Happy Christmas

Italo-Spanish meeting

Irene visited us in Murcia during the Easter holidays. Had a very nice time together. Missed the other Spanish pilgrims and Mauro, who were not able to join us.

Embedding music in the blog

I know two ways to add music to your blog. Either by embedding it with your post or by adding it as an HTML/Javascript widget via the "Add a Page Element" in the layout.

In either way, first you need to find an audio/music file hosted on the Web. You can either find the music files in a site like http://www.freemp3mail.com/ or you can upload music files you have stored on your computer to a file host like http://boomp3.com/

Once you did that, you need to copy and paste this code in your post editor window or in the HTML/Javascript window:
<embed src="URL of music"
width="150" height="40"
autostart="false" loop="false" />

Then paste the URL location of your music file.

You need to have the Quick Time plugin installed in your computer. I advise the Quick Time alternative because Apple's plugin won't work with Firefox whereas Quick Time alternative will work with both. You can get it here.

Here is an example. I linked to a music hosted in the freemp3mail.com site referred above.

Happy New Year!!

Hello Pilgrims

I wish you all a very happy New Year!

I just wonder, did you get your money back from Comenius? I got it only today. Finally!

Joao

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!

Learning English - Guide to free online resources

This is another interesting site that you can explore and use for your English classes. I hope you can find something useful.
Cheers,
Joao

hues of sunset

hues of sunset, originally uploaded by jkairvar.

More listening at BBC Learning English

Need listening exercises? BBC Learning English has a whole bunch of them.

Long time no see

Hello Pilgrims! I haven't visited the blog for a long time, but now I'm back! I use Facebook,so I've also seen the picture from Lorena! Nice to see you all again. I'm sure you had a great time getting together like that. Here in Sweden it's snowing and we have a couple of degrees below zero. I've been out throwing snow-balls with my daughter...A bit different from the south of Europe I'm sure...

Best wishes, Sofia

Spanish pilgrims together again

Yesterday afternoon Lorena, Rosanna, Lázaro, Fernando and the two Agustinas had a meal together in Alicante (Spain) as part of a meeting that we'd been trying to organise for months until we eventually found the right date.
More information on how it all went as well as photos of the event will come in a further post that Lorena will write. She promised to do so and wanted to do it herself, so I'll leave you* with the expectation :-D

* you= Joao (for sure) and maybe any other pilgrims who are still reading the blog in silence (I think one of them is Sophia... come on, don't be shy, say something! ha ha).

Love from Spain

Inside Out e-lessons

This site has many useful activities for your English classes and from now on they will be available to download on every Monday.

English speaking activities

This site could be useful to test speaking. It comes with a tasksheet containing questions and pictures to help the teacher implementing the speaking tasks.

English Student Resources

What about this site? Hope you find it useful.

Kind regards from Portugal.

Another two interesting websites for English teachers

learnenglishfeelgood

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself

Teach English with video

Have you ever wished to have a nice video to motivate your students and make your teaching more interesting? Have a look at this site! Here you can find a variety of videos ranging from beginner to advanced level.

Mr Ferlazzo's English Website

Hello Pilgrims!

Here is another site that might interest you. But beware, you might get addicted to it and waste precious time for your preparation work. :)

Keep in touch. It's always a pleasure hearing news about you.

João

Grüße aus Berlin

Just wanted to say 'hi!' after quite a long time without any posts. I've just come back from a trip to Berlin with some students; we've had a great time there. I hope you are all doing well. Let us know something from you from time to time. xxx
-Agustina-

Interesting Things for ESL Students

This site seems to have lots of interesting material for English teachers. It's also on the list Graham gave us but I found it by chance and thougt it would be a good idea to post it here. This way you can find it more easily. I hope you find it useful.

Video Jug - Life Explained on Film

This site offers you many videos about different subjects that you can download and use for teaching purposes. For example, they can be used for listening and speaking activities.

Video Jug - Life Explained on Film

Learning and remembering vocabulary

Here is an interesting site about learning and remembering vocabulary techniques. Listen to the webcast and find out some techniques that a few students use to learn and remember vocabulary.

Learning and remembering vocabulary

Deezer - Online Music

Hello Pilgrims!
You have been very quiet. Are you still there? :)

Have a look at another interesting site about music. Click on the title to get linked to it.

Social Bookmarking 2

This time I show you a video about social bookmarking which makes it very easy to understand how important social bookmarking is.

Social Networking

Have you ever heard of social networking? No? Watch this video.

Music for all tastes

Hello Pilgrims, are you still there? :)

Try this site about online music. It seemed quite interesting to me and functional. Try it out and have fun.

Useful Sites for English Language Teachers

Graham gave us six pages full of useful sites for English Language teachers. Now I scanned the pages and did an OCR so that they are editable and easier to use. I saved the file in pdf format and now the only thing you have to do is point your mouse at the site and click on it.

THE PILGRIMS' EYES

Whose eyes are these? Have a guess and post your answers in "comments". The one who can recognise all of us wins a pint at Muggleton's! :-)

Holaaaa

Hello, mates! Finally I'm here. It was hard, but I didn't have the link to log-up here. I hope I can write to you as soon as possible and contribute to this perfect blog. Write to you soon, Lazaro

The Connected Classroom

This makes us (teachers) think, doesn't it?

Find your favourite Music

I want to share with you this amazing search engine for music. Forget about Emule, LimeWire, etc. This site will bring you to sites of music you never imagined would exist. Enjoy! (Click the title of this post to link to the site)

Mediaval Helpdesk

Do you remember this funny video? :) Enjoy it again!

Language Learning and Web 2.0

The potential of Web 2.0 in language teaching and learning.

BBC Learning English

The BBC Learning English site is a good resource for materials about English Language Teaching. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/09/070905_second_life.shtml

This lesson is about Second Life, a virtual world that is presently one of the biggest phenomena on the Internet.

In this article you have audio, text and comprehension exercises. There is also a very interesting lesson plan that can be very useful for teachers. Don't miss it! Maybe you can make good use of it with your students.

Wikis in Plain English

What's a Wiki? Watch!

Greetings from Poland

Hello Pilgrims,
It's fantastic that I can share all the photos and videos you posted there. Thank you for that.
The first week of the school year has just finished. It's difficult to adjust after two months holidays.
I'm looking back to Maidstone course during rainy days in Warsaw.
Here is the photo of a beautiful lake I visited at the end of August.
Best wishes to all of you

RSS in Plain English

What is RSS technology? Have a look!

What is Web 2.0?

Michael Wensh's The Machine is us/ing us

Co-operative Audiovisual Comprehension

Where do you live?

Use the map to show us where you come from. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in the map and you can see the places quite in detail. I can even almost see my house. Zoom in as much as you can, look for "Montes de Alvor", then for the place "Urbanização Santo António de Alvor" There you may guess where two tennis courts are. Just in front of them is my house.

Video of everyone

Hi guys. As I didn't include everyone on my previous video, I decided to do it in another one. I hope you like it.



Kisses for women and hugs for men.

The Future of Education

This video shows Dr. Eliot Soloway's vision of learning and teaching in the future. Professor and “Golden Apple” is an award recipient (Teacher of the Year) at University of Michigan. He provides insights about the future of education, the power of mobile computer, women in technology and access. Have a look!

Slide Show

Slide Show

Video made of Photos

This video was made by Fernando and uploaded to Youtube. It's very very nice. I love it! Congratulations, Fernando! I am embedding it here in our blog.

Gyongyi in London

London Big Ben, originally uploaded by gyongyi06.

Gyongyi has uploaded her photos to Flickr. Very nice pictures, Gyongyi! Thank you for sharing them with us.

Greetings from Sweden

Hey everybody!

A short report from the northern part of Sweden!
It is definitely autumn now, during last week the morning temperature has been below zero. But, you get kind of spirited and alert when the air is this clear and fresh.

During our first schoolweek we went camping by the sea for three days which was lovely. We made walking tours and by the end of the days both pupils and teachers could take a swim. It was a bit cold but, still, refreshing! During our final evening we met two men from Italy (one of them was born in Novosibirsk!) which was really nice since our pupils immediatley got use of their English!

I wish you all a great start of this new school-year!

Pilgrims' Cube

How the ‘Blog’ Can Change English Language Teaching

Hello Pilgrims!

This post is about Blogs in English Language Teaching. I thought it might be of interest to you, so I decided to share this document with you that seems quite interesting about the use of this technology in language teaching.

Social Bookmarking

Hello everyone!

Have you ever heard of social bookmarking? Maybe yes or maybe not. What is it? Social bookmarking allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages.

First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you're at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend's computer.

Second, you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else.

These are two reasons why social bookmarking is so popular. Are you already using it? If not yet, here are a few links to some social bookmarking sites. The most popular and easiest to use one is "delicious".

Try it out and the your web navigation will never be the same.

Joao