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Barbara Recchio-Demmin

BBC - Languages - El Mensual - 0 views

    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
       
      This is a great feature for students to hear authentic Spanish speakers.
    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
       
      Here is a comment to my comment. We Spanish teachers who are not of Spanish-speaking origins often carry an accent with us no matter how hard we try to erase it. This is one reason why it is so important to expose our students to authentic materials in order to help them learn proper pronunciation.
    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
       
      Games help to improve student interest and learn vital vocabulary at the same time
  • It incorporates reports from BBC Mundo plus other materials to help you keep your Spanish up to date.
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    • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
       
      Learning about Spanish in context is one of the foundations for increased interest in language learning. The relevance of learning nouns and verbs becomes clear once students understand the people and culture associated with the target language
  • Spanish with audio
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    Great site to enhance Spanish language and cultural immersion
Amy M

BBC News - How the internet is changing language - 0 views

  • Don't be 404, know the tech slang
  • "Wireless in the 1950s meant a radio. It's very rare to talk about a radio now as a wireless, unless you're of a particular generation or trying to be ironic. The word has taken on a whole new significance."
  • "The whole phenomenon is very recent - the entire technology we're talking about is only 20 years old as far as the popular mind is concerned."
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    some internet vocab
Erin Fontaine

BBC - Learn Spanish with free online lessons - 0 views

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    another great site. I want to use the interviews for my students to watch and then comment on.
Heather Kurto

BBC NEWS | Health | Internet use 'good for the brain' - 0 views

  • A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning
  • "Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function."
  • The researchers said that, compared to simple reading, the internet's wealth of choices required people to make decisions about what to click on in order to get the relevant informat
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  • "A simple, everyday task like searching the web appears to enhance brain circuitry in older adults, demonstrating that our brains are sensitive and can continue to learn as we grow older."
alexandra m. pickett

BBC News - How Douglas Hodge shaped Willy Wonka for the stage - 1 views

  • Charlie Chaplin... Salvador Dali... Fred Astaire... David Bowie... Mick Jagger... Prince... Michael Jackson
    • Luke Fellows
       
      For "Module 4: Picture Assignment" I will link to this page to highlight how imagery can help inspire a performance.
    • alexandra m. pickett
       
      perfect, Luke! : )
  • "Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness
    • Luke Fellows
       
      Hodge draws paralells between Bowie and Wonka
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    Douglas Hodge creates Willy Wonka uses scrapbook of character images.
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    Douglas Hodge creates Willy Wonka uses scrapbook of character images.
Gary Bedenharn

The Race to Space 2 of 2 - BBC Moon Landing Documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    Part 2 of the documentary of the U.S. going to the Moon.
Gary Bedenharn

The Race to Space 1 of 2 - BBC Moon Landing Documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    British point of view of the "space race"  part 1 (10:57)
aperr1

E-LEARNING AND STUDENTS' MOTIVATION.: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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    Focuses on student motivation in online learning as well as strategies to help increase student motivation. 
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