tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54693478650535834402024-03-16T11:12:27.242-07:00Digitally Yours....@dele shares cool digital tools for the EFL classroom.Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-15417105868301904762020-10-31T00:05:00.002-07:002020-10-31T00:16:06.567-07:00My Inspiration: Podcasts<p> </p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.27; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first Corona Lockdown we experienced rendered me emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted. Remember last spring? We were in such a different place. I was emotionally exhausted from the fear of the unknown: how could I do what I needed to do while keeping myself safe. Wearing gloves in the store and wiping down every item I brought into my house on a sterile surface, before putting it in the cupboard or fridge. Mentally exhausted from doing full-on teacher training with the REED counseling team for REED teachers, literally from early morning till way after the sun went down. And physically exhausted because I wasn't looking after myself. I was sitting at the computer for 10 and 12 hours a day (if not more). The farthest I would walk would be from my desk to my kitchen to make something to eat. Towards the end of that lockdown my back was a wreck, I had put on weight and I was just a mess. </span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.27; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.27; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13.5pt;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living on a kibbutz, I realized that I had open fields and empty perimeter roads along which I could safely walk. I discovered the joys of my smart tv where I can pull up yoga sessions of any length I have time for. That's when I realized that the only think standing between this "dilapidated me" and a "healthy me" was in my mind, alone. So now, each morning I walk for about 20 minutes and listen to a podcast, then do some yoga. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm in a very different place now. A much better, more comfortable and productive place. It's from within that place that I became addicted to listening to podcasts as I walk. (It's a sort of chicken and egg thing - not sure exactly which came first.) They are one of my main motivators for putting on those walking shoes, and one of my influential fountains of inspiration for work. As horrific as this pandemic is, I truly believe it has changed education and the way we teach, for the better. For ever. At least it did for me. So I'm sharing a few of my favorites here. I welcome you to listen and subscribe! Happy listening! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtcaWBsl3fMgxtu8wc48YQhEYXzo7-lhtsNcZmp19bUsXgiZ6mVq1Tyy_6-Yek13DcVfYwrblds7E5nmv6zQQEbZ7ezxf-WPGCfX9Ukddg2JbMDZTVOqCIc5-m_rNTfLwixdkye33uhU/s398/headphones-removebg-preview.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtcaWBsl3fMgxtu8wc48YQhEYXzo7-lhtsNcZmp19bUsXgiZ6mVq1Tyy_6-Yek13DcVfYwrblds7E5nmv6zQQEbZ7ezxf-WPGCfX9Ukddg2JbMDZTVOqCIc5-m_rNTfLwixdkye33uhU/s320/headphones-removebg-preview.png" /></a></div></span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.27; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SOME of my favorite podcasters (there are more):</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><a href="https://shakeuplearning.com/shake-up-learning-show-podcast-with-kasey-bell/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shake up Learning</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pod/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cult of Pedagogy</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-education-podcast/id1333188596" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be Education</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.nowsparkcreativity.com/p/podcasts.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spark Creativity</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://googleteacherpodcast.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Teacher Podcast</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://chrisnesi.com/subscribe" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">House of #EdTech</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4WmXEDaa3jGkF3hifxStFh" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ditch that Textbook</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you have a podcast that inspires you? Please share with me and I will add to this list! </span><a href="mailto:araemer@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">araemer@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 300; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <br /></span></h3>Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-25057595328468593942020-09-26T04:57:00.001-07:002020-09-26T05:13:38.905-07:00<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Long time - no write. It's not because I have stopped producing, rather I have basically moved over to YouTube for most of my tutorials. However since some people prefer to have instructions written, as well, I will try to include my YouTube tutorials here, in my written blogposts, more often. <br /><br />I have started making tutorials I call "It's a Quickie" for little things that make all the difference and require only a few seconds to explain. This one takes 3 minutes. It's an extension to Chrome called Sir Links a Lot. What it does, basically, is it changes the URL of your Googe doc, Sheet, Form, Slides or Drawings in a way that enables others to make their own copy of it without letting them edit YOURS by mistake. ESPECIALLY in these COVID-19 days when choice boards built on Google Slides and using Forms are becoming more and more popular, it is SO important to know just how to share them properly with your colleagues!