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This article was fascinating to me because it seems a great commentary on what is a "right" and what is a "Privilege." I feel in the USA the difference between these two are not understood. This writer does a good job of explaining how to define each and who holds the power of each.

This bookmark is from the website called Human Rights Watch. The education has been under attack in conflicts. The article says students, teachers and schools are often targeted and used as a war tactic because of their connection to education. The video is an example of those tragedies. A girl who just believed everybody has a right to access to education was shot. World organizations are providing information and trying to protect education. I think this article can be used as an example of why preserving education is very important in some countries. Students can read and watch the video as an example, then teacher can ask them to find other articles on the website that are related to education as a human right.

This is a page on Amnesty International's website. It is full of lesson plans that explicitly teach human rights. There are two separate sections - one for elementary students and one for middle school/high school students. The elementary lessons involve games and songs. This is a great resource for classroom teachers - lessons would need to be modified for distance learners.

In this website you will find excellent short videos about the human rights that all human beings have. The right to education, to life, to democracy and more. It provides tools to make our lessons more dynamic and varied. Videos like the ones shown in the website help us to start discussions and opened conversations sharing our different points of view. =D

This side is about how Education is a basic right of all and how youth is facing problem for getting this right.

This site goes over the general facts about NSA surveillance programs. It describes the basic metadata that is collected for US phone calls:"the telephone number of the phones making and receiving the call, and how long the call lasted." It mentions the NSA program PRISM which collects emails, instant messages, and both private and public facebook data. It also mentions the program XKEYSCORE which gathers massive amounts of data from internet traffic. This FAQ also mentions what sort of things can be revealed by metadata and why critics of these programs find them alarming and illegal. This is a great article that covers the basic issues and concerns associated with NSA and mass surveillance. You could have students read it as a way to prep them for a project or discussion on this topic.

Film English is the brainchild of teacher, trainer and author Kieran Donaghy ( Kieran's LinkedIn profile). Kieran teaches at UAB Idiomes Barcelona, part of the Univiersitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in English language teaching and learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn. In addition, the lessons promote critical thinking in the language classroom, and  encourage learners to reflect on values while learning a  language. PrintFilm English has become a very popular resource English Teaching bank and is visited by over 80,000  teachers every month and there are over 2.5 million page views a year. It has received critical acclaim winning various awards, including winner of Best Individual Blog and Runner-up in The Best Use of Video in the 2011 Edublog Awards; the 2011 TEFL.net  Site of the Year; and British Council Teaching English Featured Blog of the Month.

Film English by Kieran Donaghy features a media lesson on Human Rights and street art. This time a lesson is designed based on an award-winning video for Amnesty International by Carlos Lascano. On this section, you can find the link for the video to project in the classroom and a worksheet with activities mainly designed to generate discussion among the members of the group. The activity is intended for students in upper-intermediate level onwards. These activities will reinforce the listening and speaking skills.

This is a website to practice pronunciation and IPA

Hello dear teachers, This is a web page you can use to teach IPA.

This is a video from the "What would you do?" program. It is a social experiment in which there is a racism situation performed by some actors. This role play was created in order to analize people's reactions on such a case. This can be food for thought in order to open a classroom discussion on human rights and the way we act to make them be respected and taken into consideration.

This websites contains not only news but also multimedia and it covers information on many countries. It has up to the minute news and is presented in informative and interesting manner.

The website contains news, analysis and resources from human rights perspective. It is updated on daily basis.

The worksheet contains a short article about Halloween and two exercises on reading comprehension. It is good for low elementary students, just present simple was used. Vocabulary is includ

One of the tricks to learning any language is to act it. The spoken word is only one part of all communication. If you have a dog and it comes to you to tell you that it's hungry, or in pain, what language does it use?

This is a nice site where not only you can find some web links about the principal human rights' advocates, but you can find lots of information about human rights' in general or specifically. From lesson plans to presentations and ways to become an advocate. I invite you all to check it out.

Great video for introducing what Human Rights are. It also has some questions about what is said in the video.

i choose this site because i think that human right not only means to provide education.In our country most of the people with degrees are job less and due to this are suffering from poverty.This site tells us about the human right research on poverty and inequality.

This website defines "Human Rights". It explains what Human Rights means in both specific and basic terms. You can find out about Human Rights laws and who enforces and monitors them. This site is a great resource for both educators and students.

Remember that learning grammar is only one part of learning a language. So don't be obsessed by it! Learning examples that will help you when you speak or write is the best way to learn.

I lthink this "The Bill of Rights Lesson" would be very useful and interesting for students to learn and for a teacher to perform. The information of the lesson is quite intelligible, so it can be easily worked with. Many ways of doing it are also suggested (including reading activities, solving puzzles, bingo games, true/false exercises etc.) which make the lesson fascinating and the students more interested in the problem discussed.

HumanRights.gov is the official United States Government website for international human rights related information.

LearningApps.org is a Web 2.0 application, to support learning and teaching processes with small interactive modules.