br/>PS. If you read this far - you might be interested in <a href="http://www.nospank.net/fromm.htm">A.S.Neill's tenets of education, as elaborated by Eric Fromm.</a> Absolutely bang on and will never be out of date. Also, my own resources and lecture on <a href="http://setiteachers.ning.com/forum/topics/bringing-happiness-into-our">Happiness in the Classroom.</a><br/><br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 488px; height: 305px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974063544?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt=""/></p>
<br/>The #1 ..... (documentary about education)tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-12-20:649749:BlogPost:4223222009-12-20T00:21:19.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<img align="left" src="http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/uploadedImages/Homepage_Elements/Number1.gif"></img> ** Not your ordinary endless list - just what's number 1. Just the BEST.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.janeelliott.com/" target="_blank">Jane Elliot's</a> Daring Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes Experiment</b><br />
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This is a timeless classic. Always ready to give us pause and get us thinking about the "ghost inside our machine". Jane has continued to do this experiment over many years and even…
<img src="http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/uploadedImages/Homepage_Elements/Number1.gif" align="left"/>** Not your ordinary endless list - just what's number 1. Just the BEST.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.janeelliott.com/" target="_blank">Jane Elliot's</a> Daring Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes Experiment</b><br />
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This is a timeless classic. Always ready to give us pause and get us thinking about the "ghost inside our machine". Jane has continued to do this experiment over many years and even <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/46c347d9-e747-4237-b36a-3943c801dc4c/Teaching-IT-to-Adults-4" target="_blank">did it with inmates at a prison!</a>. Riceville never would be the same.<br />
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Here it is from PBS - in 3 parts. Click on the screen to go to the source and get it full screen, if desired. Enjoy and most importantly, discuss with someone!!<br />
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<a href="http://languagelink.ning.com/video/day-2-jane-elliot-2" target="_blank">PART 2</a> <a href="http://languagelink.ning.com/video/14-years-later-3" target="_blank">PART 3</a> (14 years later as adults!)What makes a teacher?tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-07-06:649749:BlogPost:3602412009-07-06T08:40:46.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
Here is a presentation in a series I produced. (get all of them, all inspirational, <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/page/inspiring-stories" target="_blank">on EFL Classroom 2.0</a>) about what is the defining character of a teacher. I'll let you watch and not let the cat out of the bag. Let me know if you agree....<br />
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Here is a presentation in a series I produced. (get all of them, all inspirational, <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/page/inspiring-stories" target="_blank">on EFL Classroom 2.0</a>) about what is the defining character of a teacher. I'll let you watch and not let the cat out of the bag. Let me know if you agree....<br />
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I have the honor and privilege of quite often giving end of year, end of course, graduation and other speeches to teachers. I take it seriously and usually end with a story. Stories work well and inspire. One of the ones I've used most often is this one - <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/inspiration/makeadifference.swf" target="_blank">MAKE A DIFFERENCE</a>. But I have a number of personal anecdotes and also folktales. You can read many others in the thread…
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I have the honor and privilege of quite often giving end of year, end of course, graduation and other speeches to teachers. I take it seriously and usually end with a story. Stories work well and inspire. One of the ones I've used most often is this one - <a href="http://eflclassroom.com/inspiration/makeadifference.swf" target="_blank">MAKE A DIFFERENCE</a>. But I have a number of personal anecdotes and also folktales. You can read many others in the thread I've been keeping - <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/forum/topics/stories-to-inspire-and-teach">Stories to Inspire and Teach....</a><br />
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However, last week I was confronted with the task of giving a speech to a group that had heard many of my stories before..... so I pulled a story that has been around the internet - out of my hat. Today, It is originally a self-help story about life but it applies to teaching. So I remixed and made it teacher friendly. I hope it inspires someone!<br />
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<a href="http://eflclassroom.com/inspiration/coffeebeans.swf" target="_blank">Here's the Flash full screen version</a>.<br />
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DavidMake A Book - Win some Books. A Tarheel Reader Contesttag:www.classroom20.com,2009-05-11:649749:BlogPost:3406992009-05-11T21:31:22.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
I'm enamored by the simplicity and educational value of the <a href="http://tarheelreader.org">Tarheel Reader.</a> I've been a big cheerleader and now we at <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com">EFL Classroom 2.0</a> are holding a contest. Make a Tarheel Reader and win Amazon book gift certificates!<br />
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You will need a special code when you register there to make a book. Follow the directions under "write a book" to get it Or just <a href="http://classroom20.ning.com/profile/ddeubel">message…</a>
I'm enamored by the simplicity and educational value of the <a href="http://tarheelreader.org">Tarheel Reader.</a> I've been a big cheerleader and now we at <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com">EFL Classroom 2.0</a> are holding a contest. Make a Tarheel Reader and win Amazon book gift certificates!<br />
