Emerging Technology: MyiCourse

MyiCourse is a free software that helps users create and post their own educational materials. Also, myicourse offer free online courses for everyone who want to learn. This is a great software to both teacher and student because it can democratize knowledge for those who wish to learn. MyiCourse does well because it is free, with no cost-based functional limitaions. And, it is simple and pretty easy to use. For teacher, you can creat your own "online university" with its own unique URL. At the same time, MyiCourse offer good online tutorials to help learn how their system works.

MyiCourse: http://www.myicourse.com/welcome

My Resources Pages

  Hello everyone! Welcome to see my resources pages. In this post, I listed 11 resources which I think would be useful for a teacher`s work. This resources include Quiz creater, Grammar checker, and some images resources. Also, it include some sample slide that can give teacher more ideas about the subjects. Hope these websites are useful for your needed. Enjoy~

Web Site	URL	Description

Quiz Generators for Techie Teachers	http://techlearning.com/blogs/31494	A list of online quiz generators
Digital Storytelling Web Sites	http://techlearning.com/blogs/29246	Online digital storytelling software
Powerpoint Alternatives	http://techlearning.com/blogs/33090	Online presentation software
Web English Teacher	http://webenglishteacher.com	An excellent resource for English teachers.
English Club	http://www.englishclub.com	A site to help you teach and learn English.
Grammar Bytes	http://www.chompchomp.com	Grammar instruction with attitude (middle school).
File Conversion	http://www.zamzar.com	Converts a wide variety of file formats
Images	http://www.teachersdomain.org	Free digital media service for educational use
Slide Sharing	http://www.slideshare.net	Slide Sharing
Video	http://www.youtube.com	find and share videos
Read Write Think	http://www.readwritethink.org	High quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Assistive Technology

Teachers are frequently asked the question by parents or students who struggling to read the textbook. The text-to-speech programs are designed specifically for people with a learning disability, or for people who struggle to read text. This particular software highlights, and simultaneously reads aloud each word. You can adjust the rate of speed for reading text aloud, and you can select from a choice of voices for reading aloud text. The benefit is you "see" and "hear" each word being read aloud.

http://www.skycn.com/soft/19352.html

You can use this website to download Text-to-speech programs for free.

Photo Story

I created a video showing some daily English vocabulary with Chinese. This video will be a great way for students` learning process. This video will be used after class. After class, student can review this video so that help them remind the class content. Also, this video helps students to remember the English vocabulary with Chinese by themselves.

Video Playlist Assignment

Good morning！Class！Today, we are going to learn the history of the United States. At first, I have four videos to let you watch. These videos all talk about the short history of the USA. These videos are interesting and easy to understand. After you watch all the videos, you need to choose the one you like best. Also, you need to explain why you like it to your classmates. Hope you enjoy!