I am really impressed with Ted: Ideas worth spreading and I enjoyed speeches like this one by Richard St. John where he explains what the secret of success is. I found these talks very inspiring indeed. It may be used as a listening exercise for ESL students but also just for helping us to keep going, to better ourselves or understand our world a little better and try to make a difference – why not?. There are talks about almost any topic such as global issues, technology, culture, science, etc.
Category: Web 2.0
I would like to talk about conceptual maps. I think it’s a wonderful tool to learn new ideas, concepts, facts, etc, as well as a extraordinary way to express yourself very plainly and visually. Conceptual maps help us to represent the concept and focus on the relationships between the main concepts and ideas rather than losing yourself in the details. No wonder they are used in so many areas, contexts and circumstances, they are used in schools, universities, business, corporations and organizations as useful tools for discussing, sharing and collaborating.
The Internet is evolving very fast. It is also changing the way that we think about computers and operating systems. It used to be that all the attention was focused in a powerful personal computer and a good operating system full of applications – not any more!
As time goes by, I find more and more web services that are free (or rather let’s say “no costs” that is more accurate), simple, multi-platform (you just need a web browser and you can get access on a PC, mobile device, e-book reader, etc.) and they are also very useful and easy to share with friends or partners 
. This post is about operating systems in the cloud. I covered eyeOs a few months ago but there are many alternatives out there that are worth mentioning. View Full Article »
Geography is a very interesting subject but it’s full of names that make it tricky to learn and not as enjoyable as it should be 
. However, there are many resources than can help you improve the learning experience and make it more fun and significant.
We all know how great Google is. It allows you to type two or three words or even sentences and find useful links related to these words. However, more often than not, there are many pages that Google suggests that are not incredibly useful.
Of course, there are many tricks or ideas to help the search engine: type only essentials words, avoid punctuation marks (:, ?, !, ;,…), use define: word to find a word’s definition or filetype: [pdf | mp3 | ....] to find PDF, music, etc. If you want to refine your search results visit the following link in Free Technology for Teachers, they also recommend Scoopler, OneRiot, Google Wonder Wheel (click first on Show Options and then Wonder wheel in the Standard View section) and Google News Timeline as well as many others. My post Are there any alternatives to Google is also a good way of finding other options available like Spezify.
Even though, everyone is familiar with Google, I don’t like the idea of having only one choice. Let me introduce you to which alternatives are available. View Full Article »
I want to share with you some of my favorites sites for learning English.
Do you have children? Would you like them to know how to read, write or practice English? I will show you how easy this task could be. View Full Article »
JigZone is a Web where you can solve many puzzles. There are many types of puzzles in an amazing wide gallery, so you can choose the level of difficulty, from a simple six piece cut, for the smallest of the family, “to a challenging 247 piece cut”.
The Website allows you to upload your favourite pictures and make them into puzzles. You can also embed the puzzle into your Web as you can see right below:
