Thanks for the brilliant work you did writing about the websites. Useful for us all. And don't forget to check out the DFilm movies and the Voicethreads people made.
You can see the information, films etc from the other groups here:
Group A (Jo's): http://nilemgea.blogspot.com/
Group B (Carole's): http://nilemgeb.blogspot.com/
Group C (Jamie's): http://mgecnile.blogspot.com/
Some greedy people asked for more websites to use for learning and teaching! Here is a page of links from my website, The English Language Garden:
http://www.elgweb.net/t_links.html
I'm hoping to update this at the end of August - but I'll be adding to it rather than deleting any (unless they've become bad links). One of the sites I'll definitely add then is the award-winning TEFLclips written by a man called Jamie Keddie who you may have heard of. http://www.teflclips.com/ (Group A - remember Mairzy Doats?)
Links to loads of material for Interactive Whiteboards at http://www.elgweb.net .
And if your English spelling is a bit iffy, take a look at my blog The Spelling Blog at http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com/
And what about you? Have you got a blog or website that we can look at? Or do you know other useful sites? Please post them here.
Friday 14 August 2009
My short mini-project
My brief and short mini-project framed within the Fernanda and Javier one "as a freelance" focuses in the traditional measurement units that are used here in UK. I have made a brief presentation to support my talk which last about 5 minutes or even less.
Here you have it in case you feel like to have a look: Imperial measurement units.
Here you have it in case you feel like to have a look: Imperial measurement units.
Thursday 13 August 2009
Technologic Song Videos
Here are the videos of the songs you wrote based on Technologic by Daft Punk.
The original video:
And here are yours, which are of course much better!
First up, Jose, Imna, Rocio and Rosa singing about language and literature teaching.
And finally a P,E, song from our very own Nuria, Miguel and Nacho
Now you're all stars! Something to show your grandchildren!
Well done
Jo
The original video:
And here are yours, which are of course much better!
First up, Jose, Imna, Rocio and Rosa singing about language and literature teaching.
And here are Mari Paz and Jose, putting philosophy to music!
Fernanda, Javier and Raul jammin' about maths and economics.
And finally a P,E, song from our very own Nuria, Miguel and Nacho
Now you're all stars! Something to show your grandchildren!
Well done
Jo
TED talks
The TED website offers a lot of videos you can listen to about different topics. While you're watching the video, you have the possibility to listen to the speaker, and to read the subtitles, if necessary. Moreover, there is an interactive transcript you can read with the whole document.If you click on any sentence, you can watch and hear again that part of the video.
Ken Robinson says in his talk that schools kill creativity, because, at school many subjects as Music, Drawing or Dance are less important than Maths or Humanities. The main purpose of traditional schools is to produce workers instead of creative people, so, he thinks that we have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.
In other video, Dave Eggers explain how Valencia 826 works, a place wher children can study or do their homeworks after school time with volunteers helping them.
Jose Maria Iglesias
Rosa Cano
Ken Robinson says in his talk that schools kill creativity, because, at school many subjects as Music, Drawing or Dance are less important than Maths or Humanities. The main purpose of traditional schools is to produce workers instead of creative people, so, he thinks that we have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.
In other video, Dave Eggers explain how Valencia 826 works, a place wher children can study or do their homeworks after school time with volunteers helping them.
Jose Maria Iglesias
Rosa Cano
Historical places
My subject talks about historical places to go. I'm going to start with the protestant cathedral what is the landmark of Norwich, it is a medieval cathedral built by the Normans. It's construction started in XI century and it finished 70 years after. Nowadays it is a protestant cathedral led by the Dominicans.
The second historical place to visit is the castle which was built in 1067 by the Normans as a royal palace. After being a palace, in the XIII century it was a jail and it opened as a museum in 1894, nowadays it is an art, archeology and natural history museum. In the last 20 years the meadows surrounded the castle have been improved to be more attractive. Another historical place that you have to visit is the Country and Eastern which is a building built in the XIX century as a skating rink, now is an oriental furniture store. See you later!
The second historical place to visit is the castle which was built in 1067 by the Normans as a royal palace. After being a palace, in the XIII century it was a jail and it opened as a museum in 1894, nowadays it is an art, archeology and natural history museum. In the last 20 years the meadows surrounded the castle have been improved to be more attractive. Another historical place that you have to visit is the Country and Eastern which is a building built in the XIX century as a skating rink, now is an oriental furniture store. See you later!
Two sites useful for teaching
We have compared two very interesting websites about the latest news in the world. The sites are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
and
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html
As well as making you perfectly informed, also they are useful in your work as a teacher.
There are many differences between them, e.g.:
The first one, we think, offers you a lot of contents and several tools that help you to prepare your own classes in your own way.This site can give you more
freedom in your daily work.Besides it has a very attractive design.
The second one also helps you to be informed but it's designed to be a complete lesson, with a lot of didactic tools for using before and after reading the
news.
BY NURIA FERRO AND ROCIO ONRUBIA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
and
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html
As well as making you perfectly informed, also they are useful in your work as a teacher.
There are many differences between them, e.g.:
The first one, we think, offers you a lot of contents and several tools that help you to prepare your own classes in your own way.This site can give you more
freedom in your daily work.Besides it has a very attractive design.
The second one also helps you to be informed but it's designed to be a complete lesson, with a lot of didactic tools for using before and after reading the
news.
BY NURIA FERRO AND ROCIO ONRUBIA
Voicethread, Inma and Miguel
Voicethread is an online tool. You can use one picture and record a voice for that picture. You can paint on the picture. You can also invite your friends to talk about the same picture. We think it's great for art lessons.
