More traffic on your blog? You don’t need to write like Shakespeare or a  scientist if you want to have readers. What I’ve been preaching to my English students for years for making sentences or giving presentations is alo the key to atttract readers to your blog. Here is an excellent blog entry how to [...]

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Frisch getwittert von @retemirabile : Wie können Studenten Lerntagebücher sinnvoll einsetzen. Ich bin der Meinung, das Konzept ist auch auf die Schule übertragbar! Das Problem ist nur, dass dies ungewohnte Vorgehensweisen für Schüler sind und daher viel Geduld und Unterstützung durch die Lehrer in der Rolle von Lerncoaches notwendig ist. Ralf Appelt » Blog Archive [...]

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The other day I wrote a blog entry about a digitally organized teacher – René Scheppler and the same day linked to an article of Stuttgarter Zeitung where I had given an interview on the reluctance and problems of using social media in schools. Today I came across an article on how  administration and principals [...]

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Free Resources from Generation YES We are happy to provide these resources to help you empower students to improve technology use in their own schools. The resources on this page are all free, based on lessons learned in our years of working with K-12 schools around the world building successful student-centered, student-led technology programs. Please [...]

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In Mrs Smoke’s blog “Making teachers nerdy” ( what a lovely blogname) I found this posting fort blogging teachers . A helpful collection for experienced and newbie bloggers what to avoid and what to integrate in their blogs. These dos and donts specially apply to teachers using their blogs as classroom blogs with their students. [...]

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Help and tutorials for beginner and expert alike. The WordPress guys are offering an awesome service now: they created video tutorials on all kinds of wordpress related features, easy to understand and not too long – great also to use in classroom! Studenzts will love that! Here is an example – yes, they also provide [...]

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Here is a brilliant presentation created and commented by Cristina Costa on the benefits of using digifolios for lifelong learning:

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