Task Challenge #8 - Expressing opinions with LIVETYPING

To present challenge #8, I elicited language students could use to write a comment expressing their opinion. 

At home, students were asked to use LIVETYPING to write their opinions about the statement "Some people spend fortunes on their pets". 

These are some of their writings:

LiveTyping.com


LiveTyping.com


LiveTyping.com

How to turn your ppt into a webinar

Suppose you have created a ppt to use during a presentation. After presenting it, you would like to share it in your blog. Then, what you can do is record yourself presenting using a tool such as AUDACITY , upload your ppt at SLIDESHARE and then synchronize the sound with the slides.

It's a great exercise for anyone who would like to rehearse before a presentation.

This is a SLIDECAST I created after presenting at the Braz-tesol conference in 2008. After sharing it at twitter this last week Luiz Reikdal asked me how to do it.

Ppt Blog Talks 2008

View another webinar from Ana Menezes

This is a TUTORIAL showing how to do it. First, upload your ppt to slideshare, then go to MY UPLOADS, click EDIT below the presentation you would like to add an audio to, click CREATE SLIDECAST , add an mp3 audio previously recorded and synch it with your presentation.

New E-BOOK: Developing the 4 Skills with Webtools

I have the pleasure to share with Life Feast readers my most recent book
"Developing the 4 Skills with Webtools"


As the title says, I've selected 45 webtools according to the skills they could be used to foster: SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING and WRITING activities for language teachers.

The book also includes LINKS to several examples of the proposed activities.

My special thanks to Shelly Terrell, David Deubelbeiss and Kiran Budhrani who kindly allowed me to link  and mention their work.

Task Challenge #7 - Dialogue with Phrasal verbs

We're close to the end of our semester and about to finish our Tasks Challenge. During this semester, I've proposed different challenges to students asking them to create animations, comic strips, audio recordings using content recently covered in class.

CHECK OUT CHALLENGE #7

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This is the example I showed them


GoAnimate.com: Challenge 7 by anamariacult

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Here are some of their animations, CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHAT PHRASAL VERBS THEY USED?:

GoAnimate.com: excuses by Júlia

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
GoAnimate.com: Challenge #7 by juliana-pst

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

More animations can be found at the SCHOOL WIKI.

70 Tools in 70 minutes (by Silvia Tolisano)

I'd like share this fantastic presentation by Silvia Tolisano about webtools we can use to help reach our teaching goals. Check out her wonderful blog "THE LANGWITCHES BLOG"

She says: "IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TOOL."
               "It's about looking at tools to see which one will help you accomplish teaching and learning of 21st Century skills & litteracies"

70 Tools 70 Minutes

View more presentations from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

#BReltChat - discussion group for Brazilian teachers

Last Thursday night, I had the pleasure to participate with other Brazilian EFL teachers in a discussion about "MOTIVATION". #BReltChat is a initiative by Bruno Andrade, inspired by the #ELTchat discussions which happen in twitter with teachers worldwide.

#BReltChat via kwout

Apart from moderating discussions which take place every Thursday 9:30 PM (Brasília time), a group of teachers have been publishing a summary of what has been discussed in the #BReltChat BLOG and have interviewed several well known teachers about the topics discussed.

The Blog

Some interviews



Interview about Dogme with Scott Thornbury from Henrick Oprea on Vimeo.