3/31/2015 0 Comments M-Learning vs E-LearningE-Learning has given students the opportunity to learn at home - away from the traditional classroom. M-Learning has taken E-learning to another level by allowing students to learn ANYWHERE. Students can study while traveling, on vacation, during breaks or any other free time they may have. Students are growing up in a world where they can “learn anywhere, any time.”
Mobile devices are changing our world and how we gain knowledge. Mobile devices and the content on them have created new art forms, new gaming consoles, new employment opportunities, new languages, new business models and much, much more. As John Donahoe, eBay’s CEO stated during a Charlie Rose interview, “People are buying 8,000 cars a week on eBay’s mobile app”. Isn't it time to throw away rows upon rows of PCs and get students speaking to each other? The Study It textbook series is for ESL students, teachers and schools. It is designed to help teachers to use formal and informal teaching methodologies.
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For the past 6 months, the Study It team has been working on a new Pronunciation Book to help students with their English Pronunciation. It is nearing completion and soon will be available for the general public to download on their iPads.
One of the great things about the Study It ESL Grammar textbook series is our detailed grammar explanations. We provide detail about form and function for each grammar point. Both students and teachers benefit from the detailed information. Each unit has a very detailed explanation with a number of slides and/or videos explaining the grammar. This allows you to flip the classroom and have students study at home and come to class prepared to use the grammar in different situations. Understanding grammar becomes much easier.
Visit the Study It English as a Second Language textbook website at www.studyitbooks.com 2/26/2015 0 Comments Fill in the Blanks - DigitallyOne of the great things about the Study It textbook series is the ability for students and teachers to do Cloze Exercises again and again and again. Here is a sample page from our Study It Grammar series. One of the elements we added to our Fill in the Blank exercises are visuals to help students understand the context of the sentence better.
The Study It ESL textbook series is available to download on iTunes. Visit our website at www.studyitbooks.com A New FREE UPDATE coming soon to the Study It ESL Listening Textbook available on iTunes. The new Listening Textbook includes MORE activities and MORE listening practice. If you have already downloaded the Study It Listening Book, the updates are FREE. You will see the Updates in your iBookstore. The Study It Listening Books will include MORE dialogues and some completely NEW activities. The Study It ESL Textbooks are available for download on iTunes. Visit our website at www.studyitbooks.com for more details.
Here is a complaint about student from a meeting of Principals in 1815. Study It ESL books don't require paper, a slate or anything to clean. Check out Study It at www.studyitbooks.com
by Heather Walpert-Gawron You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. It seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately. So to help you in your own musings, I've devised an elevator speech to help you clearly see what's it all about.
So the elevator opens up, a guy walks in and out of the blue asks you, "What the heck is project-based learning anyway?" I don't know why he would ask that, but for the purposes of this fantasy, it seems that any Joe-off-the-street is fascinated by your response. You respond accordingly: "PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end." "That's it?" the guy asks. "Well, no," you reply. The Digital Book Awards celebrate quality and innovation in digital content. Each year, award winners and finalists in fifteen categories illustrate the cutting edge of digital publishing, showcasing creative approaches to design, technology integration and e-reading experiences. The awards encompass all forms of digital content available to readers as ebooks, enhanced digital books and apps, to highlight and reward the work of authors, developers and publishers. Winners of the 2015 Digital Book Awards were announced at a gala dinner held in New York City and hosted by Ira Wolfman, President of POE Communications, on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Congratulations to all winners and finalists in the 2015 Digital Book Awards, announced tonight at this year's Digital Book World Conference + Expo. Here's the full roundup of award recipients http://bit.ly/1u5r3wc To find more information about our textbooks visit www.studyitbooks.com
11/13/2014 0 Comments Teaching With Just ONE iPadMy class has one iPad. Just one. But I have found ways to put this single iPad to use in such a way that everyone in my class benefits.
Having mastered one app -- the Show-Me app -- I have been able to create podcasts for my students, allowing them to access my help on their assignments while they are at home or when I am unavailable for face-to-face teaching or tutoring. After I became comfortable with using this app, I began to brainstorm ways I could use it within my classroom. |