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A Memorial Day lesson for Memorial Day

In the United States of American today is Memorial Day. Breaking News English has a complete lesson set for your to explain this day of observance to your students.

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Valentine’s Day lesson plan

Breaking News English offers an extensive Valentine’s Day Lesson plan set. This might help you later this week. Additional Valentine’s activities: A 13-page handout with listening and online activities   A 60-second listening with 9-page handout and online quizzes on someone who hates Valentine’s Day   A 60-second listening with 9-page handout and online quizzes …

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Brainstorm concepts with Bubbl.us – Part of the Quick DEV Toolkit

Cost free, easy to use and effective, Bubbl.us is a dream for teachers who wish to have students employ technology during the brainstorming process. Those who have used sophisticated mind mapping software in the past will be pleased with the latest set of free offerings online using Web 2.0 technology.  Bubbl.us is one that allows …

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Quick Development Tools for educators is ready

In preparation for the workshop at TESL Ontario, the Quick Development Tools page has been updated.  This includes adding resources, revising links and adding lessons to assist teachers who require more support for these tools. Resources are free and online.   The tool box includes tools for your creativity and editing purposes in six genres: Visual …

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Slideshare, a tool for ubiquitous media access is a part of the Quick Development Toolbox

SlideShare will also be presented this Friday at TESL Ontario as a tool for instructors using technology at the Quick Development Tools workshop. The concept of hosting teaching notes, videos, audio clips and PowerPoints on SlideShare is a means of freeing the media so that it can be used in any venue with an Internet …

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Four resources to Power Up your icons!

Power Up

At times icons are necessary to add Pizazz to your presentation or materials as well as to provide additional information with an image. The following are resources that can help you with your icon development. Noun Project is a great source for educational developers.  It is a growing collection of original icons/symbols. The goal is …

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Use DaFont to “Stylize” your autumn worksheets or web content

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Making a fall or Thanksgiving lesson for your class website, PowerPoint or a worksheet?  You can easily locate really suitable fonts at Dafont.com  We have made a lesson to help you with this.  

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Olympic Activities

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Get your students excited about the Olympics by examining sport events and personalities. BBC Learning has produced 38 + episodes for your consideration.  There is a PDF worksheet with each video. As well check out the Teacher’s Sports Idioms lessons.  

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Introducing computer skills to novices?

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This is a humorous yet effective introduction to mouse skills.  Even if you do not want to use it with your students view it to see if would have helped you out ten years ago.

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Spice Up Your Moodle Step by Step PDF handout / Presentation

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This handout, targeted for a TESL Ontario session, can be used by teachers wishing to learn how to extract media from the Internet and insert these into their Moodle courses. Feel free to print and distribute to your peers.  The visual presentation that was presented at TESL Ontario is available here also. The Free courses …

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