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Memrise. Do you love the language that you're learning?

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What is love anyway? According to the triangular theory of love, there are three components to love, and you need all three for true love: 1. Intimacy - feelings of connectedness, attachment and a sense of bondedness 2. Passion - a feeling of physical attraction and a desire for sex 3. If your relationship has all three of these, then you have what's called consumate love, the true and perfect love.

What does this look like when applied to languages? 1. What type of love do you have for the language that you are learning? The combination of components that you have determines your type of love. Developing geography related vocabulary. I saw this website today and thought how great it would be to use it in the classroom for developing words related to places and describing different places.

Developing geography related vocabulary

The site GeoGuessr is actually based on Google maps and it's a simple game. The game works like this:You see an image of an unknown place somewhere in the world and you have to guess where it is and click that place on the map. Because this is based on Google maps street view you can actually explore around the image and look for clues.Once you click on the map you will see the real location and how close or far away you were. You are awarded points depending on how close you are to the real location.You have five turns to score as many points as possible. How to use the site for EFL /ESL The game itself doesn't really involve any language input or output, but you can easily add that.

If you are using it in a single computer classroom you can show students the image and ask them to guess where it is. Related links: Votre page d'accueil personnalisable. ESL - Writing. Word Clouds for Kids! ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids.

Word Clouds for Kids!

The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. Mosaico de Letras. Listening.com: The Leading Listening Site on the Net. Downloading Online video. iDesktop.tv provides a really useful and user friendly service for anyone who wants to use video clips from sources like YouTube, but doesn't want their students looking around at anything unsuitable, or for anyone who has ever found a really useful clip, only to go back later and find it has moved or been removed.

Downloading Online video

You can use the site to search through a huge collection of videos from various video sharing sites and when you find something you like the site will download and convert it to a file type of your choosing. The range of file types is great and includes ones suitable for mobile phones and i-pods, so if you want to get your students doing some mobile learning then this is a seriously useful site.

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Bringing e-English to the classroom!

BoomWriter - Home. Chat with Santa Claus Online. E-learning. Use of technology in education to improve learning and teaching Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as EduTech, or EdTech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.[1] When referred to with its abbreviation, EdTech, it is often referring to the industry of companies that create educational technology.[2][3] Definition[edit] Accordingly, there are several discrete aspects to describing the intellectual and technical development of educational technology: Educational technology as the theory and practice of educational approaches to learning.Educational technology as technological tools and media, for instance massive online courses, that assist in the communication of knowledge, and its development and exchange.

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Related terms[edit] Educational technology is an inclusive term for both the material tools and the theoretical foundations for supporting learning and teaching. History[edit] Next. The term m-learning ("mobile learning"), has different meanings for different communities, covering a range of use scenarios including e-learning, educational technology and distance education, that focuses on learning with mobile devices.

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Mobile learning is defined as "learning across multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal electronic devices” [1] (Crompton, 2013 p. 4) In other words, with the use of mobile devices, learners can learn anywhere and at any time.[2] M-learning technologies include handheld computers, MP3 players, notebooks, mobile phones and tablets. Prensky-EDTECH-EliminatingtheAppGap-Jan-Feb-2012.pdf (Objeto application/pdf) My greetings at One True Media. Video Tools and Resources. Instant Grammar Check - Online Proofreading. Present Simple.