http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/language Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950487 Is technology stealing our collective soul? amaechi Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:01:46 +0000 disruption technology t561 t656 thought language education learning http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12351-software-finds-learning-language-childs-play.html Computer model "learning" language in a process akin to how babies learn language beautyfulgazelle Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:05:07 +0000 artificial intelligence ai language t561 http://lifehacker.com/5051386/learn-a-new-language-with-busuu Busuu is a language-learning web site that combines traditional language instruction features with a social networking component. sarahfield Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:44:31 +0000 t561 language web social networking http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ cgrant Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:59:44 +0000 grammar writing english language writing guide http://home.mira.net/~andy/seminars/chat.htm "Vygotsky rejects the aphorism that “thinking is silent speech”. Intelligence and Language have different roots. Intelligence is there, in however limited a form, even among chimps, and is found among all the peoples of the world in much the same degree and is exercised by young kids before they can talk. kse Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:48:25 +0000 vygotsky language thought thinking http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter98/smith.html A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. William Faulkner To meet the challenge of attracting middle-level students to the literate life, language arts educators focus instruction on process. This design creates a learning environment where students, along with their teacher, construct literacy as they participate in authentic acts of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The pivotal instructional components — reading workshop and writing workshop — immerse the adolescent learner in 1) regular chunks of time to write and read, 2) self-selection of writing topics and reading materials, and 3) meaningful dialogue with peers and teacher (Atwell, 1987). Within this context, a fire is kindled to ignite adolescents to write during writing workshop and read during reading workshop. kse Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:37:43 +0000 vygotsky drama reading literacy minick language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics kse Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:17:12 +0000 semiotics thought speech language http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards, and other awards too. janetmb Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:11:08 +0000 grammar english language podcast http://home.alphalink.com.au/~umbidas/ "for gifted and talent students & people with enquiring minds!... word puzzles; quizzes; creative thinking; creative writing; anagrams; homophones & homonyms; crossword puzzles; weird pictures; Aesop's Fables; fractal thinking; an ET hamburger; weird creatures; the amazing Mandelbrot fractal; proverbs and sayings; dragons; the Unpeople behind the dark; curious words and spellings...etc. Looks fun. janetmb Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:51:23 +0000 cretive thinking; activities puzzles language history http://www.nexusproject.net.au/ The teachers' guide to this new website explains that it is designed to be a space where young refugees and migrants can improve linguistic and digital literacy. It is also designed to be a space for interaction, conversation and community. Young people from around Australia (and the world) are welcome to use the site to communicate with each other, share stories and practise language in context. janetmb Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:40:59 +0000 refugees literacy multiliteracy language youth music collaboration http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ Teaching resources for less commonly taught languages aseldow Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:15:04 +0000 ell language instruction language foreign language teacher resources http://www.visuwords.com/ Flash word cluster generator. aseldow Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:57:41 +0000 flash language words cluster visual representation visuwords word cloud http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/ The Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT) is a set of word association norms showing the counts of word association as collected from subjects. This is not a developed semantic network such as WordNet, but empirical association data. An interactive version and a downloadable version of the word association thesaurus are available below. aseldow Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:52:20 +0000 thesaurus word association literacy language http://en.scientificcommons.org/22487187 pham Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:17:56 +0000 sudan juba arabic southern sudan language international http://www.kidsolr.com List of Resources (websites) - various elementary subjects tomderis Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:06:58 +0000 math art music games language arts geography space weather language history safety science special education animals