Get in on the Act I: Beginner Grammar | diana funtana esl Get in on the Act I: Beginner Level That’s really amazing! Liven Up Learning! Watch these short, entertaining videos and learn how to use the following basic grammar in a simple conversation: modal verb “can”to be and to havesome, any, much and manypresent perfect: Have you ever … Act I worksheets with pre-listening exercise, complete script and role plays are available at: Watch, listen and learn! Life Experiences Grammar point: Present Perfect Life Experiences <p>JavaScript required to play <a hreflang="en" type="video/mp4" href=" Experiences</a>. Diana interviews international news correspondent and world traveller, Adie Ventura, about her fascinating travel experiences. Apartment for Rent Grammar point: there is/ are, some / any, much / many Apartment for rent Amazing Superheroes Grammar point: can Amazing Superheroes Small Talk
Simon's Cat Welcome to the Simon's Cat Youtube channel! Don't forget to subscribe! If you're already a fan on YouTube, why not check out our Facebook page too! Simon's Cat is an animated series featuring the mischievous and often hilarious antics of a fat white cat and his owner Simon. The channel includes:Simon's Cat Films - Short, funny animations that observe life as a cat owner.Simon's Cat Logic - A fun and informative series that looks at why cats do the silly things they do, and what we can do to help them live happy and healthy lives.Simon's Cat 'How To': Tutorials on how to draw and animate in Simon's Cat style.Simon's Cat: Behind the Scenes: Sneak peek into the work we do. Have you visited the official Simon's Cat website? Want to see more of our Black & White films? Want to know more about the history of Simon's Cat? Edited by: Minesh ChandaranaExecutive Producer: Mike BellProducer: Emma BurchAssociate Producer: Edwin EckfordProduction Manager: Rebecca Warner-Perry FAQs: Q. Q. Q. Q.
The Public Library Manifesto: Why Libraries Matter, and How We Can Save Them by David Morris Why libraries matter, and how we can save them. posted May 06, 2011 "The word 'public' has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library. Why? In an age of greed and selfishness, the public library stands as an enduring monument to the values of cooperation and sharing. This is not the time to take the word “public” out of the public library. The public library is a singularly American invention. Public libraries are one of the most ubiquitous of all American institutions, more widespread than Starbucks or McDonalds. By the 1870s, 11 states together boasted 188 public libraries. Almost two thirds of us carry library cards. Protecting the Right to Know When we think of libraries, we tend to think of books, and rightly so: Public libraries are by far our largest bookstores, and a majority of the 2.5 billion items checked out are still books. But libraries are much more than bookstores. By 1935, public libraries were serving 60 percent of the population. Library Economics Mary A.
Listening: A Tour of London Tower Bridge, London (Copyright: Getty) When you visit a city for the first time, a good way to explore it is to go on an organised sightseeing tour. The tour will give you an overview of what there is to see and also provide you with some historical background. A popular way of seeing London is to go in one of the red double deck buses. This tour will take you around London by bus. Listen to the guide, and then do the activity below. Activity Check how well you know London. a Madame Tussaud’s is a famous wax museum. b Bond Street is where the detective, Sherlock Holmes, once lived. c Marble Arch is a gate which was built in 1827. d Hyde Park used to be the royal hunting grounds. e Buckingham Palace is the London home of the Queen. f Piccadilly Circus is the largest circus in the world. g Fleet Street once housed the national newspapers. h St Paul’s Cathedral is a small but beautiful church. i The Tower of London is more than 900 years old. j The Globe is the world’s oldest restaurant.
