Exploring PIMPAMPUM

PIMPAMPUM.net offers interesting flickrtoys.

• This week, I´m developing a project with students of mine with one of these tools: BOOKR. Students will create a photobook describing their best friend. We´ll start the task in the classroom where sts will write sentences about their best friend and imagine what kind of picture would be nice for each page (we´ll use pictures from flickr archive). I´ll demonstrate in class how to create the photobook and how to get the embed code for publishing it on a blog or webpage.

This is an example I´ve created to show them

• BUBBLR - with this tool you can make slideshows or comic strips with speech bubbles using picture from your flickr account or with flickr archive pictures. This is an example I got from the archive

• PHRASR - you can make slideshow from isolated words (from a vocabulary group) or from a sentence. Phrasr finds the right image for your word. It´s great for revising vocab. You can play it as a warmer and them ask sts to write all the words they can remember. Or you can use it to reinforce idioms, phrasal verbs, proverbs...

This is an example I´ve created w/ adjectives of PERSONALITY. (the word organized was misspelt)

• MEMRY - make a memory game out or flickr photos. Choose a topic (tag) and play the game. Tags I tried: animals, smiles, friends.With images of people, you can have sts play the game and describe the pictures of people they match.
  

Great links for EFL

This is nice stuff I´ve found in Larry Ferlazzo´s webpage today.


*a fortune cookie message generator (nice to send to friends)

*Fortune Sign Generator Click on this link to see my message.

*PREFIX online game (for 1 or 2 players)

*creating a PET E-MAIL

*BOOKR How to create a photobook with images from flickr. Example

EARTH hour 2009

This year more and more people around the world are joining the Earth hour. All you have to do is turn off the lights for one hour today (Sat 28 mar). In Brazil it will be from 20:30 to 21:30. Many cities in Brazil have joined the project and will turn off the lights of its famous monuments and public buildings. My kids told me they wanted to participate after watching a Brazilian commercial (included here). You know, I think the idea is fabulous, bringing people from around the world together and creating a reflection moment.
http://www.earthhour.org/home/

Earth Hour via kwout

This is a powerful video about the Earth hour from Youtube

http://www.earthhour.org/home/


Pictures tagged as earthhour. EARTHHOUR flickr slideshow

My CLASS BLOGS this semester

These are two blogs I´ve been using this semester. Originally, I created the blogs to archive extra material we´ve been planning to use in class with our students. It´s also a way to share in one place the videos and links with the other teachers. But as the semester moves on, students have also been using the blog for extra practice. The blogs are simple and were not meant for interaction but as a storage of online material.




http://intera109.blogspot.com
course book: New English File Intermediate















http://upperb109.blogspot.com
course book: Face2Face Upper Intermediate

eyePlorer : finding info

Just found this site in http://blog.go2web20.net/ . It´s a new way of finding information. YOu enter a term you´d like to look for, then you´ll see topics organized in a chart. Once you click on specific topics, you can read more about it and also drag the information you want to keep to the notepad to the right. Really nice site, worth trying! http://www.eyeplorer.com/eyePlorer/

Memorizing vocabulary: Part 2

Once again, here I am talking about a site which can help you memorize vocabulary.

This is my #2 tool for that purpose STUDYSTACK. My #1 is QUIZLET

I create sets/ stacks with vocabulary we cover during the semester and share it with students so that they can study at home. I also use some of the activities created by the sites in class using the e-board. The more different activities you use with the same vocabulary the more you remember them, right?

Why do I like STUDYSTACK?

With a simple list of questions + answer / or definitions + answer, the site generates several activities with the same vocab: hangman, unscramble words, crossword, wordsearch and others.

Flashcards: matching, hangman, crossword, word search, word scramble and flash cards via kwout