</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Until now (this week, literally) I have been explaining to teachers to delete the end part of the URL, and instead to write the words "copy" or "template/preview" but not all teachers felt comfortable know EXACTLY which words to delete, and EXACTLY how to share the link. This extension takes all the guess work out of it for you! <br /><br />Step 1: Go to your Google Apps Web Store</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step 2: Find the extension Sir Links a Lot<br />Step 3: Accept and then pin it in your Chrome toolbar</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step 4: Set the sharing settings of your document to "Anyone on the Internet can VIEW"</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step 5: Click on Sir Links a Lot</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Step 6: Choose the format in which you want to share (my go to favorite is template preview - it enables the person first to see what it is they will be making their own copy of before clicking on the blue "Use Template" button.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That's all! Now that doc/sheet/form/slideshow/drawing is THEIRS to use as is, or adapt. If it's a form, the responses will go to THEIR account rather than to YOURS by mistake. Easy peasy. Watch and see!<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7WepFXumzkA" width="320" youtube-src-id="7WepFXumzkA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Hope you find that useful!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Digitally yours, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><i>@dele</i></span></div>Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0Nirim, Israel31.335729999999991 34.3940872.1169749321150952 -0.762163000000001 60.554485067884883 69.550337tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-36535057389456996692018-12-19T11:28:00.000-08:002018-12-19T11:28:36.446-08:00A little "add-on" that will make spreadsheet work SOOOO much easier!<br />
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Do you LOVE Googleforms for collecting data but HATE trying to read the spreadsheets? If so, this is for you!</div>
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I use Googleforms for LOTS of purposes - with my students to collect information and feedback, as well as with the teachers I work with, as a counselor. It's GREAT for collecting a lot of information in one place, easily. The problem is that you have to read all those rows of information, which often go right off the screen, and you need to scroll, or hide columns or do all sorts of work-arounds in order to make sense out of that precious data you've collected. Luckily, Googledocs have things that are called "Add-ons" that can help us do that! </div>
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Basically they are scripts added to the docs that use code to make your work easier. And the best thing about them is that you do not have to know code or script writing at all! All you have to know is what the name of the add-on is and what it does!</div>
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Watch this tutorial to see how to use the Save as Doc Add-on. It might just as well be called: "Save your sanity" ;-)</div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-55964591792113596902018-08-15T12:23:00.003-07:002018-08-15T21:26:53.654-07:00Starting a new school year<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People have traditions and ceremonies ... I guess it's in our DNA to develop and cling on to them. Some up us have a "Waking Up" ceremony before we get our day started, or "Going to Bed" rituals to help us wind down into sleep mode. Others have "Birthday Traditions" that run through the generations. I have a "New School Year" ritual. <br /><br />I can't start a new school year without it. I learned it many years ago, in one of my first years of teaching from Pippa, who is no longer a teacher in our school, nor does she even live in Israel but blessed me with a ritual that I am now doing for the 33rd time. I used to do it with a pencil and ruler. Then it got a fancy word processing upgrade. For the past few years I have moved it over to Googledocs, which enables me to share it easily, print it out or just use it online so it can expand or shrink as need be.<br /><br />Basically, the idea is to map out your entire year on both sides of one page (now that it's a Googledoc, it's less of an issue because the page is virtual). It has a line for each week of the school year, and columns according to the main skills and tasks that I will need to get done or achieve in each class I teach. I divide what I plan to get done in my text book over the year, I put in the test dates and dates for things like book reports or when I plan to complete a project. And even if I get carried away with one unit of work or another, at least I know that there is a basic "game plan" to go back to, to adjust, to be sure that I fit in everything that needs to get done for that year. <br /><br />I am happy to be sharing it with you, here.<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nhDCzBB_FBNh7kIth1nfZh2r9aK37qSfAA-M7OI0Gfk/copy" target="_blank"> Click here</a> to duplicate the file, and make it yours. Do what you like with it. Add columns or topics. Delete topics. Make it yours. It's served me well - maybe it will be of use to you! If you have any helpful alterations, please feel free to share them in the comments!<br /><br /></span><br />
