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.

Amazing WEB 2.0 projects

I've been meaning to share the wonderful e-book Terry Freedman has put together and now at the beginning of a new semester I believe it's the perfect moment.

I strongly believe DEVELOPING PROJECTS is the way we can make learning meaningful and give our students the chance to discover, interact, produce and learn.

Terry Freedman gathered 87 projects developed around the globe with WEB 2.0 applications.
http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/web2_2010/Amazing%20Web%202%20Projects.pdf

Free Stuff - Educational Technology - ICT in Education via kwout

Make videos on the Web

Sharing one more great e-book which might be very helpful to teachers.

MAKING VIDEOS ON THE WEB (by Richard Byrne)provides teachers with various webtools which can be used for the creation of videos. It also brings tutorials to various editing tools such as animoto and aviary.


Making Videos on the Web - A Guide for Teachers -

The book can be downloaded, printed or read online.

20 WEBTOOLS applied to teaching

I´ve finally managed to finish the english version of the e-book I´ve published earlier this year.I describe 20 webtools I´ve tried out, give examples of how teachers have been using it and suggest other ways to use them in class.

You can order a paperback version or download it as pdf.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/webtools-applied-to-teaching/15104257

Hope you find the suggestions useful.

E-BOOK: Best Student / Teacher web 2.0 lge learning / teaching sites

I'd like to congratulate David Deubelbeiss on his wonderful e-book and share it with you. He shares 60 GREAT WEBSITES. I've already discovered interesting sites to explore and try out in class. Thanks, David!

You can read the book online or download it.

Open publication - Free publishing - More web 2.0

Launching my e-book

Someone once told me we have to celebrate every important moment in our lives and my e-book launch is one of these times which I wanted to mark.

I wrote the WEBTOOLS book (in Portuguese) during a very difficult time in my life and the process of writing the book gave me great satisfaction. By writing the e-book I was  giving back the knowledge I´ve learned with so many e-friends.

The moment was touching, with lots of smiles , hugs and some tears.
But it was also a moment to meet people I care for.

A dear friend of mine introduced me by writing a fabulous e-book (with BOOKR) which made us cry, I had the great pleasure of finally meeting an ex-student of mine (online course) I had never met f2f (Ana Maria Sousa), received lots of flowers (thanks Andressa for the lovely flowers) and best of all felt loved.Camilinha, thanks for your phone call.

Just sharing the pictures with you.

My E-BOOK - WEBTOOLS = ferramentas de internet

In 2009, I started collecting webtools which I thought were very useful to language teachers in general and decided to share what I´ve been reading and trying out through a book. The reason I wrote in Portuguese is that there are various language teachers in Brazil , who teach languages other than English, and haven´t heard of the wonderful tools which could provide further learning opportunities to students.

I collected 20 webtools I´ve already tried , described them, provided links to examples and gave examples of how the tools can be used in the classroom.

I´d like to thank the various teachers who have authorized the links to their blogs and work:

• José Picardo
• Alexandra Francisco
• Nik Peachey
• David Deubeldeiss
• Dennis Oliver
• Ian James
• Sue Waters
• Bob Palmer
• Mary Hillis
• Mary Beth Hertz

 http://issuu.com/anamariacult/docs/webtoolsferramentasdeinternet