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The Spangler Effect - Experiments and Explanations
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The Spangler Effect is a new YouTube channel from Steve Spangler Science.
Unlike his popular Sick Science videos which are no more than short
demonstratio...
Activities on David Copperfield
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&am...
From the Classroom: Exploring Current Events
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Could you find Syria on a map? Could you name its president? Do you know
about the violent, oppressive regime’s attacks upon protesters? What about
your ...
10 iPad Tips for Teachers
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What Tips or Tricks are missing from this list? Show us how much you know
about your iPad...Add your tips in the comments area. 1. The "Hidden"
Apostrophe ...
Writing Skills and Patterns
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Whispers of thoughts, random musings, deliberate connections. Flickers of
thought, fireflies of thought. Scattered, loose, evolving.
All make part of ...
Cool New Word Visualization Tool!
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I’ve posted — and used — Google’s cool Ngram Viewer (see The Best Posts To
Help Understand Google’s New “Books Ngram Viewer”). It lets you easily
analyze “...
Gaming the EFL classroom
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It’s my pleasure to introduce a guest blog post by James York, who, as I
mentioned last week, has been doing some very interesting things in his
classroom,...
¡Sonríe! ¡Es viernes! —72
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image credit
Lucas Ridley made this animated short film when graduating from Vancouver
Film School. I love both the message and the animation.
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Lucas Ridle...
Kindertown: An Educational App Store
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At its education event last month, Apple made the point of touting the
amount of educational content it offers via its App Store: some 20,000 apps
fall u...
mmmmm, no recomiendo audacity
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En respuesta a Aplicaciones portables para multimedia:
mmmmm, no recomiendo audacity portable, suele dar muchos fallos. Cuesta
poco tenerlo instalado y c...
Solving mysteries
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This is my first contribution here and I have to admit that I´m a bit
anxious! Thank you for the invitation! The reason why I have been invited
is this: I ...
Melissa Metzger
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[image: Melissa Metzger]
Melissa Metzger, USA, Higher, Adult
I'm an Educational Administrator at a major research university with a
unique perspective on ...
EXHIBITION "THE SHROUD" IN MÁLAGA
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Malaga reaches the first exhibition on the Shroud, one of the most studied
objects of religious history.
The exhibition will be held at *the Cathedral of ...
The good wife
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Before watching:
Have you ever heard of this TV series?
Do you know what famous case it is based on?
What do you think about law and order in your country?...
Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for Lent
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During lent, much of the world practices fasting. Whether we choose a
physical fast, such as food or drink or a spiritual fast, such as
refraining from gos...
Can Language Be Taught Without a Cultural Context?
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I had wrongly assumed that all my virtual students shared my view about the
relationship between language and culture. I believe that when you learn a
lang...
CUENTO "HERCULES LLEGA A ANDALUCÍA"
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Un precioso cuento que encanta a los niñ@s sobre porqué se llama nuestra
tierra, comunidad autonóma "ANDALUCÍA", el porqué de su bandera y su
símbolo.
Op...
From Dubai to Glasgow, via the Carnival
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Some people are on my blog… they think it’s all over… it is now!
The Teaching English Blogathon 2012 finishing line has been finally ripped
apart. The dust...
Perspectives and Talking at Cross Purposes
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Perspective is defined as a mental view or outlook. Your perspective is
influenced by so much and luckily is not set in stone. Your life
experiences, your ...
Pancake Day
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El Día del Panqueque (Pancake Day, en inglés) es una fiesta de origen
religioso que se celebra en Reino Unido el martes de Carnaval.
Tradicionalmente, al ...
What is This Test Measuring?
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I have been studying for the Technology Education GACE (Georgia Assessments
for the Certification of Teachers) test I will take next month. This test
is th...
Mr. G…
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The schools are out for what is commonly termed “Ski Week Vacation”. I’m
betting there won’t be much skiing as the closest slopes are about 160
miles fr...
Ohio eTech Conference 2012 (Day Two)
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On day two of the Ohio eTech Conference that ran 2/13-2/15 at the Columbus,
Ohio Convention Center I managed to attend 3 presentations…here is my
re-cap of...
Word corner - would
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A modal verb with both present and past meaning.
Would is a modal (or modal auxiliary) verb, and as such is used with the
bare infinitive (infinitive wit...
Mardi Gras: Webquest
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AnswerTips: Double click any word to see a dictionary definitionTweet This week's lesson activity for English students is a webquest about Mardi Gras.Your...
