Tuesday, February 28, 2006

 

Teaching activities created by Bawers 2006

Here are a few activities created by Bawers during week 5.

An Internet Hotlist on alphabet activities

created by Erika Cruvinel using Filamentality
In addition to using books to practice the alphabet, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links below will get you started. Have fun!


Juvenile 4

Hot Pot mixed-up sentence exercise


Quia

Valentine’s day puzzle - By Erika Crunivel

Current affairs - By Carla Arena

Please answer these questions to help us improve our course more and more each time.

A virtual field to New York

By Carla Arena

Get on the bus! We are going to visit New York.
Our first stop is Central Park. Access our virtual map to see where you are.


Have fun with English

Web-based activities created by Teresa Almeida D’Eca for her students


Quiz

Put on your thinking cap
Vanya Katsarska

Once upon a time there was a jolly family of grey mice. One day a big black cat surprised them and wanted to eat them up for breakfast. Father Mouse jumped and said, “Bow-wow! Bow-wow!” The big black cat ran away. “What was that, Father?” asked Baby Mouse. “Well, son, that’s why it’s important to learn a second language.” Click a, b, c, or d and then click “submit” to send your answers.


Test on phonetics


Valentine’s Day quiz


Surveys

Movies

This survey is my first trial with this kind of tool.Take a look at the questions and see how much do you know about movies.


Our AIDS knowledge

This is a survey carried out at our school community
to check how much people know about AIDS


Where do webheads want to go?

By Annie wilson

Thank you for participating! It’s fun to see where everyone has been and where they dream to go.


Pre.Course Survey

By Analia Doboletta

Dear Student,
I’m glad we’ll be together in the same class this year. As a start, we invite you to take this pre-course survey so that we can make the most of our learning. Please, feel free to speak your mind – this is not a test! Make sure you answer ALL questions. We just need some information to negotiate our plans ahead and we’re sure you have a lot to say to make of our learning a big success.
Thank you for your collaboration!


Webheads

My new cyberfriends, I’d appreciate it if you answer the following questions


Ho Westward!

This is a reflection of the CORE integrated project Ho Westward! The second graders of WES studied “The American Movement West” in all the CORE classes. There is a new student in your second grade classroom. You have been chosen to explain what happened in music, art, physical education, explorations, library and computer to the new student. Westward ho!


An architect has to..

Answer the following survey about the knowledge an architect should have, in your opinion.


Mall survey

Hello Lake teachers! We have just started the semester and I am already bothering you with questions. I would like to collect some data that will help me improve our MALL activities and my work. Please take a few minutes to answer this survey!


Professional development survey


Monday, February 27, 2006

 

Resources for ESL/EFL

Picturing a Canadian Life:

L.M. Montgomery Personal scrapebooc and covers


Best on the Web for teachers

Provides information and website links for teachers and homeschoolers in the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, art, music, foreign languages, lesson plans, worksheets, reference books, and curriculums.


MOMA educational Resources Online Resources

In addition to presenting more than 3,500 objects from its collection and its Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers two research opportunities directly on this website


Teaching ideas and resources

The TES: Education jobs, news, reviews and debate - in print and online at www.tes.co.uk


ESL- Cyber Listening Lab

Quite a good collection of graded ESL listening materials.


Listening and speaking exercises in English


Isabel Perez ESL resource site

English as Second or Foreign Language
Primary and Secondary Education
Exercises, Web based Materials, Workshops and links for Teaching and Learning, WebQuests español/ English


English interactive Quizzes

A website with exercises and tests for learners of English as a second language and Internet-based lesson plans for English teachers.


Sesame Street - Games

Takes long to upload, but seems fun for kids- Basic English (ABC, numbers, colours). Recommended by Erika Alves (Brazil - BAW06)




Learn to read at Starfall

Where children have fun learning to read! Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Recommended by Cheryl Oakes (BAW06).


Resources For Studying Spoken English

All of the programs mentioned are freeware, or demos, or released under the GNU General Public License. Some good applets here need Java Plugin 1.4+ which can be obtained from Sun . Worth the trouble!


VOCABULARY

Vocabulary University

Participate in these FREE vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. Teachers have endorsed this site that enriches classroom curriculum with self-paced, interactive activities. They supplement personal vocabulary acquisition and are being used in over 16,000 schools plus home schools and ESL programs.


