Neat little widget from Answers.com. After embedding the widget double clicking on anyword will popup a window which includes a sound file of the word, definitions and fast facts.

http://www.answers.com/main/answertips.jsp?lid=AnswerTip_enable&lpos=ATip_bottom

Heres what the popup looks like on our school efl network…

Visit TEACH - Teaching and Education in Asia: Communities of Hope

We especially welcome the participation of native Asian Educators! This forum is for you to share your experiences, voice your opinions, help foreigners better understand your cultures, and share the…

I hope member of the EFL Classroom 2.0 community will contribute posts from their blogs to the next ESL/ELL/EFL Carnival. Any posts, from teachers or students, that you think are particularly helpful or insightful to second language learning would be appreciated. The deadline is November 30th:

You can get more info at the ESL Carnival.

Not web2.0 but definitely EFL. 2 programs that my students have enjoyed in the past -

Talkany - very lightweight text to speech program (375kb) which reads out any English or Spanish text pasted in. The user can choose from different fun voices and speeds, such as:

whisper, monotone, robot, boy singing, old woman ... and many more.

There is no need to install the program, simply run it from the link, exellent for kids who need that extra support when…

I wanted to let everyone know that the url for my website, which has over 7,000 links specifically for English Language Learners, has changed. It's now:

http://larryferlazzo.com/english.html

My blog address has remained the same:

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

Hi everyone, long time no see!

This is a crosspost from my new blog http://efl20.blogspot.com

I've been so sidetracked for the last couple of months, translating the Ning platform to Hebrew, setting up a network for my EFL students and kicking off "Edureshet" a social network for Israeli educators (reached 50 members yesterday -…

Lately, I've been having some problems with attention, and I figured I needed to change things up a little. So I started thinking about ways to change the warm up activity. I thought of short readings with CCQs, or vocabulary exercises , and also just karaoke listening files and questions. I tried a .kfn file today about Canada and America, and it went over well in my 5th and 6th grade classes.



I know a warm up is supposed to be an entrance activity, but should it always be active?…

Nicked from the Writersalmanac.publicrdio.org

Raising Their Hands



Sometimes I dream about my students,

the pink of their palms

red and raw.

One student, seven feet tall,

his long back

hunched over the desk,

his arm out and above him —

he could be waving

or stopping a train.

Another student wears eyeliner for the stage.

She bends from the ribs

her body forming a tiny "c,"

her hand up sudden as a…

Globalization101 offers information and interdisciplinary activities based on the complexities of globalization. Their goal is to get students to think about the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.

On the teacher’s page, they offer a variety of lesson plans that…

This came up in the blog about teaching classrooms with 40 students, and I, having just finished putting all my ideas together, thought it would be a good idea to start a new post and offer some of my own activities. The reasons why I decided to start decorating my classroom:

1. It was sparse to begin with and was just way to beige!

2. I wanted to give the students things to do in their own spare time.

3. I wanted to start using them as alternatives to punishments: just…

Download PICTURE PUZZLE Large.ppt…

GUESS THE GOOGLE is a game where students try to guess what topic is being shown by a montage of google images. Cool graphics and time limit. Very addictive. I'll let Grant Robinson tell you more about his creation!

About the game

After creating…

Exemplary Teacher’s Websites

What makes a good classroom or course website? Are you thinking of starting your own (I think you should be, it is…

I've already said a few things about voicethread, on a thread here but I'd like to expand a little more on its potential and provide a few examples of how this technologically simple yet sophisticated application can be used by classroom teachers (TO AMAZING EFFECT!). Go Dog Go also has a good blog post. Here's a recent example I…