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[ProfessionalDevelopment 1146] Re: "teasing" folks into online blended learning

Barbara Dieu beeonline at gmail.com
Wed May 16 12:31:06 EDT 2007


For teachers who attend sessions or workshops online and also with my
high school students, whom I meet in class but who are also learning
how to use the different Web 2.0 tools, I have a number of screencasts
and tutorials I put on a wiki page in case they need to recap later on
at home. You will notice that most of these tutorials are not mine -
they have been made by other educators around the world, so no need to
reinvent the wheel - it is just a matter of finding them online.
See:
http://openwebpublishing.wikispaces.com/FAQ2

Some time ago, I made a little booklet online for teachers to learn
how to use blogs but it must be outdated by now as Blogger has changed
its dashboard since then. You can always have a look at how it was
done:
http://beewebhead.net/blog04/
Aiden has done the same with Bubbleshare.

I find wikis easier to blogs for posting tutorials and links as other
teachers can add to your resource list. I use blogs mostly for
comments. It is important for learners to document their learning
journey on blogs and have other people read and comment on it.
Examples:
Teachers:
http://lainemarsh.wordpress.com/
http://namckeand.wordpress.com/

EFL High School Students:
http://klara22.wordpress.com/evaluation-06/
http://maela08.wordpress.com/evaluation-2006/

I also find it useful to have a list of technical benchmarks covering
what should have been completed after a certain time so they can check
before being evaluated.
Example:
http://lycee.wikispaces.com/2nde1

Warm regards from Brazil,
Bee


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Barbara Dieu
http://dekita.org
http://beewebhead.net



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