Vocabulary Power

This collection of links is intended for Basic English Literacy students studying at level 4, an upper-intermediate or advanced level of English. It is designed to give students an opportunity to practice and improve their vocabulary skills.


Vocabulary for learners of English

This section of the ESL website is to help English language learners learn words effectively and enjoyably. Click a blue button to go to the vocabulary group. Click a yellow button to start a quiz.


By the British Council

Vocabulary activities

Practical activities to help students with vocabulary learning.


Learning vocabularu can be fun

A collection of Wordsearch, Crosswords, Hangman, Quiz, Match Games, Jumble.


EFL Word Games

Choose your next word


Sunday, February 26, 2006

 

Tools to create surveys

Surveys


Our convenient survey creation wizard will automatically set up your own survey question with answers - you just cut and paste the html code and place it in your web site! Within minutes, you will have your own interactive online CoolSurvey!


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Create your owb free survey in under then 10 minutes.


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Sign up for our free poll service! Our polls are fast, free and fun! All that you need is a website. Our features include multiple vote protection, instant account creation, and completely customizable vote boxes.


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QuestionPro is web based software for creating and distributing surveys. It consists of an intuitive wizard interface for creating survey questions, tools for distributing your survey via email or your website, and tools for analyzing and viewing your results. You simply build your survey and email it to a list of potential respondents. QuestionPro will take care collecting and recording the responses. Results are available in real time. Free Trial


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Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.



Free Survey Forms for Survey forms with demographic questions and other free survey software questions are available to SurveyShare members.


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Zoomerang is the premium global online survey software that businesses, organizations and individuals use to create professional, customized surveys.



Saturday, February 25, 2006

 

Tutorials


This ia a list of tutorials on how to create webpages, blogs and podcasts. They may be useful, just in case.


Creating webpages

HTML - Guide for beginners

This tutorial is for anyone who is serious about learning HTML code. Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire web site. Perhaps you’re setting up a web site for your business or organization. You’ve come to the right place. You do not need any prior experience in making web pages to take this course (although I will assume you know how to do some basic things with your computer, like use a word processor.)


HTML - An Inroduction to

This is not a complete coverage of the entirety of HTML — it doesn’t even cover all of HTML 2.0. This tutorial is intended as an introduction to HTML and nothing more. You will not know everything there is to know about HTML when you reach the end of the tutorial, but you will know enough to create a perfectly respectable Web page or five.


HTML - beginners guide

This guide covers the folowing items: Creating a homepage; Lists of terms and definitions; Homepage template, publishing Homepage.


FrontPage - trick and tips

The tutorial is from FrontPage offcial site. Microsoft® FrontPage® web site creation and management tool is well-known as a tool that anyone can use to develop Web pages quickly.


FrontPage in the classroom

Here you’ll find many common tasks that you would use while working in FrontPage creating pages. To find out how to perform these tasks click on the appropriate link below and it will guide you in a step by step fashion by providing detailed directions and screen shots to follow.


Frontpage express tutorial

This tutorial is a very basic overview of FrontPage Express. FrontPage Express is a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Editor. With it, you can create and post personal or departmental webpages on the Internet. This purpose of this tutorial is to help you learn how to use FrontPage Express and, with additional tutorials, create a website. This is by no means a comprehensive tutorial. However, we will provide you with enough information to create informational and attractive webpages.


Dreamweaver

Tutorials from the Dreamweaver developing centre.


Dreamweaver walk through

At the very least, Macromedia’s Dreamweaver makes basic HTML a little easier, writes clean code, and has an elegant interface. But Dreamweaver doesn’t stop there - it ventures into heavy-duty territory with its tools for creating cascading stylesheets, dynamic HTML, and JavaScript.

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Netscape Composer Tutorial

This tutorial was not created to be a stand-alone product. For the best results we recommend having both a copy of Netscape Composer and this tutorial running at the same time. This will allow you to receive help from us as you explore Composer.


Composer Tips

ON THE HORIZON Horizontal lines are nice things to add to Web pages because they add form to the page and can break up blocks of text and images. It couldn’t be easier to add a line in Composer. Click on the on H. Line icon from the Composition toolbar, and a thin line appears spanning the width of the page.


Netscape Composer Tutorial

Welcome to the Netscape Composer Tutorial. Click links on the left to navigate through the tutorial.


Geocities

This tutorial is an introduction to Yahoo! PageBuilder. In it you will learn about the basic features of the program such as adding and modifying text, pictures, links, and add-ons. It will take you approximately 15 minutes from start to finish.


Full webbuilding tutorials

At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.


Creating Blogs

Building blogs with dreamweaver
Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. Part 1: Creating the Basic Application. Part 2: Creating an Administration Section. Part 3: Creating a Search Feature and Archiving Your Blog


Test this darn blog!

Podcast tutorial on Creating blogs with worldPress


Blogging tutorial
Blogging Tutorial & RSS Feeds - What is a Blog?


Tutorials on Podcasting

Podcasting tutorials

The thing that’s nice about podcasting is that there are very few barriers to entry. If you have a desire to listen to podcasts, it is easy to do so. If you wish to create your own podcasts for others to hear, you can easily do that as well. You don’t need a portable device to subscribe to podcasts (though you will likely want one once you get hooked), furthermore, you need little more than a computer with a microphone and Internet access to begin authoring your own podcasts.


How to podcast - basic podacsting tools

Here is a brief overview of the podcasting software you’ll need.


Video podcasting tutorials

This tutorial explains how to edit your website to include a 1-click subscribe button for iTunes and also shows you how to obtain and insert Google Ads.


Podcasting tutorial

Podcasting is simply distributing audio content using RSS. The process is suprisingly simple, and by making audio content available using RSS, podcasters give listeners more control over what they listen to and when. Also, many podcasts are available for syndication, which increases a broadcasters exposure.


How to pocast

The definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast
(including getting started, marketing, improving audio quality,
making money, and more). This is the home of the free podcast tutorial that will take your podcast from concept to launch fast and for minimal cost


Podcasting how to

Tutorials to learn how to do podcasts. the site also offe links to podcasting software and sample podcasts


Word Tutorial

In your work, you may find that you need to create and edit text documents with another person, or with a group, or you may wish to create collaborative exercises for your class. Fortunately, Word takes into consideration this potential, and comes equipped with several features that make the group reviewing process easier.


Friday, February 24, 2006

 

Tools for pictures and video

Video and photo tools

Upload and share video or keep track of your friends video


Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows. Download Photo Story 3 for free and experience
your photos in amazing new ways.


Easy Thumbnails is a popular free utility for creating accurate thumbnail images and scaled-down/up copies from a wide range of popular picture formats


IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.


The best way to share your photos and the stories that go with them. Create a new Album and we email you the link, no account required. Just free and private sharing, now with blog integration, audio captions, photocasts and more. Win Cool Prizes.


Buzznet is a vibrant community centered around our user’s content: video, photo, journals and organized by individual interest.


Flickr

You can use Flickr to:

  • Organize your photos in a meaningful way - http://flickr.com/photos/organize/
  • Share your photos and stay in touch with your friends and family - http://flickr.com/photos/friends/
  • Form a group for a wedding, reunion and event
  • Find beautiful, cool or intriguing photos
  • And much, much more!

Create a photo map for your group


Freewebs

Looking for a fast and easy way to create a free website, online photo album, online journal, and more? Freewebs has spent the past 4 years developing the easiest and most powerful free website publishing system on the net. Now, building your website is as easy as using email.


Thursday, February 23, 2006

 

Tools to Create teaching materials

Tools to Create teaching materials

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Customize these FREE, ready-to-use reproducibles to create great classroom materials.

