Blended Learning Toolkit |
Source: blended.online.ucf.edu
Have you heard the words, "blended learning" in a meet or at an s conference and nodded like you knew it then, but didn’t? Here is a great resource to help you walk the talk, and maybe even put this teaching strategy into your practice.
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“Racing to Nowhere: Abandoning the Promise of Universal Education”
MillerComm Lecture by David Blacker
Monday, September 29, 2014
David Blacker (University of Delaware) is author of The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame.
Source: educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com
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Common Errors in English Usage
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Book by Paul Brians
Often I wonder if I have mixed-up, or even mangled an expressions. Or affended someone while saying a foreign-language faux pas. Sometimes I am even confused about confusing terms, or I have a tongue malfunction and mispronounced commonly words — Well, look no further, they’re all explained in this useful guide.
A helpful source to double-check your writings before you hit submit.
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Touch and Write Phonics
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Get Touch and Write Phonics on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Touch and Write Phonics- practice vowels, blends, digraphs and trigraphs – students will write with shaving cream, ketchup and more! "Touch and Write Phonics" allows parents and teachers to create individualized practice lists, and it allows parents and teachers to track children’s progress! —Game Play See Video — Children choose a phonics area to practice by tapping the "Vowels," "Blends" or "Digraphs" button. Children will have the opportunity to watch animations that teach about short vowels, long vowels, blends and digraphs or to practice writing words with short vowels, long vowels (with special attention to "silent e"), starting and ending blends, digraphs and trigraphs.
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Abby Monkey® Basic Skills: Preschool and Kindergarten Educational Learning Adventure Games for Toddler Explorers
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Get Abby Monkey® Basic Skills: Preschool and Kindergarten Educational Learning Adventure Games for Toddler Explorers on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
preschool and kindergarten curriculum. 14 proven educational activities to develop the necessary skills.
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Abby Sight Words Games & Flash Cards for Reading Success
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Get Abby Sight Words Games & Flash Cards for Reading Success on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
My son enjoys playing (learning) with this application.
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ABBY MONKEY 7+2 First Words Preschool
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Get ABBY MONKEY 7+2 First Words Preschool on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
From the developer – Monkey Abby teaches you words from more than *seven thematic categories!* Come and explore with Abby all the colorful words from the exciting world of Numbers (10 words), Common Words (66 words), Colors (11 words), Fairy Tales (13 words), Shapes (12 words), Animals (30 words), and Fruits & Vegetables (12 words)! All in all, 154 words in just one app
Thanks to a wide range of modification, this app is one of those, which will grow with your child. Let’s look together on how you can adjust this app to suit just your child!
* As noted above, the game mode can be accommodated to either matching mode for very small children or to a reading mode (labeling of the pictures-to-be-matched is turned off) for those who are slightly more advanced.
* For convenience, you can choose whether the letter sounds are going to be read aloud in the learning mode when the letters are manipulated.
* The same way, you can choose whether you prefer lower/upper case letters or if you want the words to be capitalized.
* In order to make the game age-appropriate, you can also turn on the letter hints, which will make the word composition game in the learning mode essentially a letters matching game.
* Moreover, you can modify the length of the longest word appearing in the application.
* The words can either appear in a random or alphabetical order — an alphabetical order can be better for learning, while a random order for testing of already acquired knowledge.
* An option to be learning the words from all of the categories at once (All words option) or just from a few selected categories is also included (My Words option)
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ABBY MONKEY 7+2 First Words Preschool
Get ABBY MONKEY 7+2 First Words Preschool on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Description: Monkey Abby teaches you words from more than *seven thematic categories!* Come and explore with Abby all the colorful words from the exciting world of Numbers (10 words), Common Words (66 words), Colors (11 words), Fairy Tales (13 words), Shapes (12 words), Animals (30 words), and Fruits & Vegetables (12 words)! All in all, 154 words in just one app
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SentenceBuilder™ for iPad
Get SentenceBuilder™ for iPad on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar of all children.
FEATURES
– Simple and intuitive interface to build sentences
– 100 distinct pictures to build sentences around
– 3 Levels of play
– 60 encouragement animations and audio clips
– Optional correct sentence audio re-enforcement
– Option correct sentence encouragement animation
– Statistics to track students progress
– Each student has their own stats page
– Two teenager modules available with 50 images each
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Interactive whiteboard software that puts the teacher back in the center – Gynzy
Gynzy helps you get the most out of your Interactive Whiteboard. Gynzy is packed with handy tools that make teaching easier and more enjoyable. Fun and educational tools such as Traffic, Count the Money or the Birthday Cake.
A rich internet website thaty offers activities and templates packed with tools to make your class instruction a bit simpler. Just visit the website and present or instruct while using your interactive whiteboard.
There are fun and educational tools such as Traffic, Count the Money or the Birthday Cake. Handy work sheets, videos and images. And smart Mini’s such as the Traffic Light and a countdown timer.
Gynzy’s goal is to make the interactive whiteboard a valuable, but above all easy to use tool for teachers. That is why we developed interactive activities for the smart board in close cooperation with teachers like you. We recently added new activities and lessons for language arts, mathematics, science and social studies.
Why don’t you give them a try?
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