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You will need a special code when you register there to make a book. Follow the directions under "write a book" to get it Or just <a href="http://classroom20.ning.com/profile/ddeubel">message me</a> (click on my picture!) and I'll send our special pw/id so you can add a book to our directory. Simply tag your books properly and you can pull up all your books easily.<br />
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See more Contest details <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/forum/topics/enter-our-tarheel-reader/edit">HERE</a> on EFL Classroom 2.0. Either just put the link / url of your book here as a comment to enter (multiple entries are accepted!) or on <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/forum/topics/enter-our-tarheel-reader/edit">EFL Classroom 2.0.</a><br />
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1st Prize = $100 Amazon certifcate 2nd / 3rd prizes = $50.00 certificate.<br />
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<b>See these books for some possible types that you might make.</b><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2009/03/08/my-abc-word-book/2/">An Alphabet Book</a><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2009/04/21/our-favorite-foods/?speech=3">A "topic" book</a><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2009/04/28/stevie-wonder-2/?speech=2">A People book</a><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2008/10/22/seoul-is/?speech=1">Your City.</a><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2008/10/20/me-myself-and-i/">All about You!</a><br />
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<a href="http://tarheelreader.org/2009/04/29/heungbu-and-nolbu-a-tale-of-two-brothers/?speech=2">A Folktale / Story</a>9th EFL / ESL / ELL Blog Carnivaltag:www.classroom20.com,2009-01-29:649749:BlogPost:2760752009-01-29T00:20:04.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
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It's that time again!! <a href="http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/category/esl-carnival/">Blog time</a>. We are hosting the 9th Blog Carnival and need your entry! You have a few days to send your entry!<br />
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Let's share our blogging, we have a lot of members with fine blogs here and in their own nest. So please send a blog entry in about your teaching and thoughts thereof.…
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It's that time again!! <a href="http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/category/esl-carnival/">Blog time</a>. We are hosting the 9th Blog Carnival and need your entry! You have a few days to send your entry!<br />
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Let's share our blogging, we have a lot of members with fine blogs here and in their own nest. So please send a blog entry in about your teaching and thoughts thereof. <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2008/12/8th_edition_of_the_the_ellesle.html">See the last blog carnival here.</a><br />
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You can submit an entry at <a href="http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_2452.html">this handy page/form.</a> Or you can just send to me here. Just reply with your link and name/blog name.<br />
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Send entries by Jan. 31st. . Feb. 01, the blog carnival will be published. This blog carnival, <b>I will publish a voicethread so we can comment on ONE blog entry and especially comment on what it personally means to us, the teacher/learner.<br />
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http://eflclassroom.comChristmas Karaoke Voicethread - Come learn and Sing!tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-02:649749:BlogPost:2272602008-12-02T11:11:09.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
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Come share with us and get the Christmas Spirit! I put this up so we can share the gift of music and when others listen, they can also learn some English and catch the Christmas spirit. Let me know if you have a special request, I'll be adding more songs shortly....<br />
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Once more showing educators how powerful a thing is voicethread!Let the games begin! Enjoying and teaching the Olympics.tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-08-03:649749:BlogPost:1727712008-08-03T11:54:39.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: medium"><u><strong><span style="color: #3366ff">THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT: We've All Got It! (Part 1 of 2)</span></strong></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left"><img alt="" src="http://www.servaisknaven.nl/prof/2004/olympic%20rings.gif"></img> <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/wpage/olympics" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff">Visit our Olympic Page!</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">I've competed at the highest end of athletics but never made the Olympics. I yearned, I tried but the…</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: medium"><u><strong><span style="color: #3366ff">THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT: We've All Got It! (Part 1 of 2)</span></strong></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left"><img alt="" src="http://www.servaisknaven.nl/prof/2004/olympic%20rings.gif"/> <a target="_blank" href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/wpage/olympics"><span style="color: #3366ff">Visit our Olympic Page!</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">I've competed at the highest end of athletics but never made the Olympics. I yearned, I tried but the Canadian standards just couldn't be met and the sport I really truly excel in and was Can. champion in, ultrarunning, despite yearly campaigns, never made it to the Olympics (yet). So, each Olympic year, each Olympic season, my blood cell count increases, my nerve endings twitch and I'm back there again -- yearning to be a champion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">I think on some level, we all have our own "wish for excellence" and deeply understand this drive to excel. It's this drive we have to turn on in our students and there is no better teachable moment than the Olympics! And unlike a butterfly on the window ledge, this moment lasts 3+ weeks! So use the Olympics, even in Sept. to uplift your students, get them to dream and be their best -- and of course, learn a little English....</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">Larry Ferlazzo has already listed</span> <a href="http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/07/16/the-best-sites-to-teach-learn-about-the-olympics/"><span style="font-size: medium">some very good resources</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">for us EFL teachers. I'll be doing the same next post (Part II) and also find games/presentations on the main page.....slowly drifting in.</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topic/listForCategory?categoryId=826870%3ACategory%3A47381"><span style="font-size: medium">This BAAM game</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">should get you started! Also,</span> <a href="http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_1283.pdf"><span style="font-size: medium">find here</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">some great worksheets from the Olympic Museum.... But let's test your own knowledge of the Olympics today, of the heroes that uplift us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">Take a look at</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://eflclassroom.com/flash/olympicheroesblank.swf"><span style="font-size: medium">this presentation</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">-- how many of these heroes can you name? What Olympics. Part II, I'll post up the finished presentation with answers . Enjoy - Higher, Faster, Stronger! Here's my greatest Olympic moment -- Billy Mills and the 10,000 metre victory in Tokyo, 1964. Still brings a twinge to this old athlete....Wow! Compare it too with the movie version! Here are some really cool</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.otab.com/swf/mulimediagallery/thumbnail_final4b.swf?clickURL=../../contact.aspx"><span style="font-size: medium">Olympic moments</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">and look in our A/V player for many more next week. I'll be uploading the best of the best for quick classroom viewing...</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium"><b>See More Great Olympic Moments</b></span> <span style="font-size: medium">As I wrote in my first blog post on the Olympics - the Olympics are the perfect, "teaching moment". I hope many teachers will "seize the day" and use the Olympics to get their students learning -- not just English but the history of the human spirit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium">Please see all the materials I've made and collected</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/resources/topic/show?id=826870%3ATopic%3A62237"><span style="font-size: medium">here in our Resource Share area.</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">Lots there to chose from. BAAM is a great game and just have the students try to guess the sport or country..... The Jeopardy could be fun with the right levels..... Also, play any of the presentations as a game. Stop the video before the answer pops up and ask for the correct answer. Play "Whiteboard Soccer" to keep track of points! [draw a soccer pitch, form 2 teams, magnet is the ball. correct team keeps control of the ball, advances the ball. 3 correct to score. ]. I"d highly recommend the Olympic project I've attached. In pairs, students can collect information on an Olympic country and also profile the country as an Olympic nation. Even guess the Beijing medal count!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium">Offer a prize to the teams that were closest! Get them presenting the information or making a nice big poster of the information for the class/school walls. Enjoy! I've also attached a run down of the best videos of the Olympics. A very complete list, please pass on and get your friends excited! Lots of learning in these videos and here are just a sample from the attached list..... My favs... Derrick Redmond pulls up injured and his father helps him finish.</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_zi0_LjHHN4"><span style="font-size: medium">The REAl Olympic spirit</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">revealed.</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQMJtilOGg"><span style="font-size: medium">Never give up</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">- Steve Bradbury does the first "Bradbury"!</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GBuVy7Jf4"><span style="font-size: medium">U.S.A defeats Canada</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">at Lake Placid! REAL great stuff and I admire it (despite my Canuckness...)</span> <a target="_blank" href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGxNNLjRS4"><span style="font-size: medium">Here's Ali</span></a> <span style="font-size: medium">lighting the Olympic flame to begin the games in LA!</span></p>
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See all my blog posts <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/wpage/ddeubel">HERE</a>INAUGRAL PODCAST - EFL CLASSROOMtag:www.classroom20.com,2007-08-15:649749:BlogPost:423732007-08-15T22:25:22.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p>I have started an <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com">EFL / ESL (English as a foreign language) community</a> and welcome anyone interested in teaching English overseas to join us. Vibrant community with lots of expert teachers.</p>
<p>We will have a first ever podcast. Scheduled time is 9:30 pm in Seoul, Korea, which is 8:30 am EST (east coast of America). <strong>Thursday the 16th</strong>. Hosted by Art Williams. Welcome all to come and listen and if new to this, just learn about…</p>
<p>I have started an <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com">EFL / ESL (English as a foreign language) community</a> and welcome anyone interested in teaching English overseas to join us. Vibrant community with lots of expert teachers.</p>
<p>We will have a first ever podcast. Scheduled time is 9:30 pm in Seoul, Korea, which is 8:30 am EST (east coast of America). <strong>Thursday the 16th</strong>. Hosted by Art Williams. Welcome all to come and listen and if new to this, just learn about podcasting......</p>
<p>Find details on the <a href="http://eflclassroom.ning.com/profile/voicebox">podcast page.</a> Also more info. on podcasting there. Click the podcast icon to get there. Listen in just by clicking the TALK SHOE icon and going to the podcast page. If you want to talk/contribute and join the exciting field of podcasting, just download the TALK SHOE software (it's quick) and then phone on in.... Use your number id and the podcast id to log in, you are set! Go here for <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/se/help/FAQ.html">TALK SHOE FAQ.</a> <a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/se/help/videoDemos.html">View some video demos which are very helpful.</a></p>
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<font size="3">I'll post the recorded podcast here for listening also. The discussion will be about "The NEW EFL teacher. Getting ready for the 21st century classroom. " 1. Introductions 2. What personal qualities help a new teacher? 3. Things to do, to get off on the right foot. - coteaching - setting up your classroom - curriculum - classroom management 4. Culture shock. How to manage it. 5. What technology and prof. development should a new teacher undertake to make their life easier? Closing comments..... Enjoy and I'll be enjoying this experiment!</font><p id="powered-by-TalkShoe"><a href="http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/46314"><img alt="Powered by TalkShoe" src="http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/talkshoe/images/badges/static/badgeStatic0307013.gif" border="0"/></a></p>Teaching "through" technology NOT by using technologytag:www.classroom20.com,2007-08-12:649749:BlogPost:415382007-08-12T22:38:22.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p>I've been musing like so many on Classroom 2.0 about the implications of using new forms of technology in the classroom and how it can "enable" students. Meaning, in the full sense of the word "education", allow students to learn the basic skill which enable a citizen to contribute fully and positively to society (yeah, I believe in that, in Dewey).</p>
<p>So much of technology even at this present moment, is used as an adjunct, as a s"l"ideshow to the real lesson/learning. I think this…</p>
<p>I've been musing like so many on Classroom 2.0 about the implications of using new forms of technology in the classroom and how it can "enable" students. Meaning, in the full sense of the word "education", allow students to learn the basic skill which enable a citizen to contribute fully and positively to society (yeah, I believe in that, in Dewey).</p>
<p>So much of technology even at this present moment, is used as an adjunct, as a s"l"ideshow to the real lesson/learning. I think this "sparkles" and "decorative" component of technological use in the classroom is unavoidable as teachers experiment and as it is slowly sorted out, what technology will really be effective. We are pioneers at the moment and we are mixing and shaking up new concoctions.</p>
<p>But my big hope is that instead of technology being used as a compliment to learning, "IT" itself is the learning. That we teachers teach "through" technology and not just by using it. Teaching through technology means seeing technology as not an aside but not even noticing it, much like when teaching science, we pay little attention to language. It should be something as common as the pencil is and as necessary.</p>
<p>We are in the early years of this development. Technology is full of communication, it is hot and hard to handle. I say let's cool it down and use it like we would a book or a piece of chalk. Handle it, hold it, embrace it. It is already such for the children we teach.</p>
<p>As an example of the above, see my powerpoint. I'm an EFL teacher, I train teachers to teach EFL and also design materials (seeing this as a necessary part of any teaching job, only WE teachers know our students and thus should adapt material for their needs). It is a game where students translate text messaging language into English. This can be used by lower level classes and in fact, has been used with success in Grade 4 language arts. Try it out and then think about this concept and how it might also be used as a template for more exciting uses of teaching "through" technology and not by means of....</p>
<p>David <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1974047191?profile=original=/transl8it.ppt">Download transl8it.ppt</a></p>The Future of Bookstag:www.classroom20.com,2007-07-11:649749:BlogPost:329392007-07-11T21:07:41.000Zddeubelhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ddeubel
<p>I 've always been a bibliophile, a lover of books. I once imagined a library filled with books that had no authors names on them. Just pure, knowledge, just pure experience and communication of the world out there. A library where you read from interest not authority.</p>
<p>I think technology gives us a chance to realize this dream and the dream of affordable access to the written word by everyone - a total sum of knowledge, that written and even that thought. Books updated every minute and…</p>
<p>I 've always been a bibliophile, a lover of books. I once imagined a library filled with books that had no authors names on them. Just pure, knowledge, just pure experience and communication of the world out there. A library where you read from interest not authority.</p>
<p>I think technology gives us a chance to realize this dream and the dream of affordable access to the written word by everyone - a total sum of knowledge, that written and even that thought. Books updated every minute and not years. Books which find their readers and aren't lost like nuggets of gold but which are the very air we breath (however much I'll miss that moment of discovery, that eureka of finding a great book).</p>
<p>Much depends on us concerned citizens getting it right, so the new digitalization of literature and script is not coopted by large forces/groups/organizations and made into a traditionally owned and operated product, for profit. What I call a "prodfit" a product meant to make a buck and not much to give a fuc.....</p>
<p>Richard Baraniuk passionately makes this case.....he discusses his own university's work and that of others and if but for these "links" , it is a great watch. He deals with profound ideas and we educators would do well to listen to them. I especially enjoy his take of CC license and will post more on this important topic....enjoy!</p>
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