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Ice-breaker, Opinion Poll, Brainstorming Tool, Content Planner etc

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Play and Learn the Vocabulary

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Start studying My Town. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

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Round Up/Test it
My Town

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Perfect for Vocabulary Learning

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Create your own bingo card from scratch

Instructions: Enter your bingo card title, choose a size, and type your words into the squares.

You can drag-and-drop images into the squares and customize the color scheme.

To generate your bingo cards, cilck the "Generate" button.

Afterwards, you can print your bingo cards, or play a virtual bingo game.

Features

New! For question/answer-style bingo, flip over the square to enter a question/clue (which will appear on the call list)

Drag and drop images from your computer to liven up your card

Print 10 bingo cards or 10,000 with 1, 2 or 4 bingo cards per page

Play virtual bingo from a computer, tablet or smartphone

Use the automatically generated random call list to conduct your game

Decide if you want to fix your words/images to a single column (like in traditional bingo), or shuffle them across the entire card.

Customize the size of your card with 5x5, 4x4 and 3x3 grids

Add as many words/images as you want

Choose whether you want a free space or not

Calculate the probability of someone winning your bingo game after a certain number of calls

Drag-n-drop an image from your computer into a square

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#1 Free Bingo Card Generator - Play Online or Print Cards

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Create your own bingo cards with words and images, or choose from hundreds of existing cards. Print them or play online. It's easy.

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Create your own word search with our word search maker. Use your own word lists to create word searches for review, spelling, or just plain fun.

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Liliana Nederita's Resources, page 1 - Educaplay

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Design your lesson differently

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LearningApps - interactive and multimedia learning blocks

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LearningApps - interactive and multimedia learning blocks

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A variety of classroom tools

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Russel Tarr, International School of Toulouse

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ClassTools.net: Create your own interactive learning resources

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Dozens of templates, quiz generators and learning tools for use in the classroom

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" Word Search Maker
Create your own printable word search worksheets. Includes lots of options for fun shapes, font styles, lowercase or uppercase letters, and more!

" Handwriting Worksheet Generator
Create your own printable handwriting worksheets in traditional and modern print.

" Word Shapes Worksheet Generator
Create your own printable word shapes worksheets for spelling lists, word wall words, word study, etc.

" Free Printables by A to Z Teacher Stuff
Thousands of free printable pages, books, worksheets, and teaching resources already made for you to download and use.

" Leveled Books Database
Search through thousands of titles for leveling info for both guided reading and AR (Accelerated Reader).

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A to Z Teacher Stuff Tools :: Worksheet Makers, Word Search Generator, Custom Handwriting Sheets, Crossword Puzzles

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QR Codes Creation

Choose from a variety of functions: from displaying an interactive Facebook Like button to encoding a price list in PDF format. These innovative functions will surprise users and motivate them to scan the Codes. In the next step, customize the generated QR Codes by selecting colors and shapes and inserting your company logo. Or simply by using one of our ready-made design templates.

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QR Code Generator - Create QR codes here

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StoryJumper: #1 rated site for creating story books

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Easiest way to create, narrate, and publish your own hardcover and paperback books. Read and listen to books from our worldwide community.

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Technology surrounds us. It is ubiquitous. Almost everything that is done nowadays implies technology.

We might resist its use in the classroom for various reasons. For example some researchers say that technology helps us to simplify things and in this way it robs us of the ability to think and act spontaneously. Take the use of calculators at the maths lesson. In this case I agree that there is no substitute for sustained cognitive thinking, inductive and deductive reasoning, or detailed analysis and problem solving. But in the case of language teaching it might not be so deleterious instead I think it can be quite useful.

John Dewey said that "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our students of tomorrow". Think about this. All the areas of human knowledge have "updated" their equipment, methods. We are preparing students for life, a life that is impregnated with technology.

How can we, teachers resist this all too powerful wave of technology when all our students are computer/i-pad users, smart/android phones owners and they are on friendly terms with various gadgets.

Since technology makes its way everywhere it is not long before it will come in our classrooms too. And our classrooms will switch from this to this.

Technology in the classroom has become indispensable. In schools in Japan, North Korea, USA and many other countries teachers work with digitized textbooks, there are computer equipped classrooms, and interactive white boards have already become a common thing. Of course, all of these sound all but familiar to us. We can only dream about that. Moldovan schools are hardly equipped with computers and very often we are stuck in traditional methods not out of choice but out of necessity.

It would be great if every classroom would have an interactive white board. That is an amazing tool that would really make our job easier. Some of the schools have projectors and they are good too.

Even though in most of the schools we don't have either and we still found a way out. How many of you use the computer to show PPTs, Slide Shows, videos? We use our own or students' laptops/i-pads for showing the PPTs, Slide Shows and videos. I think we are doing a great job.

O ur students have smart phones, tablets , and computers. Almost all our students are good to proficient computer users, with personal computers at home and owners of mobile phones from smart to android. That means that we have an ace up our sleeve and we can be using that to improve our teaching and to make the learning of language process fun.

They use them in classroom, but not for learning purposes, unfortunately . We can teach them how to use their own devices to learn English. What I want today is to share with you how to use the little technology that we have available for our teaching optimization.

Task 2. Teaching vocabulary

Try to create your own on one of the topics: Pollution, Body Parts, Health, Food and Drinks, Weather etc.

/ jump, run, catch, swim, swing, fall, play, fight, hide, throw /

Read about the types of pollution, pollutant sources and pollution harmful effects on the environment and people on Kids Research Express

Go to http://mind42.com/ Sign up and create a mind map on the topic Pollution keeping in mind the types of pollution, pollutant sources and pollution harmful effects on the environment and people

Go to http://popplet.com. Sign up. Start making a poster on Environmental Protection (8 th Form, Unit 7)

See an example of use on Jeopardy games as a Round Up for the 8 th Form Unit 3

Click to find online editable power point games templates that you can adjust to your lesson topic

Open one of the WebQuests offered on the site and see what it is about. There are 3 WebQuests you can choose from

Make one of your own based on the provided examples

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Catedra de Limbi Straine Liceul "George Calinescu"

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Technology in Language Teaching Optimization. Examples of use in Middle School

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Technology surrounds us. It is ubiquitous. Almost everything that is done nowadays implies technology. We might resis...