DOGOnews

DOGO means "young" or "small" in Swahili.

DOGOnews is a leading source for current events, news and non-fictional articles for kids and teachers. It provides content in the following areas:

NEWS - Fun and inspiring current events and news from all around the world. Written for and in some cases by children.

SITES - A destination to discover the best and most appropriate websites for kids.

MAPS – A fun and interactive way for our younger readers to read news headlines geotagged on a world map.

Also for teachers:

Teacher Resources from DOGOnews

http://www.dogonews.com/teachers

Funland

New and engaging mobile phone game from Cambridge University and Matmi, one of the UK's leading digital games agencies.

Funland invites players to take part in a range of classic fairground games which are designed to help children practise their reading and listening skills in English. Funland combines gaming skills with language learning in a highly entertaining and interactive way. Tasks are specially designed to cover levels A1–B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Funland is available on the App Store and Google Play to download for free:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.CambridgeEnglish.Funland

https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/funland/id630632324?mt=8

Jornada de Inglés e Infantil: Herramientas para el aula

Fecha: 4 de julio de 2013

Lugar: Sala de Actos de la Conselleria de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. (Av. Campanar, 32 - Valencia)

Plazas: 200

Hacer constar en el formulario de inscripción en "Observaciones" las prioridades de selección y enviar por correo electrónico como adjunto (escaneado en formato pdf) los documentos que acrediten las siguientes condiciones (nivel de inglés, intervención en infantil con un certificado de la dirección del centro, situación administrativa en el caso de los centros concertados también con un certificado de la dirección del centro) a sel@gva.es hasta el 23 de junio.

Profesorado funcionario de carrera y con plaza fija en centros concertados que sea:

1. Profesorado de educación infantil de los centros experimentales plurilingües.

2. Profesorado de educación infantil con nivel B2 de inglés.

3. Profesorado de inglés de educación primaria que interviene en infantil.

4. Profesorado de educación infantil con nivel B1 de inglés.

Profesorado interino que sea:

1. Profesorado de educación infantil de los centros experimentales plurilingües.

2. Profesorado de educación infantil con nivel B2 de inglés.

3. Profesorado de inglés de educación primaria que interviene en infantil.

4. Profesorado de educación infantil con nivel B1 de inglés.

Inscripción: del 4 al 23 de junio (ambos incluidos). Formulario de inscripción

Fin de confirmación: 2 de julio

Ponencias sobre métodos fónicos, unidades por proyectos y recursos y experiencias.

Más información:

http://www.cece.gva.es/ocd/sedev/es/jornada.htm

Weron2U

The Government of Alberta (Canada) has developed and maintains this website to help children and teens find helpful information about safe and responsible Internet usage. It contains links to other websites that offer useful and relevant information about this topic.

http://weron2u.ca/home/index.html

Games for Change

Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts. It curates digital and non-digital games that egage contemporary social issues in a meaningful way.

Unlike the commercial gaming industry, Games for Change aims to leverage entertainment and engagement for social good.

http://www.gamesforchange.org/

Blog: http://www.gamesforchange.org/blog/

eduClipper

Online bookmarking service designed specifically for education. eduClipper represents an answer to the educational need for teachers and students to have a better platform to explore, share, and contribute resources and materials to help enhance teaching and learning of both a formal and personal nature. 

Founded by Adam Bellow, former High School English Teacher and Technology Training Specialist, eduClipper aims to make it simple to help students and educators save time and build personal learning networks. 

In the following video you can see how it works.

 

The English Alley

The English Alley is a 100% free website designed to help students and teachers improve their English vocabulary.

Here you can find plenty of drawings that show the different vocabulary terms organized into themes (house, park, school...) When you put the cursor over the drawings you will hear the pronunciation of the words, and if you click on many of them it will give you access to a new vocabulary page.

Step by step, the page is growing and offering new contents (video, grammar, etc.) So visitors to The English Alley will find in the near future a better resource for teaching and learning ESL with an easy navigation and a very visually-pleasing interface.

http://www.theenglishalley.es/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEnglishAlley

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheEnglishAlley

On Google+: https://plus.google.com/101356800386076059512/posts

Educatina. Inglés

Educatina es un sitio web argentino que recopila vídeos educativos gratuitos con explicaciones animadas, agrupadas por asignaturas y dirigidas principalmene al alumnado de Secundaria. La apariencia de la explicación reproduce una pizarra con anotaciones sobre ella.

Educatina está abierta a registro o a entrada a través de una cuenta de Facebook. Se trata de una utilidad semejante a TeacherTube.

Se ofrece una sección de recursos correspondientes a inglés que podéis aprovechar como ejemplos o para repaso. Sus contenidos se refieren sobre todo a gramática y léxico. He aquí un ejemplo.

http://www.educatina.com/ingles

English Club ESL Learning Centre

In this website you'll find lessons and resources to help you learn English.

http://www.englishclub.com/

If you're an ESL or EFL student, you'll find English lessons useful to learn or revise all aspects of English. You can also use the interactive pages like ESL Forums or ESL Games to have fun and learn English at the same time. If you have a question about English grammar, check out ESL Help for answers. In the special interest pages you'll find resources for Business English, Young Learners and other areas of English.

http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm

ESL or EFL teachers, too, can find material in these pages of use while teaching English.

http://www.englishclub.com/teach-english.htm

A Maths Dictionary for Kids

A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for children which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language. It also offers over 250 free printable maths charts or math posters suitable for interactive whiteboards, classroom displays, math walls, display boards, student handouts, homework help, concept introduction and consolidation and other math reference needs.

