Creating stories online: Commaful.com

New Web Tool

Yesterday I was online and as usual the best of educators were sharing ideas and files online.
Twitter is my favourite  social network as I can follow many topics and the chats online.
I got some good ideas shared by  Shelly Terrell.
She introduced a new tool which can be used by educators .
It is Commaful.com  https://commaful.com/

You can use it for Creative Writing and it can enhance the students' learning while using images and creating texts online.

You can create your own account online or you can create a story by simply using the tool online: you can write a text, a poem, describe a feeling or any experience you would like to describe.
It is perfect also for creating some texts when you want to share them online in your blogs or projects.

I have embedded my first text by using the images which were offered online: I have no account but I liked the idea of using it in class for revising and working on some language input with my learners.
I will ask my students to work on some words and create their own texts in English. They need to better their language input
It is really inspiring and I think that educators could use this simple tool online with their learners.

via Commaful


I wish to thank Shelly Terrell  for sharing such  helpful tool!!

Safety online: think before you do something online

Surfing the web can be interesting but we risk a lot. Everybody should become aware of the great dangers and help the young to be safe while they are  online and not to risk. Most of us have a social life and post a lot on Twitter, FB and other  social networks.

This video released some years ago can be used in class to help the students learn about what they should or they should not share when they are online. Privacy and Data are at risk anytime  we use our devices.

 

Link to the video :https://youtu.be/aMSHtE42mmI


Some weeks ago I had to change all my passwords for the main mails and  accounts that I had online as someone used my mail with an Italian account. I had changed the password in February but  they must have stolen my identity. I spent some days worried about what might happen and honestly I thought that if I did not spend so many hours online , they would not have entered my account and stolen my identity.

I found some interesting sources and links online which can help you when you want to be safe and need to take action:

https://staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/identity-theft-fraud-cybercrime/identity-theft-fraud/

https://staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/managing-your-privacy/always-privacy-basics/

For educators there are plenty of resources which are  worth sharing:

https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/internet-safety.html

In order to know if your email account has been compromised you can check it online:

 /https://haveibeenpwned.com/


Happy  Surfing!

More useful Links:
https://staysafeonline.org/resources/


https://www.commonsensemedia.org/video/advice/privacy-and-internet-safety

https://cybersafeireland.org/

https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/

Writing Stories online

Writereader is a simple app online for writing stories.

You can easily create a library with your children: just need to create an account and then they will start writing simple stories in English or in their own Language.
https://www.writereader.com/en

The great features of the app are the simple use of it and the possibility of printing and downloading the book.  Books created by the learners can be downloaded too.

https://app.writereader.com/library/book/545c738f-22db-4c6d-aae7-73af4184fa48

https://app.writereader.com/library/book/2bed4907-c13c-4869-b28d-14411f1fdb6c

Technoclil 2019 Another Inspiring experience for me

Another course with TECHNOCLIL has finished. I worked online and did my task: here is the link to the website which I created last year and where you can find the link to the activities I did this year.

https://sites.google.com/view/technocliltizianaangiolini/home?authuser=0


My Learning Diary was created by using  Weebly:

http://tizianaangiolinitechnoclil2019.weebly.com/

Among the new tools which I came across was Kialo. We could work on platforms for debate:

http://tizianaangiolinitechnoclil2019.weebly.com/week-4.html

I am sharing it  hoping that others will explore its potentialities.

This is the link to the presentation of the  tool online:

https://www.kialo-edu.com/tour

Here is the post from an Italian educator about its use:

https://medium.com/la-scuola-che-non-c%C3%A8/kialo-bba49778310


I will explore it and try to use it in my English classes.

EVO19

This year is my fourth year on EVO:  EVO  means Eloctronic  Village online and  it  offers many free sessions for  educators who are willing to learn and enhance their own teaching.
I am working also as a co-moderator and I am also trying  to do  two courses: I choose  the sessions about  TECHNOCLIL and  the one about  FLIPPED LEARNING.

For  TECHNOCLIL  I have already created my Learning  Diary where I am going to keep the main documents and tasks  I have  carried out in the course.

Here you can find  the  Kickoff of EVO19: you will listen to the voices of the teachers who are working online and maybe you will try to do a course too.

 
EVO19 Kickoff from Dr. Nellie Deutsch on Vimeo.

I will post some reflections on this adventure here.

Enjoy EVO19!

Radio Garden Listening to news and radios online for free

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Teaching  foreign languages requires a lot of strategies and learners need to be more active in order to better some skills.  Listening skills  can empower our learners but they need a lot of exercise and often we do not have the time to do this in class. I am  aware that it takes time before students can achieve the level of English which will enable them to understand a conversation  or  the news.

Hopefully we can get access to many free resources online.  Radio Garden is perfect !
You won't need to download anything.

It is an interesting free service for listening to the radios from all over the world:  radio.garden/
Watch this video where you can see what you can  do online:

You can also listen to radios  after you have checked the  places and languages you are interested in :
I am just presenting some websites where you can find radios online.
The first one is Radiowebsite :

https://radiowebsites.org/

This is the link to get access to  Irish radios  :https://ieradio.org/

More useful links online for English Language Learners:

Radios from America : http://www.america.fm/

Radios from Canada: http://www.radio-canada-online.com/

Radios from the UK :  http://www.internetradiouk.com/

Australian radios :   https://radioau.net/

Radios from New Zeland  :  https://radio.org.nz/






Enjoy listening to the radios online and I am sure everybody will be able to understand English better!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019

Some more hours  to wait  for  and we will enter the new Year: I wish all the best to educators worldwide and their students. It is going to be a new year with plenty of challenges!

Be ready to work together and to learn from the others and with the others!

This year went by so fast! pic.twitter.com/nCFtgyGuHm

— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) 29 dicembre 2018

Bringing in the new year with style 🎩 pic.twitter.com/vEWrj1YSdL

— PEANUTS (@Snoopy) 30 dicembre 2018