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Through their innovative book, Beach et al. (2014) have addressed six social practices involved in use of digital tools: 1. Contexualizing digital texts 2. Making connections between digital texts and people 3. Collaborative understanding and creation of digital texts 4. Adopting alternative modes of communication 5. Adopting alternative perspectives 6. Constructing and enacting identities (p.3). My question is this - among those above, how many practices do we - educators using digital tools - realize in our classroom? Beach et al. (2014). Understandig and Creating Digital Texts: An Activity-Based Approach. Rowman and Littlefiled.

이 포스팅은 보이스 쓰레드(VoiceThread) 사용법에 관한 것입니다. 보이스 쓰레드는 클라우드 테크놀로지 사이트로써 사용자들이 목소리를 편리하게 녹음하고, 편집하고, 공유할 수 있습니다. 언어 교육에 관하여 선생님들은 이 사이트를 통해 보다 효율적이고 효과적인 말하기 평가를 수행할 수 있을 것입니다. 또한 보이스 쓰레드는 말하기 평가의 구성타당도 측면에서, 브라운(2010)이 역설한 다섯 가지 말하기 평가요소 (imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive speaking)를 모두 평가하는 데 적합한 애플리케이션이 될 것입니다. 자세한 사용법은 아래에 기술된 절차를 참고하시기 바랍니다. This posting is about how to create a voicethread project at voicethread.com. VoiceThread is a cloud-based technology that helps users to create, edit, and share voices. My suggestion for language educators is that teachers can use this application as an speaking assessment tool. With regard to construct-validity of language assessment (Brown, 2010), the scopes of speaking proficiency that VoiceThread can be used for are imitative, intensive, responsive, interactive, and extensive speaking (Brown). Details will be followed. *Reference Brown, H.D. & Abeywickrama, P. (2010). Language assessment: Princi...

         Jazz Chants, invented by Carolyn Graham, is a pedagogical method using rhythms and beats to effectively teach English. For example, you can put the line "Have a good weekend. Thanks, you too" in four beats (find the moment of 3:12 at the Youtube video linked below). According to Patricia et al. (2010), Jazz Chants expose students to natural intonation patterns, idiomatic expression, and common rituals of everyday life. Also, it can make students engaged in sound of the target language in fun, authentic, and effective ways because it stimulates not only verbal-lingual intelligence but also musical one as well. Wanna know more about the method? Please click the link below. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nPUuPryCs Jazz Chants

            Have you ever have any students who feel sleepy in your classes? A traditional way in the classroom, e.g., using a textbook only, may cause them to be sleepy because it stimulates just one or two intelligences including verbal-lingual one. However, using a video clip can make your classes more energetic, interactive, and motivational because it can stimulate multiple intelligences that include musical, visual, and audio-lingual. Therefore, how about using educational video clips in your classroom?

            Technology has been making our lives easy, effective, and fun in many ways. In education, inventing the pencil and paper was revolutionary technology because they have enabled us to write and store knowledge in effective manners in comparison to people who carved letters on walls and stones. Nowadays, we are surrounded by abundant technologies with the advent of personal computers, smartphones, and tablet computers. With this sense, the Technology in the Classroom course has (1) taught me various knowledge and ideas about how to apply technology in education, (2) provided me opportunities to learn various topics by myself that the course did not cover, and (3) motivated me to keep moving toward technology in the education field from now on.             First, the course has taught me how to apply various applications in the classroom, broaden my horizon about the field and related issues, and engaged me to e...

       This posting discusses 2 technology-based organizations that teachers and teacher candidates need to know for their professional development in education: International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA). (1) International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) The ISTE is an association with people who are interested in technology and education in the world. Educators can be benefited from the site in terms of being updated with current trends, networking with various members, acquiring articles for free, taking professional webinars, taking related podcasts, and receiving discounts on using resources that charge you to use. For example, the association has 19,263 members (based on 2012-2013 annual report) that consists of 1,827 international members and 55 corporate members. Also, there are three journals such as Journal of Research on Technology in Education, Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher E...