Agora: Used To
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This is a very interesting movie about a woman scientist that was ahead of
her time, developing scientific studies that were proven right centuries
before ...
A to Z Web Tools:M
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The new letter is M today. MoshiMonsters is a virtual world for children
where children can create their own cute monster avatars, play games and
practice ...
Flipped Classroom A New Learning Revolution
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Via Scoop.it – Technologies in ELTFlipped Classroom is an inverted method
of instruction where teaching and learning take place online outside of the
class...
Goal 5: Feed Yourself Inspiration #30Goals
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Goal 5 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more
about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators!
Success isn’t...
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
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I heard the notice of Whitney Houston’s passing on my car radio Saturday
evening. I surprised myself by reacting to the news with tears. Why would
I cry ...
English: time 4 a revamp?
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Nothing so amazes me more than the fact, that despite so many other
languages havie large governing bodies which analyze, stay on top of and
make changes ...
El tango del opositor
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[image: 'Tango' photo (c) 2006, Photos - license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/]
No quería escribir sobre esto,pero me imagino que no podía d...
Dia d'Internet Segura 2012
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Demà dia 7 de febrer és el Dia d'Internet Segura 2012.
Aquest és el vídeo promocional per enguany, amb el lema "Descobrint junts
el món digital... amb segur...
Write an effective essay
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Have a look to this video and you'll learn more about writting good and
effective essays in class.
HTTP://WWW.MYPLACEFORENGLISH.BLOGSPOT.COM
Collaborative writing
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New week, new exciting tasks! This week I have been exploring some digital
tools for collaborative writing in the English class. The first activity
consist...
Reported Speech activities, ideas and links
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It is mid-term break now. At the moment I’m enjoying myself reading
blogathon posts and doing some preperation for the first week of the
school. Februa...
La fatal actualitat de Dewey
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Una nova i feliç casualitat de Twitter m’ha portat a descobrir (via
@carmebove) el bloc Práctica Reflexiva pràcticament al mateix temps que
llegia el llibr...
Making a Machinima in Second Life – in 19 Steps
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For the next few weeks I will be working and helping moderate the MachinEVO
course in Second Life, one of the TESOL EVO courses. We are all hoping to
learn...
2011-2012 GRADED READERS
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*Here you have the list of graded readers you have available at the High
School Library. Click on them to get more information!*
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1. Choose one of the...
Video project
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*Specifications*
- You must work in groups of 5 or 6
- present a creative and original recorded musical video
- include a video recorded by the s...
Evaluar el conocimiento a través de un serious games
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Evaluar es demostrar que se ha aprendido. En los serious games se puede
evaluar el aprendizaje a través de métodos tradicionales o con los
elementos intera...
Reported Speech
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glitter-graphics.com
If we report what another person has said, we usually do not use the
speaker’s exact words (direct speech), but reported (indirect) s...
Express Yourself
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McDonald's is pimping their McCafe espresso coffees furiously on television
commercials lately. The guy doing the voice-over on the commercial
unmistakabl...
Lino: tablón de anuncios en línea
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En la última entrada del blog de Lourdes Domenech, descubro una interesante herramienta Web 2.0.
Se trata de Lino it, una especie de tablón de anuncios virtu...
Contest: Desserts from the World
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*CONTEST: Desserts from the World*
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We are reading some recipes in English, Spanish and French. Next week, we
will have a dessert tasting morning.
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*Date...
CLIL Units in English , French and German
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It's a long time I haven't post anything, mostly due to lack of time, and
also because I post more often via twitter.
But this time it is really worthy t...
12 Language Learning Tips
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Learning a new language can be difficult, but not impossible. No matter how
old you are, there are methods and techniques that can make it easier to
absorb...
10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses
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Over the last few years I've done a lot of work developing writing and
redeveloping online courses and course materials. In the initial rush to
get learni...
Find out about your dreams
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Some people say that you can't really speak a language until you start to
dream in that language. I'm not really sure that's true, but in this
activity we ...
The Royal Wedding, again!!!
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Yes, I know you’re a bit fed up… We’ve been watching the interview in class
etc.. but I think it is a good example of how young British people talk;
the sp...
REVIEW FOR THE TEST NEXT WEEK!
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In order to review the RELATIVE PRONOUNS and thanks to the collaboration of
one classmate, you can spend some time working on them through the use of
the f...
Family
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I have recently started to teach my 10th graders, the vocabulary related to
the Family and our relationship with our parents and relatives.
I've found this...
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