NET LANGUAGES

Name of the resource: NET LANGUAGES
URL: www2.netlanguages.com/info/english/individual/index.php
Brief description: I found this web through the Consorci d'educació de Barcelona, in Llengües estrangeres. It has online exercises with worksheet version too. The activities include reading, listening and some English in use (lots of vocabulary).
What it is useful for: Online and offline exercises.
What you liked the most: They send you a monthly newsletter with new activities and exercises!
What you disliked the most: The web www.netlanguages.com is not that useful. You should go to "Individual students" and then "Free resources".

Witty comics

- URL: http://www.wittycomics.com

- Brief description: with this tool you can create comic strips with your own captions and dialogue. You need to take a screenshot of the completed comic strip as there’s no download facility though.

- What is useful for: presenting homework instructions, language points or study tips in an unusual, attention-grabbing way.

- What you dislike the most: this site does host user-generated content and you may find some contributions offensive.

Newspaper Clipping Generator

- URL: http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

- Brief description: it is a tool that creates an authentic-looking newspaper clipping using text which you supply. You can also give the subject of your handout a topical feel by inserting an image into the document.

- What is useful for: making writing lessons be more fun and interesting.

- What you like the most: it is a very useful resource to start with. It also does not host user-content and there is no danger of coming across anything inappropriate.

Tiny TEFL Teacher

o    Name of the resource: The Tiny TEFL Teacher

o    URL: http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/index.html

o    Brief description: You will find some very interesting warmers, games and some topic based lessons. This is a site for teachers and students: there are teacher resources and theoretical explanations and practice for students, so they can both use the site.

o    What it is useful for: It can be used to pick ideas to start a class or develop an interesting game from a template in just a few minutes and create a whole lesson. Students can also use it to practice at home.

o    What you liked the most: I used the Who wants to be a millionaire template with a group of ESO and a group of Batxillerat. I adapted the questions to things related with the present continuous, on the one hand, and making money vocabulary, on the other. Students had fun and they all participated actively. There are ideas to work on collaborative work.  

o    What you disliked the most: There are really not many resources.

DoodleToo

Name of the resource:DoodleToo
URL: http://www.doodletoo.com

Brief description: DoodleToo is a drawing tool shared with other users. It can be also used as a chat room. One can draw anything and share it with others: ideas, mood, post pictures. This tool is useful for collaborative work: everybody can participate to elicit an idea. You can draw over pictures and screenshot your artwork.

What it is useful for: It can be used in class as a Pictionary.

What you liked the most: you can embed this tool in a web page and customise it.

What you disliked the most: a bit kaotic, then just simply create a private room.

JCLIC

Name of the resource: JCLIC
URL: http://clic.xtec.cat/db/listact_es.jsp
Brief description: A webpage similar to hotpotatoes where you can use the tools to create ICTs exercises and you can also find other teachers' materials looking by subject or topic.
What it is useful for: searching or creating ICT activities.
What you liked the most: you can access other teachers works easily.
What you disliked the most: the exercises are not very imaginative.

Irene B

Resources for teachers

Name of the resource : TV teachers (http://www.teachers.tv/)
URL
Brief description: A webpage for any teacher who wants to find methodologies based on discipline, body language, lesson planning, management and assessment among other issues.
What it is useful for those who like to see new ideas in practice.
What you liked the most: The clips to exemplify the theory.
What you disliked the most: It is a British webpage so some examples may be not suitable for us.

Breaking News English

An inexhaustable source of new ideas for current affairs-related class activities.
Great inspiration, easy to copy, adapt and paste to Word: just add videos, images and cook for fifteen minutes at 220ºC: perfect recipe?

I love the humungous variety of ideas/sources, good range of questions for pair work and some great links into the bargain!

Down side: somewhat repetetive format (but then again that encourages me to innovate and not just copy!) and boy is it ugly!

BBC Schools - Educational Resources from the BBC

This is the BBC's webspace for schools with lots of resources for students, teachers, parents and learning in general. I've tried a few activities on text types with students from BAT 2 recently and they went quite well.
I really liked the games for learning to distinguish different types of text (Click here). Some were rather easy while others were pretty difficult, even for me... ;-) A useful resource for starting a unit dedicated to improving reading or (as in my case) writing skills. Even students at higher levels still seem to have considerable problems with telling apart different genres and with producing appropriate texts and the text type games are a fun way of raising students' awareness of crucial distinctions.

Welcome to our resources class blog!

Dear student,
welcome to our New Technologies in TEFL class blog. The aim of this blog is to:

• be familiar with post publishing in Blogger
• search and identify interesting resources for teaching and/or learning in TEFL
• share with your classmates useful resources and information
• be able to identify different ways of using a resource in your classroom

So, what should you do right now?

1. Look for an interesting resource useful for teaching or for learning English. This resource can be useful for you as a teacher or for your students as well.

2. Log into this blog (if you don't have access please contact me!) and post your message. Don't forget to include the following information about your resource:

• Name of the resource
• URL
• Brief description
• What it is useful for
• What you liked the most
• What you disliked the most

Don't forget to add the proper labels to your post such as: reading, listening, speaking, writing, audio, video, image, homework, self-assessment, ...

If you want to share more than one resource, please create as many posts as resources. One post per resource!

3. Comment at least 2 resources created by your classmates. Give ideas about how could the resource be used in a real classroom and its potential uses.

I hope you find this activity useful and engaging!!

Laia

PS. Remember that you can rate each resource!