Saturday, 12 April 2014

What does this model tell you in terms of aural comprehension and vocabulary learning?

At which stages do you think current teaching listening practices that you employ fall short?

Teaching Listening Comprehension Through Technology

Are you using a particular tool to teach listening?
What criteria do/would you use when deciding on a tool to teach listening?

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Collaboration with Wikis

In Elola &Oskos (2010), it appeared that the groups working with help from a forum were more focused on the content of their knowledge building than the groups working with help a wiki. How could this happen? And how could you stimulate students to demonstrate the same processes (more focus on content, more continuous evolving work, etc.), while working with a wiki?

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Anonymous Internet - Tor Browser

Hi everyone,

Because YouTube and Twitter are down, I thought maybe I could help a little bit. If you download the Tor browser, you can go online anonymously, and thus evade the bans. Here's how you do it.

1. Go to this link: Dropbox - Tor Browser, and click on 'download'.
2. Go to the 'downloads' folder on your computer, find the file, righ-click, and select 'unpack in Tor Browser.rar/'
3. Go to the folder 'Tor Browser' (which just appeared if you did everything right) and dubble-click the 'Start Tor Browser.exe' file.
4. Select your language and go through the installation process (mostly just clicking 'next')
5. The Tor Browser will start (it takes a little longer than a normal browser) > When first starting it, you have to say what kind of connection you have. Just click on 'connect', and you'll be fine.

How to get YouTube working in Tor Browser:
1. Open Tor Browser
2. Click on the onion symbol
3. Click on 'preferences'
4. Click on 'security settings'
5. Uncheck the box 'disable browser plugins (such as Flash)'
6. Close and re-open Tor Browser

I don't know for sure if it will work, but I feel I should at least try.