Jeanne Robertson humorist speaker Official Site Book for business meetings, conventions, keynote speeches. Toastmasters Golden Gavel award winner for funny stuff. Online humor store books, videos, audio tapes. How the Finnish school system outshines U.S. education | Social and Behavioral Science Research The Finnish school system might sound like a restless American schoolchild's daydream: school hours cut in half, little homework, no standardized tests, 50-minute recess and free lunch. But the Finns' unconventional approach to education has vaulted Finland to the upper echelon of countries in overall academic performance, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Finnish students have ranked at or near the top of the Program for International Student Assessment ever since testing started in 2000. In the most recent assessment in 2009, they ranked sixth in math, second in science and third in reading. By comparison, U.S. students ranked 30th, 23rd and 17th, respectively, of the 65 tested countries/economies. But Finland's system hasn't always been successful. "Finland had been traditionally thought of as the lowest achieving country in Scandinavia, and one of the lower achieving ones in Europe for a very long time. From worst to first Source: Stanford.Edu
Working Class Hero: une critique cinglante de la société de consommation toujours d'actualité Working Class Hero: une critique cinglante de la société de consommation toujours d'actualité - © Tous droits réservés Vous connaissez ce titre depuis toujours, mais sa signification vous a peut-être échappé… Newsletter Classic 21 Recevez chaque jeudi matin un aperçu de la programmation à venir. OKNe plus afficher × Coach 21 vous propose une véritable immersion au cœur de ses paroles. Classic 21 vous dévoile en exclusivité un outil ludique et pédagogique pour (re) découvrir la signification de vos titres rock & pop anglophones préférés au travers de ses paroles en vous proposant leur traduction en français. Mais ce n’est pas tout, Coach 21 replace également ces hits dans leur contexte, ponctués d’anecdotes que vous ne connaissiez peut-être pas. Ce player, libre d’accès et accessible sur tous supports (smartphone, tablette, ordinateur), a été développé avec la complicité de la société K Development, le département iRTBF et les équipes de Classic 21, avec un contenu signé Cyril Wilfart.
Telling Your Story Just What Does it Mean to Integrate Technology Here we are in 2012 and technology is a booming industry in education. SMARTBoards, Projectors, Document Cameras, Airliners, Clicker Systems, Video and Photo devices, iPods and iPads are invading classrooms all over the world. Teachers and students are being asked to use these new tools, with some having training and others being thrown to the wolves. But just what does it mean to integrate technology? Does using a projector each day count as a teacher using technology? I use technology everyday, but getting my students to use it has been a struggle. With teacher accountability changing all the time, where will technology integration fit into the equation? I firmly believe that if I was at a 1:1 school I would have much more success with integration. So the big question still remains....Just what does it mean to integrate technology?
Make the next school year amazing for your students! “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” -Frank Zappa Inside of every student I’ve ever taught lives a passionate, curious mind that can either flourish or stagnate, both inside and outside the classroom. The teachers that get it — that get you – are the ones that help bring you there, but that is not all teachers, not by any means. Image credit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, via Ideally, every one of the teachers a student encounters in their life would be great: would take pride in being the best teacher they can, would love what they teach, would be empowered to teach their own style and their own lessons and curriculum, and would genuinely care about the students as individual people. What makes matters even worse is that this isn’t what the system values. 1.) 2.) Image credit: Education Week.
Teaching Creativity - Professional Development for Teachers A few weeks ago fellow Voices blogger Shelley Wright wrote a provocative blog on flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy and beginning the learning experience with Creativity. As the person most directly responsible for our school’s Professional Development I have been wondering what professional development looks like when you turn Bloom’s on its head. Teachers young and old are comfortable with the old model and path. Even if they have never heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy (it happens in independent schools where some young teachers have never taken an education course), teachers are inherently comfortable with the approach the taxonomy lays out. Remembering and Understanding are sooo easy to assess—give a quiz; find out what you student doesn’t know. Applying and Analyzing are practiced at each level of a teacher’s own education and eventually applied as an educator—analyzing new texts, applying new techniques. Encouraging teachers to teach creativity requires a different approach. Image: Creative Commons
Flipping the lecture hall: first thoughts | Carl Gombrich Inspired by Khan, reading more at Steve Wheeler’s blog and many other links, I am thinking more about how we can use technology at universities to give the students what they want: meaningful contact time with their lecturers, professors and the leading academics. This is about putting the people back at the centre of the learning. It is using technology to do stuff technology can do, and allowing people to do the things most of us want people to do. How can we do this? We say that lectures as a way of delivering content are over. Instead we say all lecturers should upload their lectures by videocast to some VLE or other space where all their students can see them. We then make it a requirement for students to watch those lectures in their own time. We require that each student submits three questions to the lecturer based on the lecture they have viewed. The extra work for staff is minimal – maybe 10-15% max – particularly if some lecture time is used for assessment.
India: Hole-in-the-Wall An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online. New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country's next generation into the Info Age from a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000. Edited by Paul Judge Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of more than $200 million and a market cap over $2 billion. To test his ideas, Mitra 13 months ago launched something he calls "the hole in the wall experiment." What he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. A: It was a social observation rather than a scientific one.