lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2019

Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety is an Amnesty International UK human rights resource on asylum and refugee issues.

It encourages students to draw parallels with their own lives. Many of the activities build on an empathetic understanding of situations to develop knowledge and skills for approaching the subject of asylum. Pupils are encouraged to expand their understanding beyond themselves: to think globally and to think about human rights.

It can be used in stand-alone lessons or in projects.

(Source Amnesty International UK)

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martes, 24 de diciembre de 2019

News in Slow English

Weekly intermediate English language learning program. Real conversations about current events, grammar and idiomatic expressions, delivered at a slower pace to enhance comprehension.

The website includes a comprehensive catalog of grammar and expressions lessons.

A useful resource if you are learning English as a Second Language

Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura is a global community of explorers, who have together created a comprehensive database of the world’s most wondrous places and foods. 

They publish articles about hidden places, incredible history, scientific marvels, and gastronomical wonders.

Website:

Simple English Wikipedia

Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages.

The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar. This allows people to understand normally complex terms or phrases. Its more than 150,000 articles are very interesting for children and adults who are learning English.

Visit it on:

sábado, 21 de diciembre de 2019

Scientific work- Research project

Recurso educativo abierto (REA) desarrollado por el profesorado de biología, geología e inglés del IES Antonio de Nebrija de Zalamea de la Serena como proyecto de investigación para el alumnado de Biología y Geología de 4º de ESO de la sección bilingüe en inglés.

El recurso combina el objetivo de familiarizarse con el método científico con el uso de TIC y la utilización del inglés como lengua de trabajo desde un enfoque AICLE (uso de la lengua extranjera como medio de aprendizaje de contenidos de áreas o materias curriculares no lingüísticas.

Podéis ver una descripción del material en el siguiente enlace:

Acceso al recurso:

domingo, 15 de diciembre de 2019

UNESCO Observatory on the Right to Education

Education is a fundamental human right of every woman, man and child. Nonetheless, it is still not a reality for millions and it is violated every single day. 

The Observatory on the Right to Education provides documentation and information concerning the implementation of the right to education at every level. It provides different options to browse its database: country profiles, a library with about 1.000 documents, and search tools to find information within the country profiles. 

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Teaching and Learning with Twitter

With this resource, Twitter and UNESCO hope to draw on their respective expertise in information, technology, media, and MIL to offer practical advice that informs pedagogical methods and outcomes.

If you want to design lessons around media and information literacy and how it relates to global citizenship and digital citizenship education it will be useful for you.


You can download Teaching and Learning with Twitter from:

viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2019

Google Tools for English Language Learners by @ericcurts

Tips to help you improve your English skills with Google tools: translation tools, speech-to-text tools, text-to-speech tools, dictionary tools, summarization tools and more. 

A post by Eric Curts on his amazing blog Control Alt Achieve.

NeoK12.com

Watching educational videos and animations is a great way to learn because it allows kids to build a visual model in their mind. 

NeoK12.com offers educational videos for school kids. NeoK12 website also features innovative tools for learning and teaching: Quiz Games, Interactive Diagrams, Flow Chart Games, Vocabulary Games and other educational games & puzzles

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sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2019

National #AIDS Trust. Educational resources

World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.

The National AIDS Trust (UK) offers free educational resources to have a better understanding of the realities of living with HIV and to know how to protect yourself from infection. Good practices, World AIDS day Resources, ideas, lesson plans and activities...

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Douglas Wise Education Blog

The Douglas Wise website was created to provide educational commentary and teaching resources. Douglas Wise is a teacher of English and assistant principal (teaching and learning) at a secondary comprehensive school in Northampton.

Amazing blog with many educational and ELT resources.

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On Twitter:

domingo, 24 de noviembre de 2019

Flashcard Stash

Created by David Lynam in 2009, Flashcard Stash (originally WordStash) allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can easily add images to your flashcards from Wikipedia and Flickr.

Flashcard Stash is built on top of a dictionary and contains over 200,000 English words and phrases. This helps when creating vocabulary flashcards by allowing you to select existing definitions.

