http://www.widged.com/wiki/ 2012-02-04T06:22:59-08:00 http://www.widged.com/wiki/ http://www.widged.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-27T01:06:14-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:reading-comprehension&rev=1327655174&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Comprehension Description Standard reading comprehension: Questions based on text. Often these are closed ended questions verifying the student understood elements of the passage? Good For N/A Advantages Straightforward. It is usually the first exercise in a lesson, immediately following the dialogue narrative, used to ensure the student really does understand the situation described. 6-10 questions. Usually closed questions or multiple cho… text/html 2012-01-27T01:06:06-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:techniques:collecting-data:running-experiments&rev=1327655166&do=diff software, research, experimentation, data-mgt * Software for participants management * Software for Eye Movement Experiments Multi-platforms Superlab Now both Mac & PC On the PC DMDX Free experimentation software, for Windows DMDX homepage text/html 2012-01-27T01:05:46-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:techniques:components:widgets:widgets&rev=1327655146&do=diff code, techniques, gui, components, design Definition Widget Definition: (from ordinary-life ) n : a device that very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo] 1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips. “But suppose the parts list for a widget has 52 entries...” text/html 2012-01-27T01:05:37-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tags:markup&rev=1327655137&do=diff Information * English Members * N/A Tagged pages text/html 2012-01-27T01:05:31-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:academe:fields:psychology:cognitive-psychology:experimental-paradigms:rapid-serial-visual-presentation&rev=1327655131&do=diff experimental-paradigms In this technique, subjects see words appear one after the other in the same place on a video screen, The finding is that subjects can comprehend material even when it is presented at rates of 12 to 15 words per second (Forster, 1970: Potter, Kroll, & Harris, 1980) text/html 2012-01-27T01:05:22-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:sentence-correction&rev=1327655122&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Syntax Description Source: 1-language.com Split the class into teams. Give the students a sentence on the board. Each team must decide if the sentence is correct or not. If the sentence is not correct, they must identify the mistakes and give corrections. Students can get a point if they guess rightly that the sentence was correct/incorrect, and another point if they correct the sentence as well. If they guess the sentence was wrong but they canno… text/html 2012-01-27T01:05:13-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:pass-the-parcel&rev=1327655113&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Comprehension Description Source: 1-language.com Before class wrap an inexpensive prize in layers of wrapping. In class have the students sit in a circle and play some music. Students pass the parcel round the circle while the music is playing. When you stop the music, the student currently holding the parcel gets to remove one layer of wrapping. Then restart the music, stop, and so on. Continue until the prize is revealed. text/html 2012-01-27T01:04:48-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:projects:exercist:documentation:structure-of-an-activity&rev=1327655088&do=diff exercist, e-tivities Exercise Parts 1. Lesson structure parts_of_interface.gif -- hidden, not relevant here 2. Activity [parts of an exercise] Activity Specs 1. Layout [Activity Layout] 2. UML [Activity UML] Package Methods * mimetypeToHTML() * generateHTMLview() * processTemplate() * shuffleArrayColl() * trimArrayColl() * changeElementAppearance(elID, css) * changeElementContent(elID, src) * changeElementDisplay(elID, show) * addElement(id, text) text/html 2012-01-27T01:04:39-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:academe:fields:psychology:cognitive-psychology:reference-tools&rev=1327655079&do=diff cognitive-psychology, assets, papers Refdesk.com A one-stop site for all things Internet including news, weather, sports, reference, encyclopedia (50 areas), facts on file, FAQs, tutorials, search engines, ... OnlineConversion.com Online Conversion is a resource for weights, measures, calculators, converters. text/html 2012-01-27T01:04:29-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:academe:education:wiki-essay:wikiblockagesstaffattitude&rev=1327655069&do=diff e-learning, wikis <Working notes, with cloned or borrowed materials that still need to be organized> Loss of status There is no distinction enforced in the software between teachers and students. Requires a change of teacher's role (inefficient when there is some Resistance to Models of Collaboration) This relation between learners and teachers may be asymmetric, and the roles may shift over time. text/html 2012-01-27T01:04:19-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:ring-a-word&rev=1327655059&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Form Description Source: 1-language.com Practises: almost anything This classic classroom game is guaranteed to wake up the doziest class. It can be used for anything from learning the alphabet to revising irregular verbs. There are many variations dependent only on the teacher's imagination. text/html 2012-01-27T01:04:10-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:fairy-stories&rev=1327655050&do=diff Keywords Communication Description Source: Lingolex Get the students to tell each other fairy stories or traditional children's stories from their countries. One variation is to choose a fairy story that everyone knows e.g. Little red riding hood and get small groups to tell the story. (going in a clockwise direction) Each person can only add one word. text/html 2012-01-27T01:03:59-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tags:bookmarks&rev=1327655039&do=diff Information * N/A Members Tagged pages text/html 2012-01-27T01:03:51-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:academe:fields:psychology:cognitive-psychology:language:data&rev=1327655031&do=diff assets, data, language-units Lexical Statistics Various datasets can be queried with a visual interface on the lexicall website @ widged.com You may need to check up the DISC notation to know how the pronunciation of the word is represented in these files. text/html 2012-01-27T01:03:21-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:what-am-i-wearing&rev=1327655001&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Expression Description Source: www.tefl.net, Contributor: Shirley Smith Objective: identify clothes, styles, colours, shapes Before class I draw a circle on the board with four air bubbles coming from it and in each write summer, winter, spring and autumn. When I enter the classroom I wear a hat, scarf, gloves, coat etc and we talk about the various garments. Explain garments, clothes, dress etc. In groups brainstorm different clothes for the sea… text/html 2012-01-27T01:03:13-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:standards:sif:sif&rev=1327654993&do=diff standards-az, markup, education, data-mgt Schools Interoperability Framework The Schools Interoperability Framework or “SIF” specification is the US national kindergarten through 12th grade (K12) specification for modeling educational data and information in an XML format, and a service-oriented architecture(SOA) specification for sharing that information between software applications in the educational space. text/html 2012-01-27T01:03:05-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:e-tivities:by-name:secret-code&rev=1327654985&do=diff e-tivities, language-learning Keywords Expression Description Source: www.tefl.net, Contributor: Ana Maria This activity is useful at the beginning of the year after a long term holiday, such as those in Argentina (3 months in all). This will break the ice in new groups as they will introduce each other and talk about themselves. text/html 2012-01-27T01:02:57-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tags:flex&rev=1327654977&do=diff * English text/html 2012-01-27T01:02:47-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:academe:education:wiki-essay:wikitechwiki&rev=1327654967&do=diff e-learning, wikis This section looks at the features that wiki provide irrespective of their use, the main findings are:- * wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for “quick” or “super-fast” according to the wikipedia * a wiki in its simplest definition is a website (or could be just a series of hyper-linked documents) where people can easily add (and remove) material * it generally is free-ware and numerous different versions are available; each written using the authors favourite progr… text/html 2012-01-27T01:02:39-08:00 Marielle Lange http://www.widged.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tags:3d&rev=1327654959&do=diff Information * English Tagged page