Exploring Web 2.0 October 2011

Living wage calculator for the United States.

Total Instructional Alignment is a must-have resource for any educator envisioning ever higher levels of student success. This guide for teachers and administrators.

These online vocabulary games are pretty nice!

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.

Here you can find an enormous amount of activities related to Second Language Acquisition. You can get in touch with hundreds of teachers from all over the world and share materials.

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

Human Rights Group2

Oxfam works to empower young people to be active Global Citizens. They promote education that helps young people understand the global issues that affect their lives and take action towards a more just and sustainable world. Their teams in England, Scotland and Wales support teachers through our range of on-line resources, teacher training and professional development, and partnership work with a range of other organizations.

Students will learn about rights and how they relate to responsibilities. They will work with computers and They will write a speech for or againt about Human rights

This site promotes training for teachers in the field of human rights. There is a Lesson Plan related to Identity, which I think is key to starting a process of social inclusion. Eventhough I don't teach children, this lesson could be adapted for adults.

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.

This is an important website on Education for All. Sorry about the delay. I thought I had shared it already.

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.

An interesting site to give a hand

This is an appropiate issue related to the women's rights. One of the most terrible problems women face is Domestic Violence and it must end.

Hello Maria, I could see all the activities that can be done out of a short article. Because being an authentic material the students are led to think and talk realistically and develop all those linguistics activities. Ruth

Resources for teachers and students with a variety of free learning and teaching materials, all categorized for access by skill and level. Speaking Grammar Listening Vocabulary Reading Pictures, Words and Audio

These pages give you access to all of Oxfam's free online teaching resources. Packed with lesson plans, assemblies, case studies, and whiteboard resources, these pages offer free materials you can use and download now. Tabs are presented below to find resources by age range, resource type, topic, curriculum area or country.

Music is a great way to teach and learn a foreign language!!

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

Human Rights Watch is an independent organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights- worldwide. They have the latest world news on various human rights issues. You can do a search by topic or world region. This site can be used to initiate class discussions via web 2.0 (or not) or to aid in research topics. It's probably most applicable for intermediate and beyond; adults and mature teens alike.