martes, 25 de diciembre de 2018
When the Puritans banned Christmas
In
1659 the Puritan government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned
Christmas. This religious minority considered that such celebration
was unnecessary and that it distracted from religious discipline as
the
daily celebrations often led to drunkenness, promiscuity, gambling
and other forms of excess. They also felt
that celebrating Christmas would be idolatry due to this holiday's
pagan origins.
domingo, 23 de diciembre de 2018
Pixabay (@pixabay)
With a total of 1.5 million free images, most of them photos (1.2 million) and several hundred thousands of illustrations, vector graphics and clip arts, Pixabay is the largest collection of free quality images.
You
can search public domain images by using keywords or by browsing
through the libraries. You can download them in different sizes.
Pixabay
is one of the best choices to find free quality images for classroom
projects avoiding copyright violations.
Webpage:
App
on GooglePlay:
App
on iTunes:
On
Twitter:
sábado, 22 de diciembre de 2018
Lilu's House. Language Skills through Experiments
Brochure
in English.
Additional
materials:
Other
free of charge teaching materials developed by European STEM teachers
and offered by Science on Stage:
sábado, 15 de diciembre de 2018
DeepGrammar
DeepGrammar
is a grammar checker that integrates deep symbolic processing and
deep learning (artificial neural networks). It uses deep learning to
learn a model of language, and it then uses this model to check text
for errors in three steps:
- Compute
the likelihood that someone would have intended to write the text.
- Attempt
to generate text that is close to the written text but is more
likely.
- If
such text is found, show it to the user as a possible correction.
The
following page demonstrates a prototype of DeepGrammar.
Grammar Gamble
Simply
log in, answer 10 questions and build the highest score you can. At
each question you can bet some of your 'money' on the answer. If you
choose right, you win the money. If you choose wrong, you lose it.
Grammar
Gamble is aimed at Intermediate English learners, although all
learners will enjoy it. (Source Grammar Gamble).
domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2018
ReadWorks
ReadWorks
is a nonprofit that provides K-12 teachers with the largest,
highest-quality library of curated nonfiction and literary articles
in the country, along with reading comprehension and vocabulary
supports, formative assessments, teacher guidance, and more.
Everything ReadWorks does is based on proven cognitive science
research, not unproven academic theory.
(Source
ReadWorks)
https://www.readworks.org/
On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ReadWorks/
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/readworks
On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ReadWorks/
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/readworks
sábado, 8 de diciembre de 2018
MIT Blossoms @MIT_BLOSSOMS
You can browse and download lessons to use in your classroom. Every lesson includes video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs and a list of additional online resources relevant to the topic.
Find
it all on:
On
Twitter:
On
YouTube:
On
Facebook:
domingo, 2 de diciembre de 2018
Understanding Science
The Understanding Science site was produced by the UC Museum of Paleontology of the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with a diverse group of scientists and teachers, and was funded by the National Science Foundation.
The mission of Understanding Science is to provide a fun, accessible, and free resource that accurately communicates what science is and how it really works.
Its immediate goals are to (1) improve teacher understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise, (2) provide resources and strategies that encourage and enable K-16 teachers to reinforce the nature of science throughout their science teaching, and (3) provide a clear and informative reference for students and the general public that accurately portrays the scientific endeavor.
(Source: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/about.php).
(Source: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/about.php).
Visit:
Resource database:
For teachers:
KinderArt.com @KinderArt
Created in 1997, KinderArt makes teaching art easier for teachers, parents and artists with art lesson plans art curriculum and tips for all ages.
It offers thousands of ideas and activities which can be viewed by category or by grade (Preschool, Elementary, Middle and High School).
Visit:
Blog:
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/kinderart
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kinderartcom
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kinderartcom/
domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2018
Profesores visitantes en Estados Unidos, Canadá y Reino Unido
El
plazo de presentación de solicitudes está abierto desde el 22 de
noviembre hasta el 10 de diciembre.
Podéis
consultar la convocatoria y condiciones en:
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
Universal
design for learning is a framework to improve and optimize teaching
and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how
humans learn.
Recognizing
that the way individuals learn can be unique, the UDL framework,
first defined by David H. Rose, Ed.D. of the Harvard Graduate School
of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology in the
1990s, calls for creating curriculum from the outset that provides:
- Multiple
means of representation to give learners various ways of acquiring
information and knowledge,
- Multiple
means of expression to provide learners alternatives for
demonstrating what they know, and
- Multiple
means of engagement to tap into learners' interests, challenge them
appropriately, and motivate them to learn.
Visit.
http://www.cast.org/our-work/research-development#.W_sCdThKiM8
Visit.
http://www.cast.org/our-work/research-development#.W_sCdThKiM8
sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2018
American English Dialect Course
Open
Learning Inititative (OLI) from Carnegie Mellon University. A course
(currently under development) for the pronunciation of the sounds of
a Standard of American English Dialect. It supplies the necessary
reinforcement of dialectical structure, audio, production technique
and phonetic representation for each sound.
Follow
the course on:
The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words
A
very interesting resource for chemistry teachers and students.
Visit:
domingo, 11 de noviembre de 2018
Paper Airplane Designs... also in your English class
Visit:
Other
similar resources:
Basic English Speaking
English
learning resource with up to 75 lessons of various common topics that can
help students survive in any English speaking country.
Lessons
are designed in daily life conversation form and delivered with both
texts and audio. A video with subtitles for each lesson is also added
to help train pronunciation and speaking.
A
very useful website to learn English.
Visit:
domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2018
Seterra.com Learn #geography the easy way
A
funny resource to learn geography through play.
Visit
Seterra on
The
Seterra app is available in 15 languages (Danish, Dutch, English,
Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish), and offers all the
most popular quizzes from the online version.
On
GooglePlay (Ad-supported version)
On
iTunes
On
Twitter:
viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2018
EF English Proficiency Index 2018
In order to create this edition of the EF English Proficiency Index, they have analyzed the results of 1.3 million test takers who took their English test in 2017.
Full
report:
Spain.
Country profile:
domingo, 28 de octubre de 2018
Interactive English
YouTube
channel with video lessons for ESL students. They focus on active
language learning (pronunciation, reading, vocabulary, speaking).
A
very interesting resource if you want to improve your English skills.
Also
on Twitter
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