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Five Apps to Sell Smartphone Photos - Work From Home Happiness. I’m gonna be honest.

Five Apps to Sell Smartphone Photos - Work From Home Happiness

I have just over 1,000 pictures on my smartphone. That does not even account for the ones that I have removed and stored in my Amazon Cloud Drive for safekeeping, you know, just in case I need photographic evidence of the fancy meal I ate on March 3rd, 2012. I suspect, if you are a smartphone owner, you probably have a pretty impressive collection of selfies, food shots, scenic pics, and social snaps you have collected over the years, too. Actually, it’s kind of hard not to amass a large collection of smartphone photos. Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree. Worksheet Genius - English / Literacy / Language Arts worksheets. Interactive Video Learning. Unsucky Free Stock Art.

IPA Typewriter. If the title above does not display correctly, you should click on "About" to find out how to get a unicode font.

IPA Typewriter

Introduction You can use this tool to type phonemic symbols to be inserted in a word processor. You can also use it to produce the code needed to insert phonemic symbols in a web page. The Scramblinator.

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Thinglink for Students. Top 50 Writing Blogs for 2015. The 25 best education apps for connected classrooms. Figuring out which tool is right for the job is something we all struggle with every day.

The 25 best education apps for connected classrooms

Whether you’re a contractor, plumber, or teacher, there’s a lot of options to choose from. Teachers managing connected classrooms have it quite rough, though. Leo’s bad luck – a lesson plan. Ever since I read the great Listening in the Language Classroom by John Field, the book on developing listening skills, I became quite passionate about the need to consistently help learners cope with high frequency grammar structures in authentic speech, incorporating authentic listening work into grammar work.

Leo’s bad luck – a lesson plan

In the previous lesson on this blog the focus was on the way modals are pronounced. 3 Amazing Videos to Raise Awareness and Get Your Learners Talking! - DreamreaderDreamreader. I recently posted a blog post on Language Teaching Professionals about three awesome videos to inspire your learners.

3 Amazing Videos to Raise Awareness and Get Your Learners Talking! - DreamreaderDreamreader

It was very well received so I thought I would do another post about videos. Click here if you haven’t read that post. The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy. I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years.

The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy

Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. Tech Ideas for Teaching. Free Online Photo & Video Classes. Apps for teaching. Tools for Educators - free worksheet templates, printable game templates, 100% customizable worksheet makers with images!

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One-page-auselt-guide-to-twitter.pdf. What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains [Epipheo.TV] DIGITAL LITERACY. Digital portfolios. 20 Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning.

20 Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers

These tools are also cost effective. The Internet has tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Here is a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning: General Resources TeacherLED – TeacherLED is a site dedicated to making the use of Interactive Whiteboards (IWB) easier and more productive. SMART – This SMART Board interactive whiteboard site provides several lesson plans and activities for teachers to use in the classroom. Topmarks – With some of the best free educational materials for IWBs, Topmarks is a great resource for finding IWB lesson plans and activities.

Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom – This site for whiteboard users features tutorials, interactive websites, and software. Eduscapes – This guide to interactive whiteboards explains different activities and resources that can be used with IWBs. Quizmakers. School Clip Art for Teachers and Kids - Free Clipart for Educational Purposes.

Perspectives on developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD – Part 1. This is the first in a short series of blog posts inspired by Adrian Underhill’s workshop on Developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD, which he delivered at various locations in Australia recently.

Perspectives on developing a ‘learning organisation’ approach to PD – Part 1

To find out more about Adrian Underhill, read his recent interview in the English Australia Journal.

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Word Clouds. Screencasting. Unprofound.com : royalty free photography project - a public domain stock photo collaboration. The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries: - DotGovWatch Exposing the good, the bad, and the buggy - A Blog Monitoring U.S. Federal, State, and Local Government Websites.

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The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries: - DotGovWatch Exposing the good, the bad, and the buggy - A Blog Monitoring U.S. Federal, State, and Local Government Websites

Government employees as part of their official duty are free of copyright and free to use. Based on my extensive review of government photo libraries, the best collections below. Or just use the search I made. Search Public Domain Photos: Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship.

"Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues.

Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship

Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. Word Clouds. Tools/Sites. Engish. Skapa video/film/animationer. Digital photography: message and memory - Future Tense.

Photographs have a way of transporting us back to the time they were taken and dredging up hidden memories. However, new research shows that in our rush to digitally record every moment we're actually remembering less and less, writes Antony Funnell. The photograph has always been a powerful and transformative technology: a device of surprise and hidden meaning. August Sander famously incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany in the mid 1930s because his simple photos of ordinary German life proved far too political for Hitler and his cultural advisors. Honest and unvarnished, the character portraits he snapped during his travels across the Fatherland spoke of a nation of often frail, diverse and largely unheroic figures—a challenge to the official self-image of the totalitarian state.

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