Life Feast

This is my personal blog and an attempt to try different ideas on blogging. I´m very interested in learning and my personal project is to learn how to use internet tools to enrich my classes and offer variety to my students.

While checking my subscriptions at youtube I found this wonderful site presented by gigafide. It´s Creaza and its tools: mindomo (which I posted about recently), a movie editor, an audio editor and a cartoon maker.

Watch the video and check it out.

Thanks to Rafael Parente´s tweet, I found this great tool MINDOMO for online mindmapping and especially this one created by Jesper Isaksson called " E-learning and Web 2.0 tools for schools" . Click on the + symbols to see the sites he suggests.




A MINDOMO tutorial

How can you create your own RADIO STATION?

Easy. Go to BLIP.FM , create your free account and start blipping. You can search songs by artist or track. Some blips have audio only and others include video clips from Youtube. It´s similar to facebook but with songs. You can create your own playlist, listen to what other people are listening, add friends and listen to their radio station too.


By clicking on the image, you´ll be taken to my radio station.

Let me talk about a colleague of mine I really admire, Lívia Fernandes. Not only is she a talented EFL teacher but she also finds time and energy for her second love (or first?), photography.

What I like about her photos? They're creative, innovative, colourful, energetic ...

These are some slideshows of two of her projects. The first one is called "Conto100fadas" and she deconstructs Famous Fairy Tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "Alice" and others.



The second project she created for Halloween.



You can find more of her photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lz-fernandes/

or at her blog Atellie Fotografia.

Sharing beautiful videos I came accross last week. Watch and Enjoy.





This is a selection of links to videos I've been exploring to teach GRAMMAR.

Teachers explain several grammar topics.





From the British Council page, fantastic grammar movies w/ explanations.







Several videos and lesson plans.




A wiki with several Grammar Videos

I´d like to share some sites I´ve been bookmarking at http://diigo.com under the tag GRAMMAR. In order to share them, I´ve saved them under a list called GRAMMAR , clicked on view webslide and got the widget which is just below. This is a nice way of sharing sites with colleagues or even with your students.

After reading so many posts about how teachers have been using pocket video cameras in the classroom, decided to include the Flip camcorder in my WISH LIST.

Watch this video demostration



From the "Ideas to Inspire" blog, these are 42 ways to use Pocket video cameras in the classroom.



Larry Ferlazzo wrote a great post about Flip camcorders.

Another great post about Flip Video Cameras.