Search results matching tags 'teacher resources' and 'vocabulary'

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME!

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:41:00 GMT

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME! - the post with a great collection of teaching time resources. It often happens that when students learn how to speak about time in English they are not sure about understanding the time at all. These resources will surely help children both read clocks and tell the time in English correctly.

Treasure Chest Of Ways To Build Academic Vocabulary

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:22:34 GMT

Kate Kinsella is well-known for her research on helping students learn and use academic vocabulary. The California Department of Education has put a series of her videos and materials on their website. The videos don’t at all capture her dynamism … Continue reading →

Vocabulary Instruction Ideas From #ELLCHAT

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:56:28 GMT

#ELLCHAT takes place every Monday evening. This chat was about making vocabulary instruction meaningful, and I’ve made a quick “Storify” of the information and resources shared. I’m also adding this to The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn Vocabulary. [View … Continue reading →

Connecting You to a Series of Spectacular Educational Sites: A

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:29:00 GMT

Educational Site "A"

Utilizing fun, interactive, and educational web sites in the classroom and at home is necessary! Why you ask?

Well, besides the fact that it is indeed 2012, our students were born and immediately exposed to "boocoodles" of technology gadgets and gizmos that most of us probably couldn't fathom being invented when we were kiddos! Boy would I have loved some of today's "toys" when I was a tot! MOST importantly, we are all learners and we learn in different manners! I have to have interactive material and visual material if you want to teach me something!!!! Lol! Students need stimulation!

Since they come to us with a wealth of knowledge in technology by middle school and high school, and already exposed to tons of it from birth on up, we have to incorporate it into our lessons today! It's what they know!

THIS IS THE 1ST OF A SERIES OF POSTS in which I will provide a cool teacher site or student interactive site of some sort that you can use in your lessons! My plan is to do at least 26 (# of letters in the alphabet) and title them by letter. Today's Post is obviously "A" to represent day #1!

Some posts will feature how to use the site, maybe a handout to go along with a game or activity on a site, a printable for students to use in a web quest type assignment, suggestions for use of a site, etc.
The possibilities are endless!

So, please stay tuned for future ideas, tips, tricks, places, and spaces for utilizing technology in the classroom!! I am pumped about this, as I know I'll be learning lots of new things to do as well! A mini-course for me as well, if you will! (LOL)

Today's Educational Site:

QUIZLET

This site is FREE!

PERKS You'll Love:

Cool Tool for Mobile Studying
Teachers can create materials
Students can create flashcards and other items
Games
PDF printables
Smart Board Options
You can set up groups
Competitive Study Games
Demo Videos
AND...there is Quizlet BLOG
and on and on and on and on

See some cool Features on Quizlet here!

Explore this cool site that has tons of perks for the teachers out there and tons for the students too! Wow! This site is actually one I always keep on my classroom web site on my student resource sites list!

If you are a QUIZLET fan already, please tell us how you use it and your favorite thing about it!

Regards,

Winner of the VocabularySpellingCity FREE Premium version is…

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:07:52 GMT

Nickie Simmons! A HUGE THANK YOU to all who entered! Even if you did not win the premium version, you should still try out the FREE version. I have to admit I LOVE the Premium version, but the FREE version is still very, very, cool! Stay tuned for my honest review of the 3 weeks [...]

Paul Nation Online Course On “Teaching ESL/EFL Vocabulary”

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:34:06 GMT

Renowned ESL/EFL teacher, researcher and author Paul Nation is particularly known for his work on teaching vocabulary to English Language Learners. Just by chance I found a site where it seems he’s giving an online course on Teaching ESL/EFL Vocabulary. As far as I can tell, it’s free and open to anyone — if someone [...]