Online Course that I recommend!

If you are into technology like me and enjoy the web 2.0 you would not like to miss this oportunity!

Ana Maria Menezes is a great friend of mine and also an EFL teacher in Brazil with great ideas in how to use internet and all the technologies available to teach. She is the second runner up to the Best Educational tech and support blog!

Here is her glogster advertising her course. I strongly recommend if you have time to do it!

I participated in her online training this weekend and we learned a lot with her expertise in the use of EDMODO.
You can watch the video of the two sessions we participated in.
* Session 1
* Session 2

Movie

Movie - Staring Ryan and Camila! LOL...
We wish we had a garage specially on these snow days so we don't have to shovel all the snow off our cars!
:-(



I found the link to this website thrugh Ana Maria Menezes' work website. Ana Maria is a good friend of mine that has wonderful ideas to use technology in class! I decided to give it a try and create my very first "movie". Thanks for the tip Aninha.

Photo Booth Pictures

"La Photo Cabine" is really cute! Even though it is in French it is easy to use. When you access the site just click on the curtains to enter the Booth and then allow your camera to work with their website and then click on the red button on the right corner.

Have fun! :-))

Disney!

Elmo

When I heard that my school was about to by some Elmos for the teachers I was wondering if they would buy those "dolls" from sesame street so we could use as props for reading theaters as well as realia. LOL! But all they were talking about was this amazing tool for teaching.

Teachers tool = Digital Visual Presenter "document camera"





With Elmo you can simply put your book or any paper on this pad shown above and it will project it to the wall or to your screen. Isn't it AMAZING?

I use it for:

Word Sort
Read-Alouds
Present new vocabulary
Sight Words

A cute video

This video is a lot of fun and we can use with our students for descriptions and ask questions such as what is she doing? What is happening in the video? We can also pause and ask for predictions.
It's worth watching!

Interview with Ana Maria Menezes

Breast Cancer Awarness

It was a pleasure to interview Ana Maria Menezes.

She clarified a lot of things about cancer for us. Enjoy watching her positive outlook on life.