Even if I wanted to use blogs, where do I find the material out of which to create lessons?
Sources:
Online newspapers like
UK Newspapers:
The Guardian Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Times and The Sunday Times UK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/
Singapore Newspapers:
Today Online: http://www.todayonline.com/
The New Paper: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg
News Websites like
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/
Video Websites like:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
Poetry websites like:
Poetry Archive, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
(requires Realplayer installed to listen to the poems)
Poet's Corner: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
Poetry for Kids: http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Reference sites like:
Online dictionaries: http://www.dictionary.com/
Online Encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.com/
Explaining idioms: http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms-letter-
And you can use search engines like:
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/
Google: http://www.google.com/
to find the content that you need.
Here the teacher's role is to be both sieve and architect, putting together material from the Internet into a package that is pedagogically sound and customised to meet the needs of his/her students.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
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Just checking to see if this really works. :)
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