Thursday, November 29, 2012

Infographics Again

The more you work with Infographics the more you love it - teaching becomes facts full, colour full and more  interactive of course.
Here are some more resources on using Infographics:
Teaching with Infographics. from Lisa Marie Johnson, Ph.D.


Much about Infographics: Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE: Infographics.
More Infographics on https://pinterest.com/favinfographics/ and in the previous Infographics post.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Really Beautiful

Beautiful Time Lapse Video "Within Two Worlds" found at Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day is really beautiful - just a pleasure to watch, but also could be a nice variant to show in the class and see what the students feel and think about it.

Videos in Class

The History of English in Ten Minutes offered by The Open University is an entertaining romp through "the History of English" - 1600 years of history in 10 one-minute bites, about the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespear to America and the Internet. There are ten short series and one combined clip containing all the parts. This source could be quite interesting and useful for a certain group of students.

TED-Ed offers video lessons on various subjects supplying each one with a multiple-choice test and the list of additional resources for the topic.

explania.com offers hundreds of animated explanations, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, some of them could be easily used in class. The categories are Ecology, Health, Money, Opinions and Trends, Software, Sports, Technology, Work, Companies. The videos are free to embed on a web page.

The history of the football Explania


Monday, November 19, 2012

Video For Kids

Kids TV 123 -  many nice educational songs and videos for children for major efl concepts: ABC, Numbers, Colours, Baby Animals and others. There is always a minute at the lesson to watch a 2-3 min video illustrating some vocabulary or grammar thing - a good way to make a lesson more interesting, dynamic and productive.


British Council|Learn English Kids offers Grammar Videos section where Gran helps the girl understand how to use English grammar. There are the scripts and worksheets available. The introduction to a video tells what grammar it is about. These videos could be a nice way to introduce or practice, or even test students' knowledge.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Random Name Generator

Random Name Generator - a why-not thing to use sometimes in class, surely children will love it!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

100 Book-to-Film Adaptations

100 Best Films Based on Books from Stylist is a good resource to speak about films, films and books, films vs books, films on books and so on as far as one needs. The images help find the necessary film, get its name, the title of the book, the name of the author. The teacher can choose one film to discuss, offer students to speak upon the Stylist choice of the films, point the films they have or haven't seen, the books they have or haven't read.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Great Printables! Visit!

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs: Just click on the printable to go to the downloadable PDF version.  You can also right click and save each image as a JPG.

Always Do Your Best

What Kind of Teacher Are You Quiz

British Council|Teaching English offers a nice What Kind of Teacher Are You Quiz - a fun quiz that tells you what kind of teacher you are. Doing the quiz you discover what animal you are and what actiities you can use at class. The collection of activities offered for each animal is really nice with detailed explanations given. The questions of the quiz help understand your own way of teaching, weak and strong points, suggest more ideas you might use in class.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

For Fun

TYPOGRAFFIT is a visual communication toy. It organizes the visual information (signs, symbols, graffity...) which will be stored online. Useres can type their text messages and receive graphically related images, up;oad their own images, relate them with text phrases and send to friends, share the images and use other people's images as well.
The result is something like this:
Looks nice!



fodey.com also gives some funny ideas of this kind. It helps create a newspaper clipping, a clipper board, a wizard text, talking flowers, squirrels, cats, and others.
Students will surely love such things and will gladly use them in presenting their homework and projects. Teachers could use these tools to create website and classroom posters, notice boards.
Some examples for classroom board at https://pinterest.com/favinfographics/