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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. As teachers, we need to constantly refresh and update topics to improve our distance learning skills.

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Using Technology to Extend Speaking Practice in a Language Classroom.

Dr. Shannon Doak

Learning a foreign language is not an easy task. There are multiple components to learning a language which includes reading, writing, listening and speaking. Often, in a language classroom, students have ample time to do all of these, but at home, work is usually focused on the reading and writing aspect of the language.

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Student Portfolios with Google Sites – SULS091

Shake Up Learning

As students learn and grow throughout the year, new work is added to their portfolio to showcase their best work or to show growth over time. Student portfolios are great for ANY classroom! Related: How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites. This strategy can be implemented in just about any classroom.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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The Social Learning Summit Is Tomorrow - Online and Free

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21st, is worldwide 2012 Social Learning Summit , a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link]. and the Discovery Educator Network. The Summit is from 9:00am - 3:00pm US Eastern Time.

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In It Together: Student Led Program Implementation #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Students started assisting fellow students in creating ePortfolios in Project Share. They went into classrooms and trained their peers. His own work on an online masters degree made a connection for him. He realizes he needs to get his students used to this online learning platform. Also did follow up afterwards.

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Week of January 31, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] EPORTFOLIO COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: PD STRATEGIES ( Australia Series ) Mon 31 Jan 09:00PM New York / Tue 1 Feb 02:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 01:00PM Sydney Coach Carole. Meeting #5 of the EpCoP: PD strategies - What strategies would you choose to help others get started with eportfolios? link] PSYCHOLOGY OF MATH LEARNING ( Math 2.0