There are some attractive new tools available for creating and sharing online art work. Why not check them out?
Some Web 2.0 style activities
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Showing posts with label activities. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
More activities
Vocabulary activities
Need some online vocabulary practice?
There are literally hundreds of sites offering online vocabulary activities. Below you have links to just a few. Again, using your Google search skills should make it a simple affair to find more.
Online stories
There are lots of links out there to online stories.
- Kizclub Stories is a site with interactive stories.
- For example: Level 1 stories
Story creation activities can be a fun thing to do in a computer session:
Others:
- Magic Keys
- Woodlands
- Storyplace
- CBeebies
- Story Time
- STORY BUILDER
- LIL FINGERS STORYBOOKS
- SYMBOL READING ACTIVITY
- PRESCHOOL STORIES
There are some examples aimed at native speaker children that may be too difficult, but they are interesting in any case:
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Activities for younger learners
Here are some more links to activities for very young learners:
These are very simple point and click activities:
DRAG AND DROP EASY VOCABULARY
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
HOW ARE YOU?
SIMPLE WORD GAME
Activities for colours:
COLOURS
MORE COLOURS!
Numbers and letters:
NUMBERS
LETTERS ETC
ALPHABET TIME
Others:
MAKE A FACE ACTIVITY
A WEATHER CLASS
These links are to online stories:
STORY BUILDER
LIL FINGERS STORYBOOKS
SYMBOL READING ACTIVITY
PRESCHOOL STORIES
And the last set to sites with all sorts of activities, games, colouring pages and so on:
UP TO TEN
DISNEY PLAYHOUSE
ESL KIDS
CRAYOLA
FUNSCHOOL GAMES
EFL CLUB
KIDIDDLES
NOGGIN'S GAMES
BIG SMALL
PRIMARY RESOURCES
PRIMARY GAMES
These are very simple point and click activities:
DRAG AND DROP EASY VOCABULARY
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
HOW ARE YOU?
SIMPLE WORD GAME
Activities for colours:
COLOURS
MORE COLOURS!
Numbers and letters:
NUMBERS
LETTERS ETC
ALPHABET TIME
Others:
MAKE A FACE ACTIVITY
A WEATHER CLASS
These links are to online stories:
STORY BUILDER
LIL FINGERS STORYBOOKS
SYMBOL READING ACTIVITY
PRESCHOOL STORIES
And the last set to sites with all sorts of activities, games, colouring pages and so on:
UP TO TEN
DISNEY PLAYHOUSE
ESL KIDS
CRAYOLA
FUNSCHOOL GAMES
EFL CLUB
KIDIDDLES
NOGGIN'S GAMES
BIG SMALL
PRIMARY RESOURCES
PRIMARY GAMES
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Links to online resources
There are some good one stop resource banks of online activities out there, some provided by the MEC, others by individual teachers and/or schools. Check out some of the links below that may be of interest.
Both of the following are MEC initiatives you may or may not know about. They both offer high quality flash-based interaction.
There are a group of sites clustered around Angeles 365 with some good links. Click on the following image for the index.
The link below takes you to the infants section.
The Fantastic Preschool project, created by the English department of Primaria del Colegio Hispania (Cartagena) and led by Maria Jesus Rodriguez Arenas is a growing site with some interesting links for very young learners.
The Colegio Retamar has assembled a compendium of links to activities and resources and arranged them into the three primary cycles: they say "Click on a topic. Find amazing facts, jokes, and links to all your favourite games, quizzes, songs, stories and websites."
Both of the following are MEC initiatives you may or may not know about. They both offer high quality flash-based interaction.
There are a group of sites clustered around Angeles 365 with some good links. Click on the following image for the index.
The link below takes you to the infants section.
The Fantastic Preschool project, created by the English department of Primaria del Colegio Hispania (Cartagena) and led by Maria Jesus Rodriguez Arenas is a growing site with some interesting links for very young learners.
The Colegio Retamar has assembled a compendium of links to activities and resources and arranged them into the three primary cycles: they say "Click on a topic. Find amazing facts, jokes, and links to all your favourite games, quizzes, songs, stories and websites."
Online worksheet generators
There are lots of sites that offer an online worksheet generation service. You follow a set of instructions and input data, and the site outputs a document you can download and save.
Puzzlemaker
Based at the Discovery education site, you can make many types of activity; word search, crosswords, mazes and so on. It is easy and quick to use and the results are offered in a printable format.
ESL-Kids
Has an excellent worksheet wizard that includes some attractive graphics
ESL Worksheet wizard
This dedicated ESL website offers some wizards for activity types specifically targeted at language teachers; sorting into categories, scrambled word, matching pairs
Tools for educators
Offers a massive variety of different exercise types for download and printing; dice, bingo, board games using a flashcard clipart library, dominoes, tracings, certificates.
Teach-nology worksheets
Teach-nology offers a wide range of pre-made worksheets for download and some tools for creating your own.
Worksheet works
This site has lots of worksheets in many subject areas, including some useful and attractive material for English Language teaching.
TeacherDirect
Offers a wordsearch creation tool.
Schoolhouse Tech
Offer commercial software (competitively priced from just $49) They also have a free wordsearch puzzle generator
Classroom materials maker
This site specialises in online creation of the sort of documents useful for teachers on an every day basis for organising their teaching: schedulers, planners, reports, lesson plans, teacher-learner contracts etc
Teacher's pet
This versatile plug-in for Word is a free download that you can use to create puzzles, exercises, quizzes and other worksheets on your PC.
