Age: 9 -12 yrs Overview The Google Docs/Drive, a sharing and collective writing space is a great tool to promote writing skills. The collaborative construction of text allows reflection on the writing process, because it happens in interaction with peers and with the teacher. The ease of building and reformulating the text also helps the Full Article…
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My rights as a reader
Age: 9 – 12 yrs Overview VoiceThread is a tool dedicated to the creation of multimedia presentations mixing voice, text and image all in one. But it’s most interesting feature is the possibility of having a group discussion around the presentation, by integrating several audio and video comments on the document itself. Description The teacher Full Article…
Random city
I stumbled across this site (http://geo-pick.com/random) as I was looking for a way to pick topics for presentations on German foreign policy. It’s a great way to get to know places you haven’t even heard of like Niue or the Federate States of Micronesia and the students loved it.
I want to know what you did last summer…
I have my students create scrapbooks in English about a week in their life or about what they did in their holidays. They really enjoy it and the results are often great. Prezi now offers a template for a digital scrapbook (Create a Prezi Scrapbook) and it looks really promising. The only drawback is the Full Article…
Draft Primary Book
Primary Beta webV This is more or less the finished primary book. The layout will be very different and it will have a pretty cover – our graphic artist is working on it at the moment – and the pictures will be replaced with the higher dpi images you need for print media. Anyway, we thought Full Article…
A Plague of People!
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. In his work An Essay on the Principle of Population, he observed that sooner or later a population gets checked by famine and disease. Basically, as with all plagues, he believed that Full Article…
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