77 Educational Games and Game Builders I'm often asked if I know of any games for subject "x," "y," or "z" for a particular grade level or age group. My answer is usually yes, but I need to search my archives. Therefore, I've gone through my archives and dug up many of games that I've mentioned over the last four years that are still active online. Consider this my humongous list of educational games. 1. 2.Spin and Spell has been featured on a number of blogs over the last year. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. the World Food Programme's website offers students a large selection of educational online games and activities. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.
40 Things to Do with a Text | Teacher Training Unplugged This article was written by Dominic Braham and Anthony Gaughan and originally appeared in English Teaching Matters, the English Language Teachers’ Associations journal. Before we get started…Wait a moment.Before you go ahead and read this article, grab a pen, a piece of paper and a clock or watch.Give yourself 5 minutes and write down all the possible things you could get students to do with a business English-suited text. Don’t edit your thoughts according to what you usually do or what you think would “work”: just let the ideas flow…OK, pens down, time’s up. How many ideas do you have on your list? Most of the following list of ideas for text exploitation was brainstormed in not much more than five minutes while we were planning sessions to form part of our Certificate in Teaching English for Business (CertTEB) course in Berlin. The ideas are presented in the order they came to us, so there is a kind of logic to the list but it certainly isn’t in order of effectiveness. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Classroom 2.0 Plateforme Anglais Vaud - home StoryToolz - Writing Prompts and More StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. Applications for EducationStoryToolz offers tools that are useful to almost every student.
Free Technology for Teachers Élèves, créez vos jeux sérieux ! La "gamification" des expériences numériques est à la mode, et l'utilisation de jeux vidéos pour apprendre se fait tout doucement une place parmi les méthodes pédagogiques. Les enseignants cherchent donc des jeux adaptés à leurs objectifs et à leurs élèves. Tous espèrent que les éditeurs de jeux vidéos travaillent en collaboration avec eux, en adoptant les méthodes agiles de développement. Après tout, ne grandissent-ils pas dans un univers où les jeux sont des objets culturels à part entière ? Des exercices interactifs... Le premier site que nous suggérons permet de concevoir des petits jeux qui sont en réalité des exercices interactifs habillés. À partir de cartes du monde ou de n'importe quelle image téléversée depuis son ordinateur (500 Ko au maximum), le créateur place des points ou des sections à identifier. … à de réels jeux vidéo PurposeGames n'est pas un éditeur de véritables jeux vidéo. Des genres totalement différents qui permettent de varier les expériences de jeu. Sploder
Literature sites for ELT-Thanks to Eva :) Webtools4U2Use Note: This article has been translated to the Serbo-Croatian language by Anja Skrba from The purpose of this website is to provide a place forK-12 school library media specialiststo learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Where are you on this social media ladder? Where would you like to be on the social media ladder? Just as pen, paper, scissors, glue, crayons, construction paper, typewriter and watercolors were some of the tools many of us used to produce reports and share what we were learning, blogs, wikis, photo sharing sites, podcasts and other new online resources are the tools of today's students. Compare these two versions of "When I Become a Teacher." Near the top of the left hand column, you'll see different categories of these web tools.