Martin Dougiamas, Moodle Founder and Lead Developer, attended the 2010 Midwest Moot and presented the keynote address:
View Dougiamas’ keynote address via a Wimba webcast.
Tuesday, July 27, 9:00a – 10:00a Eastern Time
Other links/thoughts:
Moodle 2.0
- Better navigation via the new nav block
- Enhanced Settings block – context sensitive
- Customizable “My Home” page
- My private files
- File picker — used whenever you want to select and/or upload a file; draws from repositories, flickr, private files, document management systems, public sites, etc.
- Text box editor is resizable
- Workshop module completely re-written; good for peer assessment and moves away from the sage on the stage
- Community block / hub — could be very powerful
Also see:
- Moodle4iphones project
- Michelle Moore gave some great presentations; from remote-learner.net
- Example page at remote-learn.net dealing with Instructional Design (ID): http://id.remote-learner.net/
- For language learning on Moodle; see Carly Born’s work at:
http://apps.carleton.edu/its/flt/
http://apps.carleton.edu/its/flt/languagespecific/
http://apps.carleton.edu/its/flt/osmain/
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Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc (SIL) International is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving language communities worldwide as they build capacity for sustainable language development. SIL has some linguistic software available for translators and linguistics that goes beyond simply learning a language. They are more like language analysis and language parsing. Check out http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/index.asp
Categories include:
- Data Management
- Font
- Font Utility
- Keyboard Utility
- Other
- Parser
- Programming Language
- Text Analysis
- Text Utility
dict.leo.org
Below are some resources for learning languages — online
http://www.wimba.com/products/wimba_voice/
http://www.italki.com/
http://www.forvo.com/languages/
http://www.unilang.org/
http://universitiesandcolleges.org/language-learning-resources/
http://www.byki.com/
http://www.livemocha.com/
http://www.learn10.com/
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Showcase/100langlearning.html
http://www.rosettastone.comhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
http://2bdutch.nl/
http://www.wordreference.com/
http://www.voorleesbijbel.nl/
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/index.html
http://www.radiolinguaschools.com/information/intro/
http://www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm
http://www.mguhlin.org/2009/12/book-reflection-moodle-19-for-second.html
Free Online Language Translation: Best Services To Translate Your Documents – Mini-Guide:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/free-online-language-translation-best-services-to-translate-your-documents-mini-guide/
http://www.mingoville.com/en.html
http://www.byki.com/lists/LATIN/Teach-Yourself-Beginner-s-Latin-UNIT-4-phrases.html
http://beelinetv.com/
http://www.mylanguagenotebook.com/
http://www.lexiophiles.com/language-blog-toplist/top-100-language-blogs-2009-nominated-blogs-language-learning
http://www.babelwith.me/
http://www.babbel.com/
http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/products.php
http://dotsub.com/
Ten Excellent Language Translators And Resources:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/ten_excellent_l.html
From http://magistram.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/digital-storytelling-with-voicethread/
In our Latin 1 classes, we start the year by asking our students to find examples of Latin mottos or phrases that are still in use today. This year we used VoiceThread to again add the oral element to the presentation. Most of the presentations were created using either PowerPoint or SMART Notebook. Then the images were uploaded to VoiceThread and students recorded their comments there. Students selected mottos that all followed a certain theme, then chose images that best illustrated the motto. Some examples of this project are: Latin Love Mottos, and Philosophical Latin Mottos.
Also see:
http://voicethread.com/#q.b908650.i4836718
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Some flash card related sites:
- http://www.flashcardexchange.com
- http://www.flashcardmachine.com
- http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards
iPod/iPhone Apps: Language Teacher (Part 1) — by Isabelle Jones
General/Productivity
Skype (free): I hear Skype is planning to charge for skype-to-skype calls using the 3G network even if called supported by wifi will still be free. I have found Skype a brilliant way to use text with anybody abroad as well as using good quality voice calls for free, of course.
TweeetDeck (free): A classic Twitter client although there are many many more available including Twitter’s own newly released iphone client and Seesmic.
