Folks

I found a nice site that we can use to improve our English classes. It is called Tower of English. There you can find many suggestions of activities to use with your students. I suggest you to visit the art's archive. There is a very nice mystery story related to paintings. Good way of learning about art and artists using the English language.

Hugs

Elza

Hello teachers! Here goes a nice "tongue twister". Say it fast and loud. Enjoy!
Betty Botta
Betty Botta bought some butter,"now", she said,"this butter's bitter". "If I put it in my batter, it will make the batter bitter."
So she bought a bit of butter, better than the bitter butter, put it in the bitter batter, made the bitter batter better. So 'twas better Betty Botta bought a bit of better butter.
And also, I'd like to share a preposotion song I've seen on youtube. It's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v3yxXPPjM, bye!

It´s so interesting!!!

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/

kisses a lot!!!

Cris

Hi, folks!
I want to share with you an interesting site www.toondoo.com The cartoon strip creator, where you can make your cartoons to your classes. there you can find many characters, environments, and the baloons to write the talks...
Go there and enjoy it!
kisses
Neiva

Hi Regina!
My suggestion is www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics
This website contains animated libraries of the phonetics sounds of the English language.
Available for each consonant sound and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sounds spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.
I hope it can be useful for you all.
Cheers!
Dulce

Hi, everybody!!
This is the site I would like to share with you: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/resources/grammar-movies
If you are trying to explain some uses of the language and you need help, this site brings some movies about grammar in a very delightful and illustrative way. Very useful in the classroom and you can copy and use it with multimidia tv.
Think about it!
Hugs, Vera

Hi,
there's a new group of teachers joining the blog. They are taking part in the PDE program developed by the Education Secretariat of the State of Paraná.
We have just started a course in new technologies for ELT at UFPR as part of the program and I hope they'll enjoy sharing some of their knowledge and experiences here.

Regina

Hi there

This is a good website, specially for beginners, as it offers lessons plans and guides teachers in how to use computer language in the classroom environment. There is a table of contents and the language level of each activity.

http://tech.worlded.org/docs/cia/notes.htm

Hello everybody,

My suggestions are:
www.englishclub.com, a site for both learners and teachers that I use all the time, and

http://www.nelliemuller.com/ESL_Articles_and_WebQuests.htm
This site is new for me and I'm still looking into it. You will find many articles about Technology in the Classroom, ESL articles, activities and ....

Have fun!

Patricia

In this website http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids you can explore a lot of different activities for children who are learning English as a second language. You can find games, songs, activities to print and stories to help them to learn the language.

An interesting site for business and ESL teachers is www.onestopenglish.com. It is a webpage to give teachers support, to share teaching ideas and ask for them.

There you can find material to utilize with children, teenagers and adults, lesson plans about grammar and vocabulary, and others involving the necessary skills in the process of learning a second language. It is also possible to download some games and activities from this page.

Teachers can also get material to help them to prepare classes for students who are interested in getting ready to exams like IELTS, TOEFLS, ESOL, etc. At One Stop English there are contents free and just for members, and they are updated weekly and/or monthly. (Veluma)

www.dictionary.com
In this website you'll find many articles, games and ideas about language learning/teaching. (Letícia Barbieri Pereira)

Dave's ESL Café is a very interesting site where teachers are able to find a big variety of activities and games in English. Check this out: http://www.eslcafe.com/
XOXOXOXOX Ana Montandon

wordhunts - how to create your own ones

wordhunts can be useful activities to practice vocabulary or definitions
create you own ones at http://www.wordhunt.com/create.shtml

Let me share with you an interesting site. It's a e-magazine with books to buy, courses, workshops, articles and interesting tips for teachers of English.
http://www.brandnewroutes.com.br/

Hope it will be useful

Chris

If you're interested in education and social movements, there is something happening in Portugal (regarding the implementation of a national teachers' performance evaluation process - this discussion has already started in Brazil):

Movimento Escola Pública http://www.movimentoescolapublica.blogspot.com/
Somos um movimento de professores e cidadãos que se juntam para defender e reinventar a escola pública, porque queremos combater a reprodução das desigualdades sociais e criar uma cultura inovadora, democrática e de participação, tendo como primeiro compromisso o sucesso e a emancipação dos alunos.

ProfAvaliação
http://www.professoresramiromarques.blogspot.com/
Blog centrado na divulgação de informação sobre o estatuto dos professores, a avaliação do desempenho dos professores e das escolas, os projectos educativos e os projectos curriculares de turma

Material interessante para pensar mídia e educação - achei o filme, do site do prof. Michael Wesch, bastante inteligente e útil para provocar discussões em sala de aula.


The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&eurl=http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?cat=4&paged=2


Achei o filme no blog de Alexandra Bujocas, que tem muito mais coisas.

Blog da mídia-educação - http://midiaeduc.zip.net/arch2007-02-01_2007-02-28.html
"Este blog reúne aspectos da pesquisa que [Alexandra Bujocas] desenvolvo como bolsista de pós-doutorado do CNPq na The Open University, Inglaterra, entre agosto de 2006 e julho de 2007. Meu projeto de estudos se compromete em investigar o modo como se desenvolve e se implementa uma política pública de educação para mídia."
No blog do prof. Wesch há vários vídeos disponíveis.

Digital Ethnography - Kansas State Un. http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

I [Prof. Michael Wesch] recently returned from the Educause Learning Initiatives conference in San Antonio where I gave a talk I called, “The Crisis of Significance.” I began by recounting the simple 2 question survey I gave my students 2 weeks ago:
Q: How many of you do not actually like school?
A: Over half raise their hands.
Q: How many of you do not like learning?
A: No hands.
I use this and other examples (several from “A Vision of Students Today“) to suggest that:
The most significant problem in education today is the problem of significance itself. Our students, our most important critics, are struggling to find meaning and significance in their education.
I then proposed that part of the problem has to do with a growing cultural gap between students and teachers, partially driven by new media. At the end, I offered a 3 part solution to the problem, using our World Simulation project as an example. The response was tremendous. One person commented that listening to the talk was “like being shot out of a cannon.” It was fun. And I’m looking forward to revising it and taking some of the insights I am getting through this process and applying them back into my teaching.
You can watch the full presentation at Educause Connect.