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<br />Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-88658542631288485822018-01-13T11:38:00.000-08:002018-01-13T11:38:09.573-08:00Bridging Text and Context - Digitalized<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before you digitalize a worksheet, ask yourself: "What added extra value will I get from digitalization?" Here's an example of something I felt gave me more bang for my buck regarding the time used in the classroom, and out, as well as the ability to get the message across in a more meaningful manner than I could have before.<br /><br />As part of our literature program, students need to get background information about the culture within which the literature is set, in order to help them understand the text better. When you understand where a person "comes from" (period of history, place) it's easier to understand what motivates the characters you are reading about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the play All My Sons by Arthur Miller, I have, for years, used an activity I originally learned from an former colleague (HT Barry Solomon) who is no longer teaching. The activity has the students learning about the posters that were used in the United States during the period of World War II to whip up patriotism and convince people to enlist or help in the war effort in other ways. Originally it was a challenge finding these posters, even digitally, sharing them with our students (we would have to get a comptuer room expecially so they could see the digital materials). Happily, these days, it has become even easier to share posters, songs and clips with the students, to make the subject really come alive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had digitalized the activity to some extent in the past, using Barcode readers and augmented reality. (I thought this would be really cool, but my students complained about having to install programs that they didn't want.... they love their phones - but have a hard time with me hijacking them for educational purposes sometimes). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year, I have taken the worksheets and digitalized them completely by putting them in Googleforms. Watch this webcast to see! (In the description section of the YouTube you can access some of the links I used, as well as make a copy of the form if you wish.)</span><br />
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<br />Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-83059159967942116332017-10-29T02:38:00.000-07:002017-10-29T02:38:49.338-07:00A useful Googledoc Trick: Force "Copy Document" <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sharing a Googledoc or Googleside in order to have your students work collaboratively is magical. But sometimes, you need them to make a copy of their own, of the document or the slide, to save in their Drive, share with you, and work on, on their own.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You COULD give them very CLEAR instructions for how to make a copy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ....and then they fill in your master file and other students copy it and - in short - a big mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So in THIS blogpost I want to teach you how to AVOID that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In one sentence, you copy the link you want to force people to make a copy of, and replace the word in the link that says: "edit", with the word "copy".</span><br />
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<br />Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-68998118209087954552017-09-01T22:59:00.002-07:002017-09-01T23:09:26.788-07:00Getting Back into Step for the New School Year!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As usual, the summer has slip-slided away before I could say "Jack Robinson" and I now find myself in September which means that it's time to hit the ground running! My first lessons are always a combination of becoming aquainted with each other while at the same time getting right to business. Especially in the 12th grade where we REALLY have NO time to lose! So I am sharing what I am doing in our first lesson with them, this coming Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A few days ago our Education Ministry and CEO of the MoE held a press conference, about the importance of strengthening English language learning, in general, with an emphasis on speaking, in our schools. Many of us already DO a lot of oral activities to encourage the kids to talk, but hopefully their official statement and all the initiatives that are flowing into the field as backwash, will make it even more wide spread. Since we are all aware of the importance of producing digitally savvy citizens of the world, I intend to incorporate the making of YouTube movies into my lessons this year whenever I can! I have no doubt whatsoever that, among my students, there will be those who can teach us ALL how to make effective YouTubes! I am aiming to turn my classroom into an English "Maker Space", encouraging my students to come out as "makers". And what way better to get kids talking in English and making YouTubes, than by leading the way with my own example, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Prezi is embedded in the front page of <a href="https://sites.google.com/mhs.org.il/adeleefl/home" target="_blank">my class website</a>, so all I will have to do next Monday when I walk into the classroom will be to throw it up on the board, and it's all there! (Want to learn how to make a Googlesite for YOUR class? <a href="http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/2017/08/making-your-own-googlesite-in-ten-easy.html" target="_blank">Check THIS out!</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wishing you all an inspiring, creative, challenging new school year, for you and your students! If you want ANY ideas for your classroom (Back-to-School, or otherwise) remember to make your first stop in our <a href="http://pop.education.gov.il/tchumey_daat/english/" target="_blank">new Portal </a>! Do you have a great Back-to-School activity to share? Please share it<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeW9SsnQxnH-IZ_wdyNrL_rLhlWVnMna_-0H1oPsgmDkwPC9g/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank"> HERE</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh... and Ashton Kutcher get outta my way!