by slav | Jul 30, 2009 | LOTE
Here is a handy tool for LOTE teachers and anyone else wanting to communicate in languages other than English. Google Translate can do three great things: Enter a phrase in your selected language for search in another language Add a widget to your webpage to allow it...
by heatherblakey | Jul 17, 2009 | Literacy
Penguin have developed a website where children can write, illustrate (and add sounds) and publish their own stories. We Make Stories enables young writers to select a number of different story platforms and even re-write a small section of classics such as Alice in...
by marynabadenhorst | Jul 10, 2009 | Mathematics, Uncategorized
One of the advantages of being a globalteacher columnist, is that you can occasionally vent pet peeves! So here is one of mine, blogged and ready for comments by other teachers: Suppose you wrote this sentence on the board: “The big black dog ran over the road...
by heatherblakey | Jul 3, 2009 | Blogs, Learning Styles, Literacy
Global Teacher users are storing all sorts of things in the blog containers behind this and the Global Student directory. While Global Teacher acts as a virtual staffroom, Global Student houses class and student blogs. This is the class blog of 7E English at Rowville...
by heatherblakey | May 22, 2009 | Arts, Online Resources
Most teachers are familiar with YouTube and Teacher Tube. Vimeo is another piece of freeware which enables you and your students to showcase your video work. Vimeo promotes itself as being a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the...
by Lois Smethurst | May 20, 2009 | Arts, Literacy, Online Resources, Web 2.0
“Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world.” Tux Paint is an attractive drawing package for students and it runs on a variety of platforms. It is...