Flashcard Stash has been designed with a game element. It has an integrated points system that rewards you with points as you learn. (Source Flashcard Stash)

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Audio Joiner

Audio Joiner is a free online tool you can use to combine multiple audio tracks into one. There is no limit on the number of tracks you can join. Audio Joiner supports more than 300 audio formats and converts them to mp3.

Visit:

sábado, 16 de noviembre de 2019

The Great Thanksgiving Listen

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States (4th Thursday in November), Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. 

The Great Thanksgiving Listen is a national movement that empowers young people and people of all ages to create an oral history of the contemporary United States by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone they admire using the free StoryCorps App. (Source: The Great Thanksgiving Listen)

If you want to know about it visit: 

Humanising Language Teaching

Edited by Hania Kryszewska and published by Pilgrims, Humanising Language Teaching is a free online magazine for teachers of English. Since 1999 it offers ELT articles and ELT resources, lesson plans, book reviews, CLIL resources and more.

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sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019

Fall of the Berlin Wall

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall For many years, the Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany, acting as a barrier that symbolised the political divisions of the time.

On November 9, 1989, the East German government announced that all East Germany citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. When the Italian reporter Riccardo Ehrmann asked Günter Schabowski, the spokesman for the SED Politburo, when this would apply, Schabowski seemed unsure, but then said "immediately". Within minutes, crowds gathered at the border demanding to cross.

Some educational resources about the rise and fall of the Berlin:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2216&context=gradreports
https://study.com/academy/popular/berlin-wall-lesson-plan.html

Expresso

Expresso is an interactive tool to analyze, edit and compare text styles in English. You can use Expresso to monitor changes in your writing style over time or to highlight weak parts of a text which can benefit from stylistic changes.

It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging. Expresso does not save entered texts to protect privacy.  

(Source: Expresso)

Discover it on:

sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2019

Educandy

With Educandy you can generate 8 types of engaging activities in minutes. You enter your words, questions and answers and this service turns your content into interactive games.

You can also share those games through a unique code that is generated when you create the activities.


On Twitter @educandydotcom

On Facebook

App on GooglePlay

App on the App Store

sábado, 26 de octubre de 2019

How does PISA define and measure reading literacy?

PISA 2018 focused on students’ proficiency in reading. A new framework for the reading assessment was developed in order to reflect how reading has changed over the past decade. In particular, the prevalence of reading in digital environments was reflected by a greater emphasis on reading multiple-source texts.

Read the new Pisa in Focus #101 (October 2019):

domingo, 20 de octubre de 2019

Historica Canada’s Education Portal

Historica Canada’s Education Portal is a digital resource for teachers. It invites users to interact with each other, and with their vast collection of learning tools covering Canada’s remarkable history. 

The resources are searchable by grade level, province, theme, and keyword. In addition to browsing these, teachers can share their own resources and create their own collections of grouped resources to reference at any time.

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ERA Subject Playlists

Selection of curated TV and radio broadcasts handpicked for several subjects. The Subject Playlists have been created with GCSE students in mind and are based on existing GCSE subject specifications. 

However, some programmes and clips may be relevant to students at other levels of study, so it might be worth taking a look at the Playlist for your subject even if you do not teach at this level. (Source: Era.org)

sábado, 12 de octubre de 2019

SELMA. Hacking Hate

Online hate speech is a growing problem. Education is part of the solution. Do you want to hack online hate?

SELMA (Social and Emotional Learning for Mutual Awareness) is a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission which aims to tackle the problem of online hate speech by promoting mutual awareness, tolerance, and respect.

You can navigate the SELMA materials according to the thematic questions or focus angles which best suit your interest or expertise. You can also browse the resources directly.

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Listenwise

Teaching with podcasts is a fun and engaging way to teach content, language, and grow listening skills. Listenwise offers thousands of 3-6 Minute Stories For Grades 5-12.

Visit it on: 

sábado, 5 de octubre de 2019

Learning Corner

If you're a teacher and want to help your pupils learn about the EU and how it works, this is an interesting source of teaching materials by age group. You can find inspiration for lesson plans. You can also discover networking opportunities with other schools and teachers across the EU.

