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What is Study-English-Online.Net?

By Stacey

In Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, NOTES, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Unsorted Notes, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT

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Teachers’ Digital Toolkit

By Stacey

In Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design

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International online learning projects for students ThinkQuest Online tools for resource creation Animoto Create videos from images Benettonplay Create stunning animations Classtools.net Create educational games Gliffy Create floor plans, flowcharts and 3D diagrams Glogster EDU Create interactive multimedia posters Kerpoof Create movies and stories Mixbook Create a page turning e-book...

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Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy

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In Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Unsorted Notes, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT

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Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy

1. Cognitive Behaviourism
2. Constructivism
3. Connectivism

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Pair & Groupwork vs Teacher-Student Interaction

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In Groupwork, Learning Language Teaching, Teacher Skills

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According to Mckay & Tom (Teaching Adult Second Language Learners, CUP, 1999, p. 26), working in groups helps students feel they are part of a community. They come to know each other as individuals & friends Pair-  and groupwork serves an important pedagogical purpose, because it provides more opportunities for individuals to talk than does a teacher-fronted class, as well as less formal...

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Online Language Lessons – Idea Bank

By Stacey

In Collaborative Learning, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Teacher Skills, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL

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It looks like more and more language teaching is being done on the web. Let me summarize what online language teachers have on offer, what they do or could do in theory.  I will list several examples from Curtis J. Bonk & Ke Zhang’s (2008) Empowering Online Learning, pp.  62-63. Types of resources & activities for online language learners online flashcards electronic dictionaries...

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The 4 Types of Multilevel Class Activities

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In Collaborative Learning, Groupwork, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Teacher Skills

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Heather McKay & Abigail Tom (1999, CUP, Teaching Adult Second Language Learners, pp. 21-22) suggest teachers differentiate among four types of mixed-ability activity.  Unless the text is in quotation marks, it is my own interpretation. same input, same task What is different in this situation is the level of your students’ language proficiency. What makes it possible for the students to...

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Is Studying 1-to-1 Pairwork?

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In Collaborative Learning, E-Learning Design & Management, Groupwork, Learning Language Teaching, Observations

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Does studying 1-to-1 qualify as pairwork? And is it necessarily teacher-centered and bad? Anyone?

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Interactivity & The 5 Ts that Make it Fail

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In Collaborative Learning, Course Design, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, Groupwork, Instructional Design, Interactive CD-ROMs, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Teacher Skills

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Ian Forsyth (Teaching & Learning Materials & The Internet, 3rd edition,  p. 135) defines interactivity as
emulating the traditional classroom
He lists the 5 Ts that cause interactivity to fail on the Internet (pp. 19 -23)

time
technology timid
territoriality on topics
training
truss – an infrastructure requirement

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Digital Storytelling

By Stacey

In Collaborative Learning, Digital Storytelling, Educational Technology, Groupwork, Instructional Design, language learning e-tivities, Learning Language Teaching, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools

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A digital story is a personal experience represented in narrative format. The script is amplified by including video, music, still-frame imagery, and the author’s voice. A digital story typically lasts for two to three minutes. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools p. 43 It must take ages to create such a story, but the idea is interesting anyways. I imagine the teacher has to provide a lot of...

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Types of Groups and Groupwork

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In Collaborative Learning, Groupwork

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GROUPWORK Various names have been given to this form of teaching, and there are some distinctions among these: cooperative learning, collaborative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning, reciprocal learning, team learning, study circles, study groups, and work groups. But all in all, there are three general types of group work: informal learning groups...

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