! 18 years experience as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and Literature, currently teaching at http://www.escolamobile.com.br !

Pioneer in online English tutoring in Brazil ! Teacher trainer and test designer ! Online tutor certified by the International House

Collaborative writing, group projects, joint problem solving, debates, study teams, etc. Heavily rooted in Vygotskys views social nature of learning (zone of proximal development). An umbrella term for approaches in education involving joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Redefines traditional student-teacher relationship

A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach. In the past, digital materials have played a supplementary role, helping to support face to face instruction.

A course in which materials and instruction are delivered over the internet to users around the world. The course is designed to connect instructors with learners interested in a common topic and works best in a large user base and open content.

https://sites.google.com/a/msad60.org/technology-is-learning/samrmodel

In Google Docs, everyone can see and make changes to the document in real-time in a web browser. A provided chat room and the ability to comment either on the document as a whole or on specific passages facilitates collaboration. Google Docs is ideal for most collaborative writing and editing assignments.
https://drive.google.com/?pli=1&authuser=0 - my-drive

Use YouTube as a platform for group video projects. Take advantage of microphones and video cameras on smart phones, I-Pads, I-Phones and I-Pods and try the easy upload process to assign an engaging group YouTube video project.

Tellagami
https://tellagami.com

Socrative
http://www.socrative.com

Scribd
http://www.scribd.com

Infogr.am
http://infogr.am

mailVU
http://mailvu.com

VoiceThread
http://voicethread.com

The ability to navigate, interpret information from, contribute information to, and communicate through the mobile web. ! The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web teaching mobile web literacy seems crucial to me as teaching basic literacy.
Source: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/mobile-perspectives-teachingmobile-literacy

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Digital Literacies by Teacher Karina Fernandes