Call it Delicious

This is the third week at the program, and is time to share some ideas and reflections about all that we did and studied:

1.  Delicious.com

•    The site helps you to keep in one place all the pages related to your activity, this case English Teaching
• You can explore and share inside Delicious
• You can link your Delicious  account with Facebook profile or Twitter, thus importing the liked pages

 About this site; I would recommend to use it in order to save time keeping track of your favorite pages and getting to know new ones trough the network and friends

2. Class Activity of  Zlatka Dyankova from Tryana Private High School of Languages and IT in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. (1)

• Teachers specially in Schools and Universities, face students have to study English instead of want to, have low motivation to participate in class and practice
• The use of technology changes the student's learning environment, making it more appealing, attractive and motivating for many of them
• If you combine technology with an event of general interest as the Winter Olympic Games, the result is that probably you will have the students engaged in the activity
• There is a number of applications and web sites that are simple to use and can be combined to carry out the activity: WebQuest, You Tube, Blogger, and others, that won't be hard for the students to get used to 

Conclusion: Blend different applications with a topic of interest for the students  as sports, music or movies and you will probably have a successful activity.

3. CALL

•  There are less free available resources for Speech Recognition on the web than those focused on the mechanics of speaking
• You may combine the content of different  sites to practice with your students
• Some sites  are "plug and play" including ready to use practices & questions, with  check your answer applications,  like VOA or  Randall's ESL Cyber Listening
• You will find ready to use  exercises and practices, or lesson plans on the web 

Explore the web, integrate the resources offered  with a class activity in order to practice the four communicative skills; have the student print the reports and share the results in class.  If you don't have internet connection in your class, there is a lot of content that can be downloaded, you can leave the "six walls" in your teaching using the PC.