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please subscribe here, <a href="http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/" target="_blank">to my blog</a>, and to my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVqcIuy14cYzjE7Jo0KIbA?view_as=subscriber" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>, which is growing all the time, with (at least one) new movie each week including digital help and ideas you'll find useful! If there is anything YOU want me to blog or YouTube about, let me know in the comments!</span>Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-40538807976633846402017-08-27T04:55:00.001-07:002017-08-27T04:57:01.194-07:00Making your own Googlesite, in Ten Easy Steps <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the things that are really helpful is to have a website for your class, where you can post the day's lesson plan, or homework reminders, or links to interactive activites you plan to do, or anything you plan to use for your lesson! It's a fantastic way to keep yourself organizaed and not have to go groping around to find that ellusive link.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To share the link to your site, it's good to shorten the URL. In the webcast I showed the use of Google's useful webshorterner, where you just type goo.gl and shorten the link and/ or grab a QR Code, but another option is Bitly, which enables you to make up a more logical sounding shortened URL. (Hhmm... an idea for next week's YouTube! If I make a tutorial for that, I'll link it here.. or just subscribe to my<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVqcIuy14cYzjE7Jo0KIbA?spfreload=5" target="_blank"> YouTube Channel</a>, and you won't miss it!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Googlesites are still a great way to have your students do their projects for the oral bagrut, as I did in 2014 (with the old version of Googlesites). If you want to read about that, you can read about it in my <a href="http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/rebooting-april-2014-any-one-of-max.html" target="_blank">blogpost</a> from way back then!<br /><br />So... have I whet your appetite? Well, it just so happens that, I have made a short video to encourage teachers to make a Googlesite!: 10 Easy Steps to Making a Google Site, and in case you don't follow my YouTube channel (yet ;-) I am sharing it here, as well. If you DO decide to make your own class site, share it here, and let us know how you use it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Please feel free to ask me questions if you have any, in the comments section below the YouTube. And DO subscribe to my channel where I am trying to ensure that no teacher gets left behind!</span></div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-43139572106230970852017-07-17T08:00:00.000-07:002017-07-22T03:41:07.274-07:00Collect files through Google Forms! <div style="text-align: justify;">
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-13647282172032050422017-07-16T01:07:00.000-07:002017-07-16T01:07:13.794-07:00Digitally Yours: A new YouTube Channel is Born!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just a SHOUT OUT, because I am SO excited to invite you to my new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVqcIuy14cYzjE7Jo0KIbA/featured" target="_blank">YouTube Channel!</a></span><br />
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-22757274311099272002017-07-12T09:24:00.002-07:002017-07-19T04:52:34.006-07:00YouTube Academy for Teachers Blogpost - Day Three<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After watching each others' YouTube baby-steps, we were transported to hard-core YouTubing with another super-inspiring YouTuber; one who has found her own way to grow a humongous following who bask in her “little peaceful crafting galaxy” of miniatures, despite the fact that her face never appears in her YouTubes. With </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">480,319 subscribers and 141,831,876 views, the intelligent and talented Helena has built a tiny empire on YouTube - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/1utubaccount/featured" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PipeCleanerCrafts B</span></a><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, one which entertains children (mostly girls, I think) who are enchanted watching her fingers as they build miniature worlds for dolls. She spoke to us about the different, calculated decisions she took. She explained why she decided not to include visuals with her face (although not including one’s face is known to be a detractor, statistically), which languages she presents in (and which she does NOT, and why), and how she runs her channel to take advantage of it to the max; making her passion work for her. Helena illustrated the influence of high-quality, successful competitors from whom to learn; and how analyzing each other helps them each to grow. Her channel is truly an admirable labor of love, and we were lucky to have her to share her odyssey with us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Producing this total failure gave me the opportunity to experiment with a few editing programs. I learned a LOT about why I need to buy a lapel mic (to hone in on what I WANT the viewer to hear rather than sounds of the fan/the air conditioning/ the snoring dog, etc.) and probably invest in some good lighting solutions. But most importantly - the very element that will tip the scales of whether or not this becomes an extended journey which I decide to take upon myself, or just a short vacation: I think I figured out my passion. </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">But that will have to wait for my next blogpost. </span></span></div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0אלקטרה, יגאל אלון 98, תל אביב יפו, 6789141, Israel32.0700544 34.7941210999999844.9904063999999977 -6.5144729000000154 59.149702399999995 76.102715099999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-87244476094651532032017-07-07T03:22:00.001-07:002017-07-07T03:22:14.113-07:00YouTube Academy for Teachers Blogpost - Day Two<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sending a big "THANKS" to the guest speakers, and of course, Anat and Yael Doron Drori for another stupendous day of YouTube Teachers' Academy</span>!<br />
