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Find out what David Rock’s SCARF model can teach you about threats and rewards that govern our behavior and gain some strategies for regulating your own emotions and managing others’ behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDgE_eJGTM
The website is http://ed.ted.com/ Here is a video to explain what it is and how you can get involved and use it to personalize teaching and learning. 
Taking the lead in essential skills in language, literacy and numeracy in the workplace.
Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your screen & voice, and share the link.
Where did the term transliteracy come from? The Transliteracies Research Project, directed by Alan Liu from the Department of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, first introdu...
iOS has a number of accessibility features that even those without visual or hearing impairments may want to use. One of those is the voice over feature called 'speak selection'. You can select any word, or text and have the iPad speak it. Via Nik Peachey 
The discussion in the comments of the last post on resistance and motivation: I know very few people who like change to for the sake of change – most don’t want change in the areas where they n...
Via juandoming
Check Plagiarism On the Internet for Free. Teachers: Find out if your students are cheating. Authors: Find out if people have copied your work. No file uploads required. Report plagiarism to Google or to a teacher.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
This site gives you example pronunciation or words and also finds videos with subtitles that show the words being used in context. Via Nik Peachey |
Pedagogies as technologies, soft and hard technologies, benefits of soft technologies for learning (spoiler - the elephant is the teacher, not the technical pro... Via Paula Silva 
Kevin McLaughlin writes a great post sharing: What is Digital Literacy
Futurelab, an organisation ‘committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning’, gives the following definition in its publication Digital Literacy across the curriculum:
To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create, collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital technologies can best be used to support these processes. Via Barbara Bray, Carla Arena 
This site has a great collection of audio recordings of books and short stories. You can either listen to chapters online or download the complete books. Via Nik Peachey
Capitonyms are words that can be changed simply by capitalizing the first letter.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
The TED-Ed YouTube channel will offer animated videos, created by artists who illustrate a concept as a top teacher explains the concept in a short video that runs roughly 5 minutes long.
bksb - Basic and Key Skills Builder Software...
So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. You could visit the Apple App Store’s education section and peruse the many offerings… do some Google searches to figure out what’s good… or just use this print-friendly image below to get started!
Following on the heels of our wildly popular Twitter Spectrum, we wanted to build an ‘iPad Spectrum’ for all our wonderful readers out there. This image can be easily shared, downloaded, and printed. Just click here to download the PDF version. Want this and even more?
Look for our upcoming mini-issue in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app next week!
Read more... Via Gust MEES
Learning and Teaching - a brief run through the main theories underpinning current ideas of learning and teaching.
... Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
Fixoodle is a social website that connects people all around the globe who are studying languages to help each other learn. Post something. We'll fix it. Enter something. We'll translate it.
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