And finally, a couple of links to sites that generate online quizzes: curriculum webs and edict.
Puzzlemaker
Based at the Discovery education site, you can make many types of activity; word search, crosswords, mazes and so on. It is easy and quick to use and the results are offered in a printable format.
ESL-Kids
Has an excellent worksheet wizard that includes some attractive graphics
ESL Worksheet wizard
This dedicated ESL website offers some wizards for activity types specifically targeted at language teachers; sorting into categories, scrambled word, matching pairs
Tools for educators
Offers a massive variety of different exercise types for download and printing; dice, bingo, board games using a flashcard clipart library, dominoes, tracings, certificates.
Teach-nology worksheets
Teach-nology offers a wide range of pre-made worksheets for download and some tools for creating your own.
Worksheet works
This site has lots of worksheets in many subject areas, including some useful and attractive material for English Language teaching.
TeacherDirect
Offers a wordsearch creation tool.
Schoolhouse Tech
Offer commercial software (competitively priced from just $49) They also have a free wordsearch puzzle generator
Classroom materials maker
This site specialises in online creation of the sort of documents useful for teachers on an every day basis for organising their teaching: schedulers, planners, reports, lesson plans, teacher-learner contracts etc
Teacher's pet
This versatile plug-in for Word is a free download that you can use to create puzzles, exercises, quizzes and other worksheets on your PC.
And finally, a couple of links to sites that generate online quizzes: curriculum webs and edict.
Spelling activities
One of the great things about the web these days is the possibility for you, the teacher, or your learners, to input information which is then processed and output as a custom activity.
Imagine you have been teaching vocabulary based around a topic and it's time to go to the computer room. The following activities allow your students to practice the words online.
Look cover
This is a variation of the traditional spelling revision game. You can ask your students to input their own word lists, perhaps copying them from a worksheet or from the board. They then have a few seconds to look at each word, before it is covered. They then practice typing the words, and check them by comparing what they have typed to the model. The interface is very clean neat, simple and the basic activity is highly adaptable.
Spelling city
This site gives you the option to input words and then choose whether the machine is going to teach the words via flashcards, test your knowledge, or reassemble the words into a game. It is all very engaging and attractive. The site spells and pronounces the words you input, providing good pronunciation and listening practice too. Go ahead and try putting in a list of 5 animals and then explore the different options.
And check out the fantastic spin and spell A pronouncing picture dictionary with spelling practice included.
Imagine you have been teaching vocabulary based around a topic and it's time to go to the computer room. The following activities allow your students to practice the words online.
Look cover
This is a variation of the traditional spelling revision game. You can ask your students to input their own word lists, perhaps copying them from a worksheet or from the board. They then have a few seconds to look at each word, before it is covered. They then practice typing the words, and check them by comparing what they have typed to the model. The interface is very clean neat, simple and the basic activity is highly adaptable.
Spelling city
This site gives you the option to input words and then choose whether the machine is going to teach the words via flashcards, test your knowledge, or reassemble the words into a game. It is all very engaging and attractive. The site spells and pronounces the words you input, providing good pronunciation and listening practice too. Go ahead and try putting in a list of 5 animals and then explore the different options.
And check out the fantastic spin and spell A pronouncing picture dictionary with spelling practice included.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Powerpoint & Slideshare Slideshows
Below is a link to an excellent site for learning PowerPoint - good for both teachers and learners:
POWERPOINT TUTORIAL
Check out this simple SlideShare Presentation:
POWERPOINT TUTORIAL
Check out this simple SlideShare Presentation:
Fruit
View more presentations from Crok.
This was created in Powerpoint, published on Slideshare and embedded into the blog. This way you can make attractive slideshows. some ideas are:
- TEACHER BLOG: Create a photo-story with your digital camera, make a Powerpoint, upload to Slideshare and display it on the blog. (This could include a record of a field trip or school concert, a display of children´s drawings, a seasonal project etc)
- LEARNER BLOG: Take photos to represent a story, write captions in Powerpoint and upload it to Slideshare. (You could also use internet photos and create topic-based projects: "My favourite things" - "Animals" - "Dinosaurs" - "Space" etc)
- VOCABULARY: Powerpoint can make attractive flashcards using your photos or photos from the web. A flashcard slideshow can help your learners to revise the words.
- SIMPLE AUDIO-VISUAL STORIES: Slideshare allows you to narrate your Powerpoint, so you can add an extra dimension to your slideshow presentation with audio narration.
- REMEMBER: Many presentations already available on Slideshare are shared publically, so you can search the site and embed work of interest by other contributors.
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Britney Spears
You are going to use the internet to learn all about Britney Spears. Click on the link below to find information.
LEARN ABOUT BRITNEY SPEARS: CLICK HERE
1. What is Britney's middle name?
2. When was she born?
3. What is her star sign?
4. Is she married?
5. Where was she born?
6. Has she got any children?
7. What are her children's names?
8. What are her parents' names?
9. Has she got any brothers and sisters?
10. When did she have her first hit record?
LEARN ABOUT BRITNEY SPEARS: CLICK HERE
1. What is Britney's middle name?
2. When was she born?
3. What is her star sign?
4. Is she married?
5. Where was she born?
6. Has she got any children?
7. What are her children's names?
8. What are her parents' names?
9. Has she got any brothers and sisters?
10. When did she have her first hit record?
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