ELT BLOGS:BRINGING THE WORLD 

             

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         Hello everybody!!There are lots of English Language Teaching blogs arround and they are becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool.Today I am going to introduce you one of these blogs :www.raz-kids.com.You can reach the site for a quick look by pressing here.
            Raz-kids is a product of a learning company called:...It is an American company in Tuscon which is founded by Bob Hall who has a 40+ year career in education-as a classroom teacher to executive leadership at many companies..
             Spanning three key content areas- Reading ,Writing, and Science -Learning A-Z websites ,Raz-kids is the Reading trivet of it.It consists of many leveled eBooks and eQuizzes for interactive reading practice.

             an example from the e-book gallery of the site
               Raz-kids is like a digital library .It can be used from kindergarden students to 5 th  grades-a wide range of classes.There are also helpful tips for teachers.To improve reading and listening skills students can record themselves reading a book from their home computer.Although there is no date shows when the site has been updated,there is an online column which shows the books read and readers online on that moment which makes the site vigorous.The site is prepared very professionelly,no errors or broken links occurs.The images are very high quality and as it srikes pre-students fancy it is very colorful and full of entertaining images.

students can create robots and rockets

Raz-kids deserves to be used in EFL teaching and I highly recommend it to the teachers.It makes students to read for meaning because it asks questions at the end.The books are also full of images so students can easily understand the unknown words visually.There are also songs to be used on an interactive whiteboard during class hours.Books are also tape recorded for students to hear modeled fluency for pronunciation.Teachers who want to use raz-kids in EFL teaching can also wisit the teachers corner to get the teacher tips available.Raz-kids is an award wining ,high quality website which is beneficial for both teachers and students..see you on the next post...             
 

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    Hello everybody!!It is nice to see you again!!

I know you want to be the best ELT teacher in the world. There is too much source arround and you are wondering how you are  supposed to keep track of all the news.Stay tuned!!Today I'm going to tell you about RSS<<Rich site summary > or <Really simple syndication>

  RSS feeds give you a method to keep up with your favorite blogs and websites.You get brief updates and good new is that you don't have to visit  each blog and search for what is new but info comes to by itself..

  You may use many services for RSS..I am using ''feedly'' in my own blog which is free and its simple interface is a perfect solution to see all of your favorite websites in one place..

  I'm following a lot of blogs about ELT,arts and news.Blogs in English are providing real authentic content for us.First of all please diagnose your interests,your weak points and choose blogs to follow.To give an example my weak point isusing technology in ELT.I have explored NIK'S LEARNING TECHNOLOGY BLOG'.He is integrating ELT with the latest technologic improvements.I learn a lot from him and with the help of RSS I never miss a post..

  To create a big world in your small classrooms I recommend you to follow Nik's page and more blogs as much as possible..

 See you in the next post....Bye..

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                          you can reach my RSS list here..click click

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                 WIKIS                         WIKIS 

              WIKIS            WIKIS                WIKIS       WIKIS                                                                                                                             

    Hello everyone!!
Today our new task is creating a wiki-page and writing a film review in pairs..We used www.wikispaces.com for this task.Writing film reviews is an enjoyable task.A film review consists of three parts-intro-main body and conclusion.Using a lot of adjectives,writing about the plot,settings,starrings and at last giving an idea of recommending or not recommending the film are the constituents of a review.We worked in pairs in this task and it contributed a lot to our work.First of all we have different  viewpoints which feeds our review bilaterally.Secondly we supported each other 's technical knowledge in creating our site to make it error-free.Brain storming is another advantage of working in pairs.
Finally we gather our reviews in our classroom wikipage.A wiki is a collaborative tool which provides an opportunity to create together in class.Wikis provide an authentic content because the readers are real people and this is 'sine qua non 'for ELT.Although Wikis require students to have access to computers and an internet connection something not all students have and may seem luxurious for some parts,teachers should push the limits to create a chance to provide these kind of tools in modern language classrooms..

You can see my page by clicking  here

And also my partner-Türkan's blog can be reached by clicking  here

See you in the next blog.. Bye..

                     A screenshot from my Wiki Project....

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                            LET'S IMPROVE THE WORLD WHILE                          
                                     IMPROVING OUR ENGLISH

    Hello again English travellers!Today we have an incredible idea of improving the World and it only takes 60 seconds.:))That simple.. This is a co-production of Turkan and Ebru and by clicking the link you may listen to our podcast..
   Podcasts can be used  in every level of ELT yet ours is suitable for intermediate students.Podcasts provide a large flexibility to the teachers and a very authentic material..They can be easily prepared by the teacher or can be adopted many kinds from the internet..Today we came up with an inspiring idea to make the World a better place to live and explained it in 60 secondsThe main idea was simple yet striking:each family living in the city would adopt a Street cat until non exists outside and the government would support thıs wıth tax reductions to these families.Teacher is the main source for the students.By creating such podcasts and encourage the students to create their own ,can improve their listening skills,speaking skills and ends up improving the writing skills as well.Using podcasts is an all-purpose  task based activity which all teachers should benefit to create new horizons  in a small classroom.
 While preparing our podcast we didn't face too much trouble ,many tools can be found in the internet to create a  rich content..A teacher  with a limited knowledge of computer programming can also use these tools easily..So don't hesitate to use podcasting and bring the World to the feet of your students..See you on the next post./you can see my pair's page here





60 second Ebru-Turkan pair-work

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