Using songs in the EFL classroom

Research has found that learning music facilitates learning other subjects and enhances skills that children inevitably use in other areas. Here you have a very interesting and informative presentation on music in the EFL classroom by David Deubelbeiss from North Bay (Canada).

Using songs in the EFL classroom

More PowerPoint presentations from David Deubelbeiss

By the same author: 
http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/50-ways-to-use-music-and-song-in-the-classroom

Take Me Back To

Amazing tool to let you enjoy looking back in time. 

It searches for news, songs, movies, fashion... from the date you enter. It can be very useful for teachers. You can get students to find what was happening on a particular day or to compare results from different years, decades, etc. You can also generate materials for language work in the classroom. 

http://takemeback.to/

   

 

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English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

English Language & Usage Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It's 100% free, no registration required. 

How does it work?

1 Anybody can ask a question.

2 Anybody can aswer.

3 The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. (The best answers show up first so that they are always easy to find.)

4 All questions are tagged with their subject areas. Each can have up to 5 tags, since a question might be related to several subjects. You can click any tag to see a list of questions with that tag, or go to the tag list to browse for topics that interest you.

http://english.stackexchange.com/

Phrasal Verbs Machine para IPad

¿Aburridos y aburridas de estudiar phrasal verbs en listas interminables?

Desde Cambridge University Press nos proponen una aplicación para IPad que nos ha encantado por su apariencia visual atractiva y por ofrecer información de forma muy clara sobre significados y contextos de aplicación de diversos phrasal verbs, apoyada en textos e imágenes e interactiva con quienes la utilizan para aprender.

Es una aplicación gratuita llamada Phrasal Verbs Machine para IPad. Os da la oportunidad de ver distintos phrasal verbs tras seleccionar la combinación verbo+preposición, comprobar su significado y su uso, y practicar con algunos ejercicios. Un personaje retro circense será el guía de vuestro aprendizaje por medio de divertidas animaciones que representan cada acción.

Podéis ver más información sobre ella en:

https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/phrasal-verbs-machine/id593374912?mt=8

Somos finalistas de la VII Edición del Premio Edublogs

Somos finalistas en la edición de este año del Premio Edublogs de Espiral en la categoría de Blogs de reflexión educativa.

Muchas gracias a todas las personas que seguís este blog y a los compañeros y compañera del CEFIRE de Elda por el apoyo que han dado a la asesoría de ámbito lingüístico para emprender y continuar durante varios años este trabajo junto a los demás blogs de nuestro centro: Linguelda, Coeduelda e Infanelda. Estar en la lista de finalistas supone una gran satisfacción por el reconocimiento a lo que hacemos. 

Felicidades a los demás blogs finalistas en la categoría y en el resto de categorías y en general a los blogs participantes porque su labor, sean finalistas o no, nos hace mejores docentes a todos y todas y repercute positivamente en la calidad de la educación de nuestro alumnado.

Una de las utilidades de este Premio, es dar a conocer buenas prácticas. Aprovecharé la entrada para reflejar algunas de ellas entre los blogs finalistas que se refieren también a la lengua inglesa. Que las disfrutéis:

Our English Corner http://thisisourenglishcorner.wordpress.com/

Plastinglish http://plastinglish.blogspot.com.es/

Dep. de inglés del IES Ventura Rodríguez http://inglesventurarodriguez.blogspot.com.es/

Primary English http://primaryenglishai.blogspot.com.es/

Spotlight

Spotlight is a daily 15 minute English language radio program. It is made for people who are learning English, or use it as a second language. It uses a special English method of broadcasting called Spezialized English. This makes Spotlight easier for many people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. 

Specialized English is a controlled version of the English language used for radio broadcasting, easier for non-native speakers of English. It is derived from Voice of America (VoA) Special English. Spotlight uses a vocabulary of 1,500 words, shorter sentences and a slower rate of speech (about 90 words per minute, or half the normal speaking speed). 

Scripts and audio are also available.

It is a resource that we can use in a lesson but it is not itself a lesson; it is not graded to a particular level of difficulty, and it does not introduce language concepts progressively.

http://spotlightradio.net/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/spotlightradio

Shaping the Way We Teach English

Shaping the Way We Teach English is an awesome video-based training resource for English language educators. It is free and accessible through The Online Language Center of the University of Oregon and it includes about 10 minutes long videos (one for each of the 14 modules), transcripts, and recommended supplementary web based reading.

You can see teachers from around the world working with their classes and share their experieces about the way they teach.

http://oelp.uoregon.edu/shaping

Nulu

Si buscas aprender inglés y practicar tus conocimientos en esta lengua, Nulu te ofrece la posibilidad de hacerlo a través de la lectura y escucha de noticias de actualidad. Puede utilizarse de manera gratuita mediante registro o por medio de nuestra cuenta de Facebook.
http://www.nulu.com/es-mx/home/es-mx/en-us/easy 

English News in Levels

English News in Levels helps students learn and understand English naturally and fast by reading and listening to news. They offer three levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced). Easy English news reading and listening is used in the first two levels. You can also download and share the audio. 

This resource repeats the same words in one level again and again. So, when you read and listen to their news every day, after some time, you will understand all the words in one level. Then it is time for you to go one level higher and do the same. 

http://www.newsinlevels.com/

Privacy Playground: The Adventures of the Three Cyber Pigs

This resource is aimed at ages 5 to 9 to learn about cyberbullying, advertising, and online predators. 

It is a good resource to work through as a class to have discussions and answer questions. 

There are two stories. The first adventure focuses on online predators (the Big Bad Wolf) and the second adventure is about cyberbullying. There are teachers' resource guides available as well.