I hope you’re o.k. =)

I’m a huge fan of FLASH GAMES. And I’m sure your students are as well. That’s why I’m posting this website.

“English Flash Games, for learning vocabulary.”

It’s organized into topics and the games are really fun and effective.

The description of the article speaks for itsefl!

“The Internet has vastly altered the educational system in our country and around the world. It has changed not only the way educators teach, but the way students learn [...]]]> Lovely Karen Galvin just sent this interesting site with tons of Unique Activities and Ideas for Elementary Students!

The description of the article speaks for itsefl!

“The Internet has vastly altered the educational system in our country and around the world. It has changed not only the way educators teach, but the way students learn as well. This list provides educational and fun websites that teachers can use and in which elementary school students will want to participate. These fun, interactive websites facilitate learning without students even realizing that they are learning.”

You will be able to find plenty of links to great activities! They’re classified into topics such as:

• Spelling & Alphabet
  Reading, Writing & Grammar
  Math & Money
  Science
  Art & Music
  Geography
  Nutrition
  Shapes and more!

I would like to thank Karen for her initiative and for sending in this great site! I remind you if you also found good activities or some great site that worked pretty well with your class, you are totally free to send the links or anything you want to share (useful experiencies in the classroom, tips, games, anything!) to my e-mail and I’ll be glad to submit it to this site.

E-mail: carolinapherrera@gmail.com

I hope you all have a great New Year’s celebration with the ones you love. God bless you.

It’s called “My Story Maker” and I liked it because it’s very very customizable, meaning you can choose characters, actions, elements, and while you are creating the story the little characters can move and do the things you want them to do [...]]]> Among aaaaaall the thousands of  create-your-own-story sites there exist, I found this one.

It’s called “My Story Maker” and I liked it because it’s very very customizable, meaning you can choose characters, actions, elements, and while you are creating the story the little characters can move and do the things you want them to do ^^. Another thing that I liked about it is that the story writes itself while you play with the thousands possibilities you have when creating your story! So I believe this would be very useful for students who are just at the very early stages of  their reading-writing process. Imagine how amazing! You can invent a story and then the teacher can read it to all your classmates! Sounds fun.

The good thing is that it can also be used with older kids, students who already write. Why? Because this website allows you two possibilities: to just play with the characters and have the story be written by itself, or play with the characters  and write it.

Just for yuo to see how much fun your students will get, here I give you an example of this website. I chose two characters and I also chose the action “fight”. The action starts immediately! ^^

I also chose the background, that cloud (oops) and you can go on and on…

Problem?

The only problem is that when you finish the story, the characters won’t move as in the flash writing process. So if you don’t prepare your students for that result, they might feel a little dissapointed. :s

Working on a proyect I’m doing with some  friends, I ran into this website about ICT in the Curriculum. I’ts so easy for us as teachers to get confused with ICT use in the classroom. Sometimes we use technology just for the sake of using technology but not using it as a [...]]]>

Working on a proyect I’m doing with some  friends, I ran into this website about ICT in the Curriculum. I’ts so easy for us as teachers to get confused with ICT use in the classroom. Sometimes we use technology just for the sake of using technology but not using it as a way to actually improve the way we teach or the way our students learn.

ICT in the Curriculum provides a variety of ways in which we can use technology in our classes but in an effective way, and taking into account the pedagogical aspects of ICT in our classrooms, which is a very important issue.

In this site you will find a description of each technological tool and then an example of the way we can make the most out of it.

I hope you like it!

Now this is something I REALLY appreciate each time I have to evaluate an activity or project. This site is aaaall about rubrics!!

Site Description: RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

All you need to do is to create yourself an account. This will only takea few seconds, and [...]]]>

Now this is something I REALLY appreciate each time I have to evaluate an activity or project. This site is aaaall about rubrics!!

Site Description: RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

All you need to do is to create yourself an account. This will only takea few seconds, and after you’ve done it you’ll be able to look for different rubrics of different areas such as math, languages, oral projects, art, writing, science, work skills, and more. Once you’ve chosen the area you need, you’ll be given a reeeaally complete rubric that is already done for you; from there, you can use that one or you can modify it according to your needs.

Aw! I forgot!

Para profesores que hablan español, las mismas rúbricas están disponibles en español!

Enjoy!

Looking for downloadable material, good material, I found this site about podcasts.

The site is called http://www.eslpod.com and here i’m just going to copy the description from their site [...]]]> I’m going to start teaching higher level students, highschool students, this year sooo, I’m doing listening comprehension again, which is something that I really love.

Looking for downloadable material, good material, I found this site about podcasts.

The site is called http://www.eslpod.com and here i’m just going to copy the description from their site about their awesome learning guide…