Oops
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I posted an infographic about modifiers some time back.  I made a couple of mistakes in it.  Here is a corrected version of the infographic.  I apologize if anyone used it and had to answer for my errors ..read more
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Be a Moderator for a 2019 EVO session
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by grammaramble
3y ago
Every year, the Electronic Village supports professional educators who have expertise to share.  Follow this link to take advantage of this opportunity for professional growth. https://www.smore.com/sbzya-proposals-for-evo19?embed=1 ..read more
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Modifier Infographic
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I have been working off and on, more off than on, on a video about modifiers.  Much like when I was working on my dissertation, almost anything was more attractive than working on my dissertation, I have been procrastinating on this video.  To give myself the illusion I am making progress, I made an infographic about modifiers.  I made it on Canva.  I find that Canva has enough of the tools to make an infographic for me to make a serviceable infographic for free. The infographic considers 6 types of modifiers, describes them, and provides examples. Here is the infograp ..read more
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A random worksheet critique
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I have been doing some thinking about worksheets. I occasionally used worksheets I found online and in a few instances regretted it. Curating worksheets can be time-consuming, but it is necessary. I decided to examine one pretty much randomly focusing on a grammar or grammar/writing worksheet. I downloaded the worksheet in the image to test out a set of guidelines I found online. I purposely am not sharing the source of the worksheet to avoid implying this worksheet is representative. Furthermore, I believe there is no identifying information about the author or source in the image. Furthermor ..read more
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Some thoughts on worksheets
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I have been considering how I used worksheets as I read some criticisms of using worksheets by David Didau and Mark Barnes. These criticisms nagged at me, made me feel like maybe I wasn’t such a good teacher. Worksheets, aren’t they so like 20th century? Aren’t they just reinforcing the industrial model of education? At the risk of sounding defensive, I have a few ideas about worksheets that while not directly addressing the critiques argue for their usefulness. I did a little research and found an ELT article about worksheets on tefl.net. The article aimed at teachers provides a list of ..read more
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Reflections on my flipped learning journey (part 1)
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I flipped my first class about 6 years ago.  I flipped because I was dissatisfied with my teaching and my approach to the classes I taught.  I got the idea from an article I read in the popular press.  I went about it doing the best I could from what I understood about the flipped classroom.  When I went online to find out more, most of the discussions centered around video.  The discussions were about how to make videos, what were the best applications, what were the best strategies, and how to make them available to the students. Because I started flipping with littl ..read more
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Preparing for Note Taking in Listening
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by grammaramble
3y ago
Part of my communication class involves working on note taking. Note taking presents several challenges.  We need to capture the main ideas and key points and record them.  I have experimented with and exposed my students to different practices including the Cornell system and mind-mapping.  But I often had students trying to take notes before I prepared students for what to listen for. In order to address that problem, I have experimented with inserting questions into a video.  I would use the caption tool on MovieMaker, for example, to insert questions at certain points i ..read more
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Pronouns and Reading
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I haven’t read up on this, so maybe I am way behind the curve on pronouns and reading. I find my students experience difficulties in tracking pronouns to their referents or antecedents in reading.  One of the first activities I do at the beginning of the semester is to take some paragraphs from our first reading and ask students to identify the referent for the pronouns.  In the following screen shot is the first paragraph of the reading taken from Focus 4: Reading and Vocabulary. About half the class found the exercise difficult either taking a great deal of time with it or identif ..read more
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Rewordify
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by grammaramble
3y ago
I was listening to a podcast, EdTech Take Out, and at the end of the show, each of the two podcasters mentioned favorite new tech products.  One of the podcasters mentioned Rewordify.com.  I decided to check it out because the review indicated that it might help my reading students. I did check it out.  It looks promising enough that I will share it with my students this semester.  Rewordify.com takes a text and rewords the difficult words into either simpler words or explanatory phrases.  Here is an example from the Custom House chapter of The Scarlet Letter ..read more
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Kahoot
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by grammaramble
3y ago
Flipped learning requires constant formative assessment. Many of these assessments occur in class with the teacher looking on. Other assessments involve checking work with the class, getting feedback through exit tickets and asking for it. But sometimes, I like to switch things up a little with a game-like activity. I use [Kahoot] (https://kahoot.com/) a game-like assessment activity. Kahoot is a free online application that can be used to create quizzes, surveys, or open ended questions. I have created 25 Kahoots for my reading and for my writing classes. I generally make multiple choice qui ..read more
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