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In the intro to this blog, over the last few years, I have often heard teachers commenting that they would like to use more technology with their students, but they have to cover the materials in the coursebook. So, I started thinking about ways we could use technology to quickly and simply convert coursebook activities to something more interactive on the web.

This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.

I have a cousin who contributes to this group and I often recommend articles to other teachers from the site. I find that it can help teachers who have gotten stuck in a rut to break out of it. Most of the perspective are a bit liberal for Salem, OR but they still help colleagues look at issues in a new way.

I came across Advocates for Youth in college while working with a sub-group of the Bus Project. It has proven to be an invaluable resource when helping students research current events. They are able to learn about the issues and see what their peers are doing about them.

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.

The web's best source of printable handouts and other resources for ESL / TEFL teachers.

Excellent resource for those considering teaching in Thailand

Great collection of listening activities for ESL students

Great lyrics and words for children

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.

This is an INCREDIBLE site with lots of information about how to use web 2.0 resources for language learners and it's FREE!

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

I am very interested in adopted and foster children. I believe every child has the human right to a safe and healthy home environment. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. This is a great website I found that helps teachers navigate with this sensitive human rights issue. It's a great resource for not only understanding how to approach adopted students, but also how to teach other children about the lives of those whom live with guardians that are not their parents.

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?

In this site you can find a lot of activities to do with students about "Environment", for instance; vocabulary related to environment, lesson plans, video segment with different activities; listening; projects.

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) 

This is just a wikipedia page for the term "spanking", however it provides some interesting statistics about spanking from all over the world. I'll probably have a discussion with my class and ask them to predict what kind of topics the article will cover. I'll probably give them a range of questions like, who do you think gets spanked more, boys or girls? Then I'll have them skim the article to find the answers as homework.

Hi Delpha. If you are doing lessons on spanking, thought you might like this from Breaking News English-- good supplementary material! http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0909/090928-iq.html

I am interested in helping my students develop their critical thinking.

Hi Maria. Larry Ferlazzo is great for generating high quality lists of links. I'd love to hear which of the critical thinking links you end of finding interesting and useful! Thanks! M.

Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, PowerPoints, and more! Exercises Handouts Presentations Rules

Ismael - I will be using links to this site for our lesson plan. Thanks. JC