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Free Logo Maker - Create your own logo in minutes! Edutopia. Educational games Childtopia. Play Academy Island. Practise your English with our Academy Island game!

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An unknown alien life form lands on earth and has to learn English to get by in a range of social situations. Players of Academy Island have to progress through different difficulty levels by helping the alien use English in a range of situations such as shopping in a bakery and visiting places such as an art gallery and library. Our game is designed to help learners improve their English language ability, in a fun way. Free online Dictionary of English Pronunciation - How to Pronounce English words. KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more! The Ultimate List of Educational Websites (don't think you want to print and post, just for teacher info... Read the whole thing to see what I mean… 7 Great Grammar Sites for Teachers and Students.

June , 2014 Today I am sharing with you a list of some useful websites you can use with your students to help them better improve their grammar knowledge and polish their writing skill.

7 Great Grammar Sites for Teachers and Students

Neo K-12. E-Learning Authoring Tool Content Authoring Software - SoftChalk. Videos, Common Core Resources And Lesson Plans For Teachers: Teaching Channel. 10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers. Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I’m happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy (The Liberation of the Garden Gnomes by Peter Vahle is just shiny!)

10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers

And share them with you. So, here we go – my ten favourite websites: Hope you’ll like my choice and give these sites a go. I must admit, my life as a teacher is WAY easier thanks to those wonderful people contributing there, but I also appreciate their influence when I see my own teaching style spiced up with different inspirations and ideas – I feel motivated to change, experiment, develop, to make my classes as interesting as I can.

Enjoy the recommendations I’ve shared and if you know some interesting sites, please, share them with me as well. Enjoy! Like this: Like Loading... Create Free, Online Crossword Puzzles. BBC Learning English - Learning English. 35 Educators You Should Follow on Pinterest. IdiomSite.com - Find out the meanings of common sayings. The Idiom Connection. Modal Verbs. The meanings and origins of Phrases, Sayings and Proverbs - meaning and origin. Huge List 100+ Coconut Oil Uses (recipes included)Healthy Holistic Living.

There are many benefits of using coconut oil.

Huge List 100+ Coconut Oil Uses (recipes included)Healthy Holistic Living

It’s known to help boost the immune system, nourish the skin and increase energy. Here are over 100 everyday coconut oil uses. Coconut oil is known for its many uses in the kitchen but did you know you can use it on your skin, around the home, and in the bathroom? There are hundreds of coconut oil uses! 100 Little Ways You Can Dramatically Improve Your Writing.

Best educational and math apps for kids - Intellectuapp. Are you a parent?

Best educational and math apps for kids - Intellectuapp

These educational and math apps for kids will make the learning and education of your children much more fun, interesting, joyful and they will absolutely love it. Check out our selection of these free educational apps for Android. Children Activity Book Children Activity Book is filled with colors and interaction. All activities are dedicated and intended for kids with age from 2-8. Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences. Howard Gardner: We have schools because we hope that someday when children have left schools that they will still be able to use what it is that they've learned.

Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences

And there is now a massive amount of evidence from all realms of science that unless individuals take a very active role in what it is that they're studying, unless they learn to ask questions, to do things hands-on, to essentially recreate things in their own mind and then transform them as is needed, the ideas just disappear. The student may have a good grade on the exam. We may think that he or she is learning, but a year or two later there's nothing left.

The idea of multiple intelligences comes out of psychology. We have this myth that the only way to learn something is read it in a textbook or hear a lecture on it, and the only way to show that we've understood something is to take a short-answer test or maybe occasionally with an essay question thrown in. So let's take the area of science.

35 Educators You Should Follow on Pinterest. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Home Page. Teaching ideas. Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus: Free English Dictionary Online. Inspiration Grammar Worksheets. English grammar and vocabulary exercises, with answers, for ESL learners. ESL Teacher Handouts, Grammar Worksheets and Printables. English for primary school. British Council Stories. Stories - Level 1. THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA: English fairy tale for kids.

Technology for Teachers on Pinterest. EDpuzzle. Minecraft Lesson Plan « Shaping the World. Lately, I have been researching ways to use Minecraft in the classroom for game based learning. Here is a rough outline of how I would introduce students to this amazing, educational game. Prior to this lesson students will have learned basic design and sketching skills. This lesson would be the first within a unit designed to teach students how to plan a community. Minecraft is a computer game that combines mechanics, design and creativity within an RPG. Top Tweets and Resources for Teachers and Leaders. About ETR Community.

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