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-3341871474814888952017-07-05T11:24:00.000-07:002017-07-12T09:28:52.723-07:00Traveler's Blog: YouTube Academy End of Day One<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The CEO of Google Israel came to welcome us. Did you know that ⅓ of all the people connected to the internet are connected to YouTube? Or that every minute 450 hours of YouTube content are uploaded?! Every. Single. Minute. In fact, in one 8-hour work day, more content gets uploaded to YouTube from all around the world, than what Hollywood produces in 2 years! That’s what I found out from Barak Regev. And that he likes teachers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hagit and Uri from </span><a href="http://www.edunow.org.il/edunow-media" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edunow (הגיע זמן חינוך) </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">spoke to us about the qualities of content encourage engagement (quality, relevant, a little gossipy, short, honest, funny and provocative) and other tips for making content accessible, keeping in mind that which appeals to the heart as well as that which appeals to the head. Qualities which, by the way, are true not only for YouTube, but for other educational content, as well, in this age of sound-byte reality-show consumers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After that we had hands on YouTube training from Anat Szekely, Project Manager at Google, who taught me how much I don’t know about YouTube, its potential as an educational tool for teachers as well as students. You Tube is ONLY A platform - but it gives you SO many tools! And if we are always preaching to teachers to get to the kids where they “are”, then YouTube is where they are! For our Gen Z students (in the rage of 13-20 year olds) surveys teach us that YouTube is a HUGE part of their lives. In fact, Anat told us that 95% of the kids in that age range responded that it’s THE app that they couldn’t live without! We got tips about making a channel banner, (the sizing can be tricky) our channel name (should be unique - but not absolutely mandatory) and icon. I never really noticed that there is an option for a Welcome video (which should also encourage viewers to subscribe) or the importance of the “About” section (not necessarily because subscribers will ever read it, but because it will be decisive regarding my channel’s findability in the search engine) and how to take advantage of Google Trends (only the very tip of that iceberg). </span></div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-28777122004033340102017-07-04T23:03:00.004-07:002017-07-07T06:55:26.695-07:00Traveler's Blog: YouTube Academy Day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Captain Kirk kept a travel log, to record and document his experiences on his extra-galactic expeditions. So I'm not venturing out to where "no man has been before" (or woman), but I am embarking on a three-day journey with Yael and Bar and the other inspiring people at Google who have been working hard to make this journey an inspiring one for those of us who have been lucky enough to have been chosen to join them.<br />
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People ask me if I work for Google.<br />
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No. I don't.<br />
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I don't get paid for any of my bloggingtranslatecompetitioncommunityleadinggoogletraining activities. Not directly, any way. I get enriched. I benefit from it every time I say "yes", because ever since I first participated in the Google Teachers' Academy in Israel in 2011, the ride has always been fun, exciting and educational. And fun.<br />
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And all this techno-nectar that becomes infused in me, gets taken back to the field.<br />
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If you had told me 36 years ago that I would still be in the classroom, (never having taken a Sabbatical....ok - that's nuts, and something I would maybe change) still with a sense of purpose, curiosity, and energy, and that I would be <b><i>choosing</i></b> to spend 3 days of my summer "vacation" getting up at 5:30 to catch an 8:00 train into Tel Aviv, my response probably would have been: "Yea, right."<br />
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And yet, here I sit, on the train making my way to the rooms with the glass windows on the 29th floor, with the metropolis spread out before us, and a galaxy to be revealed within, spending my days with enthused educators who have come to play together, to make learning wondrous! <br />
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Watch this space!<br />
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Digitally yours,<br />
@dele<br />
