Blended Learning Session

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 What is 'Blended Learning' exactly? This post here may give you some ideas.

Image source found here: http://freshmancomp.com/2012/07/27/the-best-of-both-worlds-hybrid-courses-at-gcc/

Blended learning is........................................................................................

How much technology do you use in class?
What technology do you use in your lessons?
How much technology integration do you plan for the new school term?

'I don't want no Edtech!'

View this video. Do you sympathize with this teacher who has been forced by her school to teach with 'edtech'?



Sue Lyons Jones (the singer in the video) outlines a very useful list in her blog of ready made online lesson plans.  You will know 3 of them already :-)

http://www.suelyonjones.com/index.php/lesson-plans/

Modern Students

View the video below called 'A Vision of K-12 Students Today'.  Whilst viewing, make notes and be prepared to give your opinion of what you have seen. Think of the following points:

Do you think your students expect you to be technologically prepared for their future?

Are the young pupils in the video expecting too much from their teachers?



You may find this presentation interesting. It's called 'A Teacher's Guide to Web 2.0 at School.'

A nice Wordsearch Maker you can use for your classes: The Ultimate Wordsearch Maker

Make Your Own Word Search

List of links on scribd

Blended Learning 2013

 
diigo
I store all my bookmarks on a social bookmarking site called Diigo.  You can find my list on Blended Learning sites & tools here.

You can find the Lake School's bookmarked resources here: https://www.diigo.com/list/creativeteaching
You can find the Lake School's Blended Learning resources here.

Some Useful Sites & Links to explore..........
British Council Innovations in Learning Technologies for English Language Teaching
Russell Stannard's Lecture at Oxford University:
The Round: http://the-round.com/
Macmillan Dictionary: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
The Guardian Classroom Materials: http://www.theguardian.com/education/series/classroom-materials
The Toolshed Wiki: http://thetoolshed.wikispaces.com/ 
Learning Technology Scoop.it: http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-technology
Janet's Comics & Cartoons Scoop.it: http://www.scoop.it/t/comics-and-cartoons

Apps & Tools from A - Z

Spice Up Your Teaching with Apps & Tools from A - Z from Janet Bianchini

All the resources linked to this presentation are on my JanetAbruzzo wiki page

http://janetabruzzo.wikispaces.com/VRT+2013+Resources

Fluffy's Blog

You can read all about Fluffy's web 2.0 adventures in his very own blog below:

http://fluffythekitten.co.uk/