Using Skype in the classroom

Found in twitter this interesting video about how Skype is been used more frecuently with teachers worldwhide.


USA to Chile: a classroom exchange on earthquakes from Skype in the classroom on Vimeo.

It's amazing how this 21st. century technologies bring us the world in the palm of our hands! What do you think?

How to engaged Digital Natives students?

Are we teachers ready for blended education challenge?
Watch this amazing video I received in a tweet today, I'm sure you'll be engaged as I do!

StickStuckStuck: Learn this ESL English Irregular Verbs Grammar Rap Song...

Creating a new page in my blog!

Finally I could do it!
An extra page for students (students to be...) to keep track on extra class activities...
It will be nice to have the option to post comments on each extra page created and not only on the home page!

New USA Mexico Embassy webinar video

Today I had the opportunity to watch this video:  https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/p46275281/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
It's about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) a teaching practice focus on production, get students talking! I think CLT represents a challange and teachers need to use some classroom management techniques to have good results!

US Mexico Embassy webinar March 24 video

This is the video about "Assessing the needs of your students" hope you enjoy it: https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/p39898517/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

Students talk about improving english using blogs

This is an interesting video, hope you like it:

Midterm Task

Theaching English and Technology module has finished and I need to have my hands-on the last task.
So next days will be twitting, blogging, bookmarking and enjoying technology :D

Social Media in classroom

Find a very interesting article about "Twitter-friendly classroom at Purdue University" and how social media has been used in some places for real-time interaction on education with good results on students participation. Follow the link http://mashable.com/2009/11/03/hotseat/

Twitting

I've been experimenting with twitter and following some people I've found links to interesting web sites with teaching strategies material and teaching resourses. Now for my midterm project, will need to follow 20 people and tweet more... let's see what happen!!!