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This website provides extensive resources on the topic of a living wage. There is a wealth of information contained on the site, which provides comprehensive coverage of many issues surrounding the idea of a living wage and its impact on workers, communities, and businesses.One particularly interesting article discusses the impact of Walmart, not only on workers, but also on shoppers. I think the information on this site can be used in the discussion of how to balance the issue of how big retailers can contribute to communities by providing jobs and affordable goods while at the same time providing a living wage as opposed to simply low paying jobs that provide little or no benefits.

Jerry, this topic is a HOT one right now with the economy not only producing few jobs, but with people working 40 hours a week and being nowhere near meeting their financial obligations. Nice choice! M.

I've always been a supporter of Walmart - one of the few I think! If it wasn't for Walmart I'm not sure I'd be able to get by. The interesting thing though is that after reading one of the articles at the UC Berkeley labor center website, I realized that Walmart could pay more to its workers if they chose to and the impact on their profits, as well as the price increases passed along to consumers, would be minimal. The article discusses what would happen if Walmart was required to pay its workers $12 an hour and concluded even if Wamart were to pass on the entire wage increase to consumers, the increased price cost to the average shopper would only be about $12.49 a year. If Walmart offered a minimum wage of $12 an hour I can't help but believe there would be less resistance to them opening new stores in hard hit economic communities.

Lyrics.com is a music community with the largest searchable lyrics database.  Great source for using songs in the classroom.

In this paragraph we might observe three things left out of Web 2.0 that in a certain moment may influence the practice and the responsibilities it may bring with them. The outline of each tension ends with suggestions for one or more researchable questions that naturally follow. With this we are only adding some particular issues that will in one way or another limit the strategic discoveries of this new technological way of communication. Further on, some limitations may impose certain morality issues that may limit any further development as well as oppose to many business negotiations that will be directly affected with this.

Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization dedicated to building houses for the most needed.  It is present in 17 countries in Latin America and the caribbean.  Most of the houses are built by volunteers and families that have been benefited with houses.  This webapage can be used to present the topic of Human rights, solidarity, and how every person has the right to live in their own home.  It can also foster volunteer work in the community by contacting a local office in your country.

Attractive site to discuss in EFL - ESP classes (Business - Global Awareness - Project Citizen - Charity)

There are many things that are able to be accomplished throughout the development of the new techniques. For example how to keep in touch with our students and to program different activities in a course. All of this encourages students to never stop practicing what is definitely a process. If they feel the communication doesn´t stop, they feel happy and free to produce more and more each time.

A very interesting information of how to use social media in education.

If you have problems to assign homework or to communicate with Students´ parents, don't worry here you have some options to use the social media as much as you can.

This page provides a lot of activities you can use in the classroom to teach the importance of having a job in this world and the value every occupation has. There you can find occupations described by pictures and small sentences to help students understand in a simple way. Also students mainly children have the opportunity to create different towns and fire trucks buy using boxes and their creativity.

ESL go is a free English community of ESL students and ESL teachers. We help ESL students learning English as a second language through free ESL classes and free English practice message boards. ESL go.com also provides free teaching ESL activities for TESOL, TESL, and TEFL.

That's a new site for me Fatima. I hope to check it out in more detail soon. Thanks, M.

The NatGeo website presents many useful activities to make learning live and exciting apart from the great pictures that students love to look at. I am going to encourage my kids to accept one of the challenges for the Geogrphy Awareness. Would you suggest any other?