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Wikipal
This year we created a wiki entitled 'wikipal' with American students from Pennsylvania. Here is where our penpals are really: Get great free widgets at Widgetbox! Here is the address of our "wikipal": http://globalconnect.wikispaces.com/
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International car-free day
Listen to this episode and click on the worksheet to do the exercises:
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Screencasts
Would you like to create video tutorials for your students? Try this awesome tool: ScreenCastle. No need to download an app on your computer. It's easy as pie!
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Create text-to-speech
With http://www.odiogo.com/ your text articles and blog posts can be converted automatically to iPod audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device. It may be useful to listen to an ESL podcast while driving, running, working...
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1000 images on the tip of my tongue
1000 images is a trilingual index which offers explanations and translations of idioms in English, French and Spanish. You can search for idioms using keywords or by category. You can then display the equivalent expression in one of the other languag...
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The connected classroom
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tools wiki)
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Europa Film Treasures
Europa Film Treasures is based on a partnership with the most prestigious archive resources and film archives in Europe. You can watch the treasures of our European cinematographic heritage online. Here is an example of an Irish film Once Upon a Tram...
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Improve your English with Tintin
Listen to this podcast and improve your English with Tintin by clicking on the picture below:
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Hopper
Take a closer look at Hopper?s most enduring and iconic works of art, capturing both the quiet moments of urban life and the beauty of coastal New England. Click on the picture below and you will discover an awesome slideshow on Hopper's paintings:
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Interactive podcasts
Ordinary podcasts do not allow listeners to interact with the podcaster. On this website http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/main.jsp?pushNav=1&cmd=home , it's different. You can talk to the podcaster and give your opinion on what it is said. Click on...
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Mothers 2.0
What will mothers 2.0 say to their children? Have a look on this picture!
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Send me a video message
By clicking on the picture below, you can send me a video message (if you have a webcam...): why not trying this way of communicating?
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CNN
Do you think that our students know CNN?
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Writing skills
How to encourage our students to write not only text messages and e-mails but also letters ? Show them this picture.... Slogan: "If you want to touch someone, send them letters"
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Quizzes
Would you like to embed a quiz for your students in a class blog? Try ProProfs How green conscious are you? » Create Quizzes
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prison break trailer
Lots of my students love 'Prison break', this US series. It's really successful in the US. For you and all of our viewers, here is the Prison Break Season 2 promo.
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web 2.0 and teaching
Nik Peachey gives the pros and cons of web 2.0 teaching. Are new technologies changing our way of thinking? On Web 2.0 tools for teachers you can find a collection of recommended Web 2.0 sites for EFL ESL teachers.
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Front pages from English newspapers
If you want to compare eight different front pages from English newspapers, browse through this website: http://news.sky.com/skynews/home and go to 'Papers'. It's really worthwhile to see how journalists deal with current news.
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Happy New Year!
We wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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The Simpsons movie
Like the Simpsons? Watch the trailer in English:
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Web 2.0 and language teaching
For teachers: if you want to know how to use the Internet and its various possibilities in class ( blogs, podcasts, wikis, Second Life...), watch this excellent video:
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English and karaoke video channel
Here is a karaoke video channel. The author's goal is to get more teachers and students using this amazing stuff for motivation and language instruction / learning:
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Why using podcasts in education ?
Kaplan University has a great commercial that's been airing on television. The spot features a professor apologizing to students for a system that has failed them. "It's time to use technology to rewrite the rules of education."
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Catch It, Bin It, Kill It
A new public health campaign has been launched telling the public how they can help stop swine flu spreading. The Catch it, Bin It, Kill it! ad is appearing in print, television and radio and aims to target everyone in the UK but also elsewhere....
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Speare
Do you know what SPEARE is? This is a fun game - based on the story of Romeo and Juliet - that teaches literacy skills. You can find a demo at: http://www.apollogames.ca/speare.html You can also watch a video explaining what it is really: