All Discussions Tagged 'english' - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T08:33:01Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=english&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPodcasting from the Classroomtag:www.classroom20.com,2016-02-16:649749:Topic:10965412016-02-16T20:11:44.970ZKelly Schanzerhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KellySchanzer
<p>I have recently discovered the potential in podcasting as an educational tool. As an English teacher, we are supposed to be teaching communication skills such as writing, reading and speaking. Far too often speaking is overlooked or only touched on a few times throughout the year.</p>
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<p>I had an idea of creating a lesson that incorporates the core skills of the English curriculum: have students research a topic, then write a transcript for a podcast and produce a podcast. It…</p>
<p>I have recently discovered the potential in podcasting as an educational tool. As an English teacher, we are supposed to be teaching communication skills such as writing, reading and speaking. Far too often speaking is overlooked or only touched on a few times throughout the year.</p>
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<p>I had an idea of creating a lesson that incorporates the core skills of the English curriculum: have students research a topic, then write a transcript for a podcast and produce a podcast. It doesn't have to be uploaded to any public sites but could be just an audio recording submitted for assessment. This takes the pressure off of kids to present speeches every time they are assessed on verbal skills. This also builds technological skills that students can really use. Students should know how to create audio files in the 21st century and we could be sparking a potential podcast star among our students!</p>
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<p>Has anyone done a lesson like this? What are your thoughts?</p> A great resource for ESL / EFL studentstag:www.classroom20.com,2015-07-21:649749:Topic:10735772015-07-21T17:03:42.920ZVicky Meszaroshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/VickyMeszaros
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I've noticed that there aren't that many new posts to help and inspire English language learners. </p>
<p>I'm an ESL teacher, currently living and teaching in Hungary. In my experience the fastest, best way to improve your English is by practising (as I'm sure most people would agree). Speak as much as you can. There’s a good website I show most of my students: <a href="http://www.wordperfectenglish.com" target="_blank">wordperfectenglish.com</a> where you can join for free and…</p>
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<p>I've noticed that there aren't that many new posts to help and inspire English language learners. </p>
<p>I'm an ESL teacher, currently living and teaching in Hungary. In my experience the fastest, best way to improve your English is by practising (as I'm sure most people would agree). Speak as much as you can. There’s a good website I show most of my students: <a href="http://www.wordperfectenglish.com" target="_blank">wordperfectenglish.com</a> where you can join for free and message and video chat with people all around the world. And there are so many other sources online.</p>
<p>What other resources did/do you find useful when learning a new language?</p>
<p>We really need to take advantage of 21st century technology and use these resources to become more confident speakers! :)</p> Using Wikispaces to Fight Online Summaries of the Classicstag:www.classroom20.com,2013-06-04:649749:Topic:9357112013-06-04T16:23:14.587ZMark Jarmonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MarkJarmon
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the struggles with teaching classic literature (or any book for that matter which has found its way to paperback) is that you name it and a complete in-depth summary with complete analysis can be found somewhere online. Sensing my students weren’t reading “The Odyssey” this year, I tried using Wikispaces to combat these online summaries.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the struggles with teaching classic literature (or any book for that matter which has found its way to paperback) is that you name it and a complete in-depth summary with complete analysis can be found somewhere online. Sensing my students weren’t reading “The Odyssey” this year, I tried using Wikispaces to combat these online summaries.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After I invited everyone in the class to our Wikispaces page and after everyone accepted the invites, I changed my homework questions from easily searchable plot-driven questions to something which proved to be far more meaningful.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First, I assigned a chapter to read and then asked students to choose 3 passages which they found to be particularly powerful or essential to understanding the story. The passages had to be a minimum of 5 lines and had to be a good representation of the chapter (this way they couldn't simply choose a bunch of quotes from the first page or two). Once they selected their passages, they had to write a 4-6 sentence response explaining the significance of their passages. The assignment had to be submitted electronically and a paper copy was brought to class.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When students came to class the following day, they were placed in pairs. Students were asked to share their responses with their partner, so in all, each pair had six passages. Each pair was then asked to pick the best two which would be shared with the entire class. Here’s where Wikispaces comes into play.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, I took the best two from each group, and since I had the electronic copies, I posted them on Wikispaces. If there were errors (and there were) we made the corrections, and in the end we had a great collaborative assignment and an amazing student-generated review page for “The Odyssey”.</p>
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<p></p> Authentic Voicestag:www.classroom20.com,2012-08-23:649749:Topic:8675912012-08-23T23:57:22.780ZKyle Dunbarhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/KyleDunbar
<p>This Classroom 2.0: The Book chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/103664517/Kyle-Dunbar-Authentic-Voices" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/103664517/Kyle-Dunbar-Authentic-Voices</a>.</p>