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<br />Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-71370095150582876032017-06-11T01:10:00.000-07:002017-06-11T01:10:04.261-07:00Find the Hidden Treasure! (Digitally)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the classroom, the students divided up into groups of 3 or 4. Each group needed to use ONLY ONE smartphone for the game (they needed wifi and location set to “on”). Others could use their smartphones in order to translate words, if needed, or look stuff up on Google. Each group had to choose a group name and enter it, after joining the game with the game code which you get as soon as you make the game. </span></div>
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The program sent them a clue (a photograph) to lead each group to their first station. Once at the station, they had to scan the barcode (which I printed out from the program and hung up earlier that day). Once the phone read the barcode, it displayed the name of the tourist attraction, a short description of it, and a video clip. The multiple choice question they had to answer was about something they saw in the clip. (I used MC questions rather than open-ended ones because there were just too many possible answers. If you are setting a question with only one correct answer, you can use the open ended option.) </div>
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Since I set the program to start each group at a different station, they were running around in different directions. I made up more stations than could possibly be covered by one group in 20 minutes, so that TOGETHER the groups would cover ALL of the stations. The students were told to be back in the classroom in 20 minutes.</div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-19534455315079770772017-05-21T22:34:00.001-07:002017-05-22T05:38:32.418-07:00Letting your students take the lead: an lesson via Instagram <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like to experiment. A lot. And my guinea pigs are my students. During one of my experiments this year (<a href="http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/2017/02/whatsapp-as-vehicle-for-instruction.html" target="_blank">using WhatsApp to teach</a>) a few of my students said: "We want to use Instagram!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"OK," I said. "Not this time, but I promise you, we will."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When it came around to Independence Day, I asked if any of them had an idea how to utilize Instagram to do a lesson using Instagram. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jennifer popped up: "I do! Leave it up to me!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The morning of the lesson, she sent me 4 groups of photographs that she had curated from the Internet; one for each group of students in the class:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At this point I realized that HER idea of an English lesson using Instagram, and MY idea, were not exactly the same. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I added to her idea: I asked each member of each group to write a reaction to one of the four pictures they would be receiving, and then to write a Birthday Wish for Israel for her 69th birthday. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then they were asked to tag it with the hashtag: #Israel2017NHS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What I did NOT take into account was that since they actually USE Instagram, some of them felt it would not look "cool" if they posted a school assignment on their accounts. So I compromised: those who did not feel comfortable posting it could send it to me via Whatsapp and I would post with the hashtag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During the activity, we were live on Instagram Live, as they had wanted (warning: unedited, uncensored, unflipped footage of part of the lesson filmed by one of my students). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The others can be seen (if you wish) by doing a hashtag search on Instagram! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And here are the <b>responses</b> of one of the other groups:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>So what did I learn from this experiment?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1) When your students offer to take the helm, let them! (And if they don't offer, YOU suggest it!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2) Keep in mind that THEIR idea of an acceptable EFL activity may not be the same as YOURS (so you might have to "improvise" and "embellish"). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3) Even though (2) .... it's ok! Because the motivation and the fun they have doing, together with the feeling of pride and empowerment that the students, themselves, feel when they take the lead, is worth it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have YOU every done an activity with your students on Instagram or any other Social Media? Please share in the comments, below!</span><br />
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com1Magen, Israel31.30224170152794 34.427118301391631.29545770152794 34.417033301391605 31.30902570152794 34.4372033013916tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-29229591284119771562017-04-22T02:56:00.000-07:002017-04-22T10:15:47.595-07:00Quizlet Live - Putting More Fun in Learning <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Quizlet Live is my new favorite education toy and defo BEST application for this school year! I couldn't BELIEVE my eyes when I saw that I hadn't written about it yet! So here goes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The old tried and true Quizlet has been around for years. It is a website where you prepare digital flashcards for the vocabulary YOU decide that you want your students to learn (albeit- there are TONS of ready made sets which you could use, as well) . You can build a class with them and assign the sets or just share a URL or barcode with them to get them in (but then you don't save the statistics). They can play as flashcards for learning and practicing, test themselves, and play cool games that have them racing against time, then reviewing their mistakes and repeating the ones they got wrong. They can play on any of their devices, anywhere! For a more detailed explanation, check out <a href="http://web2english.blogspot.co.il/2015/05/digital-flashcards-what-can-you-do-with.html" target="_blank">Irit Merchav's blogpost </a>on the subject. And <a href="https://quizlet.com/blog/teacher-to-teacher-flipping-the-classroom-with-quizlet" target="_blank">here</a> is an explanation of how one teacher uses Quizlet to flip her classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Any questions? Ask me! Can you think of another way to use it? Do you use games like Quizlet, Quizlet Live and <a href="http://adeleefl.