RESOURCES FOR MY COLLEAGUES

As the rest of my colleagues, I am into competencies and trying to get together all that new information which in ESL teaching is quite old. I'm now most of my time into trying to figure out how to manage to really bring together all my students to learn the most they can. The only way I have found is that of cooperative learning, I think it is the only way to catter with diversity from top to bottom, that is why in this part of the blog I am going to try and write about my advances in this area. To start with I will leave a link to a very good blog I have visited about the issue:

                                         http://www.lagestiondelaula.blogspot.com/

 I have just come across with a very interesting website even though is for non-public, i.e., non-        comprehensive classes, it may be helpful:

                                                 www.lessonstream.org

Interesting slideshare about how to create a collaborative project:

Los caminos de la colaboración: cinco pasos para crear un proyecto colaborativo

View more PowerPoint from Internet en el Aula - INTEF

Aprendizaje basado en proyectos from Verónica Vázquez Zentella

This is the best, most comprehensive presentation I have seen to start developing projects in your classroom:

Queremos trabajar por proyectos en el centro pero no sabemos por dónde empezar from Ana Basterra

Presentación estupenda del Laboratorio de psicopedagogía de la Universidad de Vic

 This is the page of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the USA, it has an English Teaching     Forum which is also interesting:

                               http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum-journal.html

 I have found the BBC page for schools and it is really interesting for us ESL teachers, even though not for our students, they would get lost, but it may be very useful for us, to get resources.

In this page, we can find several materials for our classes, they are done by la Junta de Andalucia to teach English online.

http://marilinatic.blogspot.com/

http://www.miguelmllop.com/practice/intermediate/verbtenses/verbtensesummary.htm

I just came across this website called one stop english which can be very interesting especially for those books that lack contents.

WORD MAPS with the help of Visual Thesaurus.

About interactive whiteboards...

ENGLISH AROUND YOU

ENGLISH ADDICTS

EDULANG

ISABEL PÉREZ' S WEB

ENGVID (video lessons)

GREAT PAGE TO FIND OUT THE MEANING OF PHRASES

MY ENGLISH PROJECT

Laura Candler's Cooperative Learning Resources

List of resources to generate exercises, quizzes, webquests...

Blog Tic de Lenguas Extranjeras

Is Paul Auster's Ghost a Detective Novel

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND MOBILE LEARNING

Aesthetics and WWIscribd

DESIGNER LESSONS (A collection of ELT resources)

TOPICS TO DISCUSS IN CLASS

THE GUARDIAN'S TEACHER NETWORK

THE CHILDREN'S UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

FREE TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS

List of irregular verbs sorted by how many words are used to form the simple present, simple past and the past participle: Irregular Verbs by Ana Garcia

A new method of teaching: The Flipped Classroom:


Created by Knewton and Column Five Media

  Rewrite the Sentences Into Reported Speech by Ana Garcia

I have watched this video and I am quite into this kind of learning in my classes; that approach to learning languages is also the reason why I believe teachers and students should be together in social media, students get much more exposition to the topic, but only when they choose to do so:

My final project on the course on Project Based Learning:

  Tarea Final Intef Abp by Ana Garcia