Graphic Organizers
Assess students’ skills using one of our handy helpers.
Rubric Maker
Adapt each one accordingly for every lesson.
Flash Card Maker
Create interactive cards with math problems or vocabulary words.
Spelling Wizard
Customize two interactives for spelling and vocabulary practice.
Registration needed - Free web hosting


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Project Poster allows students to make online school projects and short reports quickly and easily. Students can include one image (.gif or .jpg format), four links to other Web pages, and a report of up to 3,500 characters. These posters are available to the public on the Internet after they have been reviewed.
Registration needed - Free web hosting


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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.
Downloadable - No web hosting


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Quia Web is one of the world’s most popular educational technology Web sites. It pioneered the “create-your-own” concept, giving instructors the ability to create customized educational software online, built around their own course materials and made available to students over the Web.
Free 30-day trial + Web hosting

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Eclipse crosswords is the fast, easy, freeway to create crosswords puzzles in minutes.
Downloadable - No web hosting


Free Software For Teachers! Using this software and Resource Search Tool (right) you can make stimulating classroom exercises in minutes
Downloadable - No web hosting


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TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!
Registration needed - Free web hosting


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Custom Classroom gives you access to some of the most powerful teaching tools available online — plus the ability to save documents in your own personal account. You can create and save puzzles with Puzzlemaker, create, save and administer quizzes with Quiz Center, and create and save worksheets with our newest tool, Worksheet Generator. More tools will be added, so keep checking!
Registration needed - Free web hosting


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Web Worksheet Wizard is one of the many 4Teachers.org online tools. This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and publish it on the World Wide Web.
Registration needed - Free web hosting


Previously known as QuizMaker it is a freeware software for Windows that enables you to create multimedia quizzes as HTML documents. This program simplifies quiz-making in HTML without any prior knowledge of HTML or JavaScript.
Downloadable - No web hosting


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Access QuizStar from work or home
- Create quizzes for students to take and review online
- Utilize the robust Report Management tools
- Create multi-lingual quizzes
- and much more!
Registration needed - Free web hosting


Script-O! is the ideal tool for all teachers and trainers in any subject area or discipline looking for a simple way to create online quizzes, tests and activities. With just a few simple steps, instructors can create online quizzes in a variety of formats and publish them on the web. Teachers can post quizzes to their own Class Page so that students can access them using a Course ID. Customization options allow users to have immediate access to their quiz scores as well as explanations to responses. Results can be collected, easily reviewed, and printed after a test has been taken. Numerous other features such as a Use it for online quizzes in all subject areas, language tests, placement tests, academic assessments, web-based training, distance learning, needs assessments, course evaluations, product training and much more!
Registration needed - Free web hosting


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Interactive exercise maker.
The glossmaker will take a block of text (with or without HTML) and allow you to put [brackets] around words you want to gloss or annotate.
The dictomaker creates a series of frames based page that use an online dictionary to automatically “gloss” your text. Students highlight a word, it’s transferred to a dictionary and it looks up the word automatically.
The clozemaker will take a block of text (with or without HTML) and allow you to put [brackets] around words you want to cloze or use as a fill-in-the-blank answer.
The evalmaker will take two blocks of text (questions and answers) and create an exercise that a student can use to evaluate his or her own answers. This form allows you to include language-specific title, instructions, and a media file.
The matchmaker allows you to create a matching exercise in two columns. Students provide letters in blanks. Incorrect answers are erased and they can try again. Customizable feedback.
The multimaker allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. This “maker” does not create an edit page. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer.
No registration needed - No web hosting


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Create stand-aline tests to run from your pC or server with JavaScript Wizard. To run atest from an ordinary PC just uone it with your brwoser.
No registration needed - No web hosting


Downloadable packs to create vocabulary ganes with or without voice.
No registration needed - No web hosting


A suite of wizards that create webbased activities for language learning and practice.
No registration needed - No web hosting


Quiz maker, quiz Creator, Quiz Builder, Quiz writer, Quiz producer.
No registration needed - No web hosting


Use the Crossword Puzzle Helper to inspire you in the most difficult of riddles.Word jumbles, or anagrams, are quickly solved and defined with our simple Anagram Solver.Teachers will save time with the Vocabulary Quiz Builder, which helps you generate customized, publishable vocabulary quizzes.Create your own mini-dictionary with the Glossary Maker, a handy way to make handouts.
Registration needed - No web hosting



Webquests tempates

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Anybody with the only ability to use the Internet browser can make a WebQuest page on-line




PHP Webquest is an educational free software for creating Webquest, Miniquest and Treasure Hunts without the need of writng any HTML code or using web editing software. The users can also edit or delete the activities create by them.


Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you’ll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don’t know anything about HTML or serving web pages.
Registration needed - Free web hosting


This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.



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