Thursday 20 December 2012

Educaplay

Educaplay is an educational service that allows teachers to create short activities for their students. All those activities become public and make up a bank of resources for other teachers to use.

An example:


Tutorials

Types of activities:
1. RIDDLE: guessing a word
Example:
Money
2. FILL IN BLANKS: gap-filling
Examples:
There is / There are
Shops
Dialogue
3- CROSSWORD
Example:
Opposites
4. DIALOGUE
Example:
Introductions
5. DICTATION
Example:
English dictation
6. JUMBLED WORD
Examples:
Animal 1
Animal 2
7. JUMBLED SENTENCE
Example:
Tongue twister
8. MATCHING GAME: association
Examples:
Family: match male and female nouns
Oviparous / Viviparous
9. WORDSEARCH PUZZLE
Examples:
Animals
Clothes
10. QUIZ
Example:
Vocabulary
11. INTERACTIVE MAP: labelling for identification
Examples:
Bugs in English
Parts of the face 
Home Sweet Home

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Pictures to practice vocabulary and description

These are a couple of websites that provide panoramas that can be used for games such as 'I see with my little eye', 'Find something that starts with the letter...' or as a trigger for oral and written descriptions.




Sunday 16 December 2012

Image search engines

These are three three engines that allow online image search according to criteria such as colour or topic:
Multicolor Search
Wylio and FlickrCC search for 'creative commons' pictures.



Saturday 15 December 2012

Photo edition

These are three tools that allow the user to edit and transform pictures online:

Photofunia is an online photo editing tool that works like this: you upload any photo and the technology automatically creates photo montages.

It is not necessary to sign up.
Tuxpi Photo Editor is also a simple tool that allows to change colours, create montages, add text to pictures, edit photos with many different effects...

Registrations is not requested.

Photovisi is very appropriate for creating collages.

A free account must be created in order to download the picture.