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PLN Presentation

This is the Personal Learning Network slide presentation used at the TESL Niagara affiliate in St. Catharines today.  Click on the image below to download this PowerPoint file.  Otherwise surf to SlideShare to download.

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Record-a-Poem Group Opens on Soundcloud

The Poetry Foundation has opened a Record-a-Poem Group on SoundCloud.  This is an opportunity for your students to write, read and share poems online.  The guidelines for this group are displayed below: 1. Poems only without music. 2. Please tag your poems with the keyword “poem” and “poetry” and name your files TITLE by POET, …

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Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit v. 2

Design Thinking for Educators is a creative process that helps educators design learning opportunities.  The free toolkit provides instructors or developers with instructions to explore Design Thinking while they are creating learning opportunities. this enhanced version of the Toolkit is available online to inspire and guide educators through the design process.

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Dipity for Timeline activities

Chronology is can be a key factor in teaching many concepts in all subjects.   In the example I created below, I created a Dipity timeline of a typical week.  This can be used to introduce the present simple tense.   As well, students with free accounts could produce timelines (constructivism) to tell a story or to …

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Our first course migrated to the Moodle MOOCH

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Free Teacher Technology Course Launches today!

An updated version of Digital Materials Production Tools is now hosted on Freemoodle.org and is available to anyone who wishes to learn to use free and web-based tools to develop learning opportunities for their students.   This course introduces instructors to use simple tools and techniques used by their educational technology savvy peers to produce …

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2013 to be great for English student activities

Happy New Year typographic

Sean Banville has done it again!  He has just released a 26 page set of activities that will be perfect for English language teachers who wish to discuss the coming year 2013 with their students.   The focus of these activities is  predictions for this year .

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FreeMoodle.org over 130 courses

We are moving our Digital Media Production and Creating Vocabulary Activities courses to FreeMoodle.org.  This will allow access to a permanent global audience, allow the users to experience the course in the updated Moodle version 2.3 and allow teachers to enjoy the luxury of having their own instance of the course.

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Zamzar is an excellent file converter and part of the Quick Dev Toolkit

File conversion can be a complex process.  Thankfully, new on line tools have made this process less inhibiting.  Zamzar allows you to deal with images, documents, sound and movie files.   Files under 100 MB are free without membership.  Larger files such as long movies can be handled but your institution will have to purchase a …

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Brainstorm concepts with Bubbl.us – Part of the Quick DEV Toolkit

Cost free, easy to use and effective, Bubbl.us is a dream for teachers who wish to have students employ technology during the brainstorming process. Those who have used sophisticated mind mapping software in the past will be pleased with the latest set of free offerings online using Web 2.0 technology.  Bubbl.us is one that allows …

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