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A letter which attempts to persuade the reader to write their own persuasive letter, and which highlights some of the main points to include.

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"A superb platform for creating online books. Add pictures from the bank of images or from your computer. Browse the extensive library of books created by the community."

This is a 'must try' iPad app where you can design a 3D creature. Tap, drag and pinch your creation until it is just right and then 'paint' it with the patterns you want. It's a great resource to use alongside creative writing or science work. If you have access to a 3D printer you can even fabricate your design. Download the app at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/123d-creature/id594014056. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

An intriguing site which has split the whole world into 3 metre by 3 metre squares and assigned 3 words to label that coordinate, giving addresses to millions around the world who don't have an official address, or making a meeting point more accuracy than a postcode. For educators, there are lots of geographic and literacy possibilities - geocaching with spelling, or writing short stories or descriptions about a real location including the words. The site can be viewed in many different European languages meaning there are MFL possibilities too."

Something is missing from my classroom lately and I am quite happy to have seen it disappear. It is the traditional line at the teacher's desk formed by students awaiting feedback on a recently completed piece of writing. What has replaced this is our use of Google Docs and Slides as a tool for the collaborative development of ideas from initial thinking and strategising through to final editing and refinement. It has introduced a new workflow to the class that both streamlines the process of providing feedback, allows for greater detail and transforms the process into one that is richly collaborative.

Not that long ago I was a writer of interesting and engaging educational programmes. Fortunately, that is no longer the case. The programmes that I wrote and shared with a team of teachers were generally well accepted and the feedback offered was always politely positive. I enjoyed writing these programmes but in recent times I have enjoyed even more stepping away from this process and in doing so empowering the team of teachers that I learn with. The programmes that this team produces far exceed the quality I could ever have hoped to produce but more importantly the students are benefiting from their experience of highly engaged and thus engaging teachers.

An English resource that takes students through writing four different types of poetry. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

Make maths worksheets with this tool from microsoft. Just write one example question and the program will generate more questions of the same type and even provide an answer sheet. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Introduction to Concept Mapping Used as a learning and teaching technique, concept mapping visually illustrates the relationships between concepts and ideas. Often represented in circles or boxes, concepts are linked by words and phrases that explain the connection between the ideas, helping students organize and structure their thoughts to further understand information and discover new relationships. Most concept maps represent a hierarchical structure, with the overall, broad concept first with connected sub-topics, more specific concepts, following. Concept Map Example Definition of a Concept Map A concept map is a type of graphic organizer used to help students organize and represent knowledge of a subject. Concept maps begin with a main idea (or concept) and then branch out to show how that main idea can be broken down into specific topics. Benefits of Concept Mapping Concept mapping serves several purposes for learners: Helping students brainstorm and generate new ideas Encouraging students to discover new concepts and the propositions that connect them Allowing students to more clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information Helping students integrate new concepts with older concepts Enabling students to gain enhanced knowledge of any topic and evaluate the information How to Build a Concept Map Concept maps are typically hierarchical, with the subordinate concepts stemming from the main concept or idea. This type of graphic organizer however, always allows change and new concepts to be added. The Rubber Sheet Analogy states that concept positions on a map can continuously change, while always maintaining the same relationship with the other ideas on the map. Start with a main idea, topic, or issue to focus on. A helpful way to determine the context of your concept map is to choose a focus question-something that needs to be solved or a conclusion that needs to be reached. Once a topic or question is

Resources On this page you will find links to resources, activities, etc. ONLINE TOOLS ■Storybird, create your own books using original illustrations. ■Tagxedo, create word clouds with different shapes. ■Online Convert, online tool to convert different kinds of files. ■Dragontape, crop and mix youtube videos, and embed the result. ■Vocaroo, record your voice online and send it to a friend, post it on the web with a link or a html code. ■Brainshark, add audio to your pictures or slideshow presentations. ■Dictationsonline, dictations for different levels. ■Only2Clicks: The 101 most useful websites READY MADE MATERIAL AND UNITS ■English Language Lab Asturias (ELLA) ■ESL-Library ■British Council Teaching Resources ■English Lessons Online ■News English Lessons ■EL gazette ■Mosaic, specific materials for low levels. ■Efl-resource.com, materials classified according to levels and topics. ■Film-English, lesson plans from films in English. WRITING ■Flo-Joe ■Busuu SPEAKING ■Busuu ■The Mixxer: Language Exchange Community for Everyone ■Verbling READING ■BritLit (British Council) DICTIONARIES ■SHAHI: Diccionario visual que combina contenido del Wiktionary con imágenes de Flick. ■Wordreference, Assorted Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries and links to other Dictionaries. ■Merriam-Webster Online, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical Dictionary and Spanish-English Dictionary ■Cambridge Dictionary, Dictionary, Idioms and Phrasal Verbs ■Collins Dictionary, Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries ■Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus ■Visual Dictionary ■Pronunciation Dictionary ■Oxford Dictionary ■The Free Dictionary, Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Legal Dictionary, Medical Dictionary, Dictionaries in other Languages. ■Free Medical Dictionary Online ■Linguee, Dictionary created by internet users with real examp

Spin-off from the Facebook group with the same name which some teachers created last year. Most of us are teachers at Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas, and we like to share ideas, links and debate in Facebook, but we thought that all these posts would be better organized if we had a group so they wouldn't be lost among other entries in our personal Facebook wall. When the group started to grow (there are 92 of us already), we realized that we were missing some kind of categorization, so we thought a blog would do the trick. And here we are. We choose the ideas that are more popular among the posts in our group in Facebook and write a post here.

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Design a picture or write with snowballs. Drag and drop them into place and then save or print your creation. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

Print out this personal Thesaurus for younger learners. This PDF has a collection of words in each section, plus space for your children to write their own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

This is a superb resource for making 3D storyboards and animations. The programme is a little complicated and is designed to be used by older children. It feels similar to Google SketchUp and it will have your class enthralled for hours with creative writing and animating fun. A large download, but worth it. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Write a online letter to santa. Fill in the boxes to make the message. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas

Find stories from amateur writers based on geographic location and upload your own. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

We search billions of words in our phrase dictionary on how commonly used they are to identify the proper sentence structure. This helps improve the use of collocation, diction and syntax in your writing when choosing the appropriate sentence pattern. Our wording tool acts as a correct sentence structure checker, e.g. by associating correct examples of prepositions with common language usage to give you the best suggestions for the proper preposition. Our tool can help teach wording, grammar, and expressions, which helps you identify the proper word choice and word order.