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Here's a must follow blog! Jamie Keddie's ideas and lesson plans are great for teachers looking for ideas on how to use You Tube videos.

Ideas for using technology in our classrooms.

Collection of ideas, etc. similar to ESL printables

You can also find activities to do for the earth day. This website gives you a lot of activities for your class: Vocabulary, interactive activities. Teaching our student to care about earth and using English I guess is a good idea.

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.

I use ideas from this website when my classes seem a bit squirmy and need to use up some energy to better help them concentrate!

a helpful site for esl/efl materials, resources and teaching ideas

The EDSITEment is a great resource for instructors teaching culture, history, social studies etc.. For my human rights topic the website gives several ideas about freedom of speech including various activities (lesson plans) classes of all ages can do during Freedom of Speech Week, October 17-23. Some of the content/language may be too high for EFL/ESL setting. Their collection of lesson plans are worth looking at though for ideas.

These are ready-made lesson plans that may have to be adapted to a particular context. A teacher might want to promote critical thinking skills in order to guide the students into discussing their ideas.

Great idea to put this into our Diigo group. This weekend I'll be going over your project in more detail and can give more meaningful feedback. From what I've seen (and read by others), your group did a terrific job! M.

A wonderful to get ideas and all kind of materials for all levels

A Channel to improve listening skills

Excellent reccomendation I really enjoy discovering real world related listening activities for the students because tney can be able to understand language in original contexts. This is an innovation because I just use videos about news or alike but the work done by a colleague eases our teaching.

Cool link! What a good idea.

This specific page lists some environmental human rights issues. This could aid in topic ideas for further research, individually or in groups. This group- The People's Movement for Human Rights Education- includes many other human rights issues in their webpage (children, education, housing, poverty, women, etc.) worth checking out. Also the "related links" section lists many additional education, social action and UN conference links as well.