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/its-getting-near-end-of-year-time-to.html" target="_blank">Kahoot</a>? If so, please share in the comments, below, so we can all learn about them!</span></div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-20534837763883422312017-04-20T12:17:00.001-07:002017-04-21T23:34:33.646-07:00Messages to the Past: A Lesson for Teaching about the Holocaust<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I believe the first time I was made aware of the book </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Never_Saw_Another_Butterfly" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">I Never Saw Another Butterfly</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">", w</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hen I was a teenager learning about the Holocaust</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. I loved the idea of preserving and perpetuating the artwork and writings of children who lived - and many who died - in the Holocaust. Specifically, at Terezin, where a very brave art teacher by the name of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedl_Dicker-Brandeis" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Friedl Dicker-Brandeis</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> dedicated and endangered her life to using art and literature to help the children with whom she worked, deal with the traumas they were living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After becoming a teacher, myself, I bought a copy and use it from time to time, when appropriate, with my classes. This year, I wanted to do something a little different. I wanted to build a virtual bridge between children of the past, and children of the present. A bridge that could link, even for a few minutes, children from "there" and "then" with kids from "here" and "now". I wanted to do it in a way that would enable creativity and messages of hope - spanning the decades, the cultures and the circumstances - to be able to touch my students of today, students who become desensitized to so much of life when viewed through screens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yesterday's lesson in my 11th grade class opened with a YouTube with music, photographs from the Holocaust, and drawings from the book - together with the words of the title poem:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I read a short explanation of where the artists were from, and how their teacher scrimped, saved, schemed and hid materials and their work, in order to provide not only the art lessons she was supposed to, but also a form of therapy for the children in her charge in the ghetto Terezin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had made 9 colored photocopies of pages from the book, including artwork, poems and prose. I pasted the snippets of biographical information known about the creators on the back of each page, laminated them and spread them around the classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After learning about 4 pieces, (or as many as they had had time to get to) choose one that speaks to you the most.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you could send the writer/artist a message, what would it be?<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Anything you wish: a message of empathy, sympathy, encouragement…..you could take a picture and add it…..)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We discussed the difference between the different suggestions, and they wrote. Then I shared a collaborative Google Slides Presentation with them. There were numerous ways they could get to it with their phones:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>"Hello,I'm alive, read your poem.<br /> It's good,it's impressing [sic]. Wish you could survive that, and be here, today and see how you are full of inspir </i></span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">[sic]</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>, that you are strong, very strong.<br /> To me the most important thing in life to yourself is to be proud of what you are, who you are, where are you from and what you believe in.<br /> You are impressing me to be that woman that is proud she is a woman, that she is a Jew, and so love and proud to be that one!. If I could I would send you love and strong words that will make you feel good, and make you believe in yourself. You are special, wish that we have more like you."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #595959; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">At the end of the lesson, I asked my students for feedback on the activity. For the most part, they said that it was interesting. A few of them said that it made them think about the Holocaust in a way that they never had before. One said he it caused him to think about it through the eyes of a child. One student found it very difficult (but this is the type of student, who, while very intelligent, his comfort zone lies in numbers, hard facts and "one right answer". When called upon to rev up his imagination, I find him simmering at his desk in obvious discomfort.) But he did pretty well in the end. This is what that kid wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Dear Joseph, I am sorry that you lived like that and you saw bad things in your life I want to tell that now Jews have a country and a army </i></span><i>[sic]</i><i style="color: #595959; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #595959; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could have incorporated more technology in the lesson - but I liked the part where the students had to physically walk around the classroom, choose a laminated page, turn it over to read the bio... the kinesthetic is so important for so many students as part of their learning process. </span></div>
