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May
Practice!
French practice
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Mar
How do you deal with phones in the classroom?
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I teach and support learners with French as a 2nd language and am always asking students to hand me their phones… …so I can record myself reading something to them, or a conversation we are having, or for them to practice their oral presentations/dialogues and be able to listen to themselves. The idea of allowing [...]
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Jan
Why I love working in adult education
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It’s because I feel that I am really working in partnership with students and the other teachers and support staff towards specific and relevant goals. Students are here because they have made a choice to make a change in their lives and I am here to help make that change happen. And so is everyone [...]
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Nov
Reading Rescue Ontario
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Workshop in Knowlton….Thanks to the Peter Gzowski pd grants Reading Rescue Ontario: Everyone’s a Reader “I sent a guy to high school that couldn’t read and that really bothered me.” Linda Because of my stroke…”I understand how exhausting it is for students struggling in the classroom…how much energy cognitive processing requires…” Gwen Reading in the [...]
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Oct
MathAPPetizers
By TracyRosen|iPads, tAPPas Menus, Teaching & Learning Tools|Be the first to comment!
Another app menu with a few apps that one of the Math teachers I work with uses in his classes. Again, click on the image to open the pdf, which you can then download to ibooks or interact with on your computer.
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Oct
tAPPas menu
By TracyRosen|iPads, tAPPas Menus, Teaching & Learning Tools|1 Comment
Here is that tAPPas menu I promised to upload, oh…last spring I created it with Word 2010 and converted it to pdf with embedded links to make it openable with ibooks. Click on the image and it will direct you to the pdf. Have fun
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Aug
Learnist – oh, the possibilities!
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I just saw this today, I think maybe it was just released today or yesterday or sometime not too far back. It’s an application that can allow teachers to re-mix anything they find on the web (video, webpage, ebook, document, etc…) along with their own material in order to present together, in one capsule or [...]
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May
Making an Appy Hour Menu
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I LOVE the idea of the Appy Hour Menu. Such a nice way to present different apps. I discovered them at Hooked on Innovation and am anticipating having great fun creating some of my own to use with teachers. On a PC I am working in Word 2010 and making a cute and fancy document [...]
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May
Alternatives to Rosetta Stone
By TracyRosen|Français|Be the first to comment!
Rosetta Stone has long been touted as THE language learning software and, indeed, I have seen it work really well with some students who had historically been reluctant, to put it mildly, in their learning of French. BUT. It is expensive and licensing seems to be a nightmare. So I have started to look at [...]
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May
Audiboo experiment in French class
By TracyRosen|Français, Teaching & Learning Tools|Be the first to comment!
I visited a French class today to test out the logistics of using the Audioboo app (free) for iPad to practice speaking in French. The instructions were: Decide on something in the classroom you can say a sentence about (no people allowed). Practice saying the sentence, get help with vocabulary/structure if needed. Record the sentence. [...]
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