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The Edublog Awards

Posted by: sabridv on: December 13, 2009

I am very honoured because my class blog: Saint Exupery 6 have been nominated for the best class blog in the Edublog Awards 2009.
There are lots of excellent blogs nominated with us. You may have a look at all of them here. Select your favorite class blog from the list  and [...]

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Glogster- Poster Yourself

Posted by: sabridv on: October 15, 2009

I have just learned about Glogster thanks to a tweet by @jenverschoor (thanks a lot Jen!). With this application you can create an online poster. You can mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs.
The great thing is that now there is an edu-glosgter page. You are allowed to create up to 200 [...]

Twitter VS Facebook

Posted by: sabridv on: October 3, 2009

I have been talking with @emapey about the differences between these two social networks and he has suggested me writing a post about this.  I am not very sure wether this is going to be useful for somebody or not, as they are just some ideas about how I use facebook and Twitter. I’m not [...]

How to download You Tube videos.

Posted by: sabridv on: August 27, 2009

I’m writing this post in answer to Larisa Bezrukova’s comment in the Monsters Inc. post. First, I’m going to tell you how I do it. Maybe it’s not the best way, but I’m used to it. I have downloaded a programme called Real Player. Once you have installed it, whenever you find a video [...]

The Lazy Way to Planning Lessons with Films ( Part 2)

Posted by: sabridv on: August 7, 2009

I have already posted about the advantages of teaching with films in this post. However, all the pages I have found in that occasion were commercial ones. FIRST PAY and then get the lesson plan. Fortunately, yesterday I  read a twit about two wonderful blogs with loads of lesson plans based on films. And what [...]

How to make worksheets in a flash!

Posted by: sabridv on: July 30, 2009

As we all know the best way of  improving our or our learners’ vocabulary is through fun activities. And if these activities required less than 5 minutes preparation even better.  So here I will introduce you to “a dream come true”:  Vocabulary Worksheet Factory. Many thanks to my friend Ceci who told me about it.

Vocabulary [...]

My First Online Exercise

Posted by: sabridv on: July 17, 2009

You might be surprised at this! A great lover of the net has never prepared an online exercise. Well, it is said that there is a first time for everything and here’s my first experience!
Before sharing with you my first creation, I would like to introduce you to the webpage where I have placed my [...]

BBC World News Podcast for Children.

Posted by: sabridv on: July 10, 2009

Hi! It’s been a long time since my last post. I’m sorry but I’ve been quite busy. I’ll try to update more often from now on. At the moment I’m teaching online because schools are close here in Argentina due to the swine flue. For that reason, I will have more time to spend in [...]

Longman dictionary in Firefox

Posted by: sabridv on: February 15, 2009

As you all may know, Firefox has a search box on its tool bar which is generally set to Google. However, there are many search providers. If you click on the arrow next to the Google icon you can add to that list by clicking on Manage Search Engines (administrar botones de busqueda) at the [...]

Online Visual Dictionary

Posted by: sabridv on: February 6, 2009

I have just come back from my holidays and surfing the net I stumble upon this wonderful new online dictionary. It is full of wonderful and very telling pictures.  Apart from that, the pictures are labelled with terminology in up to 6 languages. It is very useful for those moments in which we cannot match [...]


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