Quite often, I take the second step before the first one. In my last post, I referred to twitter quite often. It seems to be time to discuss it now. In this post, I’ll discuss twitter, how it is and why it should be used. And, as usual, I’ll discuss possible scenarios for educators and students. (more…)
Archive for September, 2011
Tools for students: tumblr and posterous
Why blogging is great.
Writing is a skill that needs to be learned, the more you practice the better you’ll become. And that applies to your mother tongue as well as to your foreign language. Blogs also offer the opportunity to reflect about complex issues, resulting in better understanding and the emergence of new ideas. So, blogging is good for your critical thinking abilities.
In the foreign language you have to start small first (more…)
Sunni Brown at TED about visual notetaking a.k.a. “doodling”
I like the concept of visual note taking, Sunni Brown gave a talk at TED encouraging to “doodle”. These 5 minutes are well-spend, in my opinion.
Tools for educators and students: Skitch
I came across a great tool today. It’s called “skitch“. It is available for MAC (app store) and Android phones (market) at the moment. iOS (hence, iPhone and iPad) may also be supported soon. Furthermore, I hope, there’ll be a Windows application, but you may also refer to these alternatives. Though Skitch and its alternatives are useful, one can always use basic graphic editors to gain the same results. So, if you have Photoshop, Firefox, Gimp or whatever, you can basically do the same. (more…)
Das direkte Objekt, eine Zusammenfassung
Hier ist eine kurze Zusammenfassung des Akkusativobjekts mit englischen Erklärungen.
Akkusativobjekt
Mobile learning applications (iPad) and Bloom’s levels
Bloom taxonomy of learning domains is very useful and widely accepted. But how do mobile learning activities be categorized into Bloom’s levels of
- remembering,
- understanding,
- analyzing,
- evaluating,
- creating?
Tools for educators and students III: Blog (Mindmap)
I wanted write a lengthy post. But I’ve thought, this mindmap might be more helpful.
If it is not shown below, you can access here (file size 5MB).
The ideal blog post
A quick google search gives you plenty of guides, telling you how to compose good blog posts (1, 2, 3 examples). So, why this one? Well, everyone has her/his own ideas about this.
Paul Foreman for mindmapinspiration.com
Here is mine. (more…)
Tools for educators and students II: Instapaper and Delicious
These are two bookmarking tools, however, there are differences among them, so it is useful to use both. These examples show perfectly that sometimes two applications make a better job than just one. (more…)
Helpful tools – my presentation at the CLS sharing session
First of all, here is my presentation, again.
Who am I?
Lecturer for German at the Centre for Language Studies of the National University of Singapore.
Interested in neurocognition, CALL (with emphasis on Web 2.0) and science.