Popular topics include: environment, consumers’ rights, EU countries, EU history, EU laws and institutions...

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Vogue. 73 Questions

73 rapid-fire questions answered by your favorite celebs. 

Short videos filmed in a single shot to help you teach and learn English and to improve your students’ listening skills.

Visit:

https://video.vogue.com/series/73-questions

domingo, 29 de septiembre de 2019

Junior Cycle for Teachers (English)

Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) is a dedicated continuing professional development (CPD) support service of the Irish Department of Education and Skills.

On this webpage you can find resources and short courses for teachers listed by subject.

https://www.jct.ie/english/english

Great speeches of the 20th century

From historic moments to the present day, the English language has given us some extraordinary examples of the spoken word. 

Key speeches of the 20th century offered by The Guardian. These famous speeches inspired, gave courage and hope, lifted hearts in dark times and changed the course of history.

domingo, 22 de septiembre de 2019

VocabAhead

VocabAhead is a vocabulary building website. It offers videos and flashcards that are designed to help students learn new vocabulary words. The website hosts short and simple animated videos that explain what words mean in context. It also uses a set of corresponding flashcards next to each video.

On Twitter:

On Facebook:

On YouTube:

Website:

sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2019

Improve Your Writing

Resources on English language provided by the University of Bristol. They are intended to form a comprehensive guide to using English grammar and avoiding the most common mistakes. 

Each point of grammar (punctuation marks, common confusions, quoted material, style, pitfalls and problems...) has an explanation and a related exercise or exercises.

Visit:

jueves, 12 de septiembre de 2019

Culture Street

CultureStreet is an educational resource which introduces young people to contemporary artists, writers, curators and performers and their amazing work. It encourages creativity in the classroom.
This website is full of interactive resources to inspire young people to get started and share their work.
Visit:

On Instagram

viernes, 6 de septiembre de 2019

Resources for Learning English

Collection of free English learning resources by EF designed to help you study whatever aspect of conversational English. 

Grammar, vocabulary, idioms, quotes, names, tests...


jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2019

World Peace Song Project

World Peace Song, composed by Women of the World, is a song for connecting people from around the world with their wishes for peace. It was premiered in a concert in Nagoya in 2015 in which children with many backgrounds in World Museum contributed lyrics in their own languages and created a global chorus. Since then, the song has been sung in several concerts and workshops.
In 2018, many new partners have joined the project and have contributed their works creating lyrics in their native languages, singing, recording and videotaping.

Visit:

martes, 27 de agosto de 2019

#NASA Solar System Exploration

Launched in October 1998, the Solar System Exploration website is a real-time, living encyclopedia of the robotic exploration of our solar system. 

It provides the public with reliable, accurate, up-to-date information about the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and everything else in our solar system. It also provides a complete historical record of deep space exploration.

Visit this webpage on:

lunes, 26 de agosto de 2019

WriteReader. Digital books

WriteReader was founded in 2012 by the teacher and author of children teaching materials Janus Madsen together with marketing consultant Babar Baig and investor Ulrik Jensen.

WriteReader is a unique digital learning platform where children from age 3–10 can learn to read by writing and publish small digital books. 

(Source: WriteReader)

martes, 20 de agosto de 2019

Burst (Free stock photos)

Free stock photo platform that includes thousands of high-resolution royalty free images. It provides designers, developers, bloggers and entrepeneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography.

All their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

Legal terms:

Webpage:

lunes, 19 de agosto de 2019

Try This!

Try This! is a series of videos produced by National Geographic Kids. Each video presents a hands-on science lesson or experiment for elementary school and middle school students.

Visit its YouTube playlist on:

miércoles, 14 de agosto de 2019

Tabletop Whale by @eleanor_lutz

Science Illustration blog by Eleanor Lutz, a PhD candidate in the University of Whasington Biology Department. On this blog you will find charts, infographics, and animations about a list of scientific topics.

Interesting and visually amazing.

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On Twitter:

On Instagram: