Friday, March 25, 2011

Tiny TEFL Teacher

o    Name of the resource: The Tiny TEFL Teacher
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.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Resources for teachers

Name of the resource : TV teachers (http://www.teachers.tv/)
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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.