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Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0Eshkol Regional Council, Israel31.2068084 34.464184830.7724284 33.8187378 31.6411884 35.109631799999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-41694912266814838292017-04-08T00:20:00.002-07:002017-04-08T00:25:40.521-07:00GEG Teachers of Languages - Tough Competition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Teach students the Hamburger Method of organizing a paragraph. There are lots of sites that show this. </span><a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/paragraph_hamburger" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Here is one</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> as an example. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Choose ONE of these pictures to describe a scene. Copy it to your Googledoc</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">YOU are here! Who are you with? Why are you all here? What are you all doing? Describe the scene, write your story from YOUR point of view. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">July 2017 addition: Another option is to have students share their googledocs with other students. In that way, they don't need to physically move- but I like the idea of physical movement, personally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">....project it on the board and have the students stand in two concentric circles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You could use it for playing other games as well! Any suggestions? Share them here!<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Digitally Yourshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09679483986221128336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5469347865053583440.post-41219162859342159972017-02-16T12:23:00.005-08:002017-02-17T03:57:37.836-08:00WhatsApp as a Platform for Instruction <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just for such purposes, the Israeli MoE has run a special pilot for the past two years, training teachers and students how to be able to stay on the same page of their coursework, if they wish to, in times of emergency. Last year it was via online instruction. This year it was through learning how to teach using WhatsApp: the app that 99% of Israelis use to stay in touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first stage for me, as a teacher, was experiencing a lesson run solely through a WhatsApp group. As usual, I was sufficiently inspired by the experience with Aviv Tzemach, to invest a ton of time in learning different techniques,and try it for myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When it suddenly dawned on me that these are not the emojis that my students are used to any more. And that the short and sweet sound bytes in which they communicate via the different social networks - prolific with emojis - require more inferring than ever before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Luckily I had my laptop with me, and I cracked it open to WhatsApp Web (which - if you do NOT know what it is, <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/how-use-whatsapp-on-web-tablet-ios-3595015/" target="_blank">you MUST check it out</a>! It's a life saver for whoever works a lot on the computer). I then sent the following message to my students:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I gave them the option of either doing the activity teaching the HOTS of Inferring, via the worksheet they already had OR via WhatsApp! Here are a sample of the responses I got in our WhatsApp Broadcast Group*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Some of them needed a bit more explanation, and some of them chose to do the activity on the worksheet, in the end, but they were ALL engaged!<br /><br />I promise to write a blog next week about how my REAL WhatsApp lesson goes, but in the meantime, I have a feeling that WhatsApp is going to start being more than just reminding my students what to bring to the lesson, or if they have to do to their classroom or the computer room from now on! Like they say in the field: catch them where they are!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">*<i> A <b>WhatsApp Broadcast Group</b> is different from a regular <b>WhatsApp Group</b>. Most teachers I know use regular WhatsApp Groups with their classes. In a <b>Broadcast Group</b>, the Admin can send a message to everyone in the group, and when the participants reply, the reply goes back ONLY to the Admin (moi) rather than it being a place for interactions and discussions. This year I decided to use a <b>Broadcast Group</b> with my class this, and that was where we did today's activity. For next week's lesson, I will be opening a regular WhatsApp Group for them, so that it can be a lesson where interaction between the students is actually encouraged. Stay tuned for THAT blog post! (I can't wait!!!! ;-)</i></span></div>
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