Using Moodle Assignment to practice for the New Oral Bagrut Exam - COBE

Accessibility matters! The link is to the video on Screencastomatic. It provides the possibility of letting people read the transcription BOTH as captions on the video ("subtitles") and as a transcript next to the video.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1vo85FMe

Web Accessibility. We may be teaching a lot from home next school year (I hope there is no need for that, but it doesn't look that way). The Youtube option for the video I uploaded on its Screencastomatic version is also good as regards Accessibility PROVIDED THAT speech is clear. There are words that the app finds it impossible to convert from Speech to Text (for example, when I do not speak clearly, or when I use words that are not English, such as Mashov) I have been made aware that if I want hard of hearing pupils to get all the content. I know I have chosen a poor video example to show that, but then I guess since the video has to do with Bagrut, teachers may decide to watch it https://youtu.be/IgU1r1EEOmU

Web Accessibility, Summer Assignment and more

During these Corona Virus Times, we, teachers, have been made fully aware of the fact that the most important thing about using Technology to teach is making it work well for ALL our pupils. Hopefully, this awareness was there before.

The word “ALL” appears in Bold and CAPITAL LETTERS because I would like to stress one fact that is very important: It is of utmost importance to make Technology work well for people with disabilities.

Link to the post:
https://www.elearningworld.org/web-accessibility-summer-assignment-and-more/

Using Dictionary.com to build vocabulary

Hi! I have just added this video https://youtu.be/eBu5a4dZNUs to the first SMORE page "Build up your Vocabulary" series https://www.smore.com/9mpn1

If and when I get worksheets (preferably Interactive) from colleagues here, I will add them. If colleagues collaborate, they have been asked to add their name and the name of their school and logo so I can add them. The idea is to get pupils to work on improving their Vocabulary.

10th grade Summer Assignment

I have just shared this on the English Teachers Community FB Group: "Shavua Tov! Have you used "Take a Stand" with your pupils this school -year? If yes, then maybe you find this useful. Below is the link to a Smore Newsletter which I will share with my 10th Grade 5 points English pupils tomorrow. My aim is to get them to review and relearn vocabulary. I guess I should add some interactive tests so that they check their progress, but in the meantime, this is what I have come up with. I hope my pupils take responsibility for their learning. Feel free to use it and, if you are willing to, share worksheets based on this vocabulary, so that they can be added (do add your name, school name, and any other information you wish to add)"

Summer Assignment for my 10th grade pupils - Build your vocabulary this summer!

Link to Google Slides Presentation (includes the links to the Smore newsletters)

A message to colleagues of mine I have just posted

Hi! Sooner or later, we might find out that we need to go back to some Distance Learning. It is important then that we become aware of the importance of Web Accessibility, which does not mean just Text-to-Speech. Accessibility is about people: people who are blind or have problems seeing pages (color blind, can't see some backgrounds need alternative text on images and the like) on the Internet; people who are deaf or have hearing problems; people who are blind and deaf; people who have cognitive problems, problems decoding (Dyslexia) and more... And then we have "normal people" (whatever that is), that need support just like they do in the classroom. Zoom alone is not an option for them. It is definitely one option to be used with something else: A Learning Management System. The Ministry of Education gives teachers one very good LMS for free (as many platforms as you need). It's Moodle.  It "takes care " of Accessibility issues (it's a must). And the one for us, teachers of English, provides a screen reader, which the Hebrew one does not (and that is BAD). Moodle Mashov will take care of Accessibility on Moodle, too So even though I speak of Moodle, I am talking about people. We have the summer to get ready for the possibility that we might need to use an LMS for more than Blended Learning. Give yourself some time and learn Moodle. You will help people (Incidentally, I am not the owner of Moodle and/or have shares in Moodle... My pupils seem to think that that is so.) Best wishes.