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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

This past week at the ISTE conference, I shared my tips and resources for engaging parents. Below are a few tips and resources from my presentation, Engaging Parents with Technology and Social Media. One of the best survival lessons I learned as a teacher was to engage parents. Engaging parents is a challenge.

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The personal web

Learning with 'e's

With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or sadly, no web based use at all) is an alternative. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. Students were encouraged to explore each others’ gold dust resources and attach their own comments on how useful they found them.

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

Tips, resources and teaching materials for EFL and ESL teachers. The definitions that people give are more like short narratives, but this is still a useful resource and you can get your students to create their own online dictionary using 12seconds.tv, like this definition of headache Read more about Wordia here: Video Dictionary 2.0

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