http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog Resources for ELT teachers who like ICT Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:48:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you think we must use our classrooms to spread the idea of a different approach towards our environment, have a look at this site  The Story of Stuff is basically a 20-minute videoclip where Annie Leonard shows how we are deteriorating our planet. Clear animations and a very good narrative ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/03/17/the-story-of-stuff/ A new network community has been created: Games in Schools This social NING platform is devoted to the dissemination of ideas related to the use of videogames in education. teachers can talk about their experiences and comment on others' A good number of ELT teachers use videogames in their classrooms. You only need ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/03/16/games-in-schools/ Let's forget this is an ELT blog for a while. This video from Matt Harding shows us the plain truth: The world is full of good people who are always ready to start dancing when they hear the simple beating of a rythm. Dance is in our souls, and when ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/02/23/the-joy-of-dance/ Watch this video if you believe lessons are a place to innovate, create, produce, share, feel, learn and, of course, teach. I wish everyone agreed with the terms Ken Robinson deals with. Are we really all made of the same pattern? Should people gifted for dance be trained to be ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/02/05/sir-ken-robinson-do-schools-kill-creativity/ Jolly good! Listen to this great actress playing up different English speakers with different accents. If you like phonetics, dialects, and English, you'll love it. Why don't you show it to your students and help them see how different can English sound? http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/02/05/amy-walker-21-accents/ People from Amanita Design have produced a beautiful online videogame for the BBC educational website: Questionaut Travel with a friendly voyager in pursuit of his friend's windswept hat, and answer multiple questions from different fields in a dream-like world, flying with your balloon and winning oxygen by answering correctly. There's fun ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/02/05/questionaut-elt-and-other-subjects/ For those who think that phonetics is a way to learn how to pronounce properly, here's Phonetics, a very good site which shows you how to articulate in order to pronounce in proper American English (Also German and Spanish) There's sound, graphs and video... everything is very well described. http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2009/01/20/phonetics-at-its-best/ I've come across a piece of a poem by Walter Savage Landor: "More people are good because they are happy than happy because they are good" Sad, but true... think about it! Merry Christmas! http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2008/12/23/some-soul-food-for-the-holidays/ Futurelab: A very good website for those who want to spend some time this Christmas reading some good articles on ICT and education. Many good ideas and reflection... the use of new tools, its application,  and also downloadable handbooks. http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2008/12/18/futurelab/ After a while without posts, here's one with interesting websites for your lessons. They are worth a look during the coming holidays: ESL and Clil have room here... enjoy! This website has a large list of online activities to foster reading and writing skills. Among the long list, I have chosen ... http://blocs.xtec.cat/eltblog/2008/12/09/interesting-things-for-the-holidays/