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Punctuation..? A review
11 years ago
Opportunities for Blended Learning
I like this infographic because the idea of doing a Blog and Wiki came from trying to explore blended learning. I think there are a lot of possibilities for blended learning. Education is changing. People's living situations are not what they used to be. People are looking for educational opportunities outside of their neighborhood, town, country and blended learning offers options that were not available before.
But as this infografic states it has to be planned out. Like anything in education it has to be about the learning.
I have many university students and even some of my adult students who have a difficult time getting to the classroom, but who are very interested in the class for these cases I have been pondering about blended learning.
I have many university students and even some of my adult students who have a difficult time getting to the classroom, but who are very interested in the class for these cases I have been pondering about blended learning.
Teachers Are Using Blogs and Wikis
35% Have students and/or instructor-run blogs 22% Are involved in creating or maintaining Wikis.
From trying out both,so far, I have gotten a lot more out of the blog than the wiki. It makes me wonder why more Teachers are using blogs than wikis? What has your experience been with Blogs or with Wikis?
Work Vocabulary
Exercises and Games
catch on
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(v.) become popular; understand
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come up with
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(v.) to think of; to produce.
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an idea / a plan / a suggestion etc.
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cut back on
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figure out
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find out
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(v.) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
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get ahead
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(v.) succeed
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give up
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(v.) stop maintaining or insisting on
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go under
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hand in
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(v.) submit work or school work
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lay off
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pass over
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(v.) bypass (as for a promotion)
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set up
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(v.) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
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stick with
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(v.) not change something / stay near someone / not be forgotten / continue with something difficult or unpleasant
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take off
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(v.) leave; remove clothes
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get away
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get back to
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respond to a contact / respond when you know the answer / start doing something again after an interruption
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get by
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come to terms or deal successfully with
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get into
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become involved or interested / become involved in something bad or criminal / be accepted or admitted / become or be accepted as a member / start a habit or way of acting or behaving / be small enough to wear something / criticise
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goof off
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waste time doing nothing important
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got behind
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to lag or linger behind
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opportunity in disguise
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an opportunity that is not readily seen as so
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come around
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change one's position or opinion
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have butterflies in stomach
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to be nervous
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so to speak
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in a manner of speaking
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Mysteries Vocabulary
Practice and Games
devoted
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dedicated
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document
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record in detail
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evidence
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information and facts that help prove something
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incident
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a single distinct event
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witness
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someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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authority
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an expert whose views are taken as definitive
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out of the ordinary
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adj. unusual or striking.
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can't tell apart
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run into
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meet by chance
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premises
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land and the buildings that are on it
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whereabouts
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the general location where something is
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outskirts
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outlying areas (as of a city or town)
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stranded
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sought
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looked for
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vanish
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disappear suddenly
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adopt
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take into one's family
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seemingly
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apparently
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twist of fate
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unplanned events that has a big impact on the future
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inexplicable
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incapable of being explained or accounted for
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intuition
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instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
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malfunction
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a failure to function normally
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observe
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observe with care or pay close attention to
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previous
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Earlier; happening before
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routinely
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regularly, frequently, typically
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speculate
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Form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.
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trigger
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an act that sets in motion some course of events
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Story Pyramid Instructions
The story pyramid doesn't have to be written in complete sentences. Instead,
try to think of the most descriptive, most important words to describe each element of your book.
Book Title
Author/Illustrator
1- Write the name of the main character
• 2- two words describing the main character
• 3- three words describing the setting
• 4- four words stating the story’s problem
• 5- five words describing the first important event in the story.
• 6- six words describing a second important event.
• 7- seven words describing a third important event.
• 8- eight words describing the solution to the problem.
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BERTA
THE FIRM
JOHN GRISHAM
1 Mitchell
2 Intelligent Ambicious
3 Firm corruption joining
4 Murder associates taxes FBI
5 Extrench dead boat lawyer investigation
6 Authorities contact Character explain illegal activity
7 Trick Girl Photos blackmail quiet kill secrecy
8 Wife silence approach police help husband against criminals
ELENA
Book Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
1 Joad
2 American family
3 The dust bowl
4 Find a better life
5 Moved to California for work
6 Sadness and suffering on the road
7 They are betrayed by chiefs and society
8 Laws that encourage a better lifestyle for everyone.
DAVID
Round the world in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
1- Fogg
• 2- Calm, habits
• 3- London, India, America
• 4- Bet, travel, robbery, confusion
• 5- Robbery, London, bet, travel, world
• 6- India, Passepartout, save, Aouda, widow, priests.
• 7- America, Train, Indians, Shots, Fogg, rescue, Passepartout
• 8- Steamer, Liverpool, one, day, early, win, bet, marriage.
JOSE D.
Book Title: Tales of Mistery and Imagination
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
1. Roderick
2. Sick Anxious
3. Old Dark Mysterious
4. Ghosts in the house
5. Friend come to the house
6. Stange things happen in his room
7. A ghost try to enter the room
8. The friend escape from the house very fast
BEGOñA
THE HOUSE OF STAIRS
1.- Bell
2.- terribly evil
3.- England, thirtyes decade
4.- human relations among neighbors
5.- a murder in strange circumstances
6.- the loving relationship between two woman
7.- Second protagonist able to kill for money
8.- second protagonist goes to prission rejected by all
MARIA JOSE
The Body
Stephen KING
1. Gordon
2. Unwanted child
3. a dangerous forest
4. Desapereance of a boy
5. Adventure of four american teenagers
6. Looking for a young boy disappeared
7. Four friends facing dangers on their way
8. Four friends discovering how cruel the world is
Stephen KING
1. Gordon
2. Unwanted child
3. a dangerous forest
4. Desapereance of a boy
5. Adventure of four american teenagers
6. Looking for a young boy disappeared
7. Four friends facing dangers on their way
8. Four friends discovering how cruel the world is
Motivate Students to Use Class Blog - Part 2
6. Reccomend Online Resources for Learning
I highlight lists of Blogs and Websites with useful resources for my students. There are so many sites out there it makes it difficult to find the ones that are truly useful. My students ask for recommendations, so this way I can have somewhere to refer them to and it's always there not lost in an email. To get students more involved in this process for my advanced classes I ask them to find and recommend useful websites. I am pleasantly surprised at the great resources they recommend.
7. Post Unit Vocabulary
Posting the vocabulary online is another way of getting them to review it. One good thing of posting it online is that I post the pronunciation and they are able to hear it as many times as they need to. I also embed Quizlet into my posts with the pertinent vocabulary. We play the games in class and my students use them to review for tests on their own. My scores for vocabulary have gone up since I began using this.
8. Post Unit Grammar
Sometimes our book does not give an in depth explanation of how to use the grammar we are studying. Also some students may need more help understanding these concepts. I sometimes post my grammar lesson straight from my class or find other resources online that give a good explanation and link to it. Some of my students like to get extra grammar exercises, so I provide links for these too. Some of my students don't look at the blog until it gets close to test time. They tell me it's a great resource for them to review for tests.
9. Connect to Book Resources Online
If the publisher has taken the time to create resources for the units in the textbook make it easy for your students to find them and encourage them to use them. Some of the resources are boring, but some are games and are a great way to help students with the material your are studying.
10. Humor
I post pictures of bad translations I find. I encourage my students to send me same and then we talk about them in class.
