How to protect students' identity online when we ask them to create a blog? For the blogs of the teacher educators, we do not post their contact details or too much immediately identifiable details. Some school districts, in fact, allow photos of students to be posted online, as long as a release form is signed.
Discussion of the Day 1 article
Elisabet shares her experience of learning English. There was no native speakers in her learning environment. Elisabet notes that her listening skills nowadays still depend on the speaker. It is important to be strategic about the kind of listening materials to assign students of the appropriate level. Some say that materials need to be level appropriate, while others say that they need to be one step beyond the current level of students.
Content
- To insert something like a "Word of the day" gadget, go to insert gadget in Blogspot's "layout", insert HTML/JavaScript
Example: go to Learn Japanese: get your own widget, some websites will allow you to customise the widget. Now update this post, before you go to insert the widget.
- Listen a minute (ESL)
When it comes to audio files that do not come with an embed code, use this code and insert the link of the audio file
<blockquote><EMBED height="20 CHANGE IF YOU WANT" SRC="http://www.listenaminute.com/a/accidents.mp3" VOLUME="50" loop="false" controls="console" AUTOSTART="FALSE" width="300"></embed></blockquote>
<blockquote><EMBED height="20 CHANGE IF YOU WANT" SRC="http://www.listenaminute.com/a/accidents.mp3" VOLUME="50" loop="false" controls="console" AUTOSTART="FALSE" width="300"></embed></blockquote>
- Audio-Lingua (European languages with Euro standards)
Example: C1 Spanish, female voice