Here you are some examples of what can you do with voicethread
Voicethread for Education
http://voicethread.com/#q.b3352.i28616
Interesting pants
http://voicethread.com/#q.b4455.i35153
Two more links, our first attemps.
This is Miguel’s first attempt with voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/580144/
This is Inma’s first attempt using voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/580143/
We think this tool is really interesting especially if we use it to communicate and create a project at the same time in several places. It would be great for communication with an “online English teacher”, you can work online using other websites such as Skype and from time to time it would be really nice to use it.
We think it could be fantastic for High School exchanges because students from both countries could work together before the meeting. Voicethread offers much more than an email exchange, a skype conversation or a blog.
Also, we are thinking about teacher's collaborative experiences. This way of working is really usefull for everybody. It's a really motivating challenge both for digital inmigrants and for digital natives. Working together we change the world.
Here you are some examples of what can you do with voicethread
Voicethread for Education
http://voicethread.com/#q.b3352.i28616
Interesting pants
http://voicethread.com/#q.b4455.i35153
Two more links, our first attemps.
This is Miguel’s first attempt with voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/580144/
This is Inma’s first attempt using voicethread
http://voicethread.com/share/580143/
We think this tool is really interesting especially if we use it to communicate and create a project at the same time in several places. It would be great for communication with an “online English teacher”, you can work online using other websites such as Skype and from time to time it would be really nice to use it.
We think it could be fantastic for High School exchanges because students from both countries could work together before the meeting. Voicethread offers much more than an email exchange, a skype conversation or a blog.
Also, we are thinking about teacher's collaborative experiences. This way of working is really usefull for everybody. It's a really motivating challenge both for digital inmigrants and for digital natives. Working together we change the world.
ACCENTS AND DIALECTS
www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
THIS SITE IS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT ACCENTS AND DIALECTS ALL AROUND UK. YOU CAN FIND THERE MODERN ENGLISH TALKING, OLDER ENGLISH, RECEIVED PRONUCIATION AND MINORITY ETHNIC ENGLISH.
IT S VERY USEFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN LISTEN TO DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU CAN READ THE TRANCRIPTIONS.
YOU CAN ALSO FIND THE EXPLANATIONS ABOUT VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PHONOLOGICAL VARIATIONS, AND THE SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF ALL THESE DIFFERENCES.
BESIDES THAT, YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVE THE SITE BY RECORDING YOUR OWN VOICE.
FERNANDA AND JAVIER
THIS SITE IS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT ACCENTS AND DIALECTS ALL AROUND UK. YOU CAN FIND THERE MODERN ENGLISH TALKING, OLDER ENGLISH, RECEIVED PRONUCIATION AND MINORITY ETHNIC ENGLISH.
IT S VERY USEFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN LISTEN TO DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU CAN READ THE TRANCRIPTIONS.
YOU CAN ALSO FIND THE EXPLANATIONS ABOUT VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PHONOLOGICAL VARIATIONS, AND THE SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF ALL THESE DIFFERENCES.
BESIDES THAT, YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVE THE SITE BY RECORDING YOUR OWN VOICE.
FERNANDA AND JAVIER
Some useful Englsih sites (a commentary by group 4)
THE SIMPLE WIKIPEDIA is a useful site to consult articles on every possible topic written in easy English. It can be used for non advanced students who can become more confident using it, as a first step in the task of searching for information in English.
http://http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
GOOGLEFIGHT is a site for creating fights between words in order to know which of them is more frequent in Google. It can be used for finding out the correct form of a word or of a expression.
http://http://www.googlefight.com/
HOWJSAY is a talking dictionary of English pronunciation as a tool for finding out how to pronunce English words. At the moment it contains around 125.000 entries
http://http://www.howjsay.com/
M. Paz y Jose. A
http://http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
GOOGLEFIGHT is a site for creating fights between words in order to know which of them is more frequent in Google. It can be used for finding out the correct form of a word or of a expression.
http://http://www.googlefight.com/
HOWJSAY is a talking dictionary of English pronunciation as a tool for finding out how to pronunce English words. At the moment it contains around 125.000 entries
http://http://www.howjsay.com/
M. Paz y Jose. A
Making online animated movies
We are going to talk about a website called Dfilm. It's a very curious place that let you easily make a short animated movie using the background, characters, music and kind of plot between the ones that are provided by the website. So, you don't need to have a knowledge about making movies. All you need if your imagination and to have something to tell.
Maybe you like watching a simple movie from our minds (if you liked it, please click here Donate one millon pounds instantly.)
Do you want us to explain you how it works? Yeah?
First of all you have to clik here http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html and choose a background and a sky for the background that will be during all the first scene. Then you choose the plot of the scene, we mean the kind of scene like a soliloquo or a dialogue. After that you choose the characters and write the conversation. Try on your own because it's really easy.
In our opinion this is very, very useful for learning english because the students can enjoy using their imagination, it's a creative procedure (do you remember the last lecture?...) and we think that it's really easy for students as well.
Maybe you like watching a simple movie from our minds (if you liked it, please click here Donate one millon pounds instantly.)
Do you want us to explain you how it works? Yeah?
First of all you have to clik here http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html and choose a background and a sky for the background that will be during all the first scene. Then you choose the plot of the scene, we mean the kind of scene like a soliloquo or a dialogue. After that you choose the characters and write the conversation. Try on your own because it's really easy.
In our opinion this is very, very useful for learning english because the students can enjoy using their imagination, it's a creative procedure (do you remember the last lecture?...) and we think that it's really easy for students as well.
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