Edutecher (free): Great application to find subject-related sites and ed-tech tools. A selection of ed-tech videos is also available as well as a copy of their Twitter feed and a search function.
iMindMap (free): simple MindMaps that can be exported and emailed
SimpleMindMaps (free): MindMaps can be saved to desktop, exported or saved to camera roll.
Diigo (free): Great to bookmark new sites from the safari browser although the bookmark does not allow for saving to groups
Box.net (free): useful to share documents between various locations. I have a box on my blog and I can add to it via my phone.
Dropbox (free): very handy to transfer back-up copies of documents to your phone. Just drop a copy in Dropbox folder and a copy will appear on your phone
Linkedin (free): more serious professional networking tool, it also has a wide range of groups for linguists and teachers that are worth keeping an eye on
Evernote(free): good to make notes and add audio or pictures to them. Notes can also be e-mailed too.
TED (free): really interesting speakers featuring in podcasts and videos
Teaching UK(free)-News, ideas and twitter feed
Tumblr(free): for quick logging of text, photo, quotes, link, chat, audio, and video. Great to keep it all in one place, and could be used to collect material for later thoughts and blog posts.
Save My Doc lite (free iTunes): just put in the url to download the document onto your phone
Errands (free iTunes): to do list with scheduling and mailing facility
Schoolbook (free iTunes): great to get to learn your new timetable, particularly if it is a two-weekly one.
Audio
ipadio (free): broadcast, record, play back and share high quality audio up to 60 minutes in length. Recorded calls can be shared on Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Posterous, Blogger and more…
VR+lite (free Blackberry): simple recorder for messages to be shared by email or social media sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or Blogger. Recordings can be made private or public. A short audio watermark is attached to recording on the lite version (full version costs £1.19)To be able to edit and receive free storage you need to sign up for VR+Online (free)
iSaidWhat?! (£0.59): simple recorder allowing to do some sound editing directly from your iphone: record, import sound file, cut, arrange snippets, duplicate, share via email, Facebook or Twitter.
iRevise lite (free iTunes): revision timetable, notebooks to write summary, prompt cards for key words, audio recording with gaps for answers.
Photo/ picture resources
Flickr (free): A great way to back up the pictures on your phone, pictures from Flickr’s favourites can also be saved onto your phone quite easily.
Photoshop.com (free) simple tool to edit photos directly on your phone: crop, straighten, flip, rotate, exposure, contrast, colours, black and white, sketch, effects, borders, pictures can be saved, uploaded and posted to Facebook and TwitPic.
Art (£0.59 for full version-lite version available iTunes): Excellent source of Art and information about international artists-great stimuli to discuss colours, shapes and produce extended description or even stories in the foreign language! Pictures can be saved onto your camera roll or emailed and saved onto a laptop.
99 Happy Paintings (free iTunes): can be viewed, exported, used as wallpaper and emailed for copying and importing into teaching resources.
Google unveils real-time translation tool for smart phones — from eSchoolNews.com
Resource from kirstenwinkler.com
The theme of EUROCALL 2010 will therefore be Networked Structures and Virtual Communities in CALL. The emphasis will be placed on relationships – structures and communities connected by languages and cultures and functioning on a cooperative basis.
The sub-themes of the conference, underpinning the current topics of interest and concern in this area, will be the following:
– Learner communities, the web and corpora
– Distance learning, collaborative learning and mobile learning
– Managing multimedia environments
– Assessment, feedback and guidance in schools and universities
– Corpora: compilating, sorting and studying corpora that integrate online communication
– Intercultural competence and language learning
– Online multimodal communication and language learning
– Research methodologies and action research
– Virtual worlds
– Formal and informal language learning
– Networked language learning in in adult education
– Building international/regional partnerships for networked language learning
– New language learning communities
– Pedagogical changes brought about by ICT integration
– Innovative e-learning solutions for languages
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Bordeaux!
Some resourses for those interested in language instruction & technology — my thanks to David Smith — Director, Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning as well as Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Asian Languages at Calvin College for these resources:
Global language education: Learning the lingo –– from Edutopia.org
A sampling of schools that take foreign language teaching to task.