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Good news stories for listening

You can find Current news and lesson plans. Ready to use !!!

A list with the elements related to Web 2.0

Free Audiobooks - catalog is a bit hard to navigate, but if you go into recent additions you can find some good stuff.

A really friendly site with lots of games,interviews,songs and different listening activities

Carla's students' audioblog on Easter eggs & stereotypes

transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

As Sue Summerford suggests, especially for non-adult learners, "carefully preview any sites before sharing ... with students!"

Web 2.0 tool catalog in Web 1.0 form, updated 2008.02.12, revised 2008.06.27 (2008.07.30)

It has good news stories for listening with accompanying language learning apparatus. VOA also has many articles of general interest in "Special English, " which is slower and with a limited vocabulary and grammar, so it is very good for beginni

You will find over 75 children's stories in audio. These include classic fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, and The Ginger Bread Man.

English Through Stories is for advanced speakers of English wishing to improve their listening and speaking skills. These scripts may be copied by teachers for classroom use

audioblogging

"Integration of technology is an integral part of project based learning, because technology is an integral part of life outside the classroom as revealed in this part of the definition - "types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom.""

David, there is a local school that has all of their students 7-12 with a laptop computer. They don't have any textbooks that are books, they are all ebooks now. This is definitely the directions technology is going in the schools.

Wikis are the most popular Web 2.0 tool being used in science and math classrooms. Based on a survey of readers - 43 percent use them to support their teaching and student learning. A Wiki is appealing, encourages participation, supports collaboration, and promotes interaction by students who love to use technology. By the way - this includes most students today!