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<p>My chapter is about my journey with students to launch a wikispace called Authentic Voices (<a href="http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/">http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/</a>) where students published their original pieces and recorded themselves…</p>
<p>This Classroom 2.0: The Book chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/103664517/Kyle-Dunbar-Authentic-Voices" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/103664517/Kyle-Dunbar-Authentic-Voices</a>.</p>
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<p>My chapter is about my journey with students to launch a wikispace called Authentic Voices (<a href="http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/">http://authentic-voices.wikispaces.com/</a>) where students published their original pieces and recorded themselves reading their poems and short essays. This project has been a wonderful exploration of helping students find a voice, watching students spontaneously revise for a global audience, and connect (a little bit) with other teens.</p>
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<p>I'd love feedback about this project! Ideas to improves. Ideas to connect with other classrooms. Or to just hear from folks trying similar things. Honored to be part of this group!</p> Scaffolding Bloom's Taxonomy with VoiceThreadtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-07-26:649749:Topic:8545492012-07-26T17:53:17.900ZVicki Phillipshttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/VickiPhillips
<p><strong>Your name and Title:</strong></p>
<p>Vicki Phillips, General Education Coordinator and English Faculty</p>
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<p>Rasmussen College</p>
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<p>Florida, USA</p>
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<p>English</p>
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<p><strong>Your name and Title:</strong></p>
<p>Vicki Phillips, General Education Coordinator and English Faculty</p>
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<p>Rasmussen College</p>
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<p>Florida, USA</p>
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<p>English</p>
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<p>Middle School, High School, Higher Education, College or University</p>
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<p><em>Watching Learning Bloom: Understanding, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating with VoiceThread</em></p>
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<p>By utilizing VoiceThreads in my college level English classes, I have experienced the joy and wonder of seeing my students transition from not only using the resource VoiceTthreads I created to enhance their writing and punctuation skills on the Developmental English level, but seeing their learning positively "bloom" as they hone their critical thinking skills in response to discussion questions posted in my VoiceThreads for the assigned reading material. Ultimately, many of these same students then transition to creating their own independent projects whereby they become the teachers of their peers and also the entire world as they post their own research based VoiceThread projects in lieu of the traditional final paper. In this workshop, I will show you examples of how you can use this simple learning tool to not only reinforce terms and concepts you are teaching, but how to also awaken that creative spark in your own students by scaffolding VoiceThreads into your current curriculum.</p>
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<p><a href="http://voicethread.com/">http://voicethread.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://voicethread.com/?#u968628">http://voicethread.com/?#u968628</a></p>
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<p>This <em>Classroom 2.0</em><i>: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth</a></p>
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<p>Google Earth is the perfect platform for educators who want to construct progressive learning experiences for their students. It is a rich 21st Century resource for any subject area, full of materials and functionality. More…</p>
<p>This <em>Classroom 2.0</em><i>: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth" target="_blank">http://www.scribd.com/doc/98582395/Thomas-Petra-Learning-With-Google-Earth</a></p>
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<p>Google Earth is the perfect platform for educators who want to construct progressive learning experiences for their students. It is a rich 21st Century resource for any subject area, full of materials and functionality. More than a mapping tool, Google Earth is a vast collection of information where users can view layers of content or add their own. Using its simple tool set, teachers can transform traditional instruction by designing lessons that allow an active investigation of ideas. Students of different learning styles will be able to explore concepts in depth and develop higher-level thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and creativity. Real life activities portrayed in a virtual globe add purpose and context to their learning. Google Earth is the perfect application for project-based learning, cross-curricular units, or exploring global themes.</p>
<p>Open source material, such as those provide by <a href="http://www.googlelittrips.com" target="_blank">Google Lit Trips</a> and <a href="http://www.realworldmath.org/" target="_blank">Real World Math</a>, serve not only as resources for others but as models of inspiration. Teachers of any subject area or grade level can design customized lessons for their students. I hope you take time to read my <em>Classroom 2.0: The Book</em> chapter and consider how you can use Google Earth in your classroom.</p>
<p>Please feel free to add comments and suggestions below. This is the peer review stage of the book and I welcome your feedback.</p>
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<p></p> Skype is the limit? Edmodo says no!!!tag:www.classroom20.com,2012-03-13:649749:Topic:8163902012-03-13T21:44:06.744ZChryssanthe Sotiriouhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ChryssantheSotiriou
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<p><strong>School, Library, or Organization Name</strong>: DOUKAS SCHOOL</p>
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<p><strong>Area of the World from Which You Will Present</strong>: ATHENS,GREECE</p>
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<p><strong>Language in Which You Will Present</strong>: ENGLISH</p>
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<p><strong>Your Name and Title</strong>: CHRYSSANTHE SOTIRIOU</p>
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<p><strong>Short Session Description (one line)</strong>: THE USE OS SKYPE IN THE CLASSROOM ,ASSESSED VIA EDMODO</p>
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<p>The joy of acquiring a powerful tool for learning can often lead to abuse before reaching maturity (exploitation) This can be avoided with the use of new techniques such as webquests where students divided into teams follow a certain pattern of research in order to produce the final product which might be in written form or an oral presentation</p>
<p>An example will be given where students were asked to create the best possible space city. Info was googled within in the classroom since all students have their personal tablet in class.(Our school has introduced the 1:1 process in primary and high school since 2009).Each group posted in <strong>Edmodo</strong> their initial work and proposal and I commented on it sending useful feedback and links.</p>
<p>Questions raised by the students were answered by the space expert Dr Alexander Martynov via Skype and the whole project was posted and assessed by the students themselves on the educational platform Edmodo, <a href="http://www.edmodo.com/">www.edmodo.com</a> where I have started a discussion at first and then posted a poll.This is only an example ,variouw projects can also be posted in the plattform and students get really excited by sharing thoughts and ideas with their friends via an interactive way.</p>
<p>The level of student motivation in this project was also indicated by the fact that the students took the initiative to contact Dr Martynov <strong>themselves</strong>. All info was found on a simple internet site.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.doukas.gr">www.doukas.gr</a></p>
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<p></p> FREE iPad2 Apps for Secondary ALL SUBJECT Areastag:www.classroom20.com,2011-11-09:649749:Topic:7731882011-11-09T22:22:42.347ZDenise Stewarthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/DeniseStewart
<p>My school district has just started distributing iPads to instructional coaches to support teachers who are struggling in their classes. As an instructional coach, I was thrilled. </p>
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<p>So my question to all of you who are already using iPads, what sites would you particularly recommend to a coach who must meet the needs of every discipline on the campus? I have found a few such as SHOWME, Dragon speak, MathCube--to name a few, but with each teacher comes a different request. I…</p>
<p>My school district has just started distributing iPads to instructional coaches to support teachers who are struggling in their classes. As an instructional coach, I was thrilled. </p>
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<p>So my question to all of you who are already using iPads, what sites would you particularly recommend to a coach who must meet the needs of every discipline on the campus? I have found a few such as SHOWME, Dragon speak, MathCube--to name a few, but with each teacher comes a different request. I would therefore love to put together a list of apps which come with recommendations from professionals such as yourselves. The tool is quite innovative, but without support for teachers, it will just be another trinket that will gather dust.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ellteacherpros.com">www.ellteacherpros.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com">www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com</a></p> Celebrate Poetry Day w/ Skype 4/29/2011tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-04-21:649749:Topic:6271232011-04-21T12:08:41.713ZColette Cassinellihttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ccassinelli
<p>Our high school is hosting an open mic poetry day in the Library on Friday, April 29th 8-2:30pm PDT. We would love to have various classrooms Skype in for 5-10 minutes and have students read a poem - original or published. Contact me to get on the schedule -- still plenty of open slots! colette [dot] cassinelli [at] gmail [dot] com</p>
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<p>Our high school is hosting an open mic poetry day in the Library on Friday, April 29th 8-2:30pm PDT. We would love to have various classrooms Skype in for 5-10 minutes and have students read a poem - original or published. Contact me to get on the schedule -- still plenty of open slots! colette [dot] cassinelli [at] gmail [dot] com</p>
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<p>This is our culiminating activity for National Poetry Month <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41">http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41</a></p>
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<p>Have you seen Skype in Education? <a href="http://education.skype.com/projects/505">http://education.skype.com/projects/505</a></p> Barnes and Noble Nook Book Club- looking for ideastag:www.classroom20.com,2010-10-05:649749:Topic:5150062010-10-05T11:02:34.132ZBarbara Wrighthttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/bwrightning
My school got a grant to hold an afterschool book club for grades 5-8 students who are absent from school a lot. The 15 selected students will receive a Barnes and Noble 3G Wifi Nook and a collection of books which they will use in the club and be able to keep as their own permanently if they attend each session of an afterschool book club. That's where I come in, as the facilitator of the book club. We will meet for six hours after school every other week, two hours a day for three…
My school got a grant to hold an afterschool book club for grades 5-8 students who are absent from school a lot. The 15 selected students will receive a Barnes and Noble 3G Wifi Nook and a collection of books which they will use in the club and be able to keep as their own permanently if they attend each session of an afterschool book club. That's where I come in, as the facilitator of the book club. We will meet for six hours after school every other week, two hours a day for three consecutive days, and I'm thinking that's too much. <br/>Can anyone give me some really exciting ideas of things to do for six hours with a variety of students, boys and girls? I don't want to make it seem like just more school, but the grant proposal has the students doing lit groups, comprehension questions and keeping a journal.<br/>Here are some other things I can think of doing:<br/><ul>
<li>Read quietly</li>
<li>Read aloud</li>
<li>Share interesting things that we found we could do with the Nook</li>
<li>Create something to share with the school- but what?<br/></li>
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