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Evernote + Blogger (language learning portfolio)

Evernote + Blogger (language learning portfolio)

Teacher's blog: 

• link to all students' blogs (class roster)
• give assignments in multimodal formats
• use blogs to interact with students and provide customized feedback

Student's sample blog portfolio:

Procedure:

• Students use Evernote to create a new note and make audio recording.
• Students copy the Evernote URL.
• Students paste the Evernote URL to his/her blog portfolio.
• Teachers review students' projects on their portfolio blogs and leaves comments.

Further reading

Using audioblogs to assist English-language learning: an investigation into student perception, Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008, 21(2), 181-198 (Hsu, H.-Y., Wang, S.-K. & Comac, L.)

Mendeley

Mendeley

• Go go http://www.mendeley.com/ and create one account
• Create groups and invite researchers to share the documents
• Group members can share comments on a paper
• Desktop version, mobile version
• Mendeley + DropBox
• Copy formatted citation

• Research library

• Organize papers

• Connect with DropBox (Archive articles in DropBox, and use Mendeley desktop version to add documents through Dropbox)

• Annotate and highight papers

• Sync across devices

Practice:

1. Tap this link on your iPad's.

2. Tap Download.

3. Choose Open in...

4. Choose Mendeley

5. The article will be opened in Mendeley. Now you can annotate the paper.

Mendeley vs. Endnote:

• Free
• Social networking feature
• Support collaborative research

10. Neu. Annotate PDF

Neu.Annotate PDF ($0.99)

• Read PDF
• Annotate PDF (highlight, text notes, drawing, photos)
• Import from DropBox
• Open PDF documents from any sources (e.g. email)
• Save presentation slides as PDF and have students annotate on the slides
• Click this link to download the rubric file

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5. ShowMe

ShowMe

• Interactive Whiteboard
• Record voice-over whiteboard tutorial
• Share recordings online (public or private)
• Insert presentation slides or images to the whiteboard
• Practice Flip Classroom

ShowMe example 1: A reading specialist demonstrated how to conduct reading assessment

ShowMe example 2: A science teacher created a showme video to show her students how to write the lab report.

3. Board

•Absolute board

–Sketch, take notes

–Unlimited board size and color choice

–Share the board as image/PDF files
–Keep a record of your board notes

1. Organization tool: Evernote

Evernote

• Cloud computing tool
• Take notes anywhere, sync notes across computers/devices
• Record multimedia notes (voice/audio)
• Tag notes (help you organize materials)
• Share notes with friends or colleagues via Facebook/Twitter

Ways to use Evernote

• Plan and organize your classes with tags
• Record your blackboard/white board notes
• Document research progress
• Classroom templates such as grade sheets or assessment forms
• Share a notebook with your class