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Grammar has regrettably but understandably fallen by the wayside for a generation of connected learners and web 2.0 students.
The Atlantic New 'mixed' language discovered in Northern Australia NBCNews.com (blog) A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a new study.
Via SandraVBarbosa
Prezi is a cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.
Via João Greno Brogueira
You can now give students voice feedback about their writing in Google Docs. This short video will show you how. You will need to teach students how to hit t...
Via Laura Spencer, Let's Learn IT, Juergen Wagner
Below are some of the web tools that will help you and your students create awesome books with flipping pages. I have particularly selected these titles because they are very simple to use and have a user friendly interface that your students will enjoy working on.
Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL
Video of British native-speaker English teacher giving example sentences of English pronunciation. Use intonation to improve sentence stress & be clearly understood.
Via TeachingEnglish
This week I gave a seminar at TeachMeet Clevedon. I am going to post more fully on my topic of teachers getting better by undertaking 'deliberate practice' sometime soon. One smaller aspect of my p...
Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon. The addition stands out because it breaks an Oxford English Dictionary rule that a word needs to be in use for 10 years to be considered for inclusion. Since the Twitter social network just turned seven in March, the word aficionados broke their own rule by three years.
Via Nicos Sifakis
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Feedback for learning is a matter of communication, consistency, and tone, all driven by and for assessment practice.
Bring comics to the classroom with educational software that helps students create, share and collaborate on comics - without drawing a line. Use Bitstrips for Schools to teach reading comprehension, writing and digital literacy.
Via jemp, Krisha Kerr, Pilar, Juergen Wagner
The Direct Method of Teaching English is a way that learners acquire the English language. Developed over 100 years ago, this method is still widely used today.
Via Will Lake, SandraVBarbosa
Here’s a list of blogs that feed my teaching soul, hunger for knowledge, and need for deeper insights into teaching, learning and writing. There are so many wonderful blogs that it’s impossible to list them all here, so I’m listing the ones that have been most relevant to my own professional development. As such, they should be relevant to any teacher who wants to turn online teaching and/or publishing into a fully-fledged career.
Via Nik Peachey, Roselink
Here are 10 free tools for creating puzzles and quizzes to use with your class.
By Christopher Pappas "Social media are getting quite popular in eLearning, as well as in traditional classrooms andworkshops. The advantages are many and instructors cannot afford to ignore them: multiple-level interaction, reduce or elimination of classroom time, boost participation and collaboration, new job opportunities, opportunities for the development of online communities consisting of people with common training experiences, and so many more. And these are only few of the reasons why members of the learning community hop on board the social media train. "So, let’s see how we can increase the effectiveness and longevity of formal learning, stimulate the engagement of learners, and enhance the social aspects of learning through the use of social media."
Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff, KiwiBelma
Is empathy just part of the feel-good factor in the classroom or is it a crucial and indispensible prerequisite for healthy teacher/student relationships, brain development, identity and learn
Via TeachingEnglish, Natassa Dourvetaki
A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language. I compiled the videos into a film to make it a little easier to watch them all. While I d...
A short history of the origins and development of the English language, from Old English to Modern English. Old English (450-1100 AD)
Part of Beowulf, a poem written in Old English. The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain developed into what we now call Old English. Old English did not sound or look like English today. Native English speakers now would have great difficulty understanding Old English. Nevertheless, about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. The words be,strong and water, for example, derive from Old English. Old English was spoken until around 1100.
Via SandraVBarbosa
2013 Calendar PowerPoint Template is a free simple PowerPoint calendar that you can download to print for New Year 2013.
Via FPPT
A diagram of 21st century pedagogy for the purpose of 21st century learning.
You just need a computer with internet access, then visit some English learning websites and teach yourself without paying any money.
Via Pilar Pamblanco, Will Lake
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