Music in classes?

 -Yes, music!   

  Well, you can think that making students listen to music during classes could be distracting, but this tool can change your mind…

www.lyricstraining.com

   I present this tool because I am sure that it is going to help your students to practice vocabulary and sometimes it could be useful to practice pronunciation. It has different levels to monitor their improvement.

  Innovate the way you impart your lessons! They are going to notice and enjoy it!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Your own collaborative video!

www.voicethread.com

  This webpage is a good tool to create videos and presentations. It is an interesting way to share ideas and interact with people. As the page itself explains, voicethreading is becoming more popular. There you can create slides, upload your own images, recordings and videos to make it more interesting. And people who watch your presentation can leave their comments written or recorded.

  Teachers need ideas to make their students share ideas and it is a good way. It could be an interesting project to make a presentation and ask them to comment other’s to enrich them. This could be evaluated as a forum for your students.

Just take the risk and help them to enjoy their projects! 

Teach pronunciation with fun!

   Have you noticed how hard it is to learn the symbols and pronunciation in English? Sometimes it could be bored for kids or difficult for people in general. But it is always important to learn the correct sound and pronunciation to get a good communication in this language. You, as a teacher, have the great responsibility to make the class more interesting and engage your students to make them enjoy the process.

Here I have this webpage that surely is going to help you with the task

cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

Click the link! You are going to find the ideas you need for your classroom and homework.

Omar Dengo Foundation

  Today’s world is about technology and it is especially important in educational area. And because its importance there is a foundation that has assumed the responsibility to expand its knowledge to those public schools that normally have no access to technology because of their needs or lacks. Public schools do not have enough resources to provide an education as advanced as private schools do. This foundation has provided much of the technological resources and training the public schools need. And they keep extending that help to rural areas… even indigenous areas; giving them the equipment and internet to access and connect to the globe.

  In a short visit we did to the foundation they told us about their work, the areas they have covered and experiences they have had. It is just awesome seeing their great work. They told us that they have covered more than a half of the public schools in the country and the number is increasing. They do not just provide computers… they also train the administrative personal, teachers and groups of students to make them able to develop their abilities through technology.

  And the most interesting part is that you can visit the foundation, receive some training or courses they have and learn how to use technology not only in the classroom but in life projects.