lunedì 23 luglio 2018
Youtube Tools and ELT
Some useful tools which have been shared by Nik Peachey and which are really worth sharing:
learning English can be very demanding but thanks to modern technology listening and understanding videos in English can become more engaging.
Links you will have to check
https://www.voicetube.com/channel/entertainment
https://www.captiongenerator.com/
https://www.voicetube.com/
http://tubequizard.com/
https://it.youglish.com/
https://www.reembed.com/
https://watchkin.com/ ( when you want to watch videos without distractions)
https://peggo.tv/
https://peggo.tv/
https://www.youtube.com/yt/kids/ ( free app for working with mobile devices and young learners)
mercoledì 4 luglio 2018
Skype in the Classroom
During the spring time I had the opportunity of learning more about some
apps which can enhance our teaching in particular in using English and working on projects.
Skype is used in many projects and for connecting classes and teachers. Some interesting projects like eTwinning have been successful thanks to the tool.
More ideas can be found in the post by Kathleen Morris
https://www.theedublogger.com/2018/03/19/skype/
I have never used it with my classes as we do not have good internet connections but we might start using Skype or a similar tool to connect with the other classes.
What is required is good interaction among the teachers who need to work as a team to coordinate activities online with other classes.
apps which can enhance our teaching in particular in using English and working on projects.
Skype is used in many projects and for connecting classes and teachers. Some interesting projects like eTwinning have been successful thanks to the tool.
More ideas can be found in the post by Kathleen Morris
https://www.theedublogger.com/2018/03/19/skype/
I have never used it with my classes as we do not have good internet connections but we might start using Skype or a similar tool to connect with the other classes.
What is required is good interaction among the teachers who need to work as a team to coordinate activities online with other classes.
sabato 2 giugno 2018
An interesting video from a meeting in Italy- Festival della Didattica
Italian Teachers are struggling teachers. Some find it is difficult to learn about new technologies and apps . However, they are empowering themselves to learn more about new approaches and methodologies.
I was online last week and could find this interesting video where an Italian teacher was explaining about the changes and the approaches that can help us develop new learning paths. The festival took place in the late winter this year and the speaker, Astrid, was great at explaining what connects learning and innovation. Social networks are good at spreading the ideas and helping us become familiar with them.
Hopefully, more educators are changing their attitudes. Technologies and innovative approaches can help us design new Learning scenarios. Thanks to this Italian woman, who is engaged in providing better learning opportunities and she is sharing her ideas with us.
I was online last week and could find this interesting video where an Italian teacher was explaining about the changes and the approaches that can help us develop new learning paths. The festival took place in the late winter this year and the speaker, Astrid, was great at explaining what connects learning and innovation. Social networks are good at spreading the ideas and helping us become familiar with them.
Hopefully, more educators are changing their attitudes. Technologies and innovative approaches can help us design new Learning scenarios. Thanks to this Italian woman, who is engaged in providing better learning opportunities and she is sharing her ideas with us.
sabato 5 maggio 2018
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Julia Stephen with Virginia on her lap 1884
By Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (1852-1911) - Smith College Libraries, Leslie Stephen Photo Album, Public Domain, Link
Reading Virginia Woolf's famous book To the Lighthouse is still one of the most fascinating reading experiences I have ever had.
I remember reading the book and focussing on the mother's loving care for her family and how the main protagonist of this story must have given us some information and similarities with the writer's true family story. This was one of the many books I had chosen to study for my English Literature exams when I was finishing my university years . It was so nice reading it and I loved Mrs Ramsay and the way she took care of the house and the children.
Listen to this beautiful radio drama based on the novel and imagine how she must have worked on the characterization of each member of the family. It is said that the family she described was based on her life and the children who were in the writer's family.#VirginiaWoolf's great novel "To the Lighthouse" was published #onthisday 1927. The first edition ran to 3000 copies - this is one of them. pic.twitter.com/wZlKUR34ua— The London Library (@TheLondonLib) 5 maggio 2018
What is really great is the way she creates situations and we get into the beauty of their minds.
What follows are some interesting documents which I have found online and which I feel can help us read and understand the way of writing which was the peculiarity of the writer V.Woolf.
Woolf wrote novels but she worked on the magic power of words and images. I loved the beautiful image of the Lighthouse and I thought that it had a great meaning for the child and the mother who wanted him to be pleased and to experience the lighthouse.
If you have some free hours and you would like to read I think that this book is still one of the best ones I should spend some time on.
References and Links
https://www.bl.uk/works/to-the-lighthouse
https://youtu.be/M2zE-Trmfd8
venerdì 20 aprile 2018
Learning about the Past : History seen through Images
You might think that social networks are not useful but for educators they can provide a lot of interesting sources.
Here is a coloured image depicting a burning Ghetto in the Second World War - it is a document that tells us about the atrocities of what happened in the areas which were occupied by the Germans . We can teach about the past also by using images and by using resources which we cannot find in books. I feel that this a different approach to help our students think and reflect on what happened .
Here is a coloured image depicting a burning Ghetto in the Second World War - it is a document that tells us about the atrocities of what happened in the areas which were occupied by the Germans . We can teach about the past also by using images and by using resources which we cannot find in books. I feel that this a different approach to help our students think and reflect on what happened .
giovedì 19 aprile 2018
Those who survived and their message for us today
An interesting video reminding us what happened a long time ago in Poland.
75 years ago, the most famous act of armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. 93-years-old Simcha Rotem is the last remaining fighter of the #WarsawGhettoUprising still with us. Today, this is his lesson for the future generations. pic.twitter.com/XwTBBP1jEv— (((WJC))) (@WorldJewishCong) 19 aprile 2018
Simcha Rotem has a lesson for us today- it is worth sharing :
" Among the two -legged animals there are those who are worthy and those who are not worthy of being called human beings"
domenica 15 aprile 2018
Liberation of the Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen on 15th April 1945
15th April 1945
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp was liberated. Today I was online and I came across the Tweet which the Auschwitz Museum had just posted to remind us about it.The images and the events that occured there must be remembered by us. Thousands of people died there because of the belief - most of them were Jews while other people fighting against the Nazis.
I visited this camp many years ago, we could not see much about the camp but we learnt about the stories of men and women who had died there. Among the people who were killed or died there we have the famous young girl whose Diary is still read today: Anne Frank.
I was visitng the camp with my students and an old Italian man who had been imprisoned in Germany and he was presenting the voice of a person who had survived- many are not living anymore. We learnt how the war had changed people and violence had shaped the lives of the many who were living in concentration camps.
Let's remember and let's work together to make this world become a better world today.
Link to the concentration camp:
https://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/history/theconcentrationcamp1943-1945/
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp was liberated. Today I was online and I came across the Tweet which the Auschwitz Museum had just posted to remind us about it.The images and the events that occured there must be remembered by us. Thousands of people died there because of the belief - most of them were Jews while other people fighting against the Nazis.
15 April 1945 | Soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At least 52,000 of the total of around 120,000 prisoners died in the camp. https://t.co/cqLqkFalRM pic.twitter.com/jEWgfPY9pf— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) 15 aprile 2018
I visited this camp many years ago, we could not see much about the camp but we learnt about the stories of men and women who had died there. Among the people who were killed or died there we have the famous young girl whose Diary is still read today: Anne Frank.
I was visitng the camp with my students and an old Italian man who had been imprisoned in Germany and he was presenting the voice of a person who had survived- many are not living anymore. We learnt how the war had changed people and violence had shaped the lives of the many who were living in concentration camps.
Let's remember and let's work together to make this world become a better world today.
Link to the concentration camp:
https://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/history/theconcentrationcamp1943-1945/
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