Exploring Web 2.0 October 2011

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.

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.

Here we start with some very easy origami for kids, and build our way up to some slightly harder models for older kids, or children that need an extra challenge... Show Off Your Origami!!If you have made a piece of origami that you want to share,everyone would love to know about it!

This is a collection of listening practice materials designed for ESL learners. It is part of the ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Website (http://www.rong-chang.com/), the best ESL Web directory.

I really like to use this activity in my classroom because it helps students to listen to native people talking about any topic related with the material seeing in class, and it can help to reinforce some vocabulary, not just by listening but also practicing it.

Great, I going to put it into practice!

English as a Second Language Podcast

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

Great collection of listening activities for ESL students

Great lyrics and words for children

Living wage calculator for the United States.

This is site created online by Ventesolers. VenTESOL is the Venezuelan brach of TESOL. Here we can keep updated.

This is a blog I have used because it has black and white printables and many of the topics fits our curricula.

I like this page because it has a lot of useful examples in grammar, vocabulary and others

Your one-stop source for ESL resources

Grammar, listening, vocabulary, and reading activities 

Here's our first bookmark in our Diigo group. Looking forward to what you folks bookmark!

This the site I was talking about in our ning, go ahead, try it. Blessings

For those who teach children

Here you can find a very interesting explanation of the utility of twitter in the classroom